From: Chris Robinson 

You can turn that off - the visual effects are really resource hungry. 
Just right-click the visualisation and select either "album art"
or "no visualisation".

Chris.

"Ellen K." wrote:

> I'd definitely go for that.   At work we have the one that makes
> patterns while it plays, who needs it?
>
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:44:33 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote in
> message :
>
> >While I do like the full screen mode of the XP media player (and version 9
> >as well) I find the mplayer2.exe a much more efficient media player and so
> >it's the one I use almost exclusively.
> >
> >You've heard people speak of feature creep before, simple programs that
> >everyone likes always seem to expand to cover everyone's wishes. All the
> >programs seem to do this and after a while there are no more efficient clean
> >versions anywhere.
> >
> >I'd like to make a suggestion for an experiment. It would be interesting if
> >MS created a WMP9lite version that didn't have all the features like cutesy
> >display stuff, channels, bookmarks, and online capabilities to download
> >track titles and such were disabled by default, no scripting, no cookies,
> >none of the non essential stuff for a basic media player. Make it the
> >cleanest media player and very efficient with screen space in windowed mode
> >and efficient with memory and what it loads so it starts up fast fast fast.
> >
> >Note, I'm not talking about a third party doing this, I'm talking about MS
> >media player lite.
> >
> >I wonder how that would be received by the computing community? Has MS ever
> >tried that before with one of their freebie programs where the main focus
> >was to take a current version of something and make it as efficient as
> >possible by removing the non essentials? I ask because it seems to me with
> >mature software this is the next logical step to gain market share.
> >
> >opinions?
> >
> >Geo.
> >
> >
> >"Rich"  wrote in message news:3e211989$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >   WMP 6.x is MPLAYER2.EXE.  I don't think this ever played CDs.
> >CDPLAYER.EXE did that.  I believe the even older MPLAY32.EXE could play CDs
> >but it wasn't something you would call a CD player.  All of these are
> >obsolete as applications replaced by Windows Media Player.
> >
> >Rich
> >

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