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The format isnt what is to be bashed though, it is how quicktime (the player) implements itself into everything and how it is just not incompatible enough to crash. If you have another player which supports the quicktime format than use that instead.

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i tried it in vlc first, and it lagged even worse than quicktime

the vlc team needs to work better at quicktime and realmedia movies :/
12-30-2006 09:42 PM
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Though the quality is just as good or as bad as wmv, it depends on how it is encoded.

At least it doesn't give you this horrible brown tint to your videos like .wmv tends to do.

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i tried it in vlc first, and it lagged even worse than quicktime

What specs does your PC have? If you have lower than 1 gig of RAM this might explain the lag.

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RE: RE: RE: HD IS FREAKING AWSOME!
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The format isnt what is to be bashed though, it is how quicktime (the player) implements itself into everything and how it is just not incompatible enough to crash. If you have another player which supports the quicktime format than use that instead.

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i tried it in vlc first, and it lagged even worse than quicktime

the vlc team needs to work better at quicktime and realmedia movies :/

From what I gather, both Realmedia movies haven't had their specifications released, hence it's harder to make a playback mechanism for them.

Quicktime uses a very complicated way of storing movies as well, although it's specifications (I believe) have been released to the MPEG group.

As to codecs... I use Xvid. It's got a lot of backing out there... primary because the encoder is free. :) (Which is probably why it's used by a lot of "shady" groups on the internet.) I used to use WMV when I made movies with Windows Movie Maker (I *know*... )

Quicktime really does die for High Res videos for me. I'm gonna download Quicktime alternative and give it a bash.

(Oh, and we're not really going off topic, there really wasn't a proper topic to start with :)).
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Windows Media Player Classic > *

* _Humphreys hugs Phillip

I totally concur; I love how clean and easy to use Media Player Classic is. I also love the fact that it does not needlessly hog system resources.
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Windows Media Player Classic > *
tru.dat.

<3 my 1080i HDTV but for that, at least i can fit it on my monitors :grin:
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indeed!

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My family have a HD-TV and it's not worth it to be frank, if I where you I wouldn't buy into HD until 2009 at least.

But you won't be watching any HD tv without a some sort of HDTV receiver + someone transmitting it to you - I only know of Sky which do HD tv. And you need the SkyHD receiver + the subscription to their service.

I have a HDTV but no SkyHD service, so the tv is nearly the same(because the programs arn't broadcast in HD). But films are awesome on it. Especially with our surround sound home cinema set-up, it is worth it. IMHO



* vaccination enjoyed the harry potter trailer.

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But you won't be watching any HD tv without a some sort of HDTV reciver + someone transmitting it to you - I only know of Sky which do HD tv. And you need the SkyHD reciever + the subscribtion to their service.

I have a HDTV but no SkyHD service, so the tv is nearly the same(because the programs arn't broadcast in HD). But films are awesome on it. Especialy with our surround sound home cinema set-up, it is worth it. IMHO
I don't even have Sky, i use freeview, and yes i know it isn't HD. I use it to watch films and play xbox 360 (which is in 1080i HD) so it does get some use out of it :p

I don't fancy paying £300 for the SkyHD box, £10 per month for SkyHD subscription PLUS the normal Sky subscription (which depends on package but starts at something like £15 per month) :P

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But you won't be watching any HD tv without a some sort of HDTV receiver + someone transmitting it to you - I only know of Sky which do HD tv. And you need the SkyHD receiver + the subscription to their service.

I have a HDTV but no SkyHD service, so the tv is nearly the same(because the programs arn't broadcast in HD). But films are awesome on it. Especially with our surround sound home cinema set-up, it is worth it. IMHO

I have saw it display a HDTV picture, sure it's a bit clearer but it's not the be all and end all. Plus as you said it's not even implemented here yet hence you should wait.

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I don't fancy paying £300 for the SkyHD box, £10 per month for SkyHD subscription PLUS the normal Sky subscription (which depends on package but starts at something like £15 per month) :P

I know, that's why i don't have SkyHD :P it's flipping expensive =(



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Plus as you said it's not even implemented here yet hence you should wait.


It is implemented, you can watch HD films, or buy the subscription + box for SkyHD. So there's no need to wait, you can have HD now, it's just expensive.


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kao, it was mainly aimed at caltros cool =)
I was just saying =p

split time?

probably :P

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