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* Lets keep it here--[[User:RP|RP]] 18:47, 10 Mar 2006 (PST)

'''Couple of things I've noticed that look interesting... In Steam\Bin, smp.exe, or Steam Media Player. Looks like movies are coming to Steam soon. Also, Steam\Public\P2PDownload.res. Hello Bittorrent-style Steam functionality.''' --[[User:AiusEpsi|AiusEpsi]] 15:21, 10 Mar 2006 (PST)

:If you load it up in a debugger it does infact say Steam Media Player, it maybe related to this topic ::http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=83292 also it is using imports from MediaPlayer, load up the :::p2pdownload and it talks about, ShareRatio, don't know if this should be here. If not delete.  --[[User:Sarkie|Sarkie]]

:I managed to get a movie to play, it does a nice fade to black then plays the movie. [[User:^Ben|^Ben]] 16:37, 10 Mar 2006 (PST)
::This bad boy can also stream files from the internet [[User:^Ben|^Ben]] 16:37, 10 Mar 2006 (PST)
:::Stop talking and post some pics!! ;)--[[User:RP|RP]] 16:39, 10 Mar 2006 (PST)

'''It's fullscreen but you can use the standard wmp controls to work it''' [[User:^Ben|^Ben]] 16:42, 10 Mar 2006 (PST)

:How'd you get it to do that? Mine just refuses to do anything when I double-click on it... --[[User:AiusEpsi|AiusEpsi]]

'''you gotta open it like a command-line program...drag and drop to it&mdash''';'''[[User:Ts2do|ts2do]]''' 16:54, 10 Mar 2006 (PST)
:I tried that, still nothing. Hmm. --[[User:AiusEpsi|AiusEpsi]]
::Oh, you need to have a parameter of some kind after the smp.exe for it to work. --[[User:AiusEpsi|AiusEpsi]]
:::Just select a movie, and use "open with" and select smp...--[[User:RP|RP]] 17:01, 10 Mar 2006 (PST)
'''I take it that smp has something to do with''' ''[[Zombie_movie|Zombie Movie]]''? -- [[User:Sodabus|Sodabus]] 17:31, 10 Mar 2006 (PST)

:Yeah just use shift right click on normal files and load the files, basically it will play any Windows Media Player can, running through Dependancy Walker can't see a lot of relations to WMP .dlls, is this just a container? It will need the codecs install I'm sure, but will it need Windows Media Player 9 -10 if it does, why do we need if only for the cool blur effect. --[[User:Sarkie|Sarkie]] 02:31, 10 Mar 2006 (GMT)

'''I find this player to be the fastest to play HD WMV content. But it doesn't use hardware video overlay for output. Why is that?''' --[[User:Slider2k|Slider2k]] 19:00, 3 Jul 2007 (PDT)
==Trailers in STEAM soon?==
*Apparently we're going to be able to watch trailers (and maybe more) on STEAM very soon, look at [http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=4691444#post4691444 this thread] (credits for [[User:AiusEpsi|AiusEpsi]]) --[[User:RP|RP]] 16:26, 5 May 2006 (PDT)

== Controlls? ==

Shouldn't this article have a list of hot-keys? I just can't figure out how to jump through the timeline in full screen mode. --[[User:Snake oil salesman|Snake oil salesman]] 03:00, 19 May 2009 (UTC)