Suggested Format for AMVs Uploaded

Chao · Post by **Chao** » Sat May 08, 2004 8:19 am

Yes but there are many more who WON'T play .rm for varying reasons (bad quality, a horrid player, a truely evil company that practices nigh on illegal activities etc etc).

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat May 08, 2004 8:29 am

Chao wrote:Yes but there are many more who WON'T play .rm for varying reasons (bad quality, a horrid player, a truely evil company that practices nigh on illegal activities etc etc).

Most of what you have said there is out of date thinking.

rm is truly excellent quality for anime, the player is no longer horrifically spyware ridden and real have been pretty decent about fixing that stuff. It's just that you need their player to play the stuff without resorting to crooked means like Real Alternative.

rm thrashes everything for anime encoding... it's just not very portable.

Chao · Post by **Chao** » Sat May 08, 2004 8:35 am

I didn't say it was my thinking. But it is infact most peoples thinking. And Real is still a truely evil company (a site that does everything they can to hide the free version, and when you order it desing the site so that some options are below the button and below the window so you have to scroll and don't realise until the statement comes in).

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat May 08, 2004 8:46 am

*shrugs* the org uses exactly the same strategy when people download amvs when they haven't donated

Shadow Flare · Post by **Shadow Flare** » Sun May 09, 2004 12:39 am

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:*shrugs* the org uses exactly the same strategy when people download amvs when they haven't donated

Yeah, the .org is good like that.

Anime-Kid544 · Post by **Anime-Kid544** » Sun May 09, 2004 1:29 am

Yhea, weeds out leechers. But there is still file-sharing networks that we have to worry about, after that we will be in control of all AMVs! Muhahahaha!!

J/K

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sun May 09, 2004 3:54 am

Shadow Flare wrote:
AbsoluteDestiny wrote:*shrugs* the org uses exactly the same strategy when people download amvs when they haven't donated
Yeah, the .org is good like that.

You still here Pyle?

mforman · Post by **mforman** » Sun May 09, 2004 1:44 pm

Shadow Flare wrote:It isn't just RM thats underrated, it's WMV too.

Not really all WMV codecs in general, but I notice that when I compress into AVI, I get great quality at 50 megabyes. When I compres into WMV9, I get great quality at 20 megabytes.

Must be that compatability thing.

I generally won't download AMVs encoded with WMV. I've seen too many WMV videos where the compression has wrecked an otherwise good video (whether this is due to them being encoded with an old version of the codec I can't say.) Then there's the compatibility as others have mentioned (which is also why I don't download .rm files - I try to only install programs that I really need to avoid crap on my system, so I won't install RealPlayer.)

I'll admit that this probably comes from anti-WMV prejudice, but I'd rather download videos that use a codec I know can create great quality.

Personally, I think the best codecs to use are MPEG1 or DivX/Xvid as in the case of MPEG1 pretty much any computer can play it, and DivX/Xvid are easily available for all the major platforms.