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DarkAlex
03-26-2008, 11:32 AM
I have another problem. I upgraded my Windows Media Player recently to version 11 and lost about half my visualizations. They were the 'Ambiance', 'Plenoptic', 'Particle' and 'Spikes' sets of visualizations. I liked those and want them back. Is there any way to retrive them?
Elysia
03-26-2008, 11:37 AM
Reinstall?
Otherwise, how about scrapping WMP and go for a better player such as Zoom Player?
PING
03-26-2008, 01:14 PM
Otherwise, how about scrapping WMP and go for a better player such as Zoom Player?
I think you are missing his point..

@ DA
Maybe this could help you out
http://www.windows-media-player-updates.com/downloadvisualizationsforwindowsmediaplayer.html
Elysia
03-26-2008, 01:16 PM
I was mentioning "otherwise." Windows Media Player is fat, bloated and does not even want to accept common container formats such as MP4 or MKV.
And you can't even specify aspect ratio when playing the videos without manually going into options and changing the width to which it renders (might screw up other aspect ratios).
PING
03-26-2008, 01:24 PM
I was mentioning "otherwise." Windows Media Player is fat, bloated and does not even want to accept common container formats such as MP4 or MKV.
And you can't even specify aspect ratio when playing the videos without manually going into options and changing the width to which it renders (might screw up other aspect ratios).

Agreed..
DarkAlex
03-26-2008, 05:37 PM
This isn't a debate about which media player is the best. I looked at the instructions on how to install visualizations and it didn't help much. Is there anywhere I can get the lost visualizations on the Internet?
zacs7
03-27-2008, 12:11 AM
Where'd you originally get them from?

If they were in WMP10, install WMP10 and move them to WMP11 (install WMP10 in a sandbox if you can't install WMP10 over WMP11). However, the way visualizations work could have changed -- and that's why they're gone, because they simply won't work anymore.
DarkAlex
03-27-2008, 07:07 AM
The visualizations came with Windows. I had previously upgraded Media Player to version 9 and still had these visualizations. If some of the old ones don't work, why do others (Battery, Musical Colors, Bars and Waves) still work?