Computers: The Technical Thread [!OT]

[Dreamer7000]

Okay thankz lotza! i just wanted to hear everyone's advices, opinions about this.

[Dreamer7000]

Okay, the situation is this...
I dloaded Guardian Hearts, and watched the first 4 eps... I tried to play the 5th and 6th eps, but DivX just drops in an error message, then freezes down, and closes the prog. Why?
Cata told me about codecs, those maybe the problem... any good codec anybody??
Another thing, that others player I have are unable to play the first4 eps of Guardian Hearts, no sound, no pic, but they can play the sound of the 5th and 6th eps, but still no pic...
What's the prob?

Okay, problem solved, i found a player named BSPlayer, and it workz just fine... ^_^

<font color="#101010" size="1">[ August 21, 2004 09:24 PM: Message edited by: Dreamer7000 AKA Hyper ]</font>

[mrwiseman]

IRT Dreamer: First, I'll tell you about computer video files (the more you understand, the better, for everything =) ).

Video files like AVI, OGM, and MKV, are mere containers for data. They typically have a video stream and a audio stream inside (OGM and MKV usually have subtitles too). When you open a video file in a video player, it issues a command to what's known as the "splitter", which reads the file and the streams it contains. Finally, all processed data is sent to the screen and speakers.

These video and audio streams are passed to what is known as a "codec" (Coder/Decoder). A video codec is in charge of receiving video data and decompressing it before it's sent to the screen. An audio codec is in charge of receiving audio data and decompressing it before it's sent to the speakers.

There exist different video and audio codecs. When you create a video file, you choose what codecs do you want to use. In a process opposite to what I described, video is encoded by your choice of video codec, audio is encoded by your choice of audio codec, and the compressed data codecs produce is stored within the video file by a muxer (the opposite of a splitter).

To play a video file, you'll need three things:
- A splitter of the appropiate file format (usually decided by the file extension)
- The video codec that was used to compress video in that file
- The audio codec that was used to compress audio in that file

If you are missing the splitter, you can't open the file (Windows won't recognize it). If you're missing video/audio codecs, you'll have no video/audio.

This is the reason why you can't hear some files, can't see some others, and can't play others at all. What you need is the codecs used in the files you've got.

If you don't know which codecs do you need (or you don't want to know [img]wink.gif[/img] ), simply go ►► here ◄◄ to download and install a pretty good pack of codecs. You'll be able to play most (99% anime) files with these. Uninstall any previous versions of XviD, DivX, etc. you may have before installing this.

If you want to play OGG Media .OGM files (which usually have subtitles), go here.

If you want to play Matroska .MKV files (the ultimate video format), go here.

[Dreamer7000]

Wow, thankz Miguel, you really know much dud3... I learned something today too then... ^_^

[mrwiseman]

Also notice how could I just have given you the http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...k_All_in_1.htm link, but it was more fun this way ^_^ Seriously though, it's better if you understand how things really work, that's how you know where to find what and how to do everything.

It's best if you're able to understand how a computer works down to binary signals in the processor which are treated according to microinstructions, but I'd take half a year to explain that much and you'd fly here to kill me first.

[Dreamer7000]

ROFL, I jst stay with asking, if I donno something... ^^

[Cavalier]

okay you know what we were talking about in the avatar thread, my comp freezes randomly sometimes, and sometimes when i turn it on the power light is on but the comp doesnt load, and it does get a lil' hawt in here sometimes, what do i do? ;_; its starting to worry me

[Dreamer7000]

Hyper:
I have the beta version of Trillian (trillian-v0.74i), and I chat lotza, but today, the problem came up: When it loads, it crashes to the desktop with the error message, "Trillian caused problems, it will close." I use Windows XP, yesterday, everything was allright, but today it won't load in...
I tried to uninstall-install, no effect, then I downloaded the file again, install, still the same problem. I ran out of options, can you help me?

Wiseman:
Something has changed in your system that is making Trillian to crash. Do you remember what you were doing before the first time Trillian crashed? Was it open? Did you install some other program, or update anything? Did the computer hang, crash, or the light was out recently?
It could also be that the Trillian data files have been corrupted and Trillian crashes because of them. You can try uninstalling Trillian, then going with the Windows Explorer to the directory you had installed it, and manually delete everything it may have left, and reinstall it afterwards.

You can also try running Scandisk (My computer, right click on the drive you had Trillian in, Properties, Tools, Check disk) to see if there are lost/corrupted files.

[Xellos]

Miguel, do you know how to import Firefox settings from CPU to CPU? I've brought over all the Firefox files on the laptop to the desktop, but still nothing...

[mrwiseman]

Mozilla has two directories:

- The directory where it's installed, something like C:\Program Files\Mozilla , or whatever you chose at install
- The directory where it stores your personal data, something like C:\Documents and Settings\__your_username__\Program data\Mozilla .

Besides this, it has registry keys:

- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla -or/and- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\mozilla.org
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mozilla -or/and- HKEY_<u>CURRENT_USER\Software</u>\mozilla.org

You should copy both directories, using the same locations unless you want to manually fix registry and configuration files, and before running it, you should also run Regedit, export these two/four registry keys to 2/4 files, copy them to the new machine, and import them, then cross your fingers.

Edit: fixed underlined stuff

<font color="#101010" size="1">[ August 31, 2004 08:48 PM: Message edited by: -Wiseman- ]</font>