To those new to WMP, visualizations are animated color displays that can optionally play during music playback. WMP 9 Features Available to All UsersĪdvanced visualizations - Thanks to its new extensible architecture, WMP 9 features a new visualizations plug-in engine, so that third parties can more easily create their own visualizations. Then, I'll cover those features that are XP-specific.
However, in an effort to avoid further confusion about its feature-set, I'd like to discuss the WMP 9 features that work in all Windows versions first. What do I need to do to get those cool visualizations working - or do they just not jibe with 2000? Edited Januby blackwingcat What do I need to do to get those cool visualizations working - or do they just not jibe with 2000? I don't think the host system has anything to do with it but again I can't be too sure. It's running in VMWare Workstation 12, with a Windows 7 Pro 64-bit host system on a pretty modern HP laptop. I did both, and registered them in both folders - but still no visualization when I go to play a sample MIDI file.Īnd I thought it would look so cool playing Beethoven with a lava lamp on the screen I googled "wmp9 visualizations not working windows 2000" and didn't get much more than questions about WMP 12 (in Windows 7), a user-made wiki about WMP visualizations (wow, there really is a fan club for everything online), and finally, a suggestion to register mpvis.dll in the program folder and/or copy it to system32.
Windows 10 media player visualizations update#
I even was able to check on Windows Update that the system is fully up-to-date (it is).
Windows 10 media player visualizations install#
So I finally was able to get Windows 2000 installed in a VM for playing with old games and software, fully updated with the "unofficial" packs, IE6, and WMP9, thanks to some very helpful user suggestions including the popular guide here from But I noticed when trying to play some of Windows' sample MIDI files in WMP9, that those cool graphics things that play to the beat of the music, the Visualizations, don't show anything in the window when I select any of them from the menu.Īre visualizations not compatible with Win2K at all, or is there something that I may have overlooked that they need in order to play? Or something with the VM or VMs in general? I did install the Direct X 9 graphics updates, if that makes any difference.
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