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war877 Grr... <3 from Untamed Wilds Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#5701: Jul 7th 2016 at 9:12:46 AM

Ogg, is so "exotic", windows' media player can't play it out of the box. And don't try MIDI files in mplayer default build (your ears will bleed). Most of my library is wma, but I have wav and I need aac support. I also have some avi files.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#5702: Jul 7th 2016 at 9:52:10 AM

Ogg? Are you trying to listen game music files or something?

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#5703: Jul 7th 2016 at 11:39:36 AM

MediaWiki uses Ogg and WebM for videos and audio.

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Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#5704: Jul 7th 2016 at 1:21:11 PM

VLC plays damn near everything including 3GP, ASF, AVI, DVR-MS, FLV, MKV, MIDI, Quick Time F, MP 4, Ogg, OGM, WAV, MPEG-2, AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, MXF, VOB, RM, DVD-Video, VCD, SVCD, CD Audio, DVB, AAC, AC 3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, DV Audio, XM, FLAC, It, MACE, Mod, Monkey's Audio, MP 3, Opus, PLS, QCP, QDM 2/QDMC, Real Audio, Speex, Screamtracker 3/S 3 M, TTA, Vorbis, Wav Pack, WMA

yeah....

edited 7th Jul '16 1:23:51 PM by Memers

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
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#5705: Jul 7th 2016 at 1:36:18 PM

I will give it a try, even though I've been using Winamp for nearly a decade.

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Imca (Veteran)
#5706: Jul 7th 2016 at 10:24:23 PM

Newer versions are giving me some audio stutter in H264 encoded files though, and it is slightly annoying, any one know a fix?

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#5707: Jul 7th 2016 at 10:36:45 PM

VLC is the king of out of the box file format support but the sound playback is uncharacteristicaly resource-intensive on my old, cheap laptop so I've picked up Foobar 2000. Any actually decent machine shouldn't have the problem but it might be good to know.

Imca (Veteran)
#5708: Jul 7th 2016 at 10:39:25 PM

My rig is an actualy decent one, and it still causes hiccups. >.<

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#5709: Jul 7th 2016 at 10:43:40 PM

That is odd. Does it happen with all audio encodes or specific ones?

You don't have crap like CCCP or K-lite installed I hope, stuff like that can seriously screw up a lot of stuff with the funky crap it changes in your registry and installs. Some of it isn't easily fixable.

edited 7th Jul '16 10:45:50 PM by Memers

Imca (Veteran)
#5710: Jul 7th 2016 at 10:48:39 PM

Just H264 video encoding.

I dont even know what those are though, so I doubt its them.

edited 7th Jul '16 10:49:15 PM by Imca

war877 Grr... <3 from Untamed Wilds Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#5711: Jul 7th 2016 at 10:51:36 PM

So all of those have file based volume control? Replay gain would be a decent compromise, but only if levelling is done based on average loudness and not peak loudness.

Windows media player is really bad for this. It only does peak loudness, (Which is terrible because of the massive diversity of my music) and it doesn't support leveling ogg files.

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#5712: Jul 7th 2016 at 10:54:36 PM

They are codec packs which basically let you run everything on stuff like media player classic and such. It's what you used back before VLC got good at what it does.

Yomegami Since: Jan, 2011
#5713: Jul 9th 2016 at 10:04:36 PM

Not sure if this is the best place to ask this, but it seems like the right spot.

Would anyone happen to know of a good free internet accelerator? I'd like to watch videos more, but outside of Youtube my connection can't handle them without having to stop and buffer every couple seconds if I don't pause and wait for it to load, and getting a better connection isn't an option. I'm also not in the best state to afford a paid accelerator.

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war877 Grr... <3 from Untamed Wilds Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#5714: Jul 9th 2016 at 10:10:36 PM

Won't work. Compressed streaming media cannot be accelerated significantly, paid or not, unless the accelerator service is in collusion with your service provider to give them greater bandwidth.

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#5715: Jul 9th 2016 at 10:18:34 PM

I suppose Speedify might work, although expect to hit your cellular data cap (or run up a spectacular bill) in a great big hurry if you use that.

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#5716: Jul 9th 2016 at 10:52:45 PM

Wow what kind of Internet do you have with You Tube being THAT slow? Dialup?

If you can't improve it I would say get like a You Tube downloader extension for Firefox and download the video first then watch it.

edited 9th Jul '16 10:54:23 PM by Memers

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#5717: Jul 10th 2016 at 3:53:16 PM

Does anyone have suggestions for a free DVD/Blu-Ray media player for Windows 10?

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
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#5718: Jul 10th 2016 at 5:08:00 PM

So my hard drive got busted and I am trying to see if I can recover it even with the probably bad sectors made by repeatedly failed windows 10 updates.

Meanwhile I am trying to access the secondary drive but my Ubuntu live boot can't mount it for some reason, and instead of risking losing everything I am extracting the images of the secondary drive's partitions.

I don't know if I should replace the damaged hard drive or switch to the secondary one. I am not exactly happy with losing half of my storage capacity but thankfully I've never stored all my data but I don't know if I should buy a replacement hard drive.

I can't afford or have the exact model of the hard drive I lost but has anyone here ever needed to replace a Western Digital hard drive from a laptop with another WD model?

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#5719: Jul 10th 2016 at 11:00:10 PM

[up][up] VLC, seriously it plays absolutely everything.

war877 Grr... <3 from Untamed Wilds Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#5720: Jul 10th 2016 at 11:08:13 PM

If you want to go really minimal, mplayer always did a perfect job with dvds for me in the past. There are people who offer windows standalone builds of mplayer.

[up][up]The manufacturer of the drive does not matter. What you need is one that is the same size and interface version.

It is possible your ubuntu cannot mount the drive because it does not have the right driver installed, but I would assume that a live ubuntu has an NTFS driver.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
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#5721: Jul 10th 2016 at 11:12:50 PM

[up]I've already solved it, it was Ubuntu refusing to mount because of the Hybrid boot from Win 10 messing with the partition mounting.

I did a strong disk wipe with all the disk functions I could use in a Live Ubuntu and I am currently trying to see if I can save the disk, but all and all I at least have everything important backed up.

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
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#5722: Jul 13th 2016 at 9:24:12 AM

Well it worked for a day but there is so much you can do with a hard drive full of bad sectors before Windows puts something important there.

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#5724: Jul 14th 2016 at 12:04:35 PM

What are the claimed benefits to said ban?

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#5725: Jul 14th 2016 at 12:05:16 PM

Probably something about making terrorists easier to find. The usual guff.

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