Tell me about it! I love my GVX1, but the fans are SO LOUD! They are noisier than the 300watt power supply. I had to take the plastic covers off both of em (Yes, 2 fans on the card) because the blades kept clicking on the covers. Drove me nuts. You'd think a $750 dollar card would have some quiet/quality fans on it.
I have a Matrox DigiSuite LE that captures in mpeg format. You can capture using lossless compression, but it's huge files. 10 gigs is like 5 mins. I then compress the raw mpeg (can't play back w/o matrox hardware) into.mov(QT) format with sorenson for compositing and storage, and it looks better than the same sized.avi.
Sorenson compressed video looks better when composited with 3D than mpgs. It isn't blocky. You could get some field dominance problems if you don't pay attention to the settings though.
I'd bet Avid might have some custom compression boards that do Sorenson (or better), but I've only seen Avids, never got to touchy. My video experience has been with PC's.
Have you ever stored any video using Sorenson Compression? No. Well that explains why you think Mpg4 is so great.
Yes there is a difference between "Lossy" and "Lossless". Especially if you ever plan on using the stored video for something besides web streaming. Like, oh I don't know, watching it on TV. OH yeah! That big plastic and glass thing in the living room. They still make those?!
Seems to me they are dumping Apple and going with Macromedia so the codec can become Open and Sorenson can still make money.
Macromedia will give them money and Macromedia makes it part of the Open SWF format. Apple doesn't want Open Source Video, so they would never let Sorenson release the codec. Sorenson could have told apple to go stuff it, but they're PAYING for the codec's exclusive use. So Sorenson's hands are tied because they need money to survive.
Enter Macromedia. They'll pay and make it Open because it's in their interest to have tons of flash players on as many machines as possible. Apple's locked into an OS and Macromedia isn't, so Macromedia could care less about proprietary formats. READ BETWEEN THE LINES! Sorenson has wanted to open the codec for years, but they couldn't do it an remain alive before.
yet it has failed to validify the Flash format as an open standard
Here's a quote from Macromedia's website:
No fees are required for access to the Macromedia Flash file format (SWF) or for the creation of products based on the SWF format.
So uh, WTF are you talking about? How is the swf format not open? Christ Adobe makes a product that makes swf files. Download the SDK and look for yourself. You might not be able to look at Sorenson's code, but you can build a custom player for swf's that uses sorenson codec so what's your point? I can STILL use the codec in my projects because it's now part of the SWF format.
WHAAAAAAA!! I wanna see source even though I don't really need too. WHAAAAA!!
What do all these countries have in common? Americans protect their asses with American lives, money, and weapons! And owe us large sums of money for said services.
Now lets move on to who we give food too...THE WORLD. That's right. Americans feed ALL the starving people of the world...for free. That is what makes America numero uno! We have more food than anybody else. It's not because we are smart or right about certain political issues. We have food. People need food to live. That's puts you into a unique position of power by proxy.
It's also funny that the people who bitch about American influence/meddling are also the first to come running to us for help. France being the biggest example of this. We bailed them out of 2 wars and finacial collapse in the 50's, and all they can do is give us shit for it.
Give me an example of a country that can compaire to Americans Philantropy? Oh right, there are none!
...He seems like a really good actor. To bad he picks such cheesey movies like "Mission to Mars" and "The Family Man". Those movies would actually be watchable if the characters weren't so contrite and phony.
It's like watching Jackie Paper burn...morbid entertainment.
...didn't you ever see "Empire Strikes Back"?! Romance BELONGS in Star Wars. There is a reason ESB is the most beloved movie in the series. It's the only one that isn't cheesy crap, because you get to see the characters act like real people, not puppets led around by stupid plot devices. If you want to associate character development with "chick stuff", then you'd better stick to watching WWF.
The jokes and sexual innuedoes in ESB are what separates it from the rest. Take Star Trek for example. The original one had humor and sex. TNG had neither(not consistantly anyway) and wasn't loved like the original. Enterprise captures that human side of the story and brings it back. So, lets hope that AOTC brings the human factor back to Star Wars.
Well this sucks. I'm not even finished with 'Apache the Definitive Guide for 1.3.3, 2nd ed', and now I have to buy a WHOLE NEW book! If they weren't $35 bucks apiece, I wouldn't bitch. But $35 bucks for a 350 page book is a little much. that's $.10 a page! I wonder how many of the directives I had to learn are still in use. Oh, and good thing I haven't learned the API yet. Feel sorry for you poor MOD authors.
