Hey all

Could someone recommend a decent media player - as about 50% of the anims I
download from p.b.a simply don't play. I used to use Windows Media Player
which had a success rate of about 75% but ate my system resources (I refuse
to wait 5 mins for the thing to load). So I switched to Moyager which is
small + quick but doesn't support all formats

thanks

jim

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On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:52:00 +0100, "jimbobjim" <jim### [at] blueyondercouk>
wrote:
> Could someone recommend a decent media player - as about 50% of the anims I
> download from p.b.a simply don't play.

I think it's not the problem of player but installed codecs.

> I used to use Windows Media Player
> which had a success rate of about 75% but ate my system resources (I refuse
> to wait 5 mins for the thing to load).

What load ? Player ? Animation ? From drive ? From net ?
I use Media Player for mpg, avi, asf and other microsoft specific formats,
Quick Time player for qt and mov, Real Player for Real videos. IIRC I have
100% success and short "load" time for almost every animation on PII 233.

Btw, do you know about povray.animation group ?

ABX

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> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:52:00 +0100, "jimbobjim"
<jim### [at] blueyondercouk>
> wrote:
> > Could someone recommend a decent media player - as about 50% of the
anims I
> > download from p.b.a simply don't play.
>
> I think it's not the problem of player but installed codecs.
>

Do you know where I can update these?

> > I used to use Windows Media Player
> > which had a success rate of about 75% but ate my system resources (I
refuse
> > to wait 5 mins for the thing to load).
>
> What load ? Player ? Animation ? From drive ? From net ?

to play, say an audio cd from the CD-ROM (or any other media file from HD)
requires a huge amount of disk access hence the wait for just the player to
load. I'm not sure what the problem is but it's the only app that does this
(even after reistalls disk, defrags, etc - I recently trebelled my physcial
memory as well)

thanks
jim

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jimbobjim <jim### [at] blueyondercouk> wrote:
> Could someone recommend a decent media player - as about 50% of the anims I
> download from p.b.a simply don't play. I used to use Windows Media Player
> which had a success rate of about 75% but ate my system resources (I refuse
> to wait 5 mins for the thing to load). So I switched to Moyager which is
> small + quick but doesn't support all formats

  It's not about the player, but about which codecs you have installed in
your system.
  You can get mostly used codecs for example here:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/1008

  As a player I would suggest Media Player 6. I do *not* recommend using
Media Player 7 because it's not only big and slow, but has horribly degraded
its usability compared to 6 (most keyboard shortcuts and mouse operations
are just gone).
  However, there are some MS codecs which come only with MP7, but which MP6
can use.

  In order to get full functionality I recommend this:

  - Install Media Player 6 (if not already installed).
  - Install Media Player 7 (it will not delete MP6).
  - Change all the associations of media files so that they will be opened
    with MP6 instead of MP7 (it's enough to just change the name of the
    executable; IIRC, wmplayer.exe -> mplayer2.exe).
  - Install most important codecs from the NIMO pack.

  This has worked just fine for me.

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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   You can get mostly used codecs for example here:
> http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/1008

the link for download doesn't work :(
it wnats me to go to
http://icingdeath.d2g.com/

but there I get a Server-Not-Found-Error

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On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:44:17 +0200, "Jan Walzer" <jan### [at] lzernet> wrote:
> the link for download doesn't work :(
> it wnats me to go to
> http://icingdeath.d2g.com/
> but there I get a Server-Not-Found-Error

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html

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jimbobjim wrote:
> Hey all
> 
> Could someone recommend a decent media player
> 
Use mplayer (linux). It eats EVERYTHING (and most times shows it, too :-)).

Sebastian H.

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> http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html

Thx ..

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> http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html

thanks, I'll give that a go.

jim

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