04-19-2003, 05:35 AM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Jaw-Dropping Windows Media Video Content
Want to see some of the best video quality ever to grace the pixels on your screen? Make sure you have the 9 Series Windows Media Player, then jump to this link. Oh, and make sure you have broadband, or you'll weep when you see the download size. But oh boy it's nice...the Step into Liquid video is awesome!
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04-19-2003, 06:59 AM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 4,396
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Re: Jaw-Dropping Windows Media Video Content
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Want to see some of the best video quality ever to grace the pixels on your screen? Make sure you have the 9 Series Windows Media Player, then jump to this link. Oh, and make sure you have broadband, or you'll weep when you see the download size. But oh boy it's nice...the Step into Liquid video is awesome!
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I don't have Windows Media 9, but thought I'd check the link anyway. There's another problem, though:
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We're sorry. This Windows Media 9 Series content is only available to be viewed using Internet Explorer.
Learn more about Internet Explorer.
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I use Mozilla. Bite me, Microsoft. :bad-words:
Steve
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04-19-2003, 07:56 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,041
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It really shows me how inadequate my AMD Thunderbird 800MHz/Matrox G400Max really is....
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04-19-2003, 08:19 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 383
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I installed the media 9 codecs, but then none of my WMV videos (or that site for that matter) showed after that. All I got was just black box, even after hard-reseting the system.
Back to good ol' 8 for me.. 
/jizmo
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04-19-2003, 10:19 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 302
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Re: Jaw-Dropping Windows Media Video Content
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Originally Posted by Pony99CA
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We're sorry. This Windows Media 9 Series content is only available to be viewed using Internet Explorer.
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I use Mozilla. Bite me, Microsoft. :bad-words: |
I use Netscape. :really mad:
I checked out the streaming demo (in IE). At 100Kbps it is a blurry mess. With QuickTime I can almost stream video of the same size, but it is about 10 times sharper (and I can do it in Netscape ). Even the 300Kbps it is stell hard to rea
The same problem shows in Realplayer. Why do they mess with this stupid streaming for video? Also, why do so many players (QuickTime, RealPlayer 8 ) have taskbar and system tray icons (that I have to remove)? Why the hell would I want to launch them as programs? It is 10,000 times easier to us the file manager to open the files I have on my hard drive, and the players have no decent way of accessing media on the Internet.
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04-19-2003, 12:08 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 68
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if you read the requirements you need a 1.6ghz+ system. I played one of the vids on my 1.2 duron and it was unwatchable. Damn.. never thought i would be CPU limited in any sort of video app, but there you go
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04-19-2003, 02:14 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 170
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Downloaded the video to test my new 100Mbit connection. Took me just over a minute to download the 120MB zip file
And what a movie trailer!! The footage is amazing! :werenotworthy: You can almost feel the water and the waves! Makes me really really want to go surfing again! I gotta go surfing soon. In the meantime I'll try to get hold of the full 'Step Into Liquid' Movie! Great stuff! And you got to love the Butthole Surfers soundtrack. 8) 8) 8)
Thomas.
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04-19-2003, 02:20 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 141
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You haven't been PC's for very long have you? :lol:
The PC has to be able to decode 24 1024x768 screens per second. Thats a heck of a lot of data. :wink:
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04-19-2003, 03:08 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 15
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Miscrosuck strikes again
"We're sorry. This Windows Media 9 Series content is only available to be viewed using Internet Explorer."
What a load of bull. I have Windows Media 9 but that isn't enough is it? Every piece of software I own has to be from the same company or else I can't use any of it. What a useful philosophy! Car manufacturers have something to learn here ... Boy it's a good thing that Honda makes my cell phone or I wouldn't be able to use it while driving. And thank goodness for Honda radio, otherwise I wouldn't be able to listen to anything while driving. I just wish Honda would buy out Starbucks so I could drink coffe when I drive, that "Sorry the product you are consuming isn't made by Honda" buzzer that goes off when I try to drink it in the car is a real pain.
Next time you post something like this, please put a "Site crippled by m$" warning on it.
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04-19-2003, 03:08 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,466
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Blech! Mozilla is bloatware. I use Pheonix. It's the best browser ever developed! Uses the Gecko rendering engine without Mozilla's buggy bloated code. And the downloadable themes kick some serious ass! 0X
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