I am so excited about this! I can think of a million uses for this. Now Linux will come into it's own as a desktop. You can write tons of shitty little apps in no time with this. Which has been the main drawback of Linux.
And since it exsposes the OS, there should be no reason why you couldn't access binaries with it as well(ala perl modules). And I can use DOM to make pretty interfaces too.
...and look what they started doing, creating ActiveX and.NET.
I plan on creating a browser for p0rn only. It caches the p0rn files on a nfs partition that windows can't read, but my weblication thingy can. This way snooper programs can't see my p0rn cause it is not part of the windows file system. WHEEEEE!!!!
You see, I'm shite at C++. I'm decent at C, Javascript, and Perl. So this is just what I need to feel like a real man (ok real geek).
Uh, Wesly Crusher couldn't time travel. The 'Traveler' from 'Tau-Alpha-C' could. Did he teach Wes the trick when he helped rescue Bev from the static warp bubble? I must've missed an ep somewhere.
I always though the Traveler had Wes help becuase he had a bond with his mom that could be used to help find her.
I know this is an 4/1 joke along the lines of "Will Weaton died today...", but I'd still like to know why Will claims Wes can time travel.
The video system DOES NOT do the final output renderings. That is what a CPU does. The video system displays a "preview" of what your rendered scene will look like.
True, the previews/hardware have gotten better over the years to where you can see textures/bump mapping/some lighting in the scene without rendering, but it is a far cry from a nice software rendered scene.
The only way to speed rendering is to use more CPUs not video cards.
I bought a cheap DVD-ROM from them, got it home, and it always crashes 1/2 through any DVD you put in it. I tried to take it back 4 days later and get a different model, but they would not let me exchange it because I didn't have my reciept. They looked up some 'records' in their 'database'
and told me no one had bought that model drive for over 2 months. Guess my money doesn't count as a transaction.
SO FUCK FRY'S AND THEIR DRACONIAN RETURN POLICY I'll never buy from them again. Everyone I know has complaints about them anyway. Like, the shit you buy from them doesn't work half the time.
The DVD I bought seems to alter the tracks on a DVD-ROM as well. Don't ask me how you can re-write tracks on a pressed disc, all I know is that I borrowed a DVD from a friend, and now he can't make 'back-up copies' of it. He could before I borrowed it, and now he can't. I still plays fine in a set-top DVD though, just not PC or PS2 drives. Anyone know why?
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The reason the Russians use so many engines is because they don't have gimbals to balance the rocket's thrust during takeoff. They change the thrust output of the engines on opposite sides of eachother, to achieve balance. It's not very efficent, but is cheaper to manufacture. Basically, the Russians need at least 4 engines(per stage) to steer a rocket and the Americans need 1 (gimbal mounted of course)
Since they had to use so many engines to produce thrust in the 1st stage, they could not achieve the proper thrust ratios to keep the sucker balanced and aloft at the same time. The engines were simply too small.
The Saturn V, on the other hand, had 5 engines on the 1st stage that were gimbal mounted. They could produce the same thrust ratio to eachother while balancing the rocket as well. Efficent but expensive. Gimbal technology is akin to balancing a broomstick on a table without touching the table.
I don't think I'd be able to hear typing and munching over most THX enhanced sound. Hell, popcorn is about the noisiest thing you can eat (besides Captn Crunch), and it never bothered me.
What will bother me is 50 brightly glowing LCD's dispearsed throughout the theater, increasing the ambient light so I'll have to squint to make out the moles on Yoda's head
...what's happening is the government HAS to hear this case. Just because they are HEARING a case doesn't mean it is going to get passed. If you think that they'll find favoriblly for the RIAA/MPAA, think again.
This is not a new issue. Remeber VHS and Cassette tapes? Remember how the RIAA/MPAA lost back then? Know why? Just because a product CAN be used for illegal purposes does not make it illegal. If I have a gun, does it make me a killer? If I have a CD burner, does it mean I'm pirating music? Really..prove it...OH you can't. OK case dismissed.
This is just going to force the industry to adapt again like they did in the early 80's. "Video will kill theater ticket sales!" OH pleeze!
"Sticking a feather up your butt does not make you a chicken."
I know a person who bought a copy of Flash5 from eBay for $180. When they recieved the package (day after deadline) they found out it was a burned cd with no documentation.
I've never used eBay and I don't plan to start. Why would I buy something from somebody I don't know, and can't get *real* info on.
