Microsoft releases HD Xbox 360 Trailers
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jvd said:
uhh...I will now
(feels really stupid...tis not a good day.)I didn't want to stop dling earlier, but the reboot didn't help me any.
I think that bsplayer doesn't like my sound card AT ALL as now all I get is pops instead of dijoint audio playback.
Like I said...I'm cursed
randycat99
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Are these clips using mpeg4? If that is the case, maybe you don't have to change resolution or fps if you just convert it to an mpeg2 format (with associated greater file size, of course)? The mpeg2 should be less demanding on processor capability, for easier playback.
randycat99
Veteran
Ahh, guess that is a buzz-kill.
I know there is a plug-in that lets you play wmv directly from Quicktime, and then if you have Quicktime Pro, maybe you can convert from there... Then again, it wouldn't surprise me if that way has been specificially blocked, as well. It just seems there must be some way to convert these to a more readily playable codec, as it seems clear from the cross-section of users in this topic, WMV-HD will not play smoothly for just anybody. So how does MS expect this format to take off, if only the cream-of-the-crop, fully optimized rigs can do it? (this is more rhetorical soapbox speech- I'm not asking for any sort of debate on that)
I know there is a plug-in that lets you play wmv directly from Quicktime, and then if you have Quicktime Pro, maybe you can convert from there... Then again, it wouldn't surprise me if that way has been specificially blocked, as well. It just seems there must be some way to convert these to a more readily playable codec, as it seems clear from the cross-section of users in this topic, WMV-HD will not play smoothly for just anybody. So how does MS expect this format to take off, if only the cream-of-the-crop, fully optimized rigs can do it? (this is more rhetorical soapbox speech- I'm not asking for any sort of debate on that)
randycat99
Veteran
Fwiw, a typical "HD" presentation would correlate to 720p60. It makes sense from an hdtv standpoint, but may seem superfluous from a computer user standpoint, I imagine.
MechanizedDeath
Regular
jvd said:
Ditto. My 1.6GHz Centrino lappy just needs bsplayer set to a higher priority and it runs fine. Wierd b/c I got media player classic and it chunks like crazy. Thanks for the suggestion. PEACE.
randycat99 said:
I doubt what I have could be called cream of the crop. A64 @ 2.2ghz, 9800pro, 1gig of ram. Like I said I dont have any issues. I just played the Kameo and Darkness trailer using WM 10 without a single hitch. Something else causing trouble perhaps?
Darkness looks awfully promising by the way.
radeonic2 said:wmv-hd.. proprietary microsoft format, you can't even open wmvs in programs like virtural dub because microsoft didn't like that
That's not totally true.
To access WMV you have to go through the Windows Media Format APIs.
At the time the whole thing with VirtualDub happened, to use the WM Format APIs you needed to sign a licence agreement.
The guy that wrote VirtualDub didn't want to sign the license agreement because it was incompatible with the GPL. So MS made him pull WMV support.
The ASF format (which WMV is a subset), minus DRM, is documented here.
I don't know if the licensing situation has changed since then.
final fantasy:
www.digitaljeff.org/mike/finalfantasy-1.wmv
Last one..
takes too long for how short the videos are
edit: I lied.
One more, but at 640x480 to see how the quality would be.
Full Auto:
www.digitaljeff.org/mike/full_auto-1.wmv
edit 2- stupid me, I liked to the call of duty saying it was quake 4.
www.digitaljeff.org/mike/quake4-1.wmv
www.digitaljeff.org/mike/finalfantasy-1.wmv
Last one..
takes too long for how short the videos are
edit: I lied.
One more, but at 640x480 to see how the quality would be.
Full Auto:
www.digitaljeff.org/mike/full_auto-1.wmv
edit 2- stupid me, I liked to the call of duty saying it was quake 4.
www.digitaljeff.org/mike/quake4-1.wmv
