Stardock Central Video demo

Reply #1 March 14, 2003 6:17 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Nice demo, excellent idea. At 36.4Mb DSL only though!

Will we see more demos for other proggies? A lot of people will find this useful.

Reply #2 March 14, 2003 6:25 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Nice. Are You using a cam to record it or are there any decent programs that can record desktop action in a proper way ?

Reply #3 March 14, 2003 6:53 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah nice Demo No problem with a Cable connection

Reply #4 March 14, 2003 7:05 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

great

I think it is the sound that has the size up like it does. should be able to compress the sound downand the graphics a bit, if not done already, also have it as a multipart zip in smaller chunks so dialup can handle it better...

just a thought, probaly late to the gate too

Reply #5 March 14, 2003 7:20 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

oh, Macromedia Authorware might help get the size of such things down a bit, mnewest version might even work with compiled flash? might be worth a look

Reply #6 March 14, 2003 9:45 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

I was trying to see how clearly I could do the desktop. I wasn't concentrating on size.

As long as you're doing 800x600 or higher there's always going to be the issue of having it squeeze the resolution down for the video.

Reply #7 March 14, 2003 11:10 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

looks good and also informative

also opens up thoughts of possibilities for streaming tutorials or down loadable ones, maybe in the future...

very cool...

Reply #8 March 14, 2003 11:13 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

oh, I was meaning the download size, on 1.5 mbit dsl it was zoom zoom

dunno how a 56k dial up reaching for at least a 43 - 48 connetion would be like

Reply #9 March 14, 2003 11:58 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

One thing nice about WMV is that they do seem to stream well.

Reply #10 March 15, 2003 12:17 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

extremely blurry but larger than your last one that I seen for Toon XP (I myself would rather have smaller and clearer than bigger and blurry)

neat to see this in action on vid

Reply #11 March 15, 2003 12:40 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'll second Doreen. Spoiled by Gamespots High Quality vids.

Reply #12 March 15, 2003 1:04 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

I wonder how Gamespot does it then.

The issue is that the screen is 800x600 or higher, but obviously the video is going to be lower res. I'll have to look into it.

Reply #13 March 15, 2003 1:20 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

looks to me to be flash or the new director mx saved in flash

Reply #14 March 15, 2003 1:52 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Is Stardock Central up and running now? I can't log on for some reason.

Reply #15 March 15, 2003 2:04 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Never mind, got it!!!

Reply #16 March 15, 2003 8:38 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

OK, I don't got it! Keep getting the message "Logon Failed" It won't let me update anything.

Reply #17 March 15, 2003 12:21 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Codec install error on Win2k. (WMP 6.4) Probably only works on XP.

Reply #18 March 15, 2003 12:48 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Insert in prior post.

Reply #19 March 15, 2003 1:00 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

bordfryr123 : See thread 'Stardock Central' for a possible solution of Your problem.

Reply #20 March 15, 2003 1:55 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

ok. Trying to get some help "over there" but still not able to log on.

Reply #21 March 15, 2003 3:08 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

bordfryr123, have you entered you registration info into SC?

i was able to log in fine yesterday, but today i am also getting login failed. so i suspect the stardock server is having a bad day. given it is currently saturday, it might take a couple of days for someone to get back to work and fix it.

Reply #22 March 15, 2003 3:56 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hi Feline, T-Man gave a link to the latest version of SDC, 091. Now it works fine. Thanks!

Reply #23 March 15, 2003 10:02 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Brad, is there any of the streaming media servers that handle SVG ? I was thinking that if the did, it would really be great because it's all numbers, and the quality would not degrade in the least and it would stream alot faster raw like that than compressed...

anyway, just kicking the can around...

Reply #24 March 16, 2003 1:02 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

very cool...this is going to be a great tool!!

Reply #25 March 16, 2003 8:59 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Flash MX could be used to create onlie tutorials with menuing system and all, just like a local CBT