JD wrote: > Roger Fink wrote: >> David E. Ross wrote: >>> I really cannot stand using Microsoft's Windows Media Player. >>> However, Windows XP does not allow me to remove it. So I disabled >>> it for SeaMonkey, using the Add-ons Manager. >>> >>> Contained within Windows Media Player at<C:\Program Files\Windows >>> Media Player\> are two DLL files: npwmsdrm.dll and npdrmv2.dll. >>> These both involve Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) >>> capabilities. Add-ons Manager shows these as enabled despite the >>> fact that Windows Media Player is disabled. >>> >>> When I disable Windows Media Player, should not all parts of it also >>> become disabled? Are the two DRM DLLs used at all when I listen to >>> streaming music through SeaMonkey via RealPlayer or Winamp? Or are >>> they strictly for Windows Media Player? >> >> Seems sort of obvious, but in case you haven't already done this, >> re-enable WMP and then disable the two plugins (you can't remove >> them, at least on WMP9). Now re-disable WMP and hope for the best. >> >> Whether you can trade one for the other I don't know, but WMP9 is >> less nasty than its successors, and there is a really excellent hack >> for ripping mp3s at 48000 Hz that I'll be glad to post a link to. >> >> > > I stopped at WMP10. Does your hack work with this version?
It should work but I have no real knowledge of that one way or the other, since I have only used WMP9 in XP. You don't have to tamper with the registry, the hack is an executable and it does all of that. If you set a restore point before you install it, you can always undo it. This is the link for it: http://www.4shared.com/file/8jyaMkMN/mp3_codec_setup.html I'm less comfortable with the above website than where I originally downloaded it from (C-NET, which still offers it but now requires that you use their downloader: http://download.cnet.com/mp3-codec-for-Windows-Media-Player/3000-2169_4-10630559.html?tag=mncol;9 ) . Just to check, I downloaded it from 4shared. It had the same file name as my original, was the exact same size and scanned clean. I read a couple of negative comments in the reader reviews on C-NET and I think they are unenlightened, but, as in all security matters, caveat emptor. I once heard Ballmer say that Microsoft paid $25 million a year for the right to use the Fraunhofer mp3 CODEC. The battle to make WMA the world's default lossy CODEC ended long ago, and it's a mystery to me why they would have designed it in, as they have, but not actually offered it. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