I learned how to program by reading C source code. So what's useless about source code? Learning by example? You get to see how somebody screwed something up, so you can side step that. Isn't that the same reason history is forced upon us?
For idiots like me who can't get a university education, it's the only way to learn 'real' programming. To see what the high-brows do, and emulate some of it. (structure and security being all I can think of).
Since I can't afford or get into a university to get a "real" computer degree, this is the perfect thing to give someone like me some programming experience for a popular console. And possibly a game job so I can get out of this web dev nightmare.
I learned to program C on a console like Virtuality Elysium system(grandaddy of VR), and I miss it terribly. It was the best time I've ever had programming, becuase it was a simple API with no conflicts. Sure the quality sucked but it was real time 3D in 1994...with texture maps even! No PC card existed that could do that(you couldn't get it locally anyway).
this is what sucks about programming in an open standard for me...you have to support superfolous/legacy/'joe might still be using it'. With this, you have a targeted audience and you know their hardware, so you can program more efficently.
So now I can get back to what I wanted to do, VR on consoles. And since it's Linux, I can even make my own input/tracking devices! I hope my Sony Glasstron Headmounted Display supports sync-on-green!
Quit fussing about not being able to get at the hardware and cd-rom. If you want to hack hardware, buy a PC...you'll learn more. If you want to make small games to share with friends and get game programming experience, this is for you.
Well, according to supershadow's site he has a small role in 'Attack of the Clones' (alien in 'Dexter's Diner'?). So if he's not in it, then you know it's bogus for sure.
But, I've been visiting the site since before ep.1 came out, and the script summary he posted way back for then ep.1 was accurate. So, who really knows...uh...the shadow i suppose.
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Tell me about it! I love my GVX1, but the fans are SO LOUD! They are noisier than the 300watt power supply. I had to take the plastic covers off both of em (Yes, 2 fans on the card) because the blades kept clicking on the covers. Drove me nuts. You'd think a $750 dollar card would have some quiet/quality fans on it.
Will Render For Food!
I have a Matrox DigiSuite LE that captures in mpeg format. You can capture using lossless compression, but it's huge files. 10 gigs is like 5 mins. I then compress the raw mpeg (can't play back w/o matrox hardware) into .mov(QT) format with sorenson for compositing and storage, and it looks better than the same sized .avi.
Sorenson compressed video looks better when composited with 3D than mpgs. It isn't blocky. You could get some field dominance problems if you don't pay attention to the settings though.
I'd bet Avid might have some custom compression boards that do Sorenson (or better), but I've only seen Avids, never got to touchy. My video experience has been with PC's.
Have you ever stored any video using Sorenson Compression? No. Well that explains why you think Mpg4 is so great.
Yes there is a difference between "Lossy" and "Lossless". Especially if you ever plan on using the stored video for something besides web streaming. Like, oh I don't know, watching it on TV. OH yeah! That big plastic and glass thing in the living room. They still make those?!
Video for Linux should not be limited to the web.
Seems to me they are dumping Apple and going with Macromedia so the codec can become Open and Sorenson can still make money.
Macromedia will give them money and Macromedia makes it part of the Open SWF format. Apple doesn't want Open Source Video, so they would never let Sorenson release the codec. Sorenson could have told apple to go stuff it, but they're PAYING for the codec's exclusive use. So Sorenson's hands are tied because they need money to survive.
Enter Macromedia. They'll pay and make it Open because it's in their interest to have tons of flash players on as many machines as possible. Apple's locked into an OS and Macromedia isn't, so Macromedia could care less about proprietary formats. READ BETWEEN THE LINES! Sorenson has wanted to open the codec for years, but they couldn't do it an remain alive before.
yet it has failed to validify the Flash format as an open standard
Here's a quote from Macromedia's website:
No fees are required for access to the Macromedia Flash file format (SWF) or for the creation of products based on the SWF format.
So uh, WTF are you talking about? How is the swf format not open? Christ Adobe makes a product that makes swf files. Download the SDK and look for yourself. You might not be able to look at Sorenson's code, but you can build a custom player for swf's that uses sorenson codec so what's your point? I can STILL use the codec in my projects because it's now part of the SWF format.
WHAAAAAAA!! I wanna see source even though I don't really need too. WHAAAAA!!
...South Korea, England, France, blah blah blah.
What do all these countries have in common? Americans protect their asses with American lives, money, and weapons! And owe us large sums of money for said services.
Now lets move on to who we give food too...THE WORLD. That's right. Americans feed ALL the starving people of the world...for free. That is what makes America numero uno! We have more food than anybody else. It's not because we are smart or right about certain political issues. We have food. People need food to live. That's puts you into a unique position of power by proxy.
