a.) watch you tube b.) use the app "Windows media Player" c.) [Playlists of Youtube's and app called Windows media Player.]

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a.) watch you tube b.) use the app "Windows media Player" c.) [Playlists of Youtube's and app called Windows media Player.]

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Where can I learn to run all my youtubes from Media player. I also have a button on my Keyboard for support fopr Win~MediaPlayer and want it to play you tuber vids.

Is there a play video URL and a tag htm address data thing I can use to place the target of video.file from website to ~win~Media Player?

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Answer 1

Hello Final Cut Express,

Windows Media Player can't pull YouTube videos in directly. It's a local media player — built to play files that already live on your PC (your MP4s, MP3s, ripped CDs, that kind of thing) and organize them into a library. It was never a web/streaming app. YouTube, on the other hand, is a streaming service that lives behind a web page, so the two don't really meet.

The one workaround you can consider is to bring the video down as a local file first — once it's an MP4 saved on your PC, it's exactly the kind of thing WMP is happy to play. From there you can build a local playlist of saved videos and your media key works normally too; it just can't stream them live from YouTube.

Answer 2

Windows Media Player can play video files and some streaming URLs, but the provided context only documents how to play local or library videos and how to manage the library. It does not describe any supported way to:

Run all YouTube videos directly from Windows Media Player.
Use a keyboard Windows Media Player button to open and play YouTube videos.
Use an HTML tag or URL “data thing” to redirect YouTube web videos into Windows Media Player.

From the context, Windows Media Player is designed to play local video files or videos in its libraries:

Open Windows Media Player from Start → type "Media Player" → select Windows Media Player.
Use the Videos library in the left navigation pane to access local video files.
To add folders with videos: right-click Videos → Manage Video library → Add → choose folder → Include folder → OK. Files in those folders are then available in the library.
Double-click a video file in File Explorer or in the Videos library to play it in Windows Media Player.

This allows organizing and playing local video files (including downloaded videos, if they are standard media files), but the context does not provide a method to integrate YouTube streaming playback directly into Windows Media Player or bind YouTube URLs to it.

References:

Basics about videos and video codecs in Windows Media Player