Computers: The Technical Thread [!OT]

[mrwiseman]

Thanks ^_^ IRT HK: That'd be hard, demos are meant to do that ^_^

[Dreamer7000]

I watched it 2 times today! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

[Hell Knight]

Hah. Can I buy the full version Wise? [img]wink.gif[/img]

[melfice]

Impressive Demo Wiseman! Very Nice on you side that you commented the code! ^.^ Interesting indeed!

[Hell Knight]

Graph-Wiseman Music-Not Wiseman, that was the best lol

[mrwiseman]

Hehe. I'm glad you liked it.

Melfice (or anybody else), if you want to learn CDIV (the API I used), you can ask me anything about it (in that case create a new thread for it), I can help out.

[Hell Knight]

A question Wise. Long ago I could dload with 89-90kb/s. Now I can dload with only 14-15. Why is that? I have cable

[Xellos]

What would I need to allow me to move ahead or backwards in videos where it won't let you? I've tried every video player I have, and can't get it to let me >_<

[mrwiseman]

IRT HK: Download speeds depend on yours and the server's lines and ISPs. If the server is loaded with requests and is out of its own bandwidth, or either the ISP of the server or yours are congested, or you're downloading other stuff and using your own bandwidth elsewhere, you'll get slower speeds.

Most of the times, it's due to congestion in your ISP. Try other sites (like downloads from good servers of Download.com) and see if you can reach the speed you should have.


IRT Xel: Because of the way some video formats are made - AVI and WMV/ASX in particular - you can't jump too easily, so the files come with an index of frames in the end. If the file is incomplete, has been stripped the index, or never had it (like some ASX and streamed files), there's not much you can do, although some players will definitely do better (by playing the video very fast to the point you want, or trying to find where a complete frame starts in the last seconds), especially with AVI files. I've found the best/fastest player to do this is Media Player Classic (not Windows', but the smart, minimalist, free player), but it still won't skip in incomplete ASX files. It also depends on your drivers, so, for example, the OGG format should behave about as good as AVI, but it does worse because of the buggy splitter. The easiest, always working files are MPG.

[Xellos]

Ah, alright.