Windows Media Feature Pack 2004
Karmen Mcarthun
What you want to do is open the start menu and search for "Turn Windows features on or off", in the window that opens look for media features, expand it, select Windows Media Player and click OK. With that done iCloud 5 will install. Why does iCloud 5 need WMP when iCloud 4 did not? No idea...
I agree wholeheartedly with you mwkeefer re Windows Media Player--I consider it "thug software", and won't use it. If you come up with a solution that does not require Media Player, I'd appreciate it if you post it.
I basically created a Virtual Box VM using the official microsoft IE Test Virtual Disk Images (Available from WinXP to Win10 with Edge) and run quite well in Oracle Virtual Box on my modest Lenovo S11 Yoga 2.5 (I call it a 2.5 because it's not quite a 2 nor an 11S, it's like they refurbed it but forgot to put a serial number in the BIOS which leads me to determine verison based on HW) which is as I can tell a Haswell Chipset with a 2.5 Core i5 Dual Core, Quad Thread atop 12GB of RAM and a 480GB SSD Drive internally.
2.) Took a clean snapshot of the VM Image to use as a "NEXT INTERATION TESTING", no I won't leave everyone cold without a file based solution (may require installing various bits from archive, SFC, etc - I will keep this legal only, may even need a DONER Install Disk or i386 directory to expand the ._files to useable once again.
My next interation I will determine which files iCloud 5 and then 5.1 actually require from the Windows Media Player install (since it's just enabled / diabled, it must be stock files) - if it merely fails because it doesn't detect the files at all, but we don't care about that aspect (playback of media as there is no iTunes on Windows) I suppose Step #1 will be trick it with fake executables to get it going and then Step #2 - Create a Win32/64 thunk layter
I'm experiencing the same problem every time I try to download iCloud; the exact same error message pops up. But when I open "Turn Windows features on or off", I don't have a "Media Features" option to expand in order to click Windows Media Player. ? Any suggestions on how to get the Media Features/WMP option to appear or another solution to my problem?
On Linux, none of the available file explorers seem to provide extensive support for media metadata (i.e. in Details view, showing info like video bitrate, frame size, framerate, etc) - whereas pretty much every one on Windows does. I'm therefore trying to use Directory Opus in Crossover for this purpose.
Getting Opus setup & running in Crossover was very easy, & it's able to show metadata columns for images. However, all metadata columns for videos come out blank. Presumably, it's trying to leverage some underlying Windows dependency that's not available in Crossover by default. My strong suspicion is that this is the Media Feature Pack ( -us/download/details.aspx?id=16546). However, because it's distributed as an MSU (not an MSI or EXE), I can't figure out any way to get it installed into the bottle.
I'm 99% sure what I need is either WMP or Media Feature Pack, but after much trial and error (and hours of googling), I find myself at a dead end. And unfortunately, it seems I'm not able to get any guidance via paid support tickets. If anyone can provide any insight how I might install WMP or Media Feature Pack (or otherwise get video metadata extraction to work in Directory Opus), I'd very much appreciate it.
I can't help, but I want to second the question - it is amazing how close your question is to what I want to do. I run Freecommander and XYPlorer in crossover rather than DOPUS, and I am trying to get the file previewers to run for media files. At various times in the past this has worked for me, but now I run into exactly the same problem you mention trying to install windows media player 9 or 10 - download links don't work. Surely there is a MSI or installable download somewhere, but I can't seem to find it.
I hope Codeweavers Support will give this a second look. Dolphin has made some strides recently, but as you say the Linux world is largely devoid of File managers which have the flexibility of the windows variety. Just a little effort here to get this working would fill a big void.
I actually tried XYPlorer too, & saw that the behavior was the same - which lends even more credence to the suspicion that the issue isn't the particular app, but a more general Windows dependency that's needed for extracting data from videos.
