wrote:
> I'll have to keep testing, and see what does and
> doesn't work.
>
> If you have any tips for me, I'll be happy to have
> them.
Colin,
First of all, I managed to get pretty far, leading up
to my WV demo to the group last year, _without_ the
benefit of having an ODIN install. I did manage to
play several WMV clips (of which there are several
varieties), as well as MPEGs, AVIs, MOVs, ASFs, etc.
No doubt some things would have looked better / played
better, or played where they failed to play at all,
given a solid ODIN for those codecs. But I have a
strong hunch that you will find more than a few WMVs
that are problemmatical even for various versions of
Windoze Media Player. On the Dark Side, I also have
PowerDVD player as well as the ShowTime player that
comes with the full Nero 6 suite . . . plus (as yet
uninstalled) Zoom Player and VLC. ALL of these
players are evidently able to play certain video files
that some or most of the others cannot ! Go figure.
And you will run across plenty of corrupted video
files that are pretty hopeless, no matter what you
use. I have a lot more research to do on this, but so
far I've been very disappointed in the programs that
claim to be able to repair messed up video files. An
easy thing to claim, a rather hard thing to
accomplish, 'twould seem.
I have made no use of WO, either, as its applicability
was limited to certain video chipsets, none of which I
had. I seem to recall something about Scitech video
drivers being an asset, but you are probably already
using some version of them.
Anyway, you should be able to get a noticeably better
_base level_ of functionality out of WV than you've
described to us so far. Bear in mind that WV has
often disimproved as well as improved certain features
along the way, varying widely and frequently from
release to release. That is why I made use of 4
separate builds spanning an almost 2 year period, in
my demo. With or without ODIN, I think you'll
encounter WMVs that won't play in WV, but probably
will in WMP. Your latter day MOVs (QuickTime) may
look quite good, but won't have sound, because of a
proprietary audio codec *inside* that the WV
developers can't reverse engineer. (I wonder if
SVISTA would make any difference here ?)
Good luck.
Jordan
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