[Falcon]

hmmm me wonders if Freespace can except bink video.

[mikhael]

I don't think it can in its current form, nor do I think it should. That's a codec that requires a license and I don't think anyone wants to pony up the dough for that.

[Zarax]

I'd rather use WMV...
I even recently discovered that you don't have to pay a license as long as the software will run in Windows, so... My two cents

[Gloriano]

I'd rather use WMV

I would not in this life or ever..

[Col. Fishguts]

Originally posted by Zarax
I'd rather use WMV...

Oh no, you mentioned the one, that shall not be named..

[Flaser]

Use Xvid and that's fine - and before grumbling read a darn manual of as of how to properly encode with multipass.

[Zarax]

Try www.microsoftusernetwork.com/zarax and you won't regret

[HellToupee]

i dunno my experence with anything and all things microsoft have lead to regret.

[Col. Fishguts]

Originally posted by Zarax
Try www.microsoftusernetwork.com/zarax and you won't regret

BWHAHAHA....funniest site I've seen in a while
...what, that wasn't a joke ? ....oops, sorry then

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Zarax
I'd rather use WMV...
I even recently discovered that you don't have to pay a license as long as the software will run in Windows, so... My two cents

WMV?  *hack* *spit*

Well, then that's useless if you want the SCP to run in Lniux then, innit.

[KARMA]

I'm not sure if bink required a license, I've heard of it for the first time from the site of Marco Spitoni http://www.cee-gee.net and then suggested it too, but coders said it isn't this good format it seem.
As for wmv, well zarax as you said the prog has to run only on windows, when I think (never followed the discussion) that there is or will be a linux version, so...

[Lightspeed]

DivX & Xvid all the way

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Zarax
Try www.microsoftusernetwork.com/zarax and you won't regret

I'm impressed. Most corporate whores get paid, but you bend over for free.

WMV is a bad idea for a couple of reasons.
1. Its not cross platform compatible. There is not reason to lock out part of your target market just because you like the taste of Bill Gate's ass.

2. WMV as a codec is fragile. Drop a bit here, shift a bit there and the file becomes unplayable. It has very limited error correction built in.

3. WMV as a codec is very fragile. In a high CPU load situation, WMVs do not degrade gracefully. Your failure modes are either a complete failure ot play, or as much at 90% dropped frames.

[Unknown Target]

Zarax, give it up, pretty much everyone else on this board does not want to use anything relating to Microsoft, unless they have to.

EDIT: Does anyone else remember the big fight he and Kazan got in over this? PLEASE can we not start that again?

[phreak]

its not gonna matter since if you can play it in windows media player, it will play using fs2_open.  so that means everything but bink, real player, and quicktime.

[Zarax]

Ok, keep bashing MS if you want, it will keep on it's way while you do it...

[Unknown Target]

Yes it will, and we (thankfully) wont' be part of it.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Zarax
Ok, keep bashing MS if you want, it will keep on it's way while you do it...

I'm not bashing Microsoft. I'm calling you a corporate ass licker. There's a world of difference.

I like a lot of Microsoft products, but I'm not going to refrain from criticising their mistakes. That's not bashing: that's having an opinion. Microsoft Bob was a Mistake. Office XP was a mistake. WMV is a mistake. Windows XP--well it might not be a mistake, but its not as good as 2000.

[Zarax]

Well, if you call an ass licker everyone that has different opinion from yours then go ahead on it if you can...
People all around worships constructive criticism, but when something Microsoft related comes in then it turns in a little crusade, with everyone trying to burn any MS follower.
By the way, WMV is not a mistake.
MS is on the multimedia compression business almost as long as the MPEG consortium, i can easily track the first works down to 1997 or even before.
Microsoft is part of the MPEG consortium, and there are MS ISO MPEG4 codecs, which were hacked creating the first version of divx...
BTW, differently from all your stated codecs ASF/WMV was created primarily with streaming over internet in mind, and so extremely low bitrates.
Only WMV9, which is the latest edition, is a bit different and supports High Definition modes and up to 7.1 audio.
And as being myself a corporate ass licker you can't be more distant from reality...
Actually there are users that likes most of MS software, and they prefer collaborate with MS to improve the existing stuff than scrapping it for another corporation...
I'm one of those, and what i actually do is to show MS how stuff can be improved, especially on the field of Digital Media.
If there is one big fault with MS it is that they did not care about their user communities in the past, but thankfully this is changing even though hackers are trying to stop it with their digital terrorism.
Sooner or later MS will join open source too (or at least the closest thing available without offsetting R&D investments) and then there will be little left to complain...
In the meantime you can keep licking IBM while you claim to be "free"...