Why don't you provide the movie in a usable format, such as MPEG?

I suppose it's because my video editing software provides three compression options: AVI, which is bloated, Quicktime, which is... Quicktime, and Real, which I've found to be rather good in quality to size ratio. Is MPEG any better than Real in quality to size, or is it just less proprietary?

for ONLINE viewing i prefer quicktime over everything because of the way it streams. none of this "50%" crap you get from realplayer - it downloads the movie and shows you exactly how much of the movie is downloaded and lets you play any part of the movie that's been downloaded. compression isn't bad either... the only problem is that it doesn't play in winamp or most generally-accepted media players besides.... quicktime...

Windows media player does some of the same thing when you open it as a program for online viewing. I would rather just download the movie then view it.

Oh please, I hate Real player. It is evil.

I rather like QuickTime. Even though it only views the movies rather than being able to edit them, it works better than Real (my other option).

You said it, no_one!

yes, Quicktime it's OK, but mpeg is universal everyone has, don't you know about any endoding program??

About the topic, I think they should give the organizer app in TI83 I doubt anyone buys it, I have it, but that's because I have a TI 83 SE =P

Okay, if I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that 1) MPEGs are universal (I thought Quicktime could play mpegs) and 2) that TI should make an organizer app for the TI-83? That will never happen because the TI-83 doesn't have flash. If you mean the TI-83+, then... well, I think the organizer app does run on the TI-83+.

No...he just said that they should make the TI-83 Plus Organizer app free, since no one buys it...he has it, but the only reason he does is because it more than likely came with the TI-83 Plus SE. He apparently just doesn't like putting the +.

I forgot to put the +, and yes quicktime runs mpeg, but I don't have quicktime, mpeg runs in everything, mac, windows, linux, weither you use windows media player, realplayer or quicktime

That's what I thought...

And sorry, I must have misread that other part. Yes, I agree, the TI-83+(se) version should be free.

Yeah, it should be free. It really sux anyways. If you want an orginizer, use Nifty. Thats what I've done for the last two years, it works better than TI's crapy thing.

Just because you don't want to pay for it doesn't make it crappy. ;-) I'm not entirely sure how the 83+ version of Organizer works, since there's no clock. Can anyone answer that?

I actually have it on my SE, and it is HORRIBLE! Basicly, the way it works is you input a date for an appointment. If you remember to check it, in theory, you will look at the day, and see what you have scheduled. But, the reason why it sux is that it doesn't archive the appvar, so if you play any games and the calc crashes, you loose your assignments, your appointments, everything. I use Nifty insted for that reason.

Yeah, I have an SE too, and my Palm IIIx's organizer functions are a lot better.

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Really? I wasn't aware that Quicktime was the standard for anything other than Mac users. Could you back that up, please?

anything lordoftherings.net does is THE way to do it.

Well... I'm a Windows person (as everybody well knows), and I use it. I just don't like Real Player. Windows Media Player is okay (if it works), but I don't have the newer version, so I go with Quicktime.

I don't know if there really is a set standard.

I have the data somewhere.
I'm pretty sure that it's still the standard.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/whyqt/

I don't have my percentages with me, but go looking...

That doesn't make it a standard, any more than Internet Explorer is a standard.

But IE should be the standard. ;-)

And come to think of it, most pages are meant to be viewed with an 800x600 resolution and IE 5.0+.

IE is kinda the standard.

It would be more standard if it ran on more than 1 OS.

it does run on more than 1 OS...

Yea.. it has been on MacOS at least version 5.32

What I meant was that it will no longer run on more than 1 OS.

They're not supporting the Mac OS anymore.

I wrote while high on caffene... :p

The fact that they've stopped supporting it doesn't mean that all copies of IE for the Mac will suddenly stop working...

besides that... the new browser of mac users is way much better, the I.E. will be released in a last version, correcting some security problems and a new GUI

I meant to ask Frank not you, sorry...need caffine...

I think Macs are supported in IE up to 5.0 (?) Maybe it's 4.0

Hey, you haven't been on here in a while.

I was about to say that.

It runs on Windows 95 and above (that's more than one OS right there)
I've seen IE on Macs plenty of times before.
I don't know about Linux, but quite frankly, I don't care. ;-)

Actually, Mozilla should be the standard, as it is standards-based (unlike IE), and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, also unlike IE.

But does it support everything that IE does? Since I program in JS, I appreciate IE because it supports everything important.

And I've seen a lot of sites that, if you look at the bottom, it says, "This page is meant to be viewed with a 800x600 resolution and IE".

Yeah, Mozilla does. Since were all talking about browsers, I like Opera. It does everything, and has lots more features than anything else.

And as for those pages that talk about needing IE, those are made by people who develop, are run by, or have some affiliation with Microsoft. Plain and simple, it doesn't matter which browser you use, the page looks the same.

Loading speed and aesthetics matter. Would you rather have a browser that looks like DOS?

LOL, no, I was just saying that any major browser you use will make the page look about the same.

<joke> Yeah, that's why I use Lynx! </joke>

Not really... I bet that some of my JS programs/animations wouldn't run on Mozilla.

No, I'm pretty sure they would.

I'd be very surprised if you found something JS that Mozilla can't handle. My site makes extensive use of JS, and I have run into no problems.

Actually, since Mozilla is standards-based, your page will appear more "correctly". For instance, all of you IE people miss out on the little 32x32 pixel calculator that appears in the URL when you visit ticalc.org. (Or the slash and dot logo at Slashdot, or the G at Google, etc.) Mozilla does support JS, and shows stuff the way it oughta be shown.

