Windows Media Player 12 Tricks – Make your Entertainment more Amusing

Windows Media Player 12 has got more new features and traits. Windows Media Player 12 is seemed to be most popular since most people consider it to be the best media player ever launched by Microsoft. There are various Windows Media Player 12 tricks that can help you to use the player in the easier way.
Here are some of the best Windows Media Player tricks.
Windows Media Player 12 provides three options of looks such as the “Default Full Mode”, “The Compact Mode” and “Skin Mode”. While you listen to music, you can easily switch to compact mode by clicking on a small arrow. You can just press the “Enter” key to return back to the Full mode. You can apply the skin mode by going to Menu option and then clicking on “View” and then on “Skin Mode”. You can also opt to use shortcuts too. You can use “CTRL+1” for Full mode and “CTRL+2” for Skin mode.
You can use 3 different keys to increase, decrease and mute volume easily. They are F9, F8 and F7 respectively.
Since Windows Media Player is never bundled with all the codecs available, this is one of the best Windows Media Player 12 tricks. However, there are some freely available codec packs filled in Windows Media Player that help you to play anything and everything right from Real Media to DivX. To know the codecs that are installed in your Windows Media Player, you need to click on “Help” option and then select “About Windows Media Player” option. You can then click on “Technical Support Information”. You will view a browser page that lists out the audio and video codecs present in your Windows Media Player. Using the K-Lit codec pack, you will be able to play anything. However you also need to have XP codec pack and Vista codec pack. These two types of codecs can be downloaded from the following links:

You can easily search your library for audio tracks by using a blend of search terms. You can use “AND” and “OR” operators to search. For instance, you can use the “AND” operator to search by song and singer by just applying AND operator in between the song name and the singer name. Likewise, you can use “OR” operator to search over two features. You can have a look at the help file by typing “How do I perform advanced searches” in the “search help” box
This option allows you to increase the bass of an audio track for high quality sounds. You can access the “SRS WOW Effects” under the menu View>Enhancements. You can turn on the SRS WOW Effects and then choose the type of your speaker. You can move the Trubass and WOW effect sliders as per your wish.
Streaming content relies mainly on buffers to playback the audio track or a movie in a smooth manner. To balance the temporary interval of internet bandwidth because of slow internet speeds or packet drops, Window Media Player will store a few seconds of the content before it actually starts to play. Once the streaming starts, some content will be stored in the backdrop which is known as the buffer. You can change the buffer size if you sense that the streaming is not that smooth. Go to the “Options” menu and then choose “Performance” tab.
Under the “Networking buffering” option select the buffer option and then enter value between 0 – 60 to enable the streaming media to buffer that amount of content before it starts to play. However, you need to note that surplus buffering can slow down the download.
If you desire to watch movies with subtitles and if you have Windows Media Player 12 installed on your system, you might wonder what to do. There is a simple process that can help you to watch movies with subtitles. You need to download and install DirectVobSub add-on to offer access to famous subtitle formats along with the video file. You also need to consider two important points. Make sure that the filename of the subtitle is the same as the name of the video [but see to that you don’t change the file extension] and also ensure that both the video and subtitle files are located in the same folder.

So from now on use these Windows Media Player 12 tricks and master your movie watching experience which is a whole new world of entertainment.
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