hddvd??????????????

[Chewy]

Can't find any references to .wmv files where ~2hrs of video is 7.18GB

Is this a real HD format?

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=68912

[anonymez]

Is this a real HD format?

yes and no; wmv9 is MS's VC-1 implementation, guess you could call it h264/avc's rival. iirc wmv HD was meant purely for PC playback, but since VC-1 is part of both the next gen format's specs it'll probably play on them.

it's just a data dvd

edit: you're having trouble playing it? think you'll need wmv9 codecs/wmp 10. certain graphics cards do wmv acceleration

[Chewy]

what's it take to play it on a computer?

[anonymez]

apparently:

Minimum Configuration

To play 720/24p video with stereo sound:

* Windows XP
* Windows Media Player 9 Series
* 2.4 GHz processor or equivalent
* 384 MB of RAM
* 64 MB video card
* 1024 x 768 screen resolution (4:3 screen) or 1280 x 720 (16:9 screen)
* 16-bit sound card

[edit]

Recommended Configuration

To play 1080/24p video with 5.1 surround sound

* Windows XP
* Windows Media Player 10
* DirectX 9.0
* 3.0 GHz processor or equivalent
* 512 MB of RAM
* 128 MB video card
* 1920 x 1440 screen resolution (4:3 screen) or 1920 x 1080 (16:9 screen)
* 24-bit 96 kHz multichannel sound card
* 5.1 surround sound speaker system

but don't swallow it whole. don't think they took AMD cpu's or hardware acceleration (need purevideo for nvidia, just catalyst for ati) into account. this http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...cdownload.aspx or wmp10 i believe. will play in mpc or any other dshow player

[Chewy]

looks like i have some software/driver upgrading to do

hardware should be fine

thank you anony

[mill]

3.0 GHz thats a heafty processor,my x2 is only 2.01

[Chewy]

Mill those are high torgue Ghtz tho, not puny overreved P4 ones.

You are the one that got the file to play.

[mill]

Oh, Pirates, the HD dvd ok. Yea it played on the pc but not the dvdplayer. It played on the hp pc and on the monarch. hp has a xp2800+ 2.08 ghz, i wasnt aware of there being any difference in the type of ghz in different processors

[Chewy]

what video cards? what versions of media player?

[mill]

hp has nvidia geforce mx 4000 that i put in myself that fixed the problems i was having with shrink and the blue screen of death both media players are wmp9 the video card in the monarch is a evga geforce 6600 pci-e 256mb

[Chewy]

have you downloaded any special updates or codecs for MP9?

[mill]

Not to my knowlage?

[mill]

Correction, monarch has wmp10, when i put the movie in it just started playing by itself on both pc,

[Chewy]

powerdvd 5 plays it on my nf4 vidcard with the 2.2GHZ athlonxp

must be my lame barebones ati driver on the beast

thanks Mill

had this same problem with a lot of online videos off web pages

catalyist here I come

[mill]

My pleasure Chewy