[Matroska-cvs] [www] r1072 - trunk/www.matroska.org/data/downloads
chrishjw at matroska.org
chrishjw at matroska.org
Sat Apr 22 23:33:00 CEST 2006
Author: chrishjw
Date: 2006-04-23 01:32:52 +0400 (Sun, 23 Apr 2006)
New Revision: 1072
Modified:
trunk/www.matroska.org/data/downloads/windows.html.en
Log:
Even more fixes and comments
Modified: trunk/www.matroska.org/data/downloads/windows.html.en
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--- trunk/www.matroska.org/data/downloads/windows.html.en 2006-04-22 21:18:12 UTC (rev 1071)
+++ trunk/www.matroska.org/data/downloads/windows.html.en 2006-04-22 21:32:52 UTC (rev 1072)
@@ -60,9 +60,11 @@
</tr>
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<td colspan="4"> <h6>Comment:</h6>
- <h5>You can get this player also in French, German and Russian language.
- It has an internal matroska splitter, tending to be outdated ;-)
- .. </h5></td>
+ <h5>You can get this great player also in French, German and Russian
+ language. It is DirectShow based, but has a built-in, internal matroska
+ splitter, which is tending to be outdated ;-) . We recommend to
+ deactivate the internal splitter, and use it with one of the <a href="http://packs.matroska.org/">matroska
+ playback packs</a>.</h5></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="cellhighlight"> <strong>The Core Media Player </strong></td>
@@ -74,7 +76,10 @@
<tr>
<td colspan="4" height="55"> <h6>Comment:</h6>
<h5>Still one our preferred media players, with excellent matroska
- support thanks to its matroska CDL plugin</h5></td>
+ support thanks to its matroska CDL plugin. Remember its also a DirectShow
+ based player, so it will need a <a href="http://packs.matroska.org/">matroska
+ playback pack</a> or at least the <a href="http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/">Haali
+ splitter</a> to work for MKV files.</h5></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="cellhighlight" height="21"><strong>VLC Videolan Player</strong></td>
@@ -86,7 +91,9 @@
<td colspan="4" height="33"> <h6>Comment:</h6>
<h5>Currently the one player with the best matroska menue support,
and not based on DirectShow (if you don't like codec installation
- on your PC)</h5></td>
+ on your PC). It will play most of your MKVs out of the box, only
+ support for those with Realvideo or ON2VP codecs is missing (use
+ DirectShow then).</h5></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="cellhighlight" height="21"><strong>Zoomplayer</strong></td>
@@ -97,7 +104,8 @@
<tr>
<td colspan="4"> <h6>Comment:</h6>
<h5>A very good, DirectShow based mediaplayer with advanced matroska
- support in combination with the Haali media splitter</h5></td>
+ support in combination with the <a href="http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/">Haali
+ media splitter</a>.</h5></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="cellhighlight" height="21"><strong>TCPMP</strong></td>
@@ -111,7 +119,9 @@
2000/XP. Probably currently the one player using the lowest CPU
resources for playback of modern media files, and including full
MKV and MKA support. Only support for subtitles and Realvideo is
- missing</h5></td>
+ missing. Not DirectShow based, so no codecs/filter installation
+ necessary. Support for even faster decoding of h.264 (AVC) is in
+ the works !</h5></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="cellhighlight"><strong>MPlayer</strong></td>
@@ -141,9 +151,9 @@
<tr>
<td colspan="4"> <h6>Comment:</h6>
<h5>Almost all you need to play .mkv (matroska video) and .mka (matroska
- audio) files under DirectShow applications<br>
- To see an updated list of what these packs contain, look at the
- ReadMe on the site.</h5></td>
+ audio) files under DirectShow players, such as Windows Mediaplayer,
+ MPC, Zoomplayer and TCMP (see above). To see an updated list of
+ what these packs contain, look at the ReadMe on the site.</h5></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="cellhighlight"><strong>Haali Media Splitter</strong></td>
@@ -154,7 +164,9 @@
<tr>
<td colspan="4"> <h6>Comment:</h6>
<h5>The most up to date DirectShow filter to read Matroska files.
- Support AVI and MP4 playback too, unfortunately not open source</h5></td>
+ Support AVI and MP4 playback too, unfortunately not open source.
+ Included in both matroska packs, most recent versions to be found
+ on its homepage.</h5></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="cellhighlight"><strong>Matroska Splitter</strong></td>
@@ -164,8 +176,8 @@
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4"> <h6>Comment:</h6>
- <h5>Written overnight by coding wizard gabest, open source, developed
- further every now and then ...</h5></td>
+ <h5>Written overnight by coding wizard Gabest, open source. Developed
+ further every now and then, time permitting...</h5></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="cellhighlight"><strong>MatroskaDiag</strong></td>
@@ -176,7 +188,10 @@
<tr>
<td colspan="4"> <h6>Comment:</h6>
<h5>This is not really a filter, but it will help diagnose most DirectShow
- related problems when trying to play a Matroska file.</h5></td>
+ related problems when trying to play a Matroska file. Please use
+ this tool if you can't play MKV files in Windows Mediaplayer, even
+ after successful matroska pack installation, and send us the log
+ file.</h5></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="cellhighlight"> <strong>mkxds (MKV DShow splitter)</strong>
@@ -243,11 +258,13 @@
<td colspan="4" height="48">
<h6>Comment:</h6>
<h5>THE standard matroska creation and editing tool, all recent builds
- supports the new lacing method, so make sure to have a recent splitter.</h5></td>
+ supports the new lacing method, so make sure to have a recent splitter.
+ The GUI is called mmg.exe, since 1.6.0 it is coming with a nice
+ installer to make things easy for the user.</h5></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="cellhighlight"><strong>VirtualDubMOD</strong></td>
- <td>1.5.10.2 b2542</td>
+ <td>1.5.10.2 <font size="-1">build 2542</font></td>
<td>2006-02-21</td>
<td> <a href="http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/">Homepage</a> |
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889&package_id=69373">Download</a>
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