windows media player upgrade

[paulears]

I wanted to view some video files on my edit machine - which doesn't live on the net, and is a nice stable system. Some of the forums I'm on were happy with version 10 - so I decided to upgrade it today. Guess what, it started to downloads version 10 - gave me a nice version 10 message and then downloaded version 11! It also validates against your copy of windows - which would be unpleasant for some people.

 

Anyway - I had a quick look and it's just a tad cleverer.

 

Now the question - can anyone think of a way to get the visualisations out as a DV stream. My editing software (Adobe) squirts out a firewire signal into a dv recorder. Is there anything anyone has heard of that will let me do this from a normal windows media player window?

 

I can make windows do most things, but I'm no expert.

[henny]

arkaos can spue dv out , link

 

its free for 15 days :** laughs out loud **:

[Olie]

You can do it with graph edit but for your purposes this would be the most complicated program in the world.

 

Have you also tried looking at Virtual Dub, if anything is going to do it for free I would imagine it would be this.

[paulears]

Thanks for all the help guys but you've all missed the point. Sure I could buy all sorts of software, but my question was can I get the video out from windows media player as DV, or even composite would do. No Arkaos or other visualisation devices - there is a very simple one in WMP that would be ideal for a 5 second insert into a project I'm working on. Scaling the monitor feed softens the edges just enough to ruin the effect - so that isn't an option. I'd rather hoped somebody had a plug in or work around - but everyone's suggesting things that won't work for me.

 

ta all

 

Paul

[AndrewR]

Do you not have a graphics card with a video out? Most now come with an S-Video output. (In fact I'm currently touring my laptop for video playback out of its S-Video port, and its doing a sterling job)

 

You should get a decent sharp image, just setup the video out as extended desktop.

[paulears]

Thanks Andrew - I've got a dual head matrox and another 'clever' card so I am running 3 monitors, plus the s-vhs. The snag is that the s-vhs output includes the workspace area, so I can't run the visualisation window full screen, it always has the surrounding 'frame' that I don't want - I can't find a way to disable this and have the visualisation full screen on monitor 4 output. The scaler I have can let me output just the section of the screen I want, but the quality drops.

 

So there is my problem - if the visualiser would let me switch to full screen, it would be fine, but this doesn't seem to work?

[Olie]

I think your question then is how to record the visualization from Windows Media player. By limiting your question to getting DV out of Media player you limited the possible solutions.

 

When I have had to do a similar thing in the past I have used a program called fraps. This allows you to record the DirectX output of the visualiser directly with no degradation in quality. Once you have captured it in fraps you can then use any video editing package to crop it and record it to your media of choice.

 

I hope this is what you want and I have not missed the point again.

[paulears]

No Olie - that's exactluy what I want to do - I'll investigate this one - thanks.

 

The DV option would have been simplest for me - apart from the usual monitor outputs, I also run out into a dv recorder - so my initial thought was that there would have been a quick and simple method - but doing what you've suggested is a pretty good alternative.

cheers

 

EDIT

 

Tried it and it is fine - works really nicely!

 

Moderation: Topic split as this one is now being resolved, thanks to the bump, but the two interlinked topics were getting hard to follow. See the other topic here