From: "Robert Comer" 

> PS. Bob, you want to try and play these on your vista, they are fairly
> small (1280 one is 3mb)

I don't have a matching codec to play them in Vista here at home and I'm
not using Vista at work at the moment, I'm having some horrible performance
problems with that PC and Vista, slower than any build of the beta for some
reason.  It's not even in the acceptable range and it's a dual core P
930... My home machine is good and fast, and it has the same processor.


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Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> Note on the DRM comment. My thinkpad comes with an AVI showing how to
> swipe your finger across the fingerprint reader, the original is recorded
> at 180x140 resolution and plays fine in all 4 video players. I took this
> file and converted it to Xvid (this time using riverpast video cleaner to
> make sure I get no drm wrapper) on the vista system to make sure the codec
> there is used, at two resolutions, 320x200 and 1280x720 changing nothing
> except the resolution between the two converted versions.  I did one right
> after the other changing absolutely nothing but the resolution setting.
>
> Using WMP11 I can play either version, using 3 other video players I
> cannot play the 1280x720 version, I get black screen but sound plays in
> all 3 non-ms players. Moving to W2K I can play all versions in all
> players. Why would changing nothing but the resolution do this?
>
> Sure as hell looks like vista is restricting viewing nonprotected high def
> content in third party media players to me. You still think this is a
> codec issue?
>
> I wonder how the european commission is going to feel about this?
>
> Geo. (make that 5 players, it behaves the same way in the divx media
> player, black screen with sound)
>
> PS. Bob, you want to try and play these on your vista, they are fairly
> small (1280 one is 3mb)

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