Downloaded and installed the ffd thing but can’t figure out how to play the mkv still ???
Explain it to me like I’m an idiot? 
- double click the file
- select “choose program” to open (or something… my windows is german…)
- select “Windows Media Player” or browse for “C:\WINDOWS\system32\mplay32.exe”
- check “Always use this program” (or alike)
- click OK
Yea, I put it into wmp but it just ran the bar like it was playing, but nothing was showing on the window. I downloaded the ffd thing and just installed it where it wanted to be installed, apparently this isn’t right…so, what do I do to install it?
So, you did install some mkv splitter?
Well, no idea if you can make WMP show the subtitles at all (they won’t make much sense w/o em, I’m afraid). MPC will display em fine for example (or MPlayer on Linux). Give MPC a try. It’s really a lot better then WMP.
Also check the ffdshow decoder options (start->programs->ffdshow->video decoder configuration… codecs). The first one uses XViD and the second uses H264.
Other then that… help->tutorials is pretty good (as I already mentioned) and there are a bunch of other screencasts over at youtube (which may teach you some bad things tho).
Ehm. But usual videos (mpeg/avi etc) do work, yea? I ask because you could configure it in a way to display the overlay stuff only through tv-out in which case the overlay thingy on your screen will remain black. For changing that… check the overlay options of your graphics card.
(Note: FLVs as seen on youtube or google video etc aren’t using the overlay stuff and therefore they wont be affected.)
Wasn’t that part of the ffdshow installer? Had no ffd install lately…
MPC==Media Player Classic (In case someone doesn’t know)
Wasn’t that part of the ffdshow installer? Had no ffd install lately…
ffdshow (and ffdshow tryouts) only contains video and audio en-/decode shizzle (it isn’t a so called “codec pack” mind you).
MPC and VLC are shipped with integrated mkv splitters (which can be disabled). If you’re using another player you might have to install a separate splitter such as haali’s.
Eh :\
Is there an easy way to get the codec or whatever I need to play it on WMP? It’s not that I have a vendetta against MPC, but I hate downloading things I already basically have because a different one supports a particular file – I don’t wanna end up with 18 different media players ya know – just a waste of space.
Then forget about WMP (it went steadily downhill from version 6.4), and use only MPC ;D
MPC is a single exe, which is 5.4mb in size. There is no installer and it won’t change the file associations on it’s own etc. It’s really really pain free to try.
It’s true what Abuse said. WMP is pretty indeed pretty bad.
I’ve installed:
-MPC (primary)
-VLC (If MPC is unable to play it, I give VLC a try. VLC has it’s own set of “private” codecs, which is the reason why it might work there if it doesn’t work elsewhere.)
-Zoom Player (because it’s easy to check which codecs are missing and downloading em with only 2 clicks)
-WMP (because… well, it’s there)
Oh yea… if you want to check if h264 works:
http://kaioa.com/svg/sun_h264.avi
That should help you to identify the problem.
Downloaded MPC and tried to play one of them but got the same thing, a black screen. Couldn’t find what you were talking about in my graphics card settings, I’m using vista – not sure if that’s the problem or not (has been most times I’ve had a problem
Oh… Vista… why would anyone do that?
Do mpeg files work? If not, try to find newer drivers for your graphics card.
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Try to buy a new PC without Vista installed, and you’ll know :-\
Yea mpeg’s work fine, and I won my laptop in a competition…so I didn’t get any choices.
And I just got the laptop about a month or 2 ago, from the company that makes the graphics card in it, so I’m assuming the drivers are already up to date?
Try to buy a new PC without Vista installed, and you’ll know :-\
I built so many PCs… I surely won’t buy a pre-built one. And why would I want to pay ~100 bucks for that? That totally ruins part of the fun and I rather spend the money on better parts. 
If mpegs work, it isn’t an overlay issue. Ah well, I’m out of ideas.
If I ever start doing proper screencasts, I’ll offer flv as alternative (the drawbacks are less quality, way bigger file sizes, hardsubs and only one audio stream possible).
Argh, I’m guessing MPC just doesn’t have a vista version is the problem. Where else can I find a tutorial on clipping? I can’t even figure out how to use the clipping stuff – none of the tutorials in inkscape say how to use clipping, there’s a small blurb that says something useless about it, and that’s it.
PM could not be sent to ‘TLE’ as their inbox is full!
Could you tell me in words how to use clipping and how to do shading in inkscape?
I made screencasts for that, because it’s very hard to explain it with words alone. I can’t really spend 2-3 hours on this, I’m afraid.
However, you can try to figure it out on your own. For clipping you need to select two shapes and then Object->Clip->Set (well, that’s the obvious thing). Be sure that you understand how clones work, because you should use a clone for clipping. Another thing you need to know is that clones can only override the fill, if the fill of the original was undefined. The same is also true for stroke.
Alternatively you can of course try to fix your system.
onyx do you use a tablet? I have been messing around with different vector programs and am not really satisfied with anything I have come up with. Wondering if a tablet would help me out.
thanks
Maybe your problem is ‘just messing around with them’. How good are you at drawing and creating curves using beziers? Trust me when I say “there is nothing wrong with the vector programs, and you can do much great work without a tablet”, try starting out by tracing drawn pictures - that way you will learn how to deal with curves. Eventually you will find yourself able to instinctively create the appropriate curves for a shape without giving it too much thought. And illustrator/Corel is not a must - you’re doing the same thing on all of them and can do a lot of good work using the free Corel or Inkscape. The package is not going to improve your drawing ability!