John Doe wrote:
Roderick Stewart rjfs escapetime.myzen.co.uk wrote:

John Doe always.look message.header wrote:

I move 18 movies to my tablet and Microsoft asks if I want to
reformat them since otherwise the tablet might not be able to
play them. Yeah, right. Since when has Windows media player ever
been able to play videos. So I say "No" and all of the 18 videos
play just fine without Microsoft's reformatting. As I recall, I
accepted that offer once before and it messed up the video so it
was not playable.

But seriously...

Don't bother with Windows Media Payer. VLC can play anything.

I should have written that more clearly. I was dissing Windows
media player, not suggesting that I use it.

In other words... "Since Windows media player hardly plays
anything, how would Microsoft know how to make media more
playable?"

That's why it's silly for Microsoft to suggest that it can
reformat video so that it's more easily playable. I suspect what's
happening is that Microsoft is assuming you are sending the videos
to a Microsoft device, so Microsoft wants to make them more easily
playable by its media player. But even in that case, it probably
makes things worse.




You didn't mention if the message was specifically for reformatting to
play in Media Player or a Windows message. As written your message
seemed to imply that reformatting would be for use in Media Player.

- Win8x comes with its own modern UI video app.
- Media Center is also available for Win8x ($10 - Add Feature)


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