By your in admission you went el cheapo for most of your gear. Maybe it’s time to take a step forward? Spend a little money and save yourself the aggravation! Upgrade to a player that will accommodate the new format.
It’s the easy way. (Don’t be afraid!)
Because he changed his user name and vBulletin doesn’t automatically update quotes if they are formatted a certain way.
Not only that, the snotnose kids don’t show proper respect to the true pioneers, sitting surrounded by walls of blinking lights and piles of punchcards and whirring tape reels and Jacob’s ladders and cunningly concealed power switches, all of which you invented yourself on a lunch break one day.
No, it took two full days.
I was using professional video tools in the SVCD haX0r days and had many the pointless argument with those who thought it could only be done with the crude, tinker-toy tools being passed around. And I’ve watched one generation after another of such tools go through the cycle of “tinkertoys for genius users” to better and better one-app tools, only to have those kicked aside because - Yes! - some jeenyuss invented a completely new and better file format that happened to need the cave-man tools he and his friends had whomped up, and not the polished tool some Scandihoovian had built from the last generation of sticks and rocks.
So yeah, great, I’m sure MKV is just the fuckin’ bees knees… and excludes everyone who isn’t a real HaX0r, yet again.
Since I can still go disc-to-disc at a commercial level, I really don’t much care.
I would expect vBulletin to only update the username on the post as that’s a database reference but any method of quoting a poster I know of uses text strings for the username.
I use SMPlayer2 ( it’s being deprecated by the developers in favour of their inferior MPV player ): this is a front for Mplayer. I can also use VLC, Kplayer, Dragon, Mplayer, the original SMPlayer, Kaffeine, Totem etc. most of which aren’t nearly as good as SMPLayer2 — but will all play something — and there are many other players, mostly as free as these.
However the point is that they just play any format, so I don’t really care what format a video is in. It doesn’t matter. MKV seems better quality, but I’m not going to care or probably notice if it’s an AVI. AVIs just seem less used now, possibly because they are part of that Old-Time Era Computing and Internet Hand-Cranked Windows-Driven AOL-Provided Flat Boaters and Suspenders with Extra-Waxed Moustaches Technology.
Generally, the format should not determine use. Most player formats are Open Source. Unless one format actively hinders replay, why would one think about what format it is ?
Because, sir, there are lawns in this country! Green lawns. Pristine lawns.
And upon some of them, a stranger stands.
Did you compose this post in 2012 and just now hit the submit button? Because that’s the only explanation I can think of.
I’m guessing he doesn’t think of MKV as an über-format.
Whachootalkinboutwillis? MKBHDmakes awesome videos.
Fucking amateur. I pulled that shit off one morning before work while I was brushing my teeth.
If you want to rant about not understanding something, that’s fine. But you put on a pretense of knowing these things and then dismissing them. But you really, really, REALLY haven’t got the beginning of a clue what you’re ranting about here. You’re coming off as a neo-luddite, stuck with Real Audio files from '97 and whining that your new Blackberry will only play MP3s.
Now I know you’re lying.
Amateur Barbarian cursing those long-haired open source hippy wiz kids upon discovering that Open Office couldn’t open his VisiCalc spreadsheet from 1979.
Vintage video codecs are like fine wines, they bring out the snobs.
“Ahhh, a 2001 Sorenson. Such a beautiful nose, with notes of oaky nuts and a lossy finish…”
Fucking Sorenson. I (or a system I put together) do a fair amount of encoding at work and for a while every source video that was causing us problems was a goddamned Sorenson. From 2012.
And screw MKV. I watch everything in wc3movie format.
is this important to anyone aside from anime dorks?
Sure. There’s also those of us who are foreign film dorks. Who doesn’t like Japanese zombie films?
I like MKV all right.
It’s not like VLC is expensive, or even non-free.
Why are you freaking out at file-sharers, anyway? You just really want an illicit download in AVI? Start your own torrent, boy.
Just like before, there are usually AVI torrents for use on older devices that only support AVI. They just come out after the MKV ones.
