Random Select Winter Showdown - Dec 15th

Yay me getting beasted by LTB :tup:

EDIT: God damnit, what codec do I need for divx?? I just updated and still can’t watch this shit.

Haha. No worries, I was pretty scrubtastic too.

It’s not DivX/Xvid, it’s h264.

I MOST HIGHLY recommend you include the name of the codec you’re using in the file name if you’re going to use random AVI codecs. I can’t stress this enough. So many user’s machines get fucked over by bad codecs/bad codec packs as people try to guess what codec they need. =P

Thank you and I most definitely agree. :sweat: Fuck a codec. I still can’t even get this to work. :lol: Too lazy to restart if that’s the issue. Oh well, it’s not like watching this match will help me or anything.

VLC media player

google it

you’ll love it

^-- That’s a total dodge of the issue, though. If we’re locking everyone into one specific player in order to play a piece of content, we’re lamer than when we started. =\ If it’s AVI, I hope to fucking goodness that there’s a corresponding VFW codec that any random VFW aware application can play, and we’re not locked into Your Favorite Player Here. That is NOT a good use of AVI as an “easy interchange format”.

Sorry: I’ve watched AVI go to fucking hell and I’m trying to bring it back as a viable format. Instructions to “get this specific player to play this back!” are lame to me, instructions to “get this specific codec!” are the CORRECT answer here. The link I linked to was to FFDShow Tryouts, which should play this back fine on any VFW aware application. :tup:

Remember: I don’t need you to use Windows Media Player, I just need multimedia on Windows to fricking work, and I’m tired of it being broken down by bad AVI playback practices. What happens if the content uses Indeo? Does he then need to switch to the Indeo Player? Changing players for AVI playback is a lame vicious circle. :smile:

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And for what it’s worth, I submitted a fix to VLC for one of their Vista issues, so if you’re thinking I’m anti-VLC you’re wrong as hell. (They’re really not Vista compliant at all, but my fix will kind of jump start their ease of use there until they actually get their act together.) I’m utterly player-agnostic and simply pro-functioning-multimedia-ecosystem. :tup:

DL the Combined Community Codec Pack for almost all your needs.

Did they fix the bugs I previously identified for them yet? I don’t think they did. =\

Codec packs almost universally suck. CCCP is probably the best of the bad lot, but still… :o

A codec is the key to a file. You only need one codec type for one file. Having somebody point you to a codec pack is overkill in the utmost, and I have well over ten million system crashes tracing back to codec packs that say codec packs suck fucking ass. :smile: The Windows multimedia look-up system doesn’t know how to generically prioritize multiple versions of a given codec, so if you’re throwing codecs on your machine, you’re just kind of asking for trouble. =\ (And most codec packs use a really fucked up install method, which means they’ll screw over existing other codecs. Sweet deal there, morons… :rolleyes: :lol: )

Again: me, trying to help resurrect AVI. Codec packs: fucking up AVI.

VLC worked.

I’m excited about seeing the losers final…what a nail biter.

LTB

huh, I’ve never had trouble with CCCP. Oh, well, I guess ur right in this matter and I’m just one of the few exceptions. I’m not being sarcastic by the way listen to Zach people!

CCCP has never done me wrong either. VLC is garbage.

I’m gonna have to disagree with you on that one. VLC is bomb as far as functionality goes. GUI design is garbage, though. My only big problem with VLC is the way the playlist is set up and the way you can’t access the timeline in fullscreen mode.

To tell the truth, CCCP has never done ANIME fans wrong, LOL!

Also in VLC the timeline is WAY less sensitive so fast forwarding is way hit-or-miss compared to WMP which is why I rarely use it.

Actually, the timeline is just as sensitive as WMP, you just have to drag the marker instead of clicking the time you want to get to.

Zoom player is my personal favorite for all video right now. The interface is great, and the timeline marker and sensitivity, as well as its simplicity is superb.

I’m trying to remember what video player I used. The name ecapes me at the moment…but I could never get VLC to work despite the good things I hear about it.

So I just recaptured the Marvel footage again (uncompressed this time) because the original capture had a glitchy timeline. So this footage does live, promise.

any news on the ST video footage?

I think I only have KoFXI (2 tapes) and MvC2 (20 minutes), don’t I? Or are you asking someone else?