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Post subject: Re: I have an idea for another type of TAS
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gbagcn wrote:
What I suggest is to let this site accept speedruns where the only emulator tool used is savestates. This type of movie would probably be the easiest make since it takes the hardest parts out of speedrunning and TAS.
Btw, I don't understand this. How playing at full speed (even when using savestates) is any easier than playing at slower speeds? Playing at slower speeds certainly makes playing easier. Full speed requires a lot of practice in most games.
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SprintGod wrote:
The reason that some other trackers have been banning BitComet is because of this issue, which only affects private trackers, and seems to have been finally resolved as of v0.59.
Believe it or not, but if it really is so that bitcomet is an honest client, I might actually switch to it because it has been praised so much here (I don't have pride issues as many people do). It's just that if there really is a dishonesty in this client which causes it to be banned from servers, I don't want to use it. However, if it's all just a big misunderstanding, then it's ok.
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SprintGod wrote:
Hurry up and ban everyone with a 512+/256Kb connection. These people are clearly leechers, as they can download significantly faster than they can upload.
You seem to have some kind of misconception. The bittorrent client tells the server how much it is able to upload currently and the server adjusts the downloading speed of the client accordingly. It's fair and there's nothing wrong with that. If the server thinks that the client is uploading too little, then it will let it download less as well. So it doesn't matter if you have a 10000000/1kB line. If your client is honest, your download rate will be fair compared to your upload rate. The bittorrent idea has precisely been designed to handle these situations fairly.
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Tombad wrote:
Other than it being a superior container format to AVI?
And what features is the video using from the mkv container format? Multiple soundtracks? Multiple subtitles? What?
This has been discussed so many times in so many different threads that this is becoming quite annoying. It's new technology, get over it already and adapt.
Using new technology just for the sake of using new technology doesn't make sense if it doesn't introduce any benefits (can you list the benefits in this case?) and causes many people to have problems viewing the video. Does it halve the size of the file? No. Does it give same file size but with much higher image quality, perhaps lossless? No. Then what is the reason to force lots of people to search for all the necessary codecs and install them, plus a player that can play the freaking mkv format? The mkv doesn't work in my system with winamp nor even with windows media player. The core media player (an almost completely unknown player to most people) is able to play it, but I am having problems with the soundtrack.
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Could you PLEASE stop using that freaking mkv format, whoever is creating it? Or at least give a VERY good reason to use it? They don't work in my system with winamp nor even with windows media player. The core media player knows how to play them, but at least the previous video had bad problems with the sound. Why use this obscure format? It's not like the videos had three soundtracks and subtitles in ten different languages. I see no rational reason to use it and cause viewing problems to the vast majority of people.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a joke site, like the hundreds of joke sites around there (even heard of the "dangers" of dihydrogen monoxide?) and the admins of that site are just lauging their ass off at people trying to fight against them.
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Omega wrote:
There's no need to triple post. You should edit your post if you have anything to add to it. That's what the edit button is for.
It was not a triple post. It was three replies to three different posts. Easier to quote by just pressing a button.
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The T wrote:
And you're measuring that it does download faster how?
So many torrent servers have banned specifically this client because... well, because... uh... just because!
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mkv?! Give me a break! Is there ANY rational reason for this?
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Zurreco wrote:
I still think it would be simpler if everyone just called it whatever they personally prefer. Then, when someone asks
But that's precisely the problem: People don't ask. They just make assumptions on the spot and start screaming "fake!". "Hey, look at this timeattack." "It's fake!" vs. "Hey, look at this tool-assisted speedrun." "It's fake." "A fake tool-assisted speedrun? Meaning what?"
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Phil wrote:
Personally, I will not stop using Timeattack because of some stubborn guy that haven't made any good Timeattack here.
You are uttely typical and unimaginative. When you run out of arguments you start attacking me personally. Hypocrite too. You haven't given even one single rational reason for your beloved term, yet you stubborningly keep using it, for no other reason than to keep your pride.
