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Microsoft antics
I move 18 movies to my tablet and Microsoft asks if I want to
reformat them since otherwise the tablet might not be able to play them. Yeah, right. Since when has Windows media player ever been able to play videos. So I say "No" and all of the 18 videos play just fine without Microsoft's reformatting. As I recall, I accepted that offer once before and it messed up the video so it was not playable. But seriously... |
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Roderick Stewart rjfs escapetime.myzen.co.uk wrote:
John Doe always.look message.header wrote: I move 18 movies to my tablet and Microsoft asks if I want to reformat them since otherwise the tablet might not be able to play them. Yeah, right. Since when has Windows media player ever been able to play videos. So I say "No" and all of the 18 videos play just fine without Microsoft's reformatting. As I recall, I accepted that offer once before and it messed up the video so it was not playable. But seriously... Don't bother with Windows Media Payer. VLC can play anything. I should have written that more clearly. I was dissing Windows media player, not suggesting that I use it. In other words... "Since Windows media player hardly plays anything, how would Microsoft know how to make media more playable?" That's why it's silly for Microsoft to suggest that it can reformat video so that it's more easily playable. I suspect what's happening is that Microsoft is assuming you are sending the videos to a Microsoft device, so Microsoft wants to make them more easily playable by its media player. But even in that case, it probably makes things worse. -- Please don't change the follow-up groups, it messes up the threading. |
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John Doe wrote:
Roderick Stewart rjfs escapetime.myzen.co.uk wrote: John Doe always.look message.header wrote: I move 18 movies to my tablet and Microsoft asks if I want to reformat them since otherwise the tablet might not be able to play them. Yeah, right. Since when has Windows media player ever been able to play videos. So I say "No" and all of the 18 videos play just fine without Microsoft's reformatting. As I recall, I accepted that offer once before and it messed up the video so it was not playable. But seriously... Don't bother with Windows Media Payer. VLC can play anything. I should have written that more clearly. I was dissing Windows media player, not suggesting that I use it. In other words... "Since Windows media player hardly plays anything, how would Microsoft know how to make media more playable?" That's why it's silly for Microsoft to suggest that it can reformat video so that it's more easily playable. I suspect what's happening is that Microsoft is assuming you are sending the videos to a Microsoft device, so Microsoft wants to make them more easily playable by its media player. But even in that case, it probably makes things worse. You didn't mention if the message was specifically for reformatting to play in Media Player or a Windows message. As written your message seemed to imply that reformatting would be for use in Media Player. - Win8x comes with its own modern UI video app. - Media Center is also available for Win8x ($10 - Add Feature) -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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I'm trying this again, allowing Microsoft to reformat the files.
It's taxing my CPUs and will take very roughly 7 or more hours, but... I did notice an improvement in playback smoothness at 2x speed for two videos apparently converted. The stock Galaxy Tab 3 (Android 4.4.2) media player makes the comparison a breeze. Just click the button to persistently show the controls AND show on the left-hand side all available movies. Then click between the two different versions. It even shows the current playback location in the left-hand side icon. I should have written that more clearly. I was dissing Windows media player, not suggesting that I use it. In other words... "Since Windows media player hardly plays anything, how would Microsoft know how to make media more playable?" That's why it's silly for Microsoft to suggest that it can reformat video so that it's more easily playable. I suspect what's happening is that Microsoft is assuming you are sending the videos to a Microsoft device, so Microsoft wants to make them more easily playable by its media player. But even in that case, it probably makes things worse. |
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In article , John Doe wrote:
So I took the 6+ hours to do the conversion while putting the movies on the Android tablet into a different folder. Then went through every one of them, comparing them to the other set of 18 movies that were not converted. Seems that surprisingly something positive was done to them. When playing them at double speed, there is no stuttering/skipping in the converted videos. ... so ... was it worth the 6+ hours then ? |
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So I took the 6+ hours to do the conversion while putting the
movies on the Android tablet into a different folder. Then went through every one of them, comparing them to the other set of 18 movies that were not converted. Seems that surprisingly something positive was done to them. When playing them at double speed, there is no stuttering/skipping in the converted videos. |
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noydb no.way (Bruce Sinclair) wrote:
John Doe always.look message.header wrote: So I took the 6+ hours to do the conversion while putting the movies on the Android tablet into a different folder. Then went through every one of them, comparing them to the other set of 18 movies that were not converted. Seems that surprisingly something positive was done to them. When playing them at double speed, there is no stuttering/skipping in the converted videos. .. so ... was it worth the 6+ hours then ? I don't know. If it weren't for all four cores working at 70% for that time, probably. It's nice to be able to do fast-forward on the Android tablet correctly. It might help VLC fast-forward and reverse them more smoothly in Windows after the movies are moved back (after looking at just one). If so, then probably. I wonder why Microsoft doesn't provide that conversion for windows. Or maybe it does, but I've never seen it offered. |
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It converted all of them to WMV format. And it reduced the folder
size from 14 GB to 10 GB. |
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