shevegen
8th September 2004, 07:05
Hi,
well, maybe this would belong to the General board, but then again i find it slightly more suited to have it posted here, as a central part of this post is the avi container format, which i'd like to diss in favour of another format (a better one!).
The situation is that several months ago I bought a MPEG-4 standalone player, it was rather cheap. Then few months later it started to produce odd noise while playing back DVDs (which then resulted in stopping to play the DVD after several breaks.. breaks you get like with scratched DVDs) so i sent it to get it repaired while buying another one, slightly more expensive (oh jesus...).
Now, those two players playbacked .avi files quite nicely, but the more expensive player annoys me with some messages like 'cant playback audio format' (was AC3) or cant playblack this combination blabla. Rather annoying, especially as it was really easy on my machine to play pretty everything thanks to mplayer/kplayer xine and so forth. And it was a rather cheap AMD as well so .... ;)
Anyway, the point was that I just then really REALIZED that even some of the better encoded (Xvid, 2 pass, quite high filesize) movies I did encode myself werent of a really good quality - well, ok, standards may be different but this was my perception now.
My subjective point of view was that some of the block errors were more annoying than VHS playback heh heh. And of course there were those REALLY annoying situations when the player refused to play some alternative audio, or just MPG files (Hrm...).
So now to my question:
- I want to playback Videos from a container on one of those old and fat 'normal' tv's ... well blocky ones with the big television screens without having to rely on a 3rd party standalone player that is limited so much. I imagine I could use an old computer to 'serve' like a standalone player does, but I am not sure what modification would be necessary (if any that is).
well, maybe this would belong to the General board, but then again i find it slightly more suited to have it posted here, as a central part of this post is the avi container format, which i'd like to diss in favour of another format (a better one!).
The situation is that several months ago I bought a MPEG-4 standalone player, it was rather cheap. Then few months later it started to produce odd noise while playing back DVDs (which then resulted in stopping to play the DVD after several breaks.. breaks you get like with scratched DVDs) so i sent it to get it repaired while buying another one, slightly more expensive (oh jesus...).
Now, those two players playbacked .avi files quite nicely, but the more expensive player annoys me with some messages like 'cant playback audio format' (was AC3) or cant playblack this combination blabla. Rather annoying, especially as it was really easy on my machine to play pretty everything thanks to mplayer/kplayer xine and so forth. And it was a rather cheap AMD as well so .... ;)
Anyway, the point was that I just then really REALIZED that even some of the better encoded (Xvid, 2 pass, quite high filesize) movies I did encode myself werent of a really good quality - well, ok, standards may be different but this was my perception now.
My subjective point of view was that some of the block errors were more annoying than VHS playback heh heh. And of course there were those REALLY annoying situations when the player refused to play some alternative audio, or just MPG files (Hrm...).
So now to my question:
- I want to playback Videos from a container on one of those old and fat 'normal' tv's ... well blocky ones with the big television screens without having to rely on a 3rd party standalone player that is limited so much. I imagine I could use an old computer to 'serve' like a standalone player does, but I am not sure what modification would be necessary (if any that is).