WMA, WMV etc. without Windows Media Player

[_argos]

at the moment i'm messing around with that awful nlite (http://nuhi.msfn.org/) tool which makes it possible to alter ur installation disc of winxp to make it smaller. i thought: hey, great, i get rid of this windows media player (i prefer tcmp4). made it. installed winxp without wmp on a test partition, but ... i can't install m$ codecs (demands wmp installed) or playback any wma, wmv etc. tried k-lite codec pack ... the one with the wma directshow decoder. but it doesn't help. my question is:

is there a way to playback wma without wmp installed? and which files belong to the directshowfilter? how to manually install that codec/filter?

greettings
_argos

[Neo Neko]

Videolan (http://videolan.com)
Mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/)

WMP and directshow are more or less the same thing. WMP is just a bloated interface to directshow. TCMP is simply a different interface to the same thing with a few different features. So if you remove WMP you remove directshow hence Directshow software will not install or run. If you want to get rid of WMP and not directshow you would just delete mplayer*.exe under you windows directory.

[_argos]

thx ... i'll try that. :)

[port66]

the latest version of winamp plays the latest version of wm audio. not sur eif it streams form the web

download the tara audio video plugin and winamp will play realplayer files