It's also funny that the people who bitch about American influence/meddling are also the first to come running to us for help. France being the biggest example of this. We bailed them out of 2 wars and finacial collapse in the 50's, and all they can do is give us shit for it.
Give me an example of a country that can compaire to Americans Philantropy? Oh right, there are none!
Oh by the way...your welcome.
...He seems like a really good actor. To bad he picks such cheesey movies like "Mission to Mars" and "The Family Man". Those movies would actually be watchable if the characters weren't so contrite and phony.
It's like watching Jackie Paper burn...morbid entertainment.
...And it's in Peoria! Just a few miles away from me abode! Thank god it's not in Tempe, Scottsdale, or Mesa.
Anyone else here from AZ? Going to the Harkins on 5/16/02?
Go to California...SEE THE ELEPHANT!
...didn't you ever see "Empire Strikes Back"?! Romance BELONGS in Star Wars. There is a reason ESB is the most beloved movie in the series. It's the only one that isn't cheesy crap, because you get to see the characters act like real people, not puppets led around by stupid plot devices. If you want to associate character development with "chick stuff", then you'd better stick to watching WWF.
The jokes and sexual innuedoes in ESB are what separates it from the rest. Take Star Trek for example. The original one had humor and sex. TNG had neither(not consistantly anyway) and wasn't loved like the original. Enterprise captures that human side of the story and brings it back. So, lets hope that AOTC brings the human factor back to Star Wars.
(p.s. i don't really think you're a boner)
Send the waaahmbulance over to Borders Book Store. I did the college thing years ago, and got the $27,000 dollar t-shirt.
WILL RENDER FOR FOOD!
Well this sucks. I'm not even finished with 'Apache the Definitive Guide for 1.3.3, 2nd ed', and now I have to buy a WHOLE NEW book! If they weren't $35 bucks apiece, I wouldn't bitch. But $35 bucks for a 350 page book is a little much. that's $.10 a page! I wonder how many of the directives I had to learn are still in use. Oh, and good thing I haven't learned the API yet. Feel sorry for you poor MOD authors.
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#ifndef NEW_VER
#define NEW_VER "damn/you/oreilly/:wtf/.?:heres/my/35/you/bastard
#endif
I am so excited about this! I can think of a million uses for this. Now Linux will come into it's own as a desktop. You can write tons of shitty little apps in no time with this. Which has been the main drawback of Linux.
And since it exsposes the OS, there should be no reason why you couldn't access binaries with it as well(ala perl modules). And I can use DOM to make pretty interfaces too.
die C# die!
...and look what they started doing, creating ActiveX and .NET.
I plan on creating a browser for p0rn only. It caches the p0rn files on a nfs partition that windows can't read, but my weblication thingy can. This way snooper programs can't see my p0rn cause it is not part of the windows file system. WHEEEEE!!!!
You see, I'm shite at C++. I'm decent at C, Javascript, and Perl. So this is just what I need to feel like a real man (ok real geek).
Yes, I'm a moron with 3rd degree burns.
Cool. Thanks. I knew I should'nt have burned my TV when they aired DS9.
Uh, Wesly Crusher couldn't time travel. The 'Traveler' from 'Tau-Alpha-C' could. Did he teach Wes the trick when he helped rescue Bev from the static warp bubble? I must've missed an ep somewhere.
I always though the Traveler had Wes help becuase he had a bond with his mom that could be used to help find her.
I know this is an 4/1 joke along the lines of
"Will Weaton died today...",
but I'd still like to know why Will claims Wes can time travel.
my sig is small and flacid...like my IQ
The video system DOES NOT do the final output renderings. That is what a CPU does. The video system displays a "preview" of what your rendered scene will look like.
True, the previews/hardware have gotten better over the years to where you can see textures/bump mapping/some lighting in the scene without rendering, but it is a far cry from a nice software rendered scene.
The only way to speed rendering is to use more CPUs not video cards.
Will Render For Food!
I bought a cheap DVD-ROM from them, got it home, and it always crashes 1/2 through any DVD you put in it. I tried to take it back 4 days later and get a different model, but they would not let me exchange it because I didn't have my reciept. They looked up some 'records' in their 'database' and told me no one had bought that model drive for over 2 months. Guess my money doesn't count as a transaction.
SO FUCK FRY'S AND THEIR DRACONIAN RETURN POLICY I'll never buy from them again. Everyone I know has complaints about them anyway. Like, the shit you buy from them doesn't work half the time.
