vasek videos converted to windows media

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 20 Jun 2002 17:36

i converted those two vasek videos from footbag.cz and footbagfreestyle.de to windows media [wmv] format. for those who cannot view avis. because i feel your pain. i could not view them either until last weekend.

i have a problem though. i havent been able to get my bulletproof ftp to work recently. it is a pain. any suggestions?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » 20 Jun 2002 18:08

HES

DANGEROUS

I TELL

YOU

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WATCH

OUT

OneWeak · Post by **OneWeak** » 20 Jun 2002 18:12

those vasek videos were in divx though...divx is sweet...i wish all videos were in divx. If you don't have it, just go to www.divx.com/divx. It's much higher quality and much lower file size than anything else i've been exposed to. It probably would have been easier to just get the divx codec instead of converting them to mpgs chan...

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 21 Jun 2002 05:17

no. you dont understand. my computer was too slow to run any divx player. and others' are too.

Bono · Post by **Bono** » 21 Jun 2002 08:03

yeah I have the same problem with the old pissant comp in my bedroom that I do most of my footbag stuff from... it runs Media Player perfectly, but it's crap with DivX.

OneWeak · Post by **OneWeak** » 21 Jun 2002 19:53

ah...makes sense. My computer's actually pretty shitty too though...amd 450 mhz with 96 megs of ram...but divx still works pretty well. However, quicktime...that's a whole other story. It seriously takes a few minutes to open up quicktime to watch something. It's wicked annoying.

Torque22544 · Post by **Torque22544** » 22 Jun 2002 03:29

HAHA

...looks like I got the best comp here.By the way I got cable

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 22 Jun 2002 10:08

i had i 200mhz.
now i am all-powerful with 1.6ghz. 200-something mb ram. adsl

dan · Post by **dan** » 22 Jun 2002 10:36

new hardware is so nice...

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » 23 Jun 2002 09:00

I got a Compaq. 1.5 gig, 512 SDRAM, 40 gig harddrive, DSL, DVD player and CD burner.

max · Post by **max** » 24 Jun 2002 02:01

you guys are lucky. I'm still battling it out with my PII 350. Luckily I did manage to scab 256 Mo of RAM at work and a 19 inch monitor (and that really rocks)

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Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » 24 Jun 2002 10:22

I used to have a Pentium with 200 mhez. It started to get really slow when I downloaded videos.

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 24 Jun 2002 11:36

my 200 was fine. i just couldnt run a lot of programs.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » 30 Jun 2002 22:39

1.2ghz, 128 ram here. I have cable also

Bono · Post by **Bono** » 01 Jul 2002 09:13

I think the chip in my CPU is a Dorito®

dizzy · Post by **dizzy** » 16 Jul 2002 01:25

DIV X SUCKS(unless your ripping a feature length film).
WMV SUCKS(unless your file is over 2 minutes).
MPEG RULES(for short videos).

OneWeak · Post by **OneWeak** » 16 Jul 2002 08:58

How is mpeg better than divx? There's like no quality difference, and divx is much lower file size...I don't get how mpeg rules over divx...

Torque22544 · Post by **Torque22544** » 16 Jul 2002 08:59

hey bono why you say u got a dorito for a chip?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » 16 Jul 2002 11:13

a joke

dizzy · Post by **dizzy** » 16 Jul 2002 11:56

I had a feeling I'd have to back this up

Here's my rant:
First of all, with Divx you have to download and install the stupid player. Why does one codec need it's own player?? Talk about annoying and silly, never mind system resource demanding and not to mention that if your not careful about your download you'll install the adware version

Divx was (originally)developed as an open source alternative to DVD and is meant to be used for ripping movies onto a single 650 meg CD. *It doesn't stream* and doesn't offer *any* significant file size advantage over any of the other codec's mentioned(unless you're doing a feature length film). In fact, in most cases, it fairs worse for smaller length video.
How many video's have you converted to Divx, OneWeak?? Or are you just going by what you see on people's web sites? I thought so.
Here, I'll give you some examples:
My css3 video:
30 meg .WMV
50 meg MPEG
100 meg DIVX

My CSS2a video:
50 meg .WMV
120 meg MPEG(encoded at a slightly higher bit rate)
225 meg DIVX

Ales Zelinka's Nemesis:
1 meg DIVX
700 meg MPEG

One more:
Ryan Mulroney's 2000 World's routine:
10 meg MPEG
20 meg DIVX

MPEG streams(plays before it finshes downloading), requires no stupid proprietary player, has *better* picture quality(IMO), and is a smaller file size to boot! And it's plays on virtually any platform.
This is all not say that DIVX doesn't have it's place. I very well could be messing something up on my converstions that results in the poor file size's in my experiment's. But I doubt it. I've spent many hours working on this very problem. Even if I am screwing something up, the file size benfit is a bad joke, really, compared to how un-standard it is. The single fact that it doesn't stream is enough to make me say "F**K DIVX".

In my perfect world, people would use:
--- .wmv (.asf is a cooler extension if you ask me, and it's the same codec) ONLY WHEN THE FILE IS OVER 2 MINUTES - .WMV is useless and M$ proprietary for anything under 2 minutes as you can achieve similar file size results from using good ole MPEG-1 without the hassle of forcing your users to use Media Player(and download the new codec if it isn't already) AND they make it next to impossible to frame-by-frame .wmv.
--- People would only use DIVX if they were distributing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon(**never** for a 10 second clip of a footag move!)
--- They'd never use Quicktime for a damn thing(I converted every 40 meg QT file of the 2001 freestyle routines on footbag.org to *10* meg MPEG's).
--- And they'd use MPEG-1 for damn near everything else.

OK, now I've wasted waay too much on this, so I'm going to stop now. Anyone care to argue with impeccable logic??

PS - I'm really very nice in person, but when behind an internet connection, I turn into a know-it-all asshole

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vasek videos converted to windows media