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Why WMV for downloadable vids?
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November 10, 2010 - 6:20 pm
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Hey guys,

Just wondering…. why did you decide to go with Windows Media format as the desired codec to encode in? (for downloadable vids that is)  It just dawned on me while watching bigdogpckt5s Live Sunday Sweat vid, he mentions that it takes a full 5 minutes to save to his computer before he can start recording the next segment.  I've used Camtasia a fair bit as well, and have found that encoding in Xvid (MPEG-4) saves up to a 60 minute recorded video in a matter of seconds to the local drive.  And if I'm not mistaken, Xvid (and it's counterpart, Divx) have become more or less the universal type of video encoding for large downloadable video files.

 

Just curious…

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November 10, 2010 - 6:31 pm
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meh, i dont really care as long as they are decent quality and they arent 15 gig to download. 

 

the vids get a tick in both of these categories imo

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November 10, 2010 - 6:35 pm
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bennymacca said:

meh, i dont really care as long as they are decent quality and they arent 15 gig to download. 

 

the vids get a tick in both of these categories imo


 

Oh I do agree benny, the vids are great quality and are relatively small file size to download.  Was just curious out of a geeky technical perspective 🙂

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November 10, 2010 - 6:36 pm
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yeah good point, the geek in me wants to know as well 😀

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Actually the raw format isn't WMV, it's “.camrec” which is lossless and super high quality.  That's why it takes a little time to process when saving.  The WMV files are rendered from the camrec post recording.  I've found wmv to be pretty good quality for size but i'll look into the xvid format too.

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For us MAC users out there you can download “Flip4Mac” which is a plugin which allows Quicktime to play WMV videos PERFECTLY :). It was one of the first things I searched for when I signed up at TPE due to the .wmv format.

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If anyone has any issues let me know and i'll be glad to help 🙂

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just use vlc media player, pretty sure you can get it on a mac too

 

i have literally never seen a video format that it hasn't played

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GOM player is as good as VLC. Just don't know if there is a version for mac. Who uses mac anyway ? 🙂

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sootedNinjas said:

GOM player is as good as VLC. Just don't know if there is a version for mac. Who uses mac anyway ? 🙂


LOL @ “Who uses mac anyway?”

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Metasploit said:

For us MAC users out there you can download “Flip4Mac” which is a plugin which allows Quicktime to play WMV videos PERFECTLY :). It was one of the first things I searched for when I signed up at TPE due to the .wmv format.

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If anyone has any issues let me know and i'll be glad to help 🙂


no need to download any plugins. just download vlc. it plays EVERYTHING .. divx, xvid, wmv, you name it .. it even plays a video file inside multiple rar files (in case you have ever downloaded a movie from the internet *cough*cough*) by just double clicking the rar file.

 

vlc is the de factor standard for playing video files on windows, mac and linux.

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if you dont use VLC then you are a douche. 

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