The DVD I bought seems to alter the tracks on a DVD-ROM as well. Don't ask me how you can re-write tracks on a pressed disc, all I know is that I borrowed a DVD from a friend, and now he can't make 'back-up copies' of it. He could before I borrowed it, and now he can't. I still plays fine in a set-top DVD though, just not PC or PS2 drives. Anyone know why?
The reason the Russians use so many engines is because they don't have gimbals to balance the rocket's thrust during takeoff. They change the thrust output of the engines on opposite sides of eachother, to achieve balance. It's not very efficent, but is cheaper to manufacture. Basically, the Russians need at least 4 engines(per stage) to steer a rocket and the Americans need 1 (gimbal mounted of course)
Since they had to use so many engines to produce thrust in the 1st stage, they could not achieve the proper thrust ratios to keep the sucker balanced and aloft at the same time. The engines were simply too small.
The Saturn V, on the other hand, had 5 engines on the 1st stage that were gimbal mounted. They could produce the same thrust ratio to eachother while balancing the rocket as well. Efficent but expensive. Gimbal technology is akin to balancing a broomstick on a table without touching the table.
See You Space Cowboy
I don't think I'd be able to hear typing and munching over most THX enhanced sound. Hell, popcorn is about the noisiest thing you can eat (besides Captn Crunch), and it never bothered me.
What will bother me is 50 brightly glowing LCD's dispearsed throughout the theater, increasing the ambient light so I'll have to squint to make out the moles on Yoda's head
Will Render for food!
...what's happening is the government HAS to hear this case. Just because they are HEARING a case doesn't mean it is going to get passed. If you think that they'll find favoriblly for the RIAA/MPAA, think again.
This is not a new issue. Remeber VHS and Cassette tapes? Remember how the RIAA/MPAA lost back then? Know why? Just because a product CAN be used for illegal purposes does not make it illegal. If I have a gun, does it make me a killer? If I have a CD burner, does it mean I'm pirating music? Really..prove it...OH you can't. OK case dismissed.
This is just going to force the industry to adapt again like they did in the early 80's. "Video will kill theater ticket sales!" OH pleeze!
"Sticking a feather up your butt does not make you a chicken."
I know a person who bought a copy of Flash5 from eBay for $180. When they recieved the package (day after deadline) they found out it was a burned cd with no documentation.
I've never used eBay and I don't plan to start. Why would I buy something from somebody I don't know, and can't get *real* info on.
Lvl: 8, Str: 14, Dex: 20, Con: 10, Int: 14, Wis: 13, Cha: 11
I learned how to program by reading C source code. So what's useless about source code? Learning by example? You get to see how somebody screwed something up, so you can side step that. Isn't that the same reason history is forced upon us?
For idiots like me who can't get a university education, it's the only way to learn 'real' programming. To see what the high-brows do, and emulate some of it. (structure and security being all I can think of).
Put the f*cking code in the basket!
I use Am so all my stuff sounds depressing and I won't get so excited if throws an exception.
Put the code in the f*cking basket!
Since I can't afford or get into a university to get a "real" computer degree, this is the perfect thing to give someone like me some programming experience for a popular console. And possibly a game job so I can get out of this web dev nightmare.
I learned to program C on a console like Virtuality Elysium system(grandaddy of VR), and I miss it terribly. It was the best time I've ever had programming, becuase it was a simple API with no conflicts. Sure the quality sucked but it was real time 3D in 1994...with texture maps even! No PC card existed that could do that(you couldn't get it locally anyway).
this is what sucks about programming in an open standard for me...you have to support superfolous/legacy/'joe might still be using it'. With this, you have a targeted audience and you know their hardware, so you can program more efficently.
So now I can get back to what I wanted to do, VR on consoles. And since it's Linux, I can even make my own input/tracking devices! I hope my Sony Glasstron Headmounted Display supports sync-on-green!
Quit fussing about not being able to get at the hardware and cd-rom. If you want to hack hardware, buy a PC...you'll learn more. If you want to make small games to share with friends and get game programming experience, this is for you.
WILL RENDER FOR FOOD!
Well, according to supershadow's site he has a small role in 'Attack of the Clones' (alien in 'Dexter's Diner'?). So if he's not in it, then you know it's bogus for sure.
But, I've been visiting the site since before ep.1 came out, and the script summary he posted way back for then ep.1 was accurate. So, who really knows...uh...the shadow i suppose.