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Why can't I play more than 1 videos at a time in Windows media player?
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JasonnB
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_ 		22. June 2005 @ 09:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have windows media player 10.

One reasons I prefer earlier (pre-8.0 I think?) versions of Windows Media Player is the fact that you can have multiple video files playing at the same time, all in seperate windows.

Is there a way to do this with the newer versions of Windows Media Player, as in
8.0 and 9.0+?
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marcus23
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_ 		2. July 2005 @ 08:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Go to Program Files/Windows Media Player folder. You will see mplayer2.exe. You can run this application as many times as you wish and open different media files in the same time.
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JasonnB
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_ 		2. July 2005 @ 08:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That doesn't work, it will just keeps the same video playing and won't open up a new instance of the player.
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Veblin
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_ 		2. July 2005 @ 13:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
WMP 6.4 - mplayer2.exe
View > Options > Player tab > Check Open a new player for each media file played
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JasonnB
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_ 		2. July 2005 @ 14:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have windows media player 10 as stated above. I need to do this with this version. 6.4 I can't use as it's too old to work with new codecs.
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Veblin
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_ 		2. July 2005 @ 14:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You can't do that.
You can only have one Windows Media Player versions 7-10 running at a time.
You can have multiple Windows Media Player 6.4's running at a time.

Example: 1 WMP 10 and 4 WMP 6.4 can play.

There are codec packs that allow WMP 6.4 to play many newer audio and video formats, as long as they are not DRM protected.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/codecdownloa...
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