User: Comsn

Re:alternatives

On: Windows Media Player 10 Beta Released

some of us have been using the win32 port of mplayer for a year now, it works great, just like on linux.

MPlayer for Win32
if anyone wants to check it out, also need the codec pack here , and there are some frontends on the projects page if you dont like the command line (or just set it to open movie files). also includes mencoder with xvid 1 and mp3lame encoding support.

drm not supported yet, and be sure to upgrade your mplayers! lots of new features from pre3 and LOTS more to come, faad 2 sync, color subs, check the wishlist to see whats wished/planned.

Re:Isn't 64M still too big?

On: Mozilla's Mini-Me

check out http://www.offbyone.com

its 1mb, can run off a disk/network whatever, runs on most all windows. only http 3.2 standards, but thats images+frames, so its nicer than lynx ;p

Re:codec

On: XVID 1.0 Released

vlc halts playing any files for me (tested the last couple 7.x.x versions)

mplayer unfinished? mind naming some examples? http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-bet a/

also... vlc uses 20mb ram sitting there... mplayer 2-6mb for me

i've used freecache before

On: Freecache

its pretty good. lots of the servers are swamped tho, need more of them, anyone can run a freecache 'node'. its almost like freenet, cept not anonymous.

too bad the status seems to be down, its fun to see what clips/games/demo/patches are going around.

5million, because they want a credit card.

On: iTunes 4.5 Authentication Cracked

they want a credit card for you to retrieve your free itunes aac, and since this was a promotion geared towards teens, how are they supposed to get thier free music?

i had a couple caps but i didnt feel like signing up. great promotion there. only .5% went thru with it.

this is great!

On: Free iTunes Over a Browser

i installed itunes just to hear previews so i could grab the songs elsewhere, purchase or download. (cause aac is not my fav)

amazon is good for this, and there used to be other websites, but amazon seems to have got them all now (cdnow, musicblvd, etc)

especially because itunes is very bloated. and its understandable for a webbrowser/mediaplayer/medialibrary/cdburning/musi cstore. and whatever else they want to stick in there.

natural progression and dupe??

On: Auto-Censoring DVD Player

first the v-chip in tvs, now the 'v-chip' in dvds...
even v-chips on the internet, like netnanny and whatnot.

if people want censored stuff, let em have it.

btw, this EXACT SAME COMPANY was posted on slashdot before http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/30/229250.shtml ?tid=153

Re:Yeah right...

On: Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest

wasnt r reid trying to _light_ plastic explosives? an explosive which is not flamable, but only explosive with electric current?

Re:adding is only harder than percentages!

On: Thirty-Three States Contributed to the MATRIX

That data include four states' criminal histories, 33 states' correctional data, sexual-offender lists from 27 states, driver licenses from 15 states and motor-vehicle registrations from 13.
"We're probably talking about 90 percent of the country," said Calbrese.

4/50
33/50
27/50
15/50
13/50
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92/250 (about 36%)

yeah, then i miss that four! damn. the matrix is a bad idea... just ignore that first post i made.

what do you mean its in the database already? what do you mean you cant edit posts!? its incorrect! aieeee

adding is only harder than percentages!

On: Thirty-Three States Contributed to the MATRIX

That data include four states' criminal histories, 33 states' correctional data, sexual-offender lists from 27 states, driver licenses from 15 states and motor-vehicle registrations from 13.
"We're probably talking about 90 percent of the country," said Calbrese.

33/50
27/50
15/50
13/50
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88/200 (about 44 percent)

anyways... matrix is a bad idea, just think about keanu reeves trying to act!

Re:All they are doing

On: Losing Control of Your TV

Remember... We live in a time where people will vote for American Idol contestants (25+ million a week watch that shit) but we can't get anyone to vote for who runs our country.

i wasnt aware one could vote for our presidential electorate without form of identification or registration, over the phone, multiple times if we wished, for a small fee...

when you make it easier to vote... internet or phone, you will get many more people voting.

of course, i dont watch reality tv... or american idol.

Re:I doubt this is a major problem for Google

On: Yahoo! Switches Search Engines

the local yahoo that used to use ... google?

know of any good chinese/japanese search engines? goo.ne.jp seems to use google as well ;\

Re:It's worth mentioning...

On: Google's Bigger Index

One should also have a look at Google-Watch-Watch

which states

Meet Daniel Brandt. He is a self-proclaimed public interest activist and the owner of Google-Watch.org Mr. Brandt founded Google-Watch.org after his own site, Namebase.org, did not get a good Google PageRank.

