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  #61  
Old December 7th 14, 02:50 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Brian Gregory
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

On 02/12/2014 00:43, Brian Gregory wrote:
The only problem I can remember with the current VLC 2.1.5 was that I
found a video file where seeking back and forth in it totally failed
taking me to somewhere totally different from where I wanted. Media
Player Classic Home Cinema played it perfectly.

Not so long ago I remember many versions of VLC on Windows couldn't even
play an audio CD without crashing. It was like the developers weren't
talking to each other, it would get fixed for one version and the next
version it'd be broken again. I think it was the 2.0.x versions.


I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

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  #62  
Old December 7th 14, 04:38 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

On 2014-12-06 8:50 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 02/12/2014 00:43, Brian Gregory wrote:
The only problem I can remember with the current VLC 2.1.5 was that I
found a video file where seeking back and forth in it totally failed
taking me to somewhere totally different from where I wanted. Media
Player Classic Home Cinema played it perfectly.

Not so long ago I remember many versions of VLC on Windows couldn't even
play an audio CD without crashing. It was like the developers weren't
talking to each other, it would get fixed for one version and the next
version it'd be broken again. I think it was the 2.0.x versions.


I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.


You're missing the libdvdcss or libdvdcss2 package, VLC itself plays
DVDs fine as long as you have the necessary package. It might also be
called libdvdread4.

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  #63  
Old December 7th 14, 12:40 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Chris Ahlstrom[_4_]
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.


That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.

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  #64  
Old December 7th 14, 01:33 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Peter Köhlmann[_3_]
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.


That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.


Well, windows will probably never "be there" with 64 bits. Way too much
software exists only in 32bit versions. He is even running Mozilla in the
32bit version on his 64bit wintendo. Lame. Extremely lame. MS lame

Windows also has nothing like the x32-ABI provided by linux (OSX also
doesn't have it), where you run aplications in a mode where registers and
FP-Registers are used in 64bit mode, and floating point is using SSE, but
pointers are 32 bits wide and memory per process is limited to 4 GBytes.
This allows for applications which have all the advantages of 64bits, but
not the disadvantage (eventually slightly higher memory footprint when using
lots of pointers) when the application has no need for huge amounts of
memory
  #65  
Old December 7th 14, 05:18 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV



"Peter Köhlmann" wrote in message ...
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.


That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit.


64-bits is fine on Windows.

Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.


Yet it'll create 64 bit apps just fine. Who the hell cares if the editor is
32 or 64 bits. Are there people out there editing source files that are more
than 4 gigs in size?



Well, windows will probably never "be there" with 64 bits. Way too much
software exists only in 32bit versions. He is even running Mozilla in the


32bit version on his 64bit wintendo. Lame. Extremely lame. MS lame

Windows also has nothing like the x32-ABI provided by linux (OSX also
doesn't have it), where you run aplications in a mode where registers and


FP-Registers are used in 64bit mode, and floating point is using SSE, but


pointers are 32 bits wide and memory per process is limited to 4 GBytes.



What a bunch of useless junk. Such a hack that even MS and Apple have enough
sense not to copy that abomination. If you want 32-bit write 32-bit. If you
need 64-bits then write 64-bit apps.

This nasty hack sounds like something Linux would do. It's like putting the
head of a dog on a fish. What a useless freaking mess.

Something that every other OS on the planet it smart enough to avoid.




  #66  
Old December 7th 14, 06:11 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV




"Peter Köhlmann" wrote in message ...
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.


That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit.


64-bits is fine on Windows.

Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.


Yet it'll create 64 bit apps just fine. Who the hell cares if the editor is
32 or 64 bits. Are there people out there editing source files that are more
than 4 gigs in size?



Well, windows will probably never "be there" with 64 bits. Way too much
software exists only in 32bit versions. He is even running Mozilla in the


32bit version on his 64bit wintendo. Lame. Extremely lame. MS lame

Windows also has nothing like the x32-ABI provided by linux (OSX also
doesn't have it), where you run aplications in a mode where registers and


FP-Registers are used in 64bit mode, and floating point is using SSE, but


pointers are 32 bits wide and memory per process is limited to 4 GBytes.



What a bunch of useless junk. Such a hack that even MS and Apple have enough
sense not to copy that abomination. If you want 32-bit write 32-bit. If you
need 64-bits then write 64-bit apps.

This nasty hack sounds like something Linux would do. It's like putting the
head of a dog on a fish. What a useless freaking mess.

Something that every other OS on the planet it smart enough to avoid.




  #67  
Old December 7th 14, 07:04 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV



"Peter Köhlmann" wrote in message ...
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.


That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit.


64-bits is fine on Windows.

Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.


Yet it'll create 64 bit apps just fine. Who the hell cares if the editor is
32 or 64 bits. Are there people out there editing source files that are more
than 4 gigs in size?



Well, windows will probably never "be there" with 64 bits. Way too much
software exists only in 32bit versions. He is even running Mozilla in the


32bit version on his 64bit wintendo. Lame. Extremely lame. MS lame

Windows also has nothing like the x32-ABI provided by linux (OSX also
doesn't have it), where you run aplications in a mode where registers and


FP-Registers are used in 64bit mode, and floating point is using SSE, but


pointers are 32 bits wide and memory per process is limited to 4 GBytes.



