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archcommus

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I'm at my girlfriend's, a 730 MHz Pentium III with 128 mem. Um...I'll wait till I get home.
 

archcommus

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Also, for home, should I just go with Nero Showtime?

What are you using to encode, Goose? Sorry, don't have the time to look into it right now, so I'll just ask.
 

eelw

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Originally posted by: archcommus
I'm at my girlfriend's, a 730 MHz Pentium III with 128 mem. Um...I'll wait till I get home.

BBBBWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAa
 

JoeKing

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BSplayer played it fairly well, just no sound :(

but it played it smoothly on my a64 3000+ 1gb ram with Azureus running a few torrents in the background.
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: archcommus
Also, for home, should I just go with Nero Showtime?

What are you using to encode, Goose? Sorry, don't have the time to look into it right now, so I'll just ask.

To encode I use nero Rencode.
 

archcommus

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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: archcommus
Also, for home, should I just go with Nero Showtime?

What are you using to encode, Goose? Sorry, don't have the time to look into it right now, so I'll just ask.

To encode I use nero Rencode.
Gotcha, just saw it on their website when I was getting ShowTime.

Looked alright to me, not spectacular, though. Is my 19" LCD panel doing this movie justice? I wouldn't know.

EDIT: Smooth as silk, A64 3200+, 1 gig of mem, X800 XL 256 MB.

 

Goosemaster

Lifer
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Originally posted by: archcommus
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: archcommus
Also, for home, should I just go with Nero Showtime?

What are you using to encode, Goose? Sorry, don't have the time to look into it right now, so I'll just ask.

To encode I use nero Rencode.
Gotcha, just saw it on their website when I was getting ShowTime.

Looked alright to me, not spectacular, though. Is my 19" LCD panel doing this movie justice? I wouldn't know.

EDIT: Smooth as silk, A64 3200+, 1 gig of mem, X800 XL 256 MB.

It is in 1080i (540 effective lines) so in essence, no:p
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: James3shin
YOU BROKE MY COMPUTER!!! Freaking slideshow on my ibook.

Try the 180...lol...then again...don't try it and save the bandwidth for the real men:cool:
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: archcommus
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: James3shin
YOU BROKE MY COMPUTER!!! Freaking slideshow on my ibook.

Try the 180...lol...then again...don't try it and save the bandwidth for the real men:cool:
Is it up yet?

Awhile now....Check the thread "180MB"

It was up a long time ago but I just got home.
 

archcommus

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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: archcommus
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: James3shin
YOU BROKE MY COMPUTER!!! Freaking slideshow on my ibook.

Try the 180...lol...then again...don't try it and save the bandwidth for the real men:cool:
Is it up yet?

Awhile now....Check the thread "180MB"

It was up a long time ago but I just got home.
Getting now, thanks.

Speaking of LCDs being HDTV-compliant, as long as it has the necessary resolution, are you experiencing it fully?

 

Goosemaster

Lifer
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Originally posted by: archcommus
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: archcommus
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: James3shin
YOU BROKE MY COMPUTER!!! Freaking slideshow on my ibook.

Try the 180...lol...then again...don't try it and save the bandwidth for the real men:cool:
Is it up yet?

Awhile now....Check the thread "180MB"

It was up a long time ago but I just got home.
Getting now, thanks.

Speaking of LCDs being HDTV-compliant, as long as it has the necessary resolution, are you experiencing it fully?

LCDs usually have a few set limitations, and their effect on programming depends on a case-by-case basis.

First, they usually have contrast issues when view in dark areas. Becuase light is used to light the LCD, you get darks that aren't as capable as on a monitor (CRT) or even on DLPs.

Second they sometimes have colors that aren't as rich as on CRTs.

THat said, most of these issues are becomign quite nonexistant on modern TVs, so as long as you can display 720p @ 1280x720 and use a video processor to downscale 1080i (1920x1080) down coorectly, you should be fine:)
 

Paratus

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Radeon 9600XT

Nero Showtime
Processor 35-80%
Smoooooooothhh

I like Nero Recode too. I'm converting my movies to play on my new PalmOne LifeDrive. I've got 3 full length movies on it with room for 3 more!
(480x320 ~500Kbit/s 2 pass Mp4 encoding)
 

Goosemaster

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Paratus
P4 3.2 E Skt 478
1GB PC 3200 222 Corsair XL Pro
Radeon 9600XT

Nero Showtime
Processor 35-80%
Smoooooooothhh

I like Nero Recode too. I'm converting my movies to play on my new PalmOne LifeDrive. I've got 3 full length movies on it with room for 3 more!
(480x320 ~500Kbit/s 2 pass Mp4 encoding)

nice..pics of the lifedrive?:D
 

flexy

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whow..that 16MB clip is AWESOME....i just rightclicked and chose "windows mediaplayer"...smooth as silk..WHOW !!!
(high-end machine here)
 

notfred

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Ok, so I'm watching the video - what's so impressive? It's 1080 pixels wide, other than that I don't see anything special. It still has the same type of compression artifacts that every other MPEG file has always had.
 

MmmSkyscraper

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Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
After installing that Moonlight sh1t the playback of all my video files is fvcked up. Bleached out and blocky, w00t :(

Yeah, some of those H.264 codecs can be a real bitch with messing with the rest of your video files, or popping up dialogue boxes whenever explorer accesses a directory with video files.


Yep. I've tried uninstalling all the video apps, deleting codecs etc but no joy. Looks like this install is screwed unless someone has a magical idea?
 

mobobuff

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Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
After installing that Moonlight sh1t the playback of all my video files is fvcked up. Bleached out and blocky, w00t :(

Yeah, some of those H.264 codecs can be a real bitch with messing with the rest of your video files, or popping up dialogue boxes whenever explorer accesses a directory with video files.


Yep. I've tried uninstalling all the video apps, deleting codecs etc but no joy. Looks like this install is screwed unless someone has a magical idea?

You gotta find all the registry entries and delete them, and find any references in the registry to the codec files in the system folder and make sure those get deleted as well.