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Bag of Magic Food wrote:
Oh my gosh
Nothing new there. This one is funny, though: "I saw him walk right through a wall in the SMB3 movie. When I tried to do the same, It didn't work."
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Phil wrote:
I am using bitcomet and it doesn't download faster than any other client.
And you have measured this exactly how?
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NrgSpoon wrote:
See, this is why I download my torrents through another computer running Azureus. I don't have to worry about cpu usage since it's dedicated to that anyway.
I don't think CPU usage is any problem with modern computers. I have currently 4 bittorrent clients seeding at maximum speed, and they together take less than 1% of CPU time. Heck, I can even play Doom3 with them running in the background and don't notice anything.
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
And you're little suggestion didn't do much for me. Oh sure, things will work properly (in VLC; that's another issue), but the sound for videos taken from my camera still aren't working, and haven't since I've downloaded the new codec.
If the codec is not even loaded when playing such video (assuming you really followed my advise) I have hard time imagining how it could be its fault. I don't think fddshow somehow magically stops sounds from being played just by sitting on your hard disk.
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I don't know why, but when I watched this movie I several times had the thought "this is just like a 2D version of a QdQ run". Cool.
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Is the woman at the end of the game naked?-o
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The T wrote:
Besides, even if I were to get another BT client, I'd close it as it as soon as it was finished to free up memory on my computer.
Then you are just a selfish leecher. You would be downloading files at the expense of others, ie. at the expense of the unselfish people out there who actually seed complete files (even though they don't have anything to gain from that). You must realize even yourself that if everyone acted like you, nobody would get anything.
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The T wrote:
So, because you don't feel like using BitComet, you get sore about it and don't want others using it either. Keep abusing your power, here. It's really making you the bigger man.
You don't seem to get the point, do you? If you are getting file a lot faster with bitcomet than with any other client, while other people using other clients are getting the files slower, there logically has to be some reason for that. It's not magic. It's like with the so-called download accelerators. They advertise that they will download things faster (when you have a fast line) than regular download managers. How many people stop to think how they do that? It's not magic nor something supernatural. There's a technical reason. Usually the trick is that the program downloads at the expense of other users. In other words, the program basically steals bandwidth from the other users in the same server. Thus it will get more at the expense of others getting less. Now, bitcomet doesn't work exactly like this, of course, because it is not downloading from one single server. However, I was trying to demonstrate the point that there must be some reason why you feel that it downloads more efficiently. It can't be magic. Bisqwit said that, according to his own experience, bitcomet, a bit like download accelerators, is getting faster downloads at the expense of other users getting slower downloads. While it may not be clear how exactly it achieves that, it doesn't really matter: It's cheating at the expense of others. That's reason enough to ban it. If you will not accept getting the files at the same speed as all the other downloaders, that is, getting an equal share with others, then that's too bad. Just don't download the videos then.
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
Bisqwit, please, stability.
This is a question of a specific codec. It basically has nothing to do with the video file itself. That is, it's not the video format which is causing the problems, but one codec. If ffdshow is a crappy codec, then use some other codec. (Ok, supposing there were other codecs supporting the H2whatever format... well, surely in the near future other codecs will pop up.) But yes, perhaps it might be a good idea to use older, more established formats until H2whatever codecs get more popular and stable.
Okay, the downloads and intsallations went through. Now, however, some AVIs have no sound, and others no video. Thanks. <¬_¬>
When you install the fddshow codec, uncheck all the other formats besides the H2whatever. You don't want to use it for anything else.
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Arc wrote:
1. The idea that a compound word does not mean the same thing as the two words that form it is "ridiculous and stupid." Therefore, e.g., a loud speaker is the same as a loudspeaker.
Well, you seemingly can't grasp the idea of a compound word meaning exactly the same thing as the words written separately. Can you explain me what is the difference between "teapot" and "tea pot"? Or "bubblegum" and "bubble gum"? Or "wargame" and "war game"? There are compound words which change meaning when written separately, and there are others which don't. Quite clearly "timeattack" is of the latter type. *You* may define that "timeattack" means something different when written separately, but that's not what the vast majority of people understands.