I'd encourage you to reach out to them directly via ticket too. Hopefully if there's more interest, they'll be willing to have someone try to reproduce it on their end. In the past when I'd submitted tickets, they were super thoughtful & we were able to have some meaningful back-and-forth debugging efforts, but unfortunately in this case it was pretty much "I don't know, and we don't have anyone available to look into this application." Maybe you'll have better luck than me at encouraging them to at least run it once through a debugger :)
It looks like Microsoft removed all of the Windows Media Player downloads from their website :/ I found some unofficial ones, but none that I would be confident about sharing officially. I'm going to remove the dead links from the CrossTies. If you do find one that works, please let me know so I can add a working link :)
I tried the nightly build of the new Crossover v21 - it now seems to install Windows Media Feature Pack (from -us/software-download/mediafeaturepack). However, after installing that, file browsers still behave the same: no media columns show any values.
I'm making a new post for this since no one has given any satisfactory answers on either of the two other threads for this problem (links at bottom). The error is that when installing iCloud on Windows 11, it is not detecting the computer already has Media Features installed and turned on. The following error pops up:
The problem is, I am not using an N version of Windows. I am using a full version of Windows 11, and I have Media Features already installed and turned on. Some of the help threads I've seen elsewhere tell the users to go to Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off > Media Features, and to turn it on manually. Mine was always on, so this is clearly not the problem.
None of the threads I have found have a satisfactory answer. Link 1 below provides a link to a random website with a download, but I don't consider than an "answer" to this problem, because I don't download mystery links. At least 100 other people have said they have this problem.
I had the same problem with my Windows 10 22H2 computer. The message is very misleading, clicking Download doesn't actually take you to a download. Here's what I did to make the error message go away. Hope this work for you all!!
Same problem here. In my case, I'm getting the error message not on installing iCloud but after several years of successfully using it. The error doesn't cripple iCloud. I don't use all features of iCloud but the ones that I do still work. The only nuisance is the error message popping up. I can't get rid of it. When I close it, it comes back a few minutes later.
This suddenly started happening out-of-the-blue. I checked the software update logs, there had been no recent windows updates and the last icloud SW update was 2 months ago. I'm running windows 11 Pro 23H2. So it's not an N version. Media features are enabled and working.
Hi guys, in my case I solved the issue this way, I had also media feature pack preinstalled bcs I have Windows 11 Pro 23H2 version. What I did was that I installed HEVC video extension from microsoft store, after that error message about media pack from icloud is gone :)
Apple is looking for certain files in your machine (not its capability to use and open certain files) and they know the ones that are in this 'Windows Media Feature Pack'. So they simply base their error on that?
I've recently bough GTA5 for the computer, but through Game-stop. They gave me a code, and I got the install EXE file. I thought I could simply run it through steam, and I'd be done. However, when I try to install, it says: Unable to detect the Windows Media Feature Pack on your system. Please install the Windows Media feature Pack, then retry the installation. I can't find any way to install it! I think I've got the MSU file, but that can't be run with PlayOnLinux (Which is what I'm also using to run Steam, so It can run windows games) Please help! If necessary I can steal the pack from my old Windows XP computer, but that would be awful. Is there any way to install it?
I remember that there was such a package for Windows Media Player 10 (the last version for XP) which basically added playback functionality for newer formats, but I'm not sure if that will solve your problem. You are probably just misguided by the installers requirement for this platform and how the target OS or Wine interprets it to satisfy this dependency (play video similar H.264 with Windows Media, I assume).
Since you trick the installer with Wine, make sure that your Wine configuration is set to correctly mimic at least Windows Vista and try to install Windows Media Player 11. WMP10 is the latest version PlayOnLinux and Winetricks seem to support and WMP12 is available since Windows 7, but might be even trickier to install than WMP11.
This is the mess you get, when you don't use the actual target platform but another implementation that tries to mimic it with best effort. A solution to this problem would be implement the functionality that results in this dependency by using another software component like gstreamer (and probably replace the DirectX 10 dependency), that would make it more interoperable or even a good Linux port. However that was not the intention of the game designers or staff responsible for the "PC port". The intention obviously was to provide the best experience and performance on Windows without researching what the best cross-platform solution to video playback is, and I can't blame them.
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