What a bunch of useless junk. Such a hack that even MS and Apple have enough
sense not to copy that abomination. If you want 32-bit write 32-bit. If you
need 64-bits then write 64-bit apps.

This nasty hack sounds like something Linux would do. It's like putting the
head of a dog on a fish. What a useless freaking mess.

Something that every other OS on the planet it smart enough to avoid.




  #68  
Old December 7th 14, 07:36 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Chris Ahlstrom[_4_]
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

Jake wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

"Peter Köhlmann" wrote in message ...
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit.


64-bits is fine on Windows.


Obviously not.

Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.


Yet it'll create 64 bit apps just fine. Who the hell cares if the editor is
32 or 64 bits. Are there people out there editing source files that are more
than 4 gigs in size?


So what? Why not support 64-bit and 32-bit code in the same code base?

The answer: Microsoft thinks it won't "sell any boxes".

snip

Something that every other OS on the planet it smart enough to avoid.


Sour grapes from a Microsoft fan.

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  #69  
Old December 8th 14, 02:13 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Brian Gregory
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

On 07/12/2014 11:40, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.


That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.


I just tried VLC 2.1.5 32 bit for Windows and it has exactly the same
problem.

Note that this the same whether or not the DVD is CSS protected.

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  #70  
Old December 8th 14, 03:56 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
BobbyM[_2_]
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

On 12/8/2014 10:13 AM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 07/12/2014 11:40, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.


That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.


I just tried VLC 2.1.5 32 bit for Windows and it has exactly the same
problem.

Note that this the same whether or not the DVD is CSS protected.


You probably need to change the VLC settings; probably something to do
with the video card.

  #71  
Old December 8th 14, 11:52 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Chris Ahlstrom[_4_]
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

BobbyM wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On 12/8/2014 10:13 AM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 07/12/2014 11:40, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.


I just tried VLC 2.1.5 32 bit for Windows and it has exactly the same
problem.

Note that this the same whether or not the DVD is CSS protected.


You probably need to change the VLC settings; probably something to do
with the video card.


Nah. It's Windows. :-D

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  #72  
Old December 8th 14, 02:58 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Slimer
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

On 08/12/2014 5:52 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
BobbyM wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On 12/8/2014 10:13 AM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 07/12/2014 11:40, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.

I just tried VLC 2.1.5 32 bit for Windows and it has exactly the same
problem.

Note that this the same whether or not the DVD is CSS protected.


You probably need to change the VLC settings; probably something to do
with the video card.


Nah. It's Windows. :-D


You're an idiot, Chris Ahlstrom. No wonder your wife gives you an
allowance, interrogates you on how you used it which has the result of
you offering to wipe men's "pee-pees" on USENET, probably for extra money.

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  #73  
Old December 8th 14, 06:30 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Peter Köhlmann[_3_]
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

Slimer wrote:

On 08/12/2014 5:52 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
BobbyM wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On 12/8/2014 10:13 AM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 07/12/2014 11:40, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite
there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of
Visual Studio yet, as far as I know.

I just tried VLC 2.1.5 32 bit for Windows and it has exactly the same
problem.

Note that this the same whether or not the DVD is CSS protected.

You probably need to change the VLC settings; probably something to do
with the video card.


Nah. It's Windows. :-D


You're an idiot, Chris Ahlstrom.


Why? Because he is right?
  #74  
Old December 8th 14, 07:49 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Slimer
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

On 08/12/2014 12:30 PM, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
Slimer wrote:

On 08/12/2014 5:52 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
BobbyM wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On 12/8/2014 10:13 AM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 07/12/2014 11:40, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite
there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of
Visual Studio yet, as far as I know.

I just tried VLC 2.1.5 32 bit for Windows and it has exactly the same
problem.

Note that this the same whether or not the DVD is CSS protected.

You probably need to change the VLC settings; probably something to do
with the video card.

Nah. It's Windows. :-D


You're an idiot, Chris Ahlstrom.


Why? Because he is right?


There is no reason to believe that the underlying operating system is
the cause of the problem he is experiencing. If it was, ALL DVD playback
programs would not work which is not the case.

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  #75  
Old December 8th 14, 08:34 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Peter Köhlmann[_3_]
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Default Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

Slimer wrote:

On 08/12/2014 12:30 PM, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
Slimer wrote:

On 08/12/2014 5:52 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
BobbyM wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On 12/8/2014 10:13 AM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 07/12/2014 11:40, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite
there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of
Visual Studio yet, as far as I know.

I just tried VLC 2.1.5 32 bit for Windows and it has exactly the same
problem.

Note that this the same whether or not the DVD is CSS protected.

You probably need to change the VLC settings; probably something to do
with the video card.

Nah. It's Windows. :-D

You're an idiot, Chris Ahlstrom.


Why? Because he is right?


There is no reason to believe that the underlying operating system is
the cause of the problem he is experiencing. If it was, ALL DVD playback
programs would not work which is not the case.


He posted that it does not work regardless if the DVD is CSS protected or
not. You have to conclude that it is indeed wintendo which has its dirty
fingers all over it. And windows *does* have put more and more restrictions
on media play since WinXP. Including crippling high-end audio cards and
limiting which kind of video can be played.

That you guys accept that kind of dictatorship is telling. Only Mac fanbois
are even dumber in what they accept
 




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