Microsofts extends its reach into more aspects of human society...

[monolith94]

Preemptive strike!

Sincerely,
William Gates

[monolith94]

"Now Microsoft plans to use the tool to dominate the film industry's distribution technology, from digital dailies to theatrical releases to digital cable and DVDs."

"Microsoft is creating a platform to support every link of the value chain, from creation to distribution to consumption,"

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,59107,00.html

[Asher]

Yep, Windows Media is going to own the world.

I've been telling people, MPEG4 is DOA.

[Spiffor]

Edit : after having read Monolith's post :

Windows media sucks. It is by far the worst player I've ever had on my windows. Winamp is way better for sound, and Sasami offers much more viewing comfort than the pathetic WMP.

Besides, I haven't seen MS at the peak of compression technology...

Once again, MS will use its sharky attack technique in order to impose its subpar products to the world

[Asher]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Will they impose Palladium in their next windows already, or will they wait a few years before bigbrothering the whole computer world ?

Not to threadjack, but the whole Palladium scare is BS.

1) It ships disabled
2) Palladium actually allows secure, private P2P networks.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Edit : after having read Monolith's post :

Windows media sucks. It is by far the worst player I've ever had on my windows. Winamp is way better for sound, and Sasami offers much more viewing comfort than the pathetic WMP.

Windows Media != Windows Media Player

Windows Media is the encoders, decoders, and codecs in general. Windows Media powers DirectShow and DirectSound, which Winamp and just about all other MP3/WMA players on Windows use to output sound, and DirectShow is used almost universally for all video on Windows.

Windows Media Formats are things like WMA, WMV, ASF, etc.

Windows Media Player is merely a stock player so all people with Windows are capable of watching Windows Media movies or hearing Windows Media audio. It's simply a DirectShow frontend.

[chequita guevara]

I actually like Windows Media. It's gotten much better than Real Player.

[monolith94]

A hard kick in the groin is better than Real Player.

[Spiffor]

Well, OK Whe, I didn't account for Real Player. I must admit MS hasn't done the most horrible product

[Asher]

WMP on Windows is also way better than QuickTime on Windows.

Especially with a minimalistic Winamp-esque type skin on WMP.

[monolith94]

"WMP on Windows is also way better than QuickTime on Windows."

And quicktime on Macintosh is WAY better than WMP on Macintosh... Your point???

[Lorizael]

Helluva a preemptive strike, does anyone else see Asher's post as the first one in here?

[Spiffor]

I'm using Sasami2k, and it is way better than your players, lamers !

Key Shortcuts are the way to go ! I only hope the player would be more stable

[Asher]

Why don't you configure Winamp's key shortcuts?

[Spiffor]

I hate how Winamp's video rendering is done. The progression bar on the side rather than inside the window (but hidden) makes it vastly inferior to Sasami IMHO. But Winamp rocks when it comes to music

Sasami has everything I dream of, i.e a perfect interface : the progression bar is hidden within the window until the mouse pointer gets on the zone it normally occupies, and it disappears immediately again once the mouse pointer has moved elsewhere.
The key shortcuts are great, especially the ones which allow to go 5 seconds forwards or backwards (simply left and right keys).

The really big problem is the lack of stability : I often have to try a few times before the video launches. Fortunately, I have never seen it crash while reading a non-corrupt video, it only crashes at the launch.