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butterflydreaming) wrote2005-04-20 08:02 pm
butterflydreaming) wrote2005-04-20 08:02 pm
Hello, Seattle?
I want to watch an AMV. I don't want to download anything new to do so. Can I borrow your computer? I'll bring cookies.
thank you.
thank you.
i'm sure this means i don't qualify...
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The problem arises when I want to let other people watch it. The entire video, uncompressed, is over 6GB large (for just over four minutes). Compressed with MPEG1 (default, the video format that everyone can view with no problems at all, assuming they don't have a pure command-line text interface), it goes down to over 800MB: smaller, but not small enough.
Therefore, I'm using the XviD codec (which can pretend to be the DivX5.0 (http://www.divx.com/) codec very well, as to make little to no difference) to compress it all down to 42.5MB (impressive, isn't it?)... except that now they need the relevant codec to read it. Most people who watch anime fansubs can open the file without problems, mainly because trying to get the perfect set of codecs is a nightmare for anime fansubs, and XviD is small change by comparison.
If you are going to want to download something else (or if you want to get someone to download something else), I would recommend FFDShow (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow), which is quite unintrusive... assuming you don't install anything else above it. Uninstalling it should be quite easy, too.
(Currently trying to figure out whether Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/) can read XviD/DivX5.0 encodes natively... can't find any definite answers. Onwards, Google soldiers...)
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