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alan_erickson@hotmail.com
10th May 2003, 14:57
I tried the new Highmat feature which can be downloaded here

http://www.highmat.com

and unless I'm missing something the thing is absolute crap. For some stupid reason they have limited wmv's to only 300 kbps second. I found this out trying to create a disk with wmv's higher than 300 kbps and kept getting error messages (something about audio buffer). After doing some searching, I found the limitation listed here, and lowering the bit rate to below 300 kbps did eliminate the errors.

http://www.highmat.com/eula/help_cdwizard.htm

Why would they limit this? Don't they realize why people buy/bought things like CD's and DVD's is because they were better quality (compared to cassette and VCR tapes)? So what do they do? They take a half way decent format (wmv9) and limit it so much that you may as well watch a VCR (which is higher quality than this thing).

Sirber
10th May 2003, 15:03
I think it's for dedicated hardware, for for computer playback.

amirm
10th May 2003, 16:51
I think there is a typo on the web page. If you look, right above 300kbps says the max is 1.9 Mbit/sec. I am trying to find out what the 300kbps number is all about.

At any rate, if you want to PM me with the details of your problem, I will have someone get back to you to resolve.

BTW, Sirber is correct in that we had to contrain the rates to get them to fit on a CD/play well in low-cost hardware but I agree 300kbps is not a useful max.

Amir
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