Re:Secure Audio Path

On: Napster Business Model Not Generating Revenue

too bad there is still that dreaded analog speaker/headphone jack for easy recording off.

i agree 30secs is too short, 1min would be nice...
but its free to listen to the 30 seconds, and you dont even have to sign up (i havent signed up for itunes, and i just used it to look for a song with the title 'riot' (about 190 results). but didnt find my song), it only asked me to login a couple times, just hit cancle/later.

Re:how are harry potter fanfics improved writing?

On: Kids Improve Writing Online

are you asking if we should arm our children with magic wands or if thats what the harry potter cult is going to attack with?

how are harry potter fanfics improved writing?

On: Kids Improve Writing Online

unless their original writing was worse than that to begin with...

and this daily phrophet thing is very scary, tax-exempt status for a website that caters to harry potter fans who wish they were in hogwarth?

THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE HARRY POTTER CULT! LOCK YOUR DOORS AND ARM YOUR CHILDREN!

Re:Linux and FreeBSD options

On: NPR's Car Talk Dumping RealMedia

yes, asx playlist parsing is not perfect yet, there is a patch, but it hasnt been committed yet.

in the mean time you can use http://mozplayerxp.mozdev.org or mplayerplug-in.sf.net if you use mozilla.

or just wget the .asx and vi it, then mplayer mms:// blah.

on some .asx , it will be fine to use mplayer -playlist http://blah.com/s.asx

Re:Linux and FreeBSD options

On: NPR's Car Talk Dumping RealMedia

the codec cartalk uses is Windows Media 9 Voice Decoder, which is not implemented nor easily importable into mplayer (seems mplayer is not calling the dll correctly). but have no fear, the dev's are working to get this codec in.

others who dont import the codec will see the error "Cannot find codec for audio format 0xA."

http://cartalk.cars.com/Radio/help.html used to say

Are there Windows Media Player choices for Linux? You can use MPlayer, which is free, or The CrossOver Plugin from CodeWeavers for $25.

but they took that out of the current page google cache

Re:direct links and synopses

On: Superbowling

a direct link would be the final url...

rtsp://a783.v84881.c8488.g.vr.akamaistream.net/o nd emand/7/783/8488/v311504/cbscomstor.download.akama i.com/8605/g2demand/entertainment/specials/superbo wl_commercials_2004/pepsi.rm
now theres some extra spaces!@

which does work in mplayer :)

Re:What are people using Windows Media Player for?

On: 75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers

the way old quicktime 3 movies could be played in windows media player afair.

there are quicktime and real alternatives, which just use their codecs in wmp

or you can use the mingw win32 port of mplayer, which works great on windows :) plus it uses directx, so if your card doesent have linux drivers, the windows drivers will give mplayer its acceleration..

sattelite internet radio

On: Satellite Radio Subscriptions Rising

i actually thought this would be a good idea for nullsoft/aol to do, is create a simple car sattelite internet connection with an internet radio dingy to connect to any of your favorite shoutcast or even your home music collection mp3 streamed server.

i'm chock full of ideas!

Re:I use Linux because you've never listened to me

On: Microsoft Sends Linux Survey

I want to be able to run programs automatically in the middle of the night and make them do whatever I want them to. With Windows I can't even use the CD player to act as an alarm clock. This is a result of having a crappy command line and windows programs that don't use command line switches.

just a hint, i've used winamp with task scheduler, just set it "winamp.exe "d:\track01.cda"" (i used an mp3 instead of a cdtrack, but i'm sure it will work.) at 6 am, yes, waking up to 311-down a couple times is fun.

ipod and wma?

On: Washington Post Covers iPod Battery Ruckus

so if apple isint making money on itunes, why dont they open up ipod and let it play wma? then they still sell more ipods, the other online music companies lose/dont profit much, and the customers win. the only reason not to is possibly because of the wma license.

its win/win/win/lose.

btw, there is a story about a guy who mirrored for the video, who agreed to mirror if they put replacement info on the website, over at http://das.doit.wisc.edu/neistatsdirtysecret.txt

Re:No expert but...

On: Dealing w/ Codec Hell Under Multiple OSes?

i've been using mplayer for windows for a while now, its VERY good.

only a couple things missing from the windows port:

tv support (libdha ports to win98 but not NT)
libcss (ack!)
libaa (yes i want to try some nice aa on win)
libpng (wasnt in the last binary release, dunno about pre3)

anyways, keep up the great work mplayer dev's!!!

Re:MAME for Windows?

On: Mame on the Nokia N-Gage

a search on google for "windows mame" returns MAME32, a beautiful windows port of mame.

http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32/