Being a former napster moderator, it would be fun to get some credit at all for the "tireless hours we worked to better the system," which was basically just fighting the morons who disrupted the chat system, and helping people.
I personally think it would be better had there not been a chat system at all in napster. It was probably only there because shawn was, like all of us, an IRC junkie.
When I think about it more, I don't want credit at all:(
The oldest video game I know of with advertisements in it has to be the classicly horrible "Kool-Aid Man" for the Atari 2600. The game itself was technically just an ad for Kool-Aid, and it was generally unplayable. I'm glad they don't make games like this anymore.
What about automated encoders? How hard could it be?
Well, it depends on the media used. If they are transferring from the 35mm reels, someone needs to splice them together, run the video transfer device, etc. Real hassle. If they are encoding from DVD's, you need someone to format the output for every movie. Without this, the encoder would waste space and time on the sharp edge between the picture itself and the black borders. Also a real hassle. It would definitely take a lot of time, or a lot of people, in either case.
I suppose they might be able to write a program to format the output of the DVD's automatically, but I've never seen this done myself.
With such a large amount of movies available for streaming, the amount of people involved in transferring and encoding must be staggering. I'd like to know what sort of source they used to get all of these movies on disk.
I can't imagine that this will stay around for long, as the content producers will go nuts when they hear about it. It would seem that they took all this time to do this in futility.
Croteam is using Ogg Vorbis for the release of "Serious Sam: The Second Encounter". It's first mentioned in the October 14, 2001 update on the main page of croteam.com
Interestingly enough, "Serious Sam: The First Encounter" used MP3, and a patch has been released to allow it to use Ogg Vorbis.
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Being a former napster moderator, it would be fun to get some credit at all for the "tireless hours we worked to better the system," which was basically just fighting the morons who disrupted the chat system, and helping people.
:(
I personally think it would be better had there not been a chat system at all in napster. It was probably only there because shawn was, like all of us, an IRC junkie.
When I think about it more, I don't want credit at all
The oldest video game I know of with advertisements in it has to be the classicly horrible "Kool-Aid Man" for the Atari 2600. The game itself was technically just an ad for Kool-Aid, and it was generally unplayable. I'm glad they don't make games like this anymore.
Well, it depends on the media used. If they are transferring from the 35mm reels, someone needs to splice them together, run the video transfer device, etc. Real hassle. If they are encoding from DVD's, you need someone to format the output for every movie. Without this, the encoder would waste space and time on the sharp edge between the picture itself and the black borders. Also a real hassle. It would definitely take a lot of time, or a lot of people, in either case.
I suppose they might be able to write a program to format the output of the DVD's automatically, but I've never seen this done myself.
With such a large amount of movies available for streaming, the amount of people involved in transferring and encoding must be staggering. I'd like to know what sort of source they used to get all of these movies on disk.
I can't imagine that this will stay around for long, as the content producers will go nuts when they hear about it. It would seem that they took all this time to do this in futility.
Croteam is using Ogg Vorbis for the release of "Serious Sam: The Second Encounter". It's first mentioned in the October 14, 2001 update on the main page of croteam.com
Interestingly enough, "Serious Sam: The First Encounter" used MP3, and a patch has been released to allow it to use Ogg Vorbis.
"baka" translates to "idiot" or "idiotic", you find it a lot in anime.