window media player, WMP, 2 questions

[seanmckinney]

Hello
I am used to WMP on win98SE,  there are some differences between that and the 8. ...... version on this machine running XP. I have done a web search and forum search and cant find straight forward answers to 2 questions.

1) can I simultaneously run several WMP screens or applications under the version 8. ........? If so, how do I set it up.  With the version on the win98SE machine I can have an audio CD playing and/or be watching one or more video clips simultaneously.  The simultanous CD and video 'just happened' but for multiple video screens I have to, in options, set WMP to open a fresh window for each clip. I cant find that facility in the 'new' WMP.
On the XP machine I have, so far, only managed to get one WMP application at a time running, be that video or audio cd.
2) The video clips running on the XP machine are dark, I was having to alter the entire screen brightness etc to see the clips. Yesterday I found the WMP brightness etc controls but they reset to the default with each new video clip. Is there away to change the default settings or disable the reset-to-default-with-every-new-clip function?

Thanks.

Sean McKinney

[Corrosive]

I believe is is possible to have more than one WMP instance running at once - but I can't remember how. What I will say is that you will (repeat, will) need some pretty tasty hardware to handle it all.

The rest of it, I can't answer. If anyone knows the answer to the last question (Re: video controls) please let me know too - I'm having the same problem.