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Windows Forum / Windows Media / General Topics / January 2005Why Window media is inferior to other media?
Every time I play a download on the internet from a friend my computer is forced to use windows media. The problem is that the quality of viewing is inferior to other media viewers such as Quicktime etc. When ever I open up something with window media the screen is very faded out and not very clear with it being very fuzzy and hard to view. How come other viewing modalities are much clearer? The second question is how come I am unable to view media with other outlets? For intstance My machine now refuses to let me use some software from nero unless I specifically go out and access it. When I put a CD in and it asks me if I want to oopen it in nero, when I click on that option, I get a error message telling me that this not an available option. I had heard that windows was getting very territorial but this is rididulous. NO matter what I have to open all media in windows media...I want to know if there is any other options? HOw can I get keep windows media under control and also how can I improve its quality of viewing?  Signaturewriter woops sorry I forgot to mention that I have a amd 2700 with 512 of memory and have a GeForce video card 5900 xt and have Cable with close to t1 speed.... so there is nothing wrong with my computer...besides other media outlets seem to work much better than the one with windows... againg thanks for you time.... > Every time I play a download on the internet from a friend my computer is > forced to use windows media. The problem is that the quality of viewing is [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > HOw can I get keep windows media under control and also how can I improve > its quality of viewing? The problem is simply that most producers uses WMV as low band-low quality streaming, because it performs much better than competition at lower bitrates. If you encode a WMV9 stream at a decent bitrate it will suddenly look crystal clear. Check www.microsoftusernetwork.com/forum to see some samples. > Every time I play a download on the internet from a friend my computer is > forced to use windows media. The problem is that the quality of viewing is [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > HOw can I get keep windows media under control and also how can I improve > its quality of viewing? >The problem is simply that most producers uses WMV as low band-low quality >streaming, because it performs much better than competition at lower >bitrates. Point of Order : Actually, Real Player audio *and* video codecs perform much better than windows media at low bitrates. And for audio Ogg Vorbis outstrips them all at low bitrates ;-) >If you encode a WMV9 stream at a decent bitrate it will suddenly look >crystal clear. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> HOw can I get keep windows media under control and also how can I improve >> its quality of viewing? Well, i wouldn't call their pastel filtering method much better Neil ;-) >>The problem is simply that most producers uses WMV as low band-low quality >>streaming, because it performs much better than competition at lower [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >>> improve >>> its quality of viewing? Sure it is - try expanding the resultant video to +25-33% of the original size. It has none of the nasty pixel-block artefacts that WMP gets at 30-64kbps video, and the picture is stable, less shifting between frames. Far better for dialup users ;-) Cheers - Neil >Well, i wouldn't call their pastel filtering method much better Neil ;-) > [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] >>>> improve >>>> its quality of viewing? thanks for your help...but what should I do about the problem? If I do as Zarax suggests will that solve my problem? Also How do I get window to be more responsive to other media and not keep blocking my attempst to use other media? > Sure it is - try expanding the resultant video to +25-33% of the > original size. It has none of the nasty pixel-block artefacts that WMP [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > >>>> improve > >>>> its quality of viewing? Which bitrates and resolutions are you using? > thanks for your help...but what should I do about the problem? If I do as > Zarax suggests will that solve my problem? Also How do I get window to be [quoted text clipped - 64 lines] >> >>>> improve >> >>>> its quality of viewing? I want to thank you for giving me the forum site and I have been looking at it to hopefully find something that will help me with this. I am unsure what bitrates I have and am not sure how to check for this...I wish there was a newbe section where we could read these things so I do not have to take up your time with this. On some forums they have some general things posted that gets you up to speed so you can ask some intelligent questions without being repetitive. But maybe it is there and I am missing it due to my ignorance of the language etc. I was going to post a question there as I see you are the moderator... ... my pixel is 1024 by 768 ....I am sure my video card is extremly fast as it is 5900 xt from Aopen....it normal rate is around 300 with a memory of 700 but it can be overclocked to around 440 and 740 memory... I hope this helps... > Which bitrates and resolutions are you using? > [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] > >> >>>> improve > >> >>>> its quality of viewing? Hmm, do you mean you want to improve the quality of the videos you see on the internet, right? If yes then it's not possible, there is no way to significantly improve decoding quality. I was rather thinking about content creation, which is the side where you decide the final quality. Also, the forum i pointed you at is specifically aimed to newbees, so there are no "stupid" questions there :-) >I want to thank you for giving me the forum site and I have been looking at > it to hopefully find something that will help me with this. I am unsure [quoted text clipped - 100 lines] >> >> >>>> improve >> >> >>>> its quality of viewing? |
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