looking to replace Windows Media Player? Need help.

[Faust]

quote:
 the way, please don't suggest me to use QuickTime Player or RealOne Player because both of those are shit on Windows. THanks for any help.  

Everything is shit on Windows.  Because its on Windows.

Like the "get a mac guy" tried installing Linux lately?  It's super fragilistic and quite a bit less crap than Windows.

edit : realplayer I will admit manages to make the windows experience even more crap

[ August 02, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]

[bigsleep]

I don't use XP, but for audio CD I use the player that came with my sound card, or WinAmp. For MP3 it's WinAmp. For mods it's Amp. For movies it's QuickTime Pro (if it works). For everything else it's Mplayer2 (6.4 I believe).
A newer version of WMP won't work on this system and I hate it anyway, I had another system with ME installed and WMP7 was the default and I disabled the POS and used Mplayer2 instead (I especially hate the change in shortcut keys).
I haven't yet run into a file that I can't play.

[Fett101]

quote:Originally posted by Bigsleep:

I haven't yet run into a file that I can't play.

Yeah. I tried running a script of ep Episode 2 in the txt format through WMP. Nothing but trouble. Damned POS.

[Annorax]

Fuck winamp and Fuck WMP9... If for some reason you have to use Winders to watch video, go to download.com and get Light Alloy. It's a shareware video player that takes shittons less system resources than mediafucker, and doesnt spy on you...

[wolfkhan]

Fine then...If you guys know of anyone who can write high quality audio drivers for my terratec 6fire audio card, then I will happily switch over to a good linux OS

[ August 04, 2003: Message edited by: wolfkhan ]

[bigsleep]

quote:Originally posted by wolfkhan:
Fine then...If you guys know of anyone who can write high quality audio drivers for my terratec 6fire audio card, then I will happily switch over to a good linux OS

I'm sure TerraTec could if they tried. They use WDM, what do you expect?

[Faust]

quote:
I haven't yet run into a file that I can't play.

My windows using friends get heaps.  Hey theres a new movie on the network!  Lets play "guess what random piece of shit codec some random fucking moron used to encode his movie with!"  And ooh wouldnt it be so nice if we could use a codec that could actually be found on the web in under a week?  It took me over a god damn hour of my life to get Bowling for Columbine to play on a friends Windows PC - video was bloody green for Gods sake.

[bigsleep]

quote:Originally posted by Faust:


It took me over a god damn hour of my life to get Bowling for Columbine to play on a friends Windows PC - video was bloody green for Gods sake.

Did you look here:
http://codeccorner.com/
Green video, I bet you need 3IVX

[Faust]

Actually I fixed it with xvid.  The point is that if it weren't for crap proprietary drivers I wouldn't have to go searching for a "fix."  Not to mention that half of the codecs conflict with the other half...

[bigsleep]

quote:Originally posted by Faust:
Actually I fixed it with xvid.  The point is that if it weren't for crap proprietary drivers I wouldn't have to go searching for a "fix."  Not to mention that half of the codecs conflict with the other half...

I know, that's why I removed all the divx crap and configured 3ivx to handle everything. I was going to install xvid but figured out I didn't need to.
Also there's a handy tool called Avicodec.
See this is more proof that M$ products suck - It's easy to get the codec info out of the file, yet MPlayer is no help at all, it searches the MS site for the codec, but doesn't bother to tell you the name of it.