2. Terms in English cannot have more than one sense.
Not when it's *you* who invents a completely new meaning for the word instead of being a widely known accepted alternative meaning. You can start using the word "white" with the meaning of "black" and call people stupid when they don't understand what you are talking about, but that doesn't make it a valid definition.
3. We should describe things. Therefore, e.g., 'visually impaired' is preferable to 'blind.'
Irrelevant example because "blind" is pretty unambiguous. Your usage of "timeattack" is like using "blind" for someone who can see. Besides, there's another difference: People already know what "blind" means. You don't have to explain it to them. However, most people don't know what a "timeattack" is. Why is it so bad to use a more descriptive term? Or do you want to confuse people on purpose?
4. We should use older, more established terms. Therefore, e.g., we should continue to use 'tidal wave' instead of 'tsunami.'
Uh? I don't understand this one. What's wrong with "tidal wave"? Can you explain me that? Besides, if you are talking to people who can't be expected to know what a "tsunami" is, it's much more desirable to use the more descriptive term instead. Why use the lesser-known term on purpose?
5. Loaded questions / assertions / rhetoric
Look who's talking. You are inventing completely artificial and ridiculous examples to defend your beloved term.
It is not that I love 'timeattack' more, but that I love 'tool-assisted' less.
Why? Too descriptive? May perhaps give a hint that hey, there's something more about these videos that can be seen? May actually induce people to search for info about what "tool assisted" means?
Actually, I would enthusiastically stop using 'timeattack' in favor of 'dreamrun,' as long as references to 'tool-assisted speedrun' were also switched to 'dreamrun.'
Why? People will not know what "dreamrun" means, and they will get confused. Are you doing that on purpose?
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chis wrote:
Try the 2005-06-19 build first, and if that still doesn't play this AVI, use the newest build (2005-07-01) but expect other problems!
When installing the codec, unselect all the other formats besides the H2whatever. It causes least problems to me this way (because then fddshow kicks in only when watching H2whatever movies and nowhere else).
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Btw, those who can't let go of the term "timeattack", how about using "tool-assisted timeattack" (at least when using the term for the first time in a text; the next usages in the same text could be just "timeattack")? It would be a kind of compromise between the two rivaling terms, and certainly bothers me a lot less than "timeattack" alone.
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The video crashes every player I try it with it, and it sometimes even crashes windows explorer and even drwatson postmortem. I tried the fddshow codec many months ago to view some video I didn't have a codec for (I think it had AC3 sound or something) and it made my system so unstable that I had to uninstall it immediately (I then downloaded a specific AC3 codec). When videos here started using the Hwhatever codec, I was forced to install fddshow again to watch them. Ok, no big deal, it was many versions newer and you could configure it to kick in *only* when a Hwhatever video was played. It seemed to work just ok, but now it's apparently crashing my system again. I'll try downloading the newest version mentioned above, but I'm getting pretty tired of this crappy codec which keeps crashing my system when something changes. Is it really so difficult for them to code it so that it would have some checks like "hey, this is a strange version of the Hwhatever format; perhaps I should issue an error message instead of just plain crashing"? The format may be superb, but the fddshow codec is crap. Well, I suppose I'll have to live with it. Edit: Installing the newer fddshow helped. Well, until the next time the format changes, of course.
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One small problem with the gimp, especially for windows users, is that it's not a windows program. It's a unix program developed over the GTK library (which is a generic GUI library). If anything, it follows more the principles of some X-windowing system window managers than anything else. The program has quite clearly been designed to be used in its own virtual desktop (without any other programs running in the same desktop). The problem is that its UI is not a standard Windows UI, and the windows version of the program is just a raw port. Since it works rather differently from most windows programs, most windows users find it difficult to use at first (and most of them will quickly dismiss it because of that). By default Windows doesn't have virtual desktops and all the tiny separate windows of the gimp will get mixed with all the other program windows running at the same time. Also some other non-windows features may be difficult to use (such as the non-standard open dialog). However, once you get used to it, it's a quite powerful program, in some cases even matching high-end commercial equivalents.