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Codec packs are all terrible, use VLC
/whoops!
Way to give ambiguous error messages, Dell!
VLC fails hard with HD video and has zero hardware acceleration that both WMP & MPC HC have.
WMP 11 on Win7 comes with all the basic codecs you'll need for normal video playback. We're talking Divx/Xvid, mp4, VC-1, & of course H.264. One of the many problems with .mkv files are the people who make them doing their own weird thing instead of trying to follow standards or practices. So you'll need Haali Media Splitter which just happens to come in CCCP along with a per-configured version of MPC HC.
The problem is it is x64 and my third PC is x32.
Is there any way to "trade" the versions with Microsoft or otherwise get an x32 copy if you've only got an x64?
They're not the same thing like 7; the one I bought was only x64.
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What is the deal with licences?
Like, can I install it on one machine over and over again forever, or just three times on whatever machines I like, or what?
Can't seem to find it in the documentation. Cheers for any clarity.
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1. The best synch software that doesn't have a GB limit and syncs files between two PCs easily.
2. How to get 7Stacks working.
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1. Synctoy
2. *shrugs*
It's bigger than Dropbox's free default space though.
You can set live mesh up to sync PC to PC only, and there is no limit. Anything you sync up to the cloud will have a 5GB cap.
Yea, it's touted as a pretty good feature, one that i used PC to PC. Sadly, I really wanted to use it PC to Mac, but the Live Mesh client for OS X didn't support the P2P sync, and now the Live Mesh app for OS X doens't even work with Snow Leopard, so meh.
[ed] Though I still don't think it supports the machine-to-machine syncing.
hmmm, it's nice that they have it supported now, I may go back to it then. I'm really liking sugarsync so far, but found live mesh to be better. Thanks!
Since installing the final, I've had nothing but problems. One of them may be ATI's fault. The computer went in and out of sleep mode fine before installing ATI's newest driver for Windows 7. The the display wouldn't wake from sleep. I've since uninstalled that driver and I'm using the one that Windows 7 installed.
After having to hit the reset button a few times to get it to come back up when not coming out of sleep, I now occasionally get a disk error when booting. Hell, sometimes the motherboard doesn't even see there's a drive there.
Maybe it's a coincidence. Maybe my drive just happened to shit the bed right when I was having these other problems. But tonight I'm going to try a full format, re-partition the drive, and reinstall Windows and see if that helps. If not I guess I'll have to replace the drive.
VLC might play everything but its a terrible player lacking in functionality. Anyway I went with a change and installed the CCCP pack and my file worked so its all good, thanks guys.
will probably install over the weekend. i need the time to back up everything and do a fresh install. i just hope my wireless card will still work (desktops shouldn't have to use wireless cards!)
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Can't say you're really helping anymore. :cry:
So a hard drive fresh from Newegg would require fiddling with the registry now?
I haven't been charged yet. I'm also not downloading it, due to the fact that my wifi is not all that reliable at the moment. However, I did get an e-mail stating that it was shipped, and that my card should now be charged...on Saturday. As of last night, still nothing.
Can you explain how Synctoy works? I still have no idea how to use this "Right Folder" "Left Folder" nonsense.
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Yep, it looks that way. But depending on how comfortable you are messing with the registry (I'm not, at all), it might be easier to just throw a previous OS on there first.
I know I'll be keeping the RC disc indefinitely now because of this.
Which also costs money now. And still needs codecs installed, which VLC doesn't.
Don't get me wrong - I liked Zoom Player, and used it for all my video on XP. But I'm just going with Media Player Classic on Windows 7.
It seems to be.. I haven't encountered a file that wouldn't play in a long, long time.
mplayer will even play password protected movies that windows media player won't.
With mplayer I haven't had issues with things being blocky except on very old WMV videos that were probably not encoded properly. Anything that's recent has played without a problem.
Sometimes it's just a container issue. Some codecs weren't made to be put inside of some of those old containers (AVI is a big culprit) and only "works" by the grace of some very ugly hacks, and they still don't support some of the excellent features codecs like H.264 supports (B-frames are a lot more useful than they were in Divx/Xvid). I've remuxed some problematic videos into a MKV and suddenly things are all kittens and rainbows
Disclaimer: pretty much all of my mplayer use is under Linux, but most of the underlying libraries are the same.
Windows mplayer is nice in the sense that it doesn't use any system libraries at all. You put a 'codecs' directory in the mplayer directory, drop the codec pack in there.. and shit just works.