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 Re: Inquiring minds hesitate to know
Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 11:05am 2004

By bulky I meant it doesn'ttake up loads of screen area with pointless options and graphics like the newer media player versions do. And ffdshow allows you to do that stuff



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Posted by Myrk- on Sun Apr 25th at 11:08am 2004

Orph I can guarantee my flatmate watches more videos and files on his PC than you do, and he uses WMP9. Download all the codecs and stuff from different sites and your sorted.

The new DivX ones are very good, they improve the quality of the film by playing it 5 seconds later than its read (it spends those 5 doing up the pixels and stuff). Makes it very smooth and very good looking.

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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 11:17am 2004

? posted by scary_jeff

By bulky I meant it doesn'ttake up loads of screen area with pointless options and graphics like the newer media player versions do. And ffdshow allows you to do that stuff

*makes a note*

jeff still doesn't listen very well

O.K. jeff.. cool.

? posted by Myrk-

Orph I can guarantee my flatmate watches more videos and files on his PC than you do, and he uses WMP9. Download all the codecs and stuff from different sites and your sorted.

then point him to the link to ViPlay as its definately better than WMP9 :/

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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 11:20am 2004

I just tried ViPlay... I've used this style of player before.. I just don't like ones with a very graphicy interface.

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I can guarantee my flatmate watches more videos and files on his PC than you do, and he uses WMP9.


LOL well that's the end of it then obviously! WMP9 isn't bad because of it's capabilities, it's bad because it's slow and crap and ridiculously overly graphical. You can use whatever filters and codec you want on pretty much any player, so saying WMP9 can have better filters is a meaningless statement Orph's ViPlay is definately better than WMP9. Even quick time player borders on being better than WMP9! hahaha



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Posted by Myrk- on Sun Apr 25th at 11:22am 2004

0n1Y 4 U|2 14m3 PC! [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 11:23am 2004

thanx at least for trying it jeff

most wouldn't have bothered.. a few are just either to lazy, or resist change period.

for the record, i have tried both of your choices as well, but ... well i still favor mine.

i think the basic point here is, very damned few of us, dedicate as much time/bandwidth to movies as i do.. it kinda leave me out of the loop..

thanx again guys.

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Posted by Myrk- on Sun Apr 25th at 11:25am 2004

Oh you stream your videos? We just watch f**k loads on our PCs from "legal" discs we "obtained" via "people"... [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 11:27am 2004

Oh please guys, arguing over who watches/downloads the most divx and who is the most illegal? So very sad...

Orph, how did you try media player 6 and media player 9? I didn't think you could have two versions of media player on the same PC? Or did you use a different PC...



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 11:29am 2004

? posted by Myrk-
Oh you stream your videos? We just watch f**k loads on our PCs from "legal" discs we "obtained" via "people"...

must i upload my list again myrk..??

stream?? thats a laugh

in the last year, i have bought, and burned perhaps 500 CDR's.. not all for movies, but definitely for avi's and such

BTW, you should have your brother explain the concept of, "obtained" ... "legal" and "other people"

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Posted by Myrk- on Sun Apr 25th at 11:32am 2004

Nah, We'd just double you list

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Posted by Forceflow on Sun Apr 25th at 11:32am 2004

BsPlayer for divX/Xvid

WMP for regular WMV's or small movies.

PowerDVD for DVD's.





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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 11:34am 2004

OMG SHUT UP! nobody cares who has the most movies! I can't believe you are actually arguing about this!!

Orph, you know that CD-Rs don't work after 5-10 years?

BSPlayer is very similar to Orph's ViPlay.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 11:35am 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
Orph, how did you try media player 6 and media player 9? I didn't think you could have two versions of media player on the same PC? Or did you use a different PC...

actually i have 4 hooked to the net, via a router ATM.. only 3 are dedicated to downloads though..

at this time, i have a media player on this PC, (my old 450 P3) it is my main movie comp.. but i am unsure which version of media is on it, as i do not use media at all anymore..

in fact i have several players.. (zoom,bsplayer,media,real,ViPlay,DivX play,and QT)

i just never uninstalled many of them..

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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 11:37am 2004

If you click help > about media player, it tells you what version it is. But basically, if it's got loads of ugly blue graphics around it by default, it's newer than the version I like.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 11:37am 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
OMG SHUT UP! nobody cares who has the most movies!

do i smell another poll here

/runs..

[edit] i have version 9.. the crappy blue bulky one

/runs faster

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Posted by Gorbachev on Sun Apr 25th at 4:33pm 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
OMG SHUT UP! nobody cares who has the most movies! I can't believe you are actually arguing about this!!

Orph, you know that CD-Rs don't work after 5-10 years?

BSPlayer is very similar to Orph's ViPlay.

That CD-R stuff is BS, I have CD-Rs much older than that and they work fine.

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Posted by ReNo on Sun Apr 25th at 4:36pm 2004

I don't think there is a real age you can put on it, except an approximation of course, but basically they don't last forever is the problem. I've not had one die on me yet, except CDRW that got used intensively. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 4:41pm 2004

i think/know jeff was jesting guys..

i think it was his way of saying, i waste way to much time/bandwidth/money on movie theft

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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 6:20pm 2004

So you have had CD-Rs for much longer than 10 years? Interesting.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 6:25pm 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
So you have had CD-Rs for much longer than 10 years? Interesting.

your time span was 5-10 jeff

actually, longer than 10 is a bit difficult for my brain to grasp, when everything i knew of was on 3.5" floppies :/ *scruntches up brain real tight* HELL everything was on 5.25 floppies then

10 years ago, i didn't even own a cd/rom.. hell, 10 years ago, i didn't even own a PC

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