Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was created with the start of Windows 10 ...

QUESTION: I have a Windows 98 PC using Windows media player 7.1 downloaded from Microsoft's site and installed on the desktop. I cannot use the software - I get a ...

QUESTION: Whenever I connect my Windows XP machine to the Web (via my cable modem) and use Windows Media Player 9, the audio signal breaks up (snaps, crackles, pops; it lags as well). Offline the ...

For all its enhancements, Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 doesn't offer enough features to beat the competition. If you already use Windows Media Player, you'll find that Windows Media Player 9 (WMP ...

For some of them you may have to subscribe to their premium version to get the feature to play music offline without connection to the internet. AIMP is a multimedia application that allows its users ...

Out of the box, Windows 11 comes with a fairly solid media player, which is aptly called Media Player, or Windows Media Player. These days, the Windows Media Player is very different from the one you ...

Last week, Microsoft updated a support page that tracks deprecated Windows features with a new announcement: legacy DRM services will no longer be available in Windows Media Player along with ...

The 'Legacy DRM Service' that was supported in Windows 7 and Windows 8 has been deprecated. The service will eventually be discontinued, and it will no longer be possible to watch DRM-protected ...

I can't get Windows Media Player (7) to show my Nomad II MG. It just says there's no device, press F5 to refresh. Pressing F5 doesn't help.<P>I installed the driver correctly, the nomad shows up under ...