Mithrandir Posted April 23, 2002 bugger. I just finished downloading south park - wacky molestation adventure, but it don't work. I'm using Mplayer 7.1 and everytime it tries to download the correct codec it just plays it without finding it so all I get is sound. Does anyone know what to do (coz I be crap with this). 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted April 23, 2002 The first thing you can do is stop using that bloated hog of a media player 7.1 and find 6.4 somewhere. You should download the actual codec from the DivX site. P.S. 100% of the time, Media Player 7+ will not be able to download the required codec. Disable that useless feature if you choose to continue using 7.1. 0 Share this post Link to post
Mithrandir Posted April 23, 2002 holy shit this episode rules. All the parents have disappeared. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lord FlatHead Posted April 23, 2002 Good. Now if all the children and scenery could disappear too, that's great. I don't like South Park much. 0 Share this post Link to post
elbryan42 Posted April 23, 2002 God I hate Media Player 7 and 7.1. When it can't find a codec it plays the video anyways, and doesn't tell you there's a problem. Deleted it within an hour after I installed it. I'll make an account on my server with the codecs and Media Player 6.4. Oh, and South Park rules. :P [edit] Ok, the account has been made. Has Media Player 6.4 and a codec pack with just about every DIVX codec you need. ip: 24.72.20.212 OR doom.wrong.button.com username/password: public/public or a link: ftp://public:public@24.72.20.212 Enjoy. [/edit] 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted April 23, 2002 Um I've never had a problem with MP7, what's wrong with the rest of you? 0 Share this post Link to post
Derrick Posted April 23, 2002 Media Player 7 took too long to load and uses up to many resources atleast on my machine, so I downgraded to 6.4. My friends machine it would severly chunk the video. He didn't have a single problem with Mp6.4 and his video runs smooothly. I think there is some problems on it 7 with machines running 2000k, Me, 98. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted April 23, 2002 Microsoft sucks at making stuff, except XP, XP rules. If MS was smart they would write in download resuming into IE, like Getright except you wouldn't have to pay. 0 Share this post Link to post
boris Posted April 23, 2002 Derrick said:Media Player 7 took too long to load and uses up to many resources atleast on my machine, so I downgraded to 6.4. Well, I'm using MP 8.0 (comes with XP) and it load like in 2 sec. Can't get much faster loading, can it? 0 Share this post Link to post
nxn Posted April 23, 2002 wow, more people than I thought are using MP. 0 Share this post Link to post
Jon Posted April 24, 2002 Since I got a GeForce2MX I haven't had working divx at all, which is a pain because I primarily bought it in order to watch movies full-screen (was using s3 virge 4mb). I imagine it works ok in linux though. Divx is pretty shit anyway, I've watched the same file on different computers and they've had errors in some places that only occurred on one machine etc. what a hack of a format. Shame nothing else is so well compressed :| I try and stick to VCD or SVCD compatible MPEGs nowerdays. Only takes an extra 15 minutes or so to download, and I can burn 'em to watch on my DVD player/television. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted April 24, 2002 Fredrik said:Um I've never had a problem with MP7, what's wrong with the rest of you? Well, my Media PLayer was working great as well. Then one day it decided to commit suicide. It hasn't worked since. 0 Share this post Link to post
Naked Snake Posted April 24, 2002 the_Danarchist said:Well, my Media PLayer was working great as well. Then one day it decided to commit suicide. It hasn't worked since. Maybe it got tired of all the NIN tracks you were playing... 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted April 24, 2002 bigbadgangsta said:Maybe it got tired of all the NIN tracks you were playing... Sucker! I use Winamp for my mp3s. All I ever used Media Player for was porn. 0 Share this post Link to post
mmnpsrsoskl Posted April 24, 2002 Heh sucks to you all! I mean, how are you today? Just joking on that first bit. Anyways, I don't even run Windows Media Player...I have a better player : IfranView...well it is a bit lame but runs about 10 times faster. 0 Share this post Link to post
LorD BaZTArD Posted April 24, 2002 hmm, well it seems many have had problems with WMP7.1, I use it, and have very little problem with it, especially when the other options I have, of the top of my head are QuirkTimed, and RealCrap...SO WMP is fine for me. 0 Share this post Link to post
deadnail Posted April 24, 2002 mplayer2.exe If you have Media Player 7 you have it. Try it out. I use WinAMP for all my audio and I assigned mplayer2.exe to be the default viewer for just about all my video clips. This should make you feel pretty stupid, especially if you actually downgraded your shit. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted April 24, 2002 Not only is it a total hackjob of a codec, when you install it it fucks up the real MPEG2 codecs you ALSO have installed if you have any software DVD players (windvd, powerdvd come to mind) and will happily and without further thought break DVD playback in WMP. It's quirky in what it will and will not work with (given the number of incarnations the codec's been through, and the number of different versions of DivX ;) files out there ...), etc etc. 0 Share this post Link to post
Jon Posted April 26, 2002 or perhaps traditional, works-on-anything MPEG? 0 Share this post Link to post
deadnail Posted April 26, 2002 Divx 3 was a complete and utter piece of trash. It literally made my Windows bluescreen every FIFTEEN minutes, and 99% of the time I hadn't even used the Goddamned thing. Divx 4 never gave me any trouble, and it went along nicely with WinDVD. When you install it, it will ask if you want it to play all Divx 3 content as well. I'm on Divx 5 now, and it has yet to cause me the slightest bit of trouble. 0 Share this post Link to post
sirjuddington Posted April 26, 2002 Heh, WMP7 sucks really bad. I try to open a video file, it takes about 10 seconds to load up. I switch it to fullscreen, the screen goes blank for about 5 secs, then the movie comes on, which has been playing in the background during the transition from a window to fullscreen. With WMP6 (mplayer2.exe), I open a video file, it instantly loads up. I switch to fullscreen, it does it instantly again... 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted April 26, 2002 SlayeR said:I try to open a video file, it takes about 10 seconds to load up. I switch it to fullscreen, the screen goes blank for about 5 secs, then the movie comes on, which has been playing in the background during the transition from a window to fullscreen.Yeah that's because 90% of the time, WMP7 is a bigger load than the actual clip you're trying to play. Like I wanna load a 9MB player to play a 40k soundfile. Pffffft. 0 Share this post Link to post