kristoficus Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Just some programs i use Videos: VLC Player (why? best video app ever made - plays everything, and without codecs )Music: Winamp (latest) with the ClearONE skin (makes it look b-e-a-utiful)Calendar: Rainlendar with the Shadow3 skin (sits on desktop and looks cool)Video Conversion: TMPGEnc Xpress 3DVD->MP4 Conversion: Nero RecodeGraphics: Photoshop 7.0 (Prefer it to CS and CS2...dont know why)FTP: FlashFXP (latest)Well those are the important ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwnage Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Im not sure why it doesnt work, very weird since everyone says its the best, and i do believe them. I think it might have to do with codecs installed on my computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Codecs shouldn't cause problems with MPlayer, since it is self-contained in that respect... Sounds like another problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwnage Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 What do you think it could be, anything off the top of your head? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 No clue, as I don't know how MPlayer works, other than that it doesn't require any external libraries or codecs to play multimedia. Random guess: video card drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwnage Posted April 15, 2006 Report Share Posted April 15, 2006 Could be codecs, thats what i think is interfering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 15, 2006 Report Share Posted April 15, 2006 *shrug* I guess you can try uninstalling them and seeing if that fixes the problem =T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted April 15, 2006 Report Share Posted April 15, 2006 mplayer doesn't use external codecs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 15, 2006 Report Share Posted April 15, 2006 Yep, I said that (twice) before, but Pwnage just won't believe me (just playing, Pwnage xD) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masa Posted April 15, 2006 Report Share Posted April 15, 2006 µTorrent, foobar2000, Opera, DaZZle eMule, GeneRally, VLC Media Player, Xnews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwnage Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Opera just released 9.0 Beta, there were weekly builds before but this is a public release. The only thing operas lacking is extensions and it would rape Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodStaindHurricane Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Cool. Hafta check it out.Why do you think Opera needs extensions? IMO, it rapes FF without them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 In terms of speed and resource usage, definitely (and that's its major selling point for me). As for its rendering... well it seems to be having elusive bugs (at least in the WebUI), and it turns out there's a bigger effort to get things working correctly on Opera than IE =T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebReaper Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Lots of good apps listed in this thread. I'll add one:Offline Browser/Site-ripper: Webreaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwnage Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 I dont like the way opera renders stuff, those of you that use opera, try these sites:meebo.comdigg.com/diggspyor any other half dynamic website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Shroud Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Alpha-Toxic' date=' try CCCP codec pack =[url']http://cccp-project.net/Looks nice, "specifically built for playing anime" I'm not going to try it right now, though, cause I'll need to uninstall my current codecs first. Chances are after the un/re/installs sth will not work...btw, do you think the "CCCP" is intentionl? And all this red color at the back?CCCP is ffdshow with two player options and Hali Media Spliter. I've never had a probelm with play back for it.The K-Lite codec packs screwed one of my computers up so badly I had to format it. Good thing I kept regulair back ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 @Pwnage: It's digg.com/spy, and I see nothing wrong with the rendering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pwnage Posted April 25, 2006 Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 @Pwnage: It's digg.com/spy, and I see nothing wrong with the rendering.Did you try the others? Try moving around the windows, gmail has problems with opera, googlepages has problems, writley has problems, the list goes on....Their trying to create there own set of standards, if only firefox was as fast as opera i would be extremley happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 25, 2006 Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 I know Opera has a bunch of problems with many AJAX sites, but it doesn't mean rendering is bad in general. AJAX, though an old technology (technically), is only starting to become widespread, so it's no wonder that there might be problems with it. Also, I've no problems with GMail whatsoever, and any issues that used to be there were fixed during the weekly builds, AFAIK O.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodStaindHurricane Posted April 25, 2006 Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 Never had any issues here with Opera + GMail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
