Digitally Remastered (Rant)

[DJ_Izumi]

Those arn't standard windows codecs however, thusly still hurting the universaility. (Is that even a word?) What I'm saying is, you should never have to say 'You must download this', 'You must isntall this' or 'You must use this player' to play the file correctly, or even at all.

Dispite the fact that Divx (And Xvid) is not a standard codec, most all people get it now a-days, and all codec packs come with it. One of these days MS will embrace Divx.

[DJ_Izumi]

*blink* Why are we discussing video formats and AMV playback in the general off topic forum...? O.o;

[Tab.]

If you want to get technical, the only windows supported codecs are Cinepak, Microsoft Video 1, and the old Indeo codecs.


You're not going to use those.

MS won't ever embrace DivX as it's own standard, but hopefully they will embrace Mpeg 4 as a whole, which is all that should really matter on the decoder side.

[DJ_Izumi]

I know, it's funny, WMP can download the codecs it can't find, but only a select elite few, mostly outdated ones that come pre-installed. The only things I've ever seen WMP download succesfully were WMA codecs that certian divx files were wrapped with.

[Scintilla]

I use realplayer alternative, available for download from kazaalite page, the link is on same part as klite codec pack. it has no nasty spyware.
they also got a quicktime alternative.
oh, windows media player is horrible too. i don't use it, i use BSplayer.
reason being is that ITS FILLED WITH FRIGGIN SPYWARE. Microsoft sells your listening and viewing habbits to companies.

I kind of assumed that that sort of thing was covered in the Privacy Policy... and that the player wouldn't send Microsoft information about what you were listening to unless you specified that it could in the options.