Before I start talking about football this week, let me just say how thoroughly disappointed I am in the Australian video underground.
Never mind that the first torrents didn’t show up until 48 hours after the matches were completed. I can live with that. What the fuck is x264? Why won’t it play back video in Winamp or Quicktime? And why is it so fucking impossible for me to find a straight answer from any of you message board people? Is x264 some kind of private club for you l33t h4x0r w4nk3rs or something?
It should not be this difficult for me to watch one bloody Aussie Rules game. Seriously. At the very least, the AFL needs a satellite package like NFL Sunday Ticket in America. I could get the entire Cricket World Cup on Dish Network if I wanted. But no, there’s just no market for Aussie Rules here, and so I’m stuck with trying to decode a file in some horribly obscure format that requires a computer science degree to use.
Seriously, the NAB Cup Grand Final went out in XviD and looked great. What was so wrong with that? Why do I have to dig around so much to find a way to decode these files into a format I can use?
2 responses so far ↓
1 Will // Apr 2, 2007 at 9:51 am
Try MPlayer for windows. Thing can play just about anything. oh… and |-|@>
2 Josh // Apr 2, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Try VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/), the swiss army knife of media players. And stop saying “bloody”.