userpaul Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 ABC amber LIT / Palm etcAdobe / variousNero Bluetack blocklistBs clip Creative USB SB Audigy/2NXCyberlink power DVD (gets round some SONY DVD video camera issues i have got)Digiguide TV programmesDIVX playerDVD Decypter (Lighting UK)LG multi dvd bundled software with dvdShowshifterImTOO avi mpeg converterIE explorerpaint shop proLimewireMagic isoLogitec surround soundmaketorrent 2allofmp3autoroutelots of dirfferent book reading softwareOutlook( paid for by employer)XP office ( as above)msn messenger (grandchildren love it!)Persono (headphone etc.)Utorrentwindows media player (no probs here)WinrarWin TV (software for showshifter)logitech quick campgLiteSony image mixer (aghhhhh)Sony sonic stage (aghhhh)Cyberlink multimedialots of other stuff that i have had to use only once or twice.PHOh i forget to mention....and NOD32 antivirus cause I am not so carfull as others!! and anyway what's £30 a year for peace of mind especialy as I use limewire for the odd hard to find file etc!!STATS the past three weeks 38GB up 34GB down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinchiukas Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 if wmp was playing the file ok and mplayer - not chances are you were playing a windows media file, it probably is not an open source format so for that reason it's not in the mplayer package, i've found somewhere a workaround for this - you can put some .dll files before compiling mplayer and then it'll have windows media file support, good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagusG Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Browsing: OperaVideo: Zoom Player + K-Lite Codec Pack/ VLCMusic: Foobar 0.9.1IM: Gaim, considering moving to Miranda.IRC: X-Chat, mIRCArchives: WinRARImage viewing: IrfanviewImage editing: The GIMPEmail: Gmail+ NotifierBandwidth monitoring: CFosspeedTraffic shaping: CfosSpeed/ DD-WRT QoSAntivirus: Antivir 7 PersonalCD/DVD Burning: Nero 6Firewall: DD-WRT SPICD Ripping: EACOffice Suite: Openoffice.org 2.0FTP: FilezillaSpyware control: Adaware, Spybot S&DRegistry Cleaning: MS regclean, Easycleaner, Regsupreme ProDefrag: PerfectDisk 7.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muppet Catcher Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 Regarding Mplayer, I've played around with the windows version for quite a few months now and it can, but doesn't always need to, use external codecs.It uses the free FFmpeg internal codecs to decode WMV files of which there are 3 types WMV1, WMV2 and WMV3. WMV1 works fine apparently, but WMV2 has problems and WMV3 crashes.This is the default, as they want users to report bugs and get things fixed. To decode, say WMV2, more or less perfectly you need to get hold of the codec files - wmadmod.dll and wmvdmod.dll - and place these in the \mplayer\codecs directory (create if it doesn't exist)You then need to comment out the ffwmv2 and ffwmv3 entries in your codecs.conf file which you may (or may not) find in your \mplayer\mplayer directory, so that you force the program to use the dll's.An alternative method is to use MPUI (the best GUI frontend for windows), and find the 'Additional Mplayer Parameters' box (it's in Options > Options in my version) and stick the following in the box to force Mplayer to try using the Microsoft dll's first of all.-afm dmo -vfm dmoThe 'dmo' above is the name of the 'codec family', other examples being 'dshow', 'realvid' etc.You can get codecs from Mplayer's site or get one of the K-lite packs and, instead of installing, unpack with Inno Setup Unpacker (innounp.sourceforge.net).To get a list of audio/video codecs supported by Mplayer, go to the command line and once inside the \mplayer directory type :-mplayer -ac help > acodecs.txtmplayer -vc help > vcodecs.txtThis makes a couple of text files which can help you pick which codecs to use and tells you which family they belong to and whether they work, crash etc.Mplayer has an 'output' which can be read and tells you a load of stuff about what codecs it's using and what kind of video/audio file you're playing etc, which can be helpful.Xvid, Divx, mpeg and many others play back fine using Mplayers internal codecs, it's just a few that need adjustment.Hope this helpsMC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehdude Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Browser: FireFox 1.5Email: Gmail WebInterfaceVideo player: Zoomplayer, PowerDVD and VLCAIM/MSN: TrilianIRC: mIRCArchiving: WinRARCD Mastering: Nero 6.6Image Burning: Alcohol 120%Drive Mounting: Alcohol 120%Antivirus: Avira AntivirAntispyware: Spybot S&D, AdawareBandwidth Monitor: NetlimiterFTP Client: FlashFXPFirewall: Router --> Kerio FirewallOffice Software: Microsoft Office 2003FTP Server: Serv-U FTPHash checking: RapidCRCP2P: utorrentDownload Manager: Getright 4.5Audio Player: WMP 9Mp3 Tag Editor: mp3TagMedia Encoding & Conversion : DVDShrink, AnyDVD, DVDLab Pro, tmpenc3xpress, BeSweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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