How about the fact that the video lags when you move the scrubber...which even I thought was something that faster CPUs would fix. 7 years later, same situation. Cue half way through the movie and you'll have sound only for several seconds before the video catches up. The proprietary player is a slow-ass piece of shit, and when the really crafty codecs/features are used the stuff won't play in VLC.
DRM is a negative, as you said, since DRM is inherently stupid. And it being made by MS, also a good enough reason.
Oh, and it crashes.
Huh???
I have a lot of experience with encoding using wmv for 1 reason: it encodes black and very dark scenes better than any other codec I have found. WMV encodes dark footage as easly as most codecs encode light scenes. Most of what I encode is dark video game footage. The other advantage to WMP is that every PC in the world running windows and most MACs for the last few years can play the file without having to fuss with manual codec installs (unless the file has a large bitrate, like over 4000).
Also, there should be 0 lag when you skip around in my wmv files. The files with lag are encoded to save space in every place possible (within the limitations of the codec). If you are using VLC you will get some lag, but that is VLC's fault, not the file's. WMV also can handle 60 FPS. Many codecs cannot.
Most WMV files have no DRM, and the ones with DRM I can assure you, you can live without. I would never put it in a file I made, so that's not a concern here either.
I hate to defend a MS product in any way, but there are plenty of worse codecs out there.
her 'coolest' death is the one where she shoots her own ancestor, and disintegrates.
I am soooo used to having to explain to people what happens then. I'm glad someone else gets it.
My favorite deaths are in the Airplane level. When I was first playing the game and noticed she would call out practically every family member on that level it was kinda funny. I also love the "pray to god" time stop option which results in the angel death. The airplanes chewing into her bum also always makes me laugh.
My next favorite death would be the Jaws one. The shark is as big as a bus!
Thanks for the MP4 version Missa, I am running Windows but I HATE WMV. I'll toss in my 2 cents when it's done downloading.
I hoped it would be a platformless enough format to make everyone else happy who didn't want to play a wmv file, while still having enough quality at a low bitrate.
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