I'm a Windows fan, and Quicktime is definitely the way to go for either OS.

Are you a windows fan? you must be mad, they are ugly, stupid and there's lots of virus and you can't run windows more than 5 minutes without an fatal error
You must be the last windows fan, the cientist should study you

But they're useful to look outside. If they're dirty or something, one can use some soap or Windex to clean them.

;-)

No, there are millions of Windows fans (including me).

"...there's lots of viruses..."
Norton Antivirus 2003. Simple.

"you can't run windows more than 5 minutes without an fatal error"
How come that's never happened to me? If by 'Fatal Error', you mean the BSOD or something similar, then no, I get that extremely rarely on my Windows 98. And it's usually because I do something stupid with the USB port and my digital camera. Not because it's run for over five mintues (we keeps ours on all day without problems).

The only things that you could really complain about Windows are everything relating price or open-source programs. Otherwise, I think Windows is the better option.

Hey.. I restart window$ six times a day!

He must not do much. I need to restart XP only twice or thrice a day when working on gfx/photos. They take up a lot of memory 20 to 25 MB for one layer, then multiply that by how many things I do to the image. I'm glad I have 640MB of RAM.

That is when I am using ZDS and the 83+ flash debugger. (Oh.. and a few IE windows... and an e-mail client... and a download manager...) When I am writing c++ I have to restart even more often. But maybe that is due to memory leaks in the programs I write...

The memory leaks were not in the programs you wrote, they are in Windows.

Oh yes, I do. I do a LOT on the computer.

Ha! I *triple* that with windows ME

The short time I tried ME, I had to reboot more than that because it kept crashing. I'm not j/k either. ME is worse than 95. 3.1 and 3.1.1 were cool though. I really liked their paint program.

The new paint program is better ;-) There's much more functionality and it has plenty more options and features that you couldn't get with the old Paint.

Are you talking about the paint that comes w/ XP or some newer one? I have XP paint, and I couldn't really see a difference between that and 2000 or 98 or 95.

The one in XP is the same in 98 and 95. He is compairing that one to the one in 3.1

My record is 36 reboots in 3.5 hours (serious). That's when I decided to get Window$ eXtra Painful.

Did you have 95 of ME. If the computer needed to reboot that many time in such a short time I would have reformated the hard drive and re-installed windows, unless I had some inmportant stuff that I needed.

Actually I got a new drive and right now I dual boot. The problem is that BIOS looks to my old drive for all of it's info, so I can't get rid of ME. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Your Cursed! stay away from me ME user *holds a cross up* ;)

Quicktime is very good quality, and I (and many other people) am morally opposed to realplayer. I don't know about now, but older versions would try to take over your computer, associating themselves with file types that you didn't want, etc.... In short, Realplayer is dying; I can't remember the last time I saw a site that had Realplayer exclusively.

Good old Apple and their Quicktime...
RealPlayer (which they actually now call RealOne Player) often seems to unnecessarily use up system resources and spyware is (I think) implemented in the program. KaZaA is another evil program with spyware. For music, I'd choose Windows Media Player over Real any day.
Meanwhile, I guess I'll wait the remaining minute or two for the movie to finish downloading on my 56k modem. . .

I agree with the both of you. I needed replayer a few years back for a program of mine to work properly an dit invaded everything. Now the new verson of my software doesn't require it so bye-bye. All I needed was a player, not an all inclusive package. Go QuickTime!

I heard that KaZaA lite didn't have spyware. Can anyone back this up for me? I was about to download it. :)

As far as I can tell, Kazaa Lite does not have any spyware.

YES! Alright... time to download!

Thats right, no spyware. I use it instead. It also has some other goodies, like no ads, and programs to help out (like SpeedUp). Its awsome. See link.

I was on that site reviewing it yesterday. I think I'll download it today. And change my TI-89's OS.

I agree... I am opposed to Real Player.

One time, I made the mistake of letting my sister and my mom install a newer version of QuickTime. When I came back, I had to re-associate just about every graphics/media-type file with their original programs and icons. That took me a long time. Not that I don't like QuickTime, I do. I'm guessing it gave them some confirm box that said "Would you like to associate some files with QuickTime?" and they probably just hit OK, without thinking... LOL

Netscape did the same thing about a year ago. I about killed it.

If you go through the custom setup in QT then you can avoid all of that. I usually skip it and keep the files the same.

LOL. I once tried to make a program that would associate all files with WIN.com It didn't work tho.

HAHA LOL

What language?

Qbasic. :) I was 10 at the time. I know better now.

I could be completely wrong, but I've heard that MPEGs take up a lot of space, but the quality is/can be better.

Mpegs take up however much space you tell them to. Mpeg-4 can give very good quality at low bitrates.

there's a new video compression format comming, more lightier, but the quality is awesome

Yeh I've got 1 app for you guys...Bink Video. It's the app that all new Tom Clancy games use. It converts just about any video with whatever codecs you have on your computer. Just go to "radgametools.com" to get it. It's the app for Windows people like me who don't like using Quicktime. (I have the 6.3 PRO version and it isn't all that great.) Oh yeh and I gotta say great job to TI they really did well with giving away for FREE, but the apps can really eat you memory alive...

Well, as long as they don't have a memory leak.

Bink Video, huh?

...which you can test with Command Post...

That's right...

I forget- can Command Post fix the leakages?

Detect leaks...