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HELP!
My Windows desktop running Media Player 10 can play blah.(X)SCVD.mpg files. My husband's Windows laptop running Media Player 10 cannot play the exact same files; there's no video and the audio is speeded up.
What should I install on my husband's laptop? His laptop has a CD/DVD burner, so it isn't that the laptop isn't DVD capable. Do I need a different player? Do I need a different CoDec for the player? (He already has XViD.)
Help help help. The Doctor you save may be mine.
Betsy, did you try VLC?
I didn't know VLC existed. I Googled like a mad thing for "XSCVD" in various permutations and found no players.
Yeas! Thank you.
Tivo lifetime subscription extended to 4/15:
We know that there have been retail advertisements which refer to product lifetime, and there have been requests here for a longer opportunity to purchase lifetime before it’s discontinued. As a result, we have decided to offer product lifetime as a subscription option through 4/15/06, even for those that have purchased since 3/15 (you do have to call to activate lifetime service though, and lifetime is not applicable for systems purchased via a bundle plan).
CP-1 is a transmitter mouse. A sensitive condenser microphone is built in it. CP-1 starts working as soon as you connect it to the USB port of your PC.
VLC is the bestest. I've given up on bothering with codecs: I just watch everything with VLC.
In case you might need more storage for a pittance.
Compusa.com (And Comp USA stores) has an 80-GB 7200RPM IDE drive for $9.99 after rebates. Through 3/25 only. Free shipping.
Whew.
I'm waffling, myself. basically because it involves waiting for $70 in rebates to come back.
Still, thought I would let you know, just in case you might need some storage...
Huh -- apparently there's a new S2 Tivo box with dual tuners currently being sold.
Microsoft's own worst enemy... is Microsoft
So what's wrong with Microsoft? There is, after all, no shortage of smart software engineers working at the corporate campus in Redmond, Wash. The problem, it seems, is largely that Microsoft's past success and its bundling strategy have become a weakness.
Windows runs on 330 million personal computers worldwide. Three hundred PC manufacturers around the world install Windows on their machines; thousands of devices like printers, scanners and music players plug into Windows computers; and tens of thousands of third-party software applications run on Windows. And a crucial reason Microsoft holds more than 90 percent of the PC operating system market is that the company strains to make sure software and hardware that ran on previous versions of Windows will also work on the new one — compatibility, in computing terms.
As a result, each new version of Windows carries the baggage of its past. As Windows has grown, the technical challenge has become increasingly daunting. Several thousand engineers have labored to build and test Windows Vista, a sprawling, complex software construction project with 50 million lines of code, or more than 40 percent larger than Windows XP.
"Windows is now so big and onerous because of the size of its code base, the size of its ecosystem and its insistence on compatibility with the legacy hardware and software, that it just slows everything down," observed David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School. "That's why a company like Apple has such an easier time of innovation."