OT: Small Favor

[Atrocities]

Those of you who have Broad Band could you please click on the link below and tell me if it plays or not. If it does, can you tell me the quality of the play back? Thanks.


LINK (http://www.goathillranch.com/bikes/Chris1.wmv)
LINK (http://www.goathillranch.com/bikes/SimpleLife.wmv)

[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Those of you who have Broad Band could you please click on the link below and tell me if it plays or not. If it does, can you tell me the quality of the play back? Thanks.


LINK (http://www.goathillranch.com/bikes/Chris1.wmv)
LINK (http://www.goathillranch.com/bikes/SimpleLife.wmv) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It didn't play from Mozilla (Mozilla decided they were text files, apparently), but from Explorer they played just fine; good technical quality (the second starts out with a series of still shots - but that is apparently deliberate), but the didn't hold my interest long enough for me to let them finish.

[Atrocities]

Thanks Jack. They are more for those who ride with us than the general public. I wanted to be sure they worked before I sent out the Emails to all of the links.

[Parasite]

Worked on my MS system. Downloaded at a little more than twice the play speed. It looks good. I did notice some of the fast zooms on the first one were more pixalated than would be ideal, plus the cuts showed this, but it was a product of the compression I suspect. Sound was fine as well.

[zen.]

Very cool. It came across fine for me too, but I don't know how big the files are to tell you... my bandwidth at work is limited, but it had no problems. WinXP, MSIE 6.0, WMP 9.0

From the minute or two I watched of each, you guys are already doing better than Ozzy Osbourne when he got injured on one of those. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Did you do that nifty intro for the first?

zen

[Atrocities]

I should have used a better compression program. I should have used the Windows media Encoder.

Thanks guys.

[Loser]

seemed to work fine on mine...

[Atrocities]

Thanks.

I forget that most computer people do not like the sport so please forgive me for asking you to endure watching it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I appreciate all the input. I can now send out the emails.

[Fyron]

Look into using Xvid compression for movie files. It is one of the better compression formats out there, better than Windows media. And it is 100% free.

[Atrocities]

Thanks Fyron.

[Litcube]

Those dunes look alot like the Oregon coast that I road on. I've road those before. Fun stuff.

[Atrocities]

All of that footage is from two trips to Sand Lake, north of the Oregon Dunes by about 100 miles.

Sand Lake is just a good place for a day trip or an overnighter. The Oregon Dunes, Winchester Bay, Coos Bay, and Horsefalls are in a word, breathtaking compared to Sand Lake. Sand Lake is about 10 sqaure miles at best, while just Horsefalls is between to 80 and 120 sqaure miles.