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  1. February 20th, 2003, 05:59 PM #1
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    Best Free Multi Media Player???

    Hi All,

    Just wanted to find out what the best Free Multi Media player is??

    I would like something to be able to play audio and video formats and be able to take an audio or video format and save it "AS" a different format.

    Any ideas???????

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  2. February 20th, 2003, 06:54 PM #2
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    Windows Media Player 9

    It wo'nt change formats buts it's an awesome player...
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  3. February 20th, 2003, 07:19 PM #3
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    Hi MyseryQ,

    Thanks for your reply, but I just took that off of my machine because of all the Digital Rights Management crap they put in it. After I did an uninstall from Add/Remove programs I still had two more instances of it on my machine - ended up doing a fresh install of W2K on the machine to get rid of all that DRM stuff.
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    Really I had a problem with it the first time I installed a beta... It locked one download MP3... Considering I have over 600 I thought that was pretty good...

    It even reorganized and tagged my MP3s :)...

    To each his own...
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    Any other Ideas???????????
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    The 'free' part narrows it down a lot. I don't recall seeing anything free that does all that stuff best. I do use a number of free programs that do those things well.

    WMP 6.4 with all available codecs plays avi's, mpgs, wmv, asf files as well as anything else I've used.

    Realplayer plays rm and ram better than any other... get older version 8 not the latest version. (Assuming you want to view rm's which really aren't that great a format anyway)

    Apple Quicktime will play mov and qt movies just fine.

    ASF tools- http://www.geocities.com/myasftools/

    "-Converting ASF/WMV format to AVI
    -Extracting audio stream and saving it as WAV
    -Converting WMV1/WMV2 format to MP43
    -Making the stream files "Seekable"
    -Creating ASX file "

    Gspot- http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
    Codec indentifying tool

    There are many other freeware converters but I haven't used them enough to know which is best... doing a google search for "mpeg converters" (or avi or rm etc) will get you many hits.
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  8. February 22nd, 2003, 08:52 AM #7
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    Hi fink,

    Thanks for the info, I'll check 'em out.........
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  9. February 24th, 2003, 01:58 PM #8
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    You might check here also :

    http://www.mpegx.com

    http://www.audiotools.co.uk
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    You might also look at this site as well:

    http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
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