[Official] Solve at Benelux Open - Mats Valk

[masterofthebass]

It worked in quicktime for me (Mac) but I do have perian installed. It fixes a lot of the missing codec problems.

 

[Stefan]

Hmm, strange. Actually x264 is a "H.264" codec library and Apple mentions that "H.264" capability right on the main quicktime page:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
Any idea what the problem is?

 

[Paul Wagner]

wmp vista good

 

[MichaelErskine]

VLC plays it on Xandros but my EeePC drops masses of frames because it's not fast enough to keep up! I shall play it on one of my other machines.

 

[Yes We Can!]

It worked very, very nice!
cool qualiriy, too!

 

[martijn_cube]

wmp player and windows 7 works fine. very good quality video.

 

[Spyyder]

I could play it fine, but I do video encoding so I of course had the x264 codec installed.

 

[Lid]

Played right away, using Media Player Classic with the CoreAVC codec, also plays nicely on my TViX.

 

[abr71310]

Worked great first try on WMP 11 (Windows XP, SP2) with x264 codec (yep, I had this for video editing already! )

Problem though; delay on sound by about half a second.
Anybody else get that? (It finishes sound BEFORE video)

wmp player and windows 7 works fine. very good quality video.

:O you already have Windows 7?
PM ME!!! Where do you get it?!?!?! ><

 

[Stefan]

Problem though; delay on sound by about half a second.
Anybody else get that? (It finishes sound BEFORE video)

I use KMPlayer and sometimes have that problem, too, though mostly when jumping backwards in the video. When I play it once more or jump forwards, it's usually ok. Do you have that problem always?

Anyway... seeing that most people could play it right away and others could after some effort, I think I'll just use this way for the other videos (might have a day or two to concince me of something else but it'll probably hard). It's a popular and very good codec and I really don't want to use an archaic one to hope everyone can play it right away only to find out to be wrong. Seems like everyone who wants to watch it can make it happen. Thanks everyone for your help.

 

[coolmission]

Stefan, that looks incredible Nice solve as well from Mats! Keep em coming

 

[Kit Clement]

That really high fps makes it seem fast forwarded. Shows how nice the quality is on your camera.

 

[pjk]

I tested it at the school computers and it didn't load on Windows XP with Windows Media Player (latest version I believe).

It does work on my Mac at home fine though (Leopard, Quicktime).

Video looks great - angle is great too.

 

[Stefan]

That really high fps makes it seem fast forwarded.

Yeah, I had the same feeling recently when I watched myself solve a 5x5 with 50 fps. Looked sped up. But I believe that's just a trick of the mind which isn't used to more than 30 fps(*). You can probably get used to it easily. When I watch these videos now, they look normal speed and just very smooth.

(*) On a computer display, I mean. Regular elevision does update the screen 50 times per second for PAL and 60 times per second for NTSC, although that's interlaced and the way regular TVs work affects the human eye differently.

 

[d4m4s74]

works on vista's WMP (in combo with fddshow)

I tried to slow the vid down (why have 60fps if you can't use it?) but I couldn't get that to work

 

[ryo]

I have voted for "I'm not able to play it." but in fact it was just not working directly on Firefox which use Mplayer and it works with vlc (mandriva 2009).

 

[Stefan]

For comparison, here's now the same video in 30 fps:
http://stefan-pochmann.info/misc/Mats30.avi