Hey there everyone-
I just wanted to let you all know about a piece of software I wrote quickly just to compare two videos side by side, so you can get a quick comparison of of something that might have come out of VirtualDub or TMPGEnc... (I wrote this because I couldn't find something that could do a side by side comparison)...
It simply has the engine of Media Player 6.4 embedded a few times to preview the video (so it can accept any format so long as it has the right codec)... And it'll try and keep the players in sync..
Nice. now i can compare files without opening two WMP 6.4 windows.
Hey i suggest announcing your program at the divx.com message boards as well as the doom9 message boards. I sure there are many over there that would find your program very useful.
Thanks for that. I've posted it to the Divx.com forums.. but doom9's server seems to be doing something funky with my registration info. (It reports that the server's too busy... try again later I guess)..
I don't mind. :)
I thought it might be an easy way to compare the results of different dvd-backups solutions.
i.e. DVD Shrink, DVD2One, DVDXCopy XPress, etc etc. ;)
Well, it seems that I'm finally getting around to improving Juxtapose..
Microsoft in their ever broad wisdom (heh) decided to replace the windows media player 6.4 control in Windows 2003 Server with Windows Media 9. And then all hell broke loose, because it means that Juxtapose needed a lot of new code to run.
[I'll keep this rant short]:
Windows Media 9 is a load of crap. And I shall never use it for anything. Ever.
With that in mind, I decided to abandon the Media Player route, and go straight to DirectShow, which, not only is it like 5 times faster than Windows Media Player 9, it's nice an flexible too.
I'm yet to get juxtapose fulling working on this new setup, but the alpha seems to be working great, (much faster on loading the videos), And hopefully, I'll have a release within the next couple of days. (Oh yes, and the video windows are now seperate from the main interface)...
What about comparing .vob files? A possible future feature? ;)
If yes, what would be great is the ability to start playing the 2 files at the same time. The procedure could be to first select the files and then use a common "Play" button. :)
As far as I can tell, VOB files can be decoded by the DVD filter in DirectShow, whether or not that means they can be played back, is a different matter...
(opens up juxtapose and tries to load a .vob)
Well, as much as I figured it didn't work with a decrypted vob file.
(googles)
Okay, I just found something:
"What you need is a DVD DirectShow driver so you can use a front end program to play DVD VOB files and DVD Titles. To date, CineMaster and Xing are the more popular DVD Engines that are released as DirectShow drivers."
(consults directshow)
Hrm. It can't find the necessary codec, and Windows Media player attempts to download it.
So that's your answer. If you grab a DVD DirectShow driver, it should, in theory, work.
Although I've never tried really, because AFAIK VOB files are huge for a reason - because the compression on them will never touch the quality of the video.
It would be a bit like comparing two uncompressed videos... But that's just my point of view.
The overlay window is missing quite a lot of it's original functionality (I didn't really have the time to reimplement it)..
(I'll probably redo it for the next release).
Notably Juxtapose is now a lot faster as well, because it uses the same engine for both windows, and it doesn't have to deal with windows media player at all ;)
I'd again, love to hear your comments about it, so that I can get an idea of the features you want for the next version :D
