I absolutely don't - it's not tenable. My point is simply that "use player
xxx" is a logical shortcut that short-circuits proper content guidance. For
example, you will see people coming through asking how to play MJPG or TSCC
or other file and get the response back to download DivX. I'm a firm
believer in a cohesive troubleshooting system where we actually look at what
people are trying to play first and deal with in with a 'best practices'
methodology. Big fancy word meaning: they're better off reencoding the
content and saving everyone the hassle here. =)
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"mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com> wrote in message
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for sure not trying to argue, but cannot understand why you think microsoft
should be responsible for all codec's in the world.
mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com
"zachd [MSFT]" <zachd@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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There are lots of one-off players that are kept up to date and have been
around for years. That doesn't translate to "this is a great solution".
The idea that it is an OS problem that random codec foo is not available on
the system by default is an interesting and flawed one. Should we have this
same discussion as regards the other 800 of the existing codecs out there?
I have no problem with VLC, and if you're paying attention might have noted
that I recently sent them some fixes to problems they were having. But
given that there are over 800 codecs out there, the methodology of "go get
player xxx for this particular clip" turns out to be a short-sighted
non-answer that doesn't really further AVI as a sustainable easy-to-use
format. Let's make both VLC and AVI great and easy to use.
It bothers me when AVI is not easy to use in whatever player you want to
use. If we're really to the point where you have to use VLC and can't use,
say, GOMPlayer or KMPlayer to play back AVIs, that to me says AVI playback
is getting pretty pathetic. Just use extension .avi-vlc at that point.
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"mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com> wrote in message
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have been using VLC for years with no problems.
just need to keep up with updates like with all programs.
it bypasses the codec problems with the OS.
"zachd [MSFT]" <zachd@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Which leaves you in the uncomfortable and archaic position of "if you want
to play this content, you must use player xxx", which is exactly the bad
position that AVI was trying to save you from. Why not just use .la or .viv
files at that point?
You're looping back to bad decisions that the industry tried to get away
from over a decade ago.
I like AVI as an easy format. Using an old deprecated codec is a bad
experience.
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"mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com> wrote in message
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use VLC instead , no problems with there that I have seen.
mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com
"Pat Riley" <patriley@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Apparently Microsoft has "disabled" older codec's which prevents certain
AVI's from playing in Vista. If you have Indeo 3.1x AVI's this hack might
be useful. Ironically, Microsoft shipped with Vista all three dll's (the
codec) needed to play Indeo 3.1x AVI's, so only this registry key is
required to enable them. Intel Indeo was sold to Ligos. Ligos states the
following:
"the 3.x video codec is no longer available nor supported"
Microsoft recommends that you convert older AVI's and not use this
"deprecated" codec.
WARNING: this is a HACK and involves making a single REG_SZ string. If you
do not know what the consequences of editing the registry are you should not
attempt this. Use this HACK at your own risk and peril.
To this key, add this REG_SZ value
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32]
"vidc.iv32"="ir32_32.dll"
This message may self destruct in 30 seconds,
Good Luck Jim....
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