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Originally Posted by benwaggoner
Can we at least agree that there's a real reason for this? You're saying excuse like codec pack and multiple decoder issues aren't an actual problem, but there's plenty of evidence here at forums.doom9.org that the contrary is true  . And the people who can make it as far as here to ask for help with a problem are going to be the top portion of the audience who have tried. |
And every newbie that comes in to complain about codec packs is told to get VLC player or a version of mplayer if they are having issues with codec packs or codec conflicts.
Of course Microsoft isn't going to like that, so perhaps you'd be better served creating WMP lite and WMP advanced. If people decide to use WMP Advanced, then give them a warning like "Warning: this is an ADVANCED VIDEO PLAYER meant for professionals and enthusiasts. We can't ensure that it will work the way you want it to" or something of that nature. Your OS does this every time I install a non-WHQL driver. Why not do the same for WMP?
The excuses I'm seeing from your end don't seem to add up.