After spending two months in the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch and Maritime Interdiction Operations, the USS Enterprise aborts her trip home after terrorists destroy a major center for commerce and charge full speed to the North Arabian Sea.
Join the crew of the Enterprise in an extravagant tale of daring and adventure as they chase after the evil terrorist mastermind across the wastelands of Afganistan and through a wormhole in time to Arthurian England...
Windows Media Player Classic - Open source, doesn't triple registry.
XViD - Open source, MPEG4 compliant video codec, decoders available for all platforms (AFAIK) and DivX compatible.
My pet hate at the moment with Window Media's container format (ASF, WM) is that they take frickin' ages to seek, ages compared with eons old AVI. That, plus the fact that you can't view them on any other platform without stressing yourself out.
Windows media files I download and *want* to watch are converted to HuffYV avi files first. I really don't like 'em.
Real media I won't touch at all.
Doesn't. This is a common misconception of Windows Media Player Classic, due to the name and its look. Both were intentional at conception, but the software (which is standalone, single executable and nothing else) itself doesn't *require* microsoft's windows media player installed. It does use and require the directshow/activemovie subsystem which is standard on all windows boxen since Win95.
As for the alternatives at that site, I seriously doubt their legality... but, quite frankly, in the interests of a healthy, (spyware|virus)-free windows box, I don't care.
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After spending two months in the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch and Maritime Interdiction Operations, the USS Enterprise aborts her trip home after terrorists destroy a major center for commerce and charge full speed to the North Arabian Sea.
Join the crew of the Enterprise in an extravagant tale of daring and adventure as they chase after the evil terrorist mastermind across the wastelands of Afganistan and through a wormhole in time to Arthurian England...
Windows Media Player Classic - Open source, doesn't triple registry. XViD - Open source, MPEG4 compliant video codec, decoders available for all platforms (AFAIK) and DivX compatible. My pet hate at the moment with Window Media's container format (ASF, WM) is that they take frickin' ages to seek, ages compared with eons old AVI. That, plus the fact that you can't view them on any other platform without stressing yourself out. Windows media files I download and *want* to watch are converted to HuffYV avi files first. I really don't like 'em. Real media I won't touch at all.
"...and it still relies on wmp"
Doesn't. This is a common misconception of Windows Media Player Classic, due to the name and its look. Both were intentional at conception, but the software (which is standalone, single executable and nothing else) itself doesn't *require* microsoft's windows media player installed. It does use and require the directshow/activemovie subsystem which is standard on all windows boxen since Win95.
As for the alternatives at that site, I seriously doubt their legality... but, quite frankly, in the interests of a healthy, (spyware|virus)-free windows box, I don't care.
Oh, yes... MPC is open source.
http://sf.net/projects/guliverkli/