cardrunners not supporting w2k ?!?

wanted to signup at CR, but:

Troubleshooting Tips, point 2. of their FAQ web says: "WMP11 is the only cardrunners.com supported media player and is required to view CardRunners.com videos."

fuckme? i mean wmp11 is XP only, so w2k users who cannot go beyond WMP9 are screwed? someone point me in the right direction here, cuz i just cant believe that this would be an XP only product. ??

a real shame for u if thats true

w2k rockz

but ur situation suck

You should contact them directly to ask this question.
Anyway, the streamings videos are not DRM protected and can be watched with anything I guess. They are also available in Flash. I also had no problem viewing the downloaded videos with WMP9.

PS : if it wasn't for some compatibility problems, I'd so be running win2k as well

edit: nm

try videoLAN or VLAN, might work...

win2k ruled, too bad ms stopped supporting their best product

I watch videos with flash player if online.
Or dl them and watch with wmp10, so if dl'ed may be you could watch even with other program.

On May 10 2008 09:20 Robinson47 wrote: try videoLAN or VLAN, might work...

no it won't, has to be wmp or something that has support for windows media DRM

w2k wat?

On May 10 2008 17:45 SakiSaki wrote: w2k wat?

windows 2000

Just stream them like Catul said.

On May 10 2008 18:27 Benzooor wrote: Just stream them like Catul said.

but imo it still has to support drm. vlc or flash doesnt do that..

real player

On May 10 2008 23:39 chipsOwner wrote: Show nested quote + On May 10 2008 18:27 Benzooor wrote: Just stream them like Catul said. but imo it still has to support drm. vlc or flash doesnt do that..

You can choose to believe what I wrote or not, but it still will be correct.

On May 11 2008 06:39 Catul wrote: Show nested quote + On May 10 2008 23:39 chipsOwner wrote:   On May 10 2008 18:27 Benzooor wrote: Just stream them like Catul said. but imo it still has to support drm. vlc or flash doesnt do that.. You can choose to believe what I wrote or not, but it still will be correct.

you seem to be pretty certain. if i sign up and cant stream any videos cuz of the WMP issue, will you refund my signup?

I am certain. I will not refund your signup. And the first part of my post was "You should contact them directly to ask this question.", because THEY would refund you if it doesn't work.

did that via their web thingie, no reply yet :-/

lol at catul refunding signup.

why are you posting this here rather than cardrunners though....?

On May 11 2008 17:56 rS.Wisdom[9] wrote: lol at catul refunding signup. why are you posting this here rather than cardrunners though....?

you cant post there unless ur a paying member obv

anyway, their tech support just mailed me:

So long as you have Adobe Flash installed, you can stream all the videos on any operating system (Mac, Linux, Win2k, etc). You only need WMP11 to watch downloaded videos. If you're still unsure, I would highly recommend trying out the 24 hour day pass and if you decide to upgrade to a gold membership, the day pass fee will be credited towards it.

sounds fair enough, gonna signup asap

On May 10 2008 09:20 Robinson47 wrote: try videoLAN or VLAN, might work...

did you managed to have CR work with vlc? i can stream all the videos with flash but some of them are rather slow, so vlc would be faster since its cpu consumption is lower. their "tech support" told me its not possible but obv i managed to get their videos working with vlc, unfortunately without playback support (cant pause videos etc). anyone found a work-around for this?

On May 10 2008 12:04 sawseech wrote: win2k ruled, too bad ms stopped supporting their best product

standard ms tactic.

i wonder how long we have left with XP until we are forced into shitty Vista.