SillyDog701 • The Really Quite Unusual Screengrabs Thread . . .

by **Antony** » Mon 30 May, 2005 10:57 am

dluchini30 wrote:I found some interesting glitches in Windows Media Player 10's Info Center View...

Don, you need to use iTunes.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Mon 30 May, 2005 2:25 pm

If you know how to fix this error message (mind you, reinstalling doesn't help), then I will.

"QuickTime failed to initialize. Error # %ld. \n \nPlease make sure QuickTime is properly installed on this computer."

The QuickTime codecs are still usable through the npqtplugin*.dll files, but NOT through the QTActiveX.ocx IE plugin. I can also use RealPlayer to play back QuickTime files.

Perhaps I will wait for iTunes 5/QuickTime 7 for Windows.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sun 12 Jun, 2005 10:46 pm

Here's what happens when you mess around with Netscape Browser 8.0.1 too much:

(resized from 1024x768, click for larger version)

Yes, that's right: The UI is missing.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Mon 13 Jun, 2005 5:57 pm

New from Windows Media Player 10's Media Guide... Let's try to find a video of The Caesars' Jerk It Out for free playback using the Media Guide.

Result 1, from Roo Media, and with a 300k stream:

"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. One or more codecs required to play the file could not be found." (thinks to self... they don't use the Windows Media codec on the Windows Media Guide? and what codec don't I have installed?)

Result 2, from Yahoo Launch, with a nice 300k stream as well:

"Windows Media Player encountered an unknown error. This can occur when another program or operating system component encounters a problem but does not communicate the nature of the problem to the Player."

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by **beanboy89** » Mon 13 Jun, 2005 8:33 pm

A few glitches that happened while I was playing NASCAR Heat.

Here, you can see a seam in the sky where two different two parts join together, but don't meet exactly. Then, if you see the outside retaining wall of the track, there is a lot of bloched colors. That's supposed to be a white wall with "Atlanta Motor Speedway" in black lettering.

Not sure why there is a patch of yellow on the infeld grass.

The track is not supposed to be a tie-dye color.

Also, the bottom two secreenshots were in practice mode; all the stats are missing from the gray boxes in the screenshot.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Mon 13 Jun, 2005 8:54 pm

I would expect such glitches from an emulator, but not from a native PC application.

The sky problem happens a lot in Nintendo 64 games that have a day/night cycle. In a lot of games, if you go to the center of the map, switch to first-person mode, and look up, you can usually see the axis that the sky rotates on. Wierd, eh?

Zelda 64 (but not Zelda 64-2)'s programmers were quite lazy with how they programmed the day/night cycle. If you manage to recreate the roadlessness that I showed a few posts back, if you switch to first-person mode and then look down, you can see the sun revolving at the bottom of the screen.

I tried this in a few Playstation 1 games (namely Final Fantasy) but was not able to get the same effect to happen. Perhaps because the PS1 has lower specs, and is easier to emulate?

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by **David Wonn** » Tue 14 Jun, 2005 3:18 am

"Since when does Windows 3.0 support this much RAM???"

Once again, I have a trick up my sleeve. The pic is legit, but I wasn't running Windows 3.0. Looks can be quite deceiving.

Some may remember that Windows 1.x - 2.x had MS-DOS Executive as its shell, later replaced by Program Manager in Windows 3.0, and ultimately superseded by the Windows Explorer we know today. Well, the MS-DOS Executive still existed in Windows 3.0. So I took it from Windows 3.0 and ran it in Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Surprise, it still works! Fortunately, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 fully supports and recognizes 512 MB of RAM. Hence the screen shot.

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by **Ron Williams** » Sat 18 Jun, 2005 5:31 pm

My computer was being slow and I x'ed out of a game. When I did I got this.

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by **TK19** » Mon 27 Jun, 2005 2:20 pm

Running Konfabulator 1.8.2 and 2.0.1 at the same time with both clock wigets open.

http://www.pix05.com/f/2kons9554.jpg

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by **Antony** » Mon 27 Jun, 2005 10:26 pm

TK19 wrote:http://www.pix05.com/f/2kons9554.jpg

Is that your kitten? How cute.

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by **TK19** » Mon 27 Jun, 2005 10:31 pm

Antony wrote:
TK19 wrote:http://www.pix05.com/f/2kons9554.jpg
Is that your kitten? How cute.

yea, I got him only a couple of days ago.

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by **TK19** » Wed 29 Jun, 2005 4:55 pm

DJGM wrote:How many media players does DJGM need . . . ?!?

In no particular order . . .

Windows Media Player 9 (Classic skin)

Windows Media Player 6.4

Quintessential Player

Apple QuickTime

Apple iTunes

Foobar 2000

Winamp 2.95

Sonique 1.96

RealPlayer 10.0

Sound Recorder

How is it that you have 2 versions of Windows media player open?

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by **beanboy89** » Wed 29 Jun, 2005 5:31 pm

TK19 wrote:How is it that you have 2 versions of Windows media player open?

They are two versions. Windows Media Player 6.4 is [tt]mplayer2.exe[/tt], and Windows Media Player 9 is [tt]wmplayer.exe[/tt]. You can even take another step and have a third version open, Windows Media Player 5.1, [tt]mplayer.exe[/tt].
Infact Windows Media Player 6.4 is included with an installation of Windows Media Player 9 and 10.

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by **TK19** » Wed 29 Jun, 2005 6:35 pm

beanboy89 wrote:
TK19 wrote:How is it that you have 2 versions of Windows media player open?

They are two versions. Windows Media Player 6.4 is [tt]mplayer2.exe[/tt], and Windows Media Player 9 is [tt]wmplayer.exe[/tt]. You can even take another step and have a third version open, Windows Media Player 5.1, [tt]mplayer.exe[/tt].
Infact Windows Media Player 6.4 is included with an installation of Windows Media Player 9 and 10.

How do you gfet an older version?

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by **beanboy89** » Wed 29 Jun, 2005 6:39 pm

TK19 wrote:How do you gfet an older version?

OldVersion.com has all the listed versions avaliable for download.

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