Do y'all remember KVCD's from the early-mid to late 2000's that you used to be able to torrent?
How the frick did they fit full size movies onto 80 minute 700MB CD-R's?! Quality didn't look any worse then 700MB XVids to my young eyes.
Do y'all remember KVCD's from the early-mid to late 2000's that you used to be able to torrent?
(Also, I doubt professional bootleg groups used them - they just copied retail DVDs of movies and used their pressing machines to make bootleg DVDs - KVCDs seemed to be for amateurs to torrent who only had access to CD burners and CD-Rs).
>early-mid to late 2000
not retro
They were still releasing PS2 games in 2014, friend
It had half the resolution of DVD video.
If you watched it with a shitty DVD player connected to an old CRT through composite you might not notice.
I remember 700mb being a fairly standard size for a movie back in the early 2000s. Dont really know much about compression but that's how it was. I still have files from back then, copy of Cabin Fever is under 500mb and looks pretty frickin good.
I wonder if any spectrumy hero has some hoard of realmedia files from back then. Watching .rm trailers was kino
The compression was DivX or XVid and they were that size to fit on 700MB CD-R's. Tv shows were 175/350 depending if they were 20/40 mins long.
You mean VCD (MPEG-1) was half DVD resolution? KVCD's must have been even lower.
No. What kind of morons were burning movies to disc in mid 2000s? Were you downloading the torrents on dialup with a 300 baud modem as well?
Plenty, fella. My DVD player read DivX files.
My players read files from a server.
>To watch it on your tv?
Sucks you never managed to plug anything to your TV other than your DVD player. So happy you discovered /vr/ and can chat with people who actually managed to plug in other things.
>To make some space on your 40GB HDD?
Also sucks you were stuck with your daddys old laptop.
>To share it with friends?
Why would my friends want to wait for me to burn shit and give it to them when they could just download it themselves? Or did all your friends go to the same special school as you?
And thanks for showing me exactly what kind of morons were doing that silly shit. Much appreciated.
I'm sorry, are you like 50 years old? You realize most of us were like 10-12 years old in the mid 2000s? We didn't have media servers.
I'm sorry, did you lose your parents and grow up in some bizarro orphanage where they gave every child their own computer with a disc burner so they could download movies and burn discs all day. But they didn't have "media servers" so you had to play them on your personal DVD players.
That sentence doesn't make such sense, bro. Could you rephrase it?
That's the point, brolet. It's mocking the senselessness of silly shit moronic said.
most of who?
I dunno, people who browse /vr/?
Yeah I was just the only person in my middle school who could use a computer so I would burn stuff to sell/give to people. Not sure what is hard to conceive of about that scenario
>Why would my friends want to wait for me to burn shit and give it to them when they could just download it themselves?
Zoomers should get automatically banned from this board. What's this impulse with you all, to give your opinion about shit you clearly know nothing about? To impress who? Anybody who was there is going to know that you're talking out of your ass, instantly.
>My friends could just download it themselves"
In the early 2000s? Are you aware that on most people's connections, and with the very limited usage of P2P sharing back then, 700MB movies sometimes took 2-3 days to download if you were lucky with the seeders? Believe it or not, back then, most people weren't irony-poisoned, terminally-online, burned-attention-span morons like yourself, and shit like "I'm going to leave my computer on for 3 days straight to download a movie" was seen as weird, especially if you were a teenager living with their parents.
>Why didn't you just use a media server hurrrr
Yes, in the early 2000s, when connections were quick, everybody had Ethernet in their home outlets, and wifi was fast and reliable and not a piece of shit that failed 50% of the time and lost connection if you moved the router 10 cm to the right. LMAO
zoom zoooooooooooom
>"I'm going to leave my computer on for 3 days straight to download a movie" was seen as weird
it took me two weeks to download the deus ex 2 dvd with emule
2 full days for me to download AoE 2 lol and that was a direct download too
Worth it though, lads?
not really, deus ex 2 was the first game that showed me what my fx5600 was capable of, at that point I felt scammed, it was barely faster than my previous geforce 2
then I felt scammed by the game itself
Yes in my case, AoE 2 was fricking amazing even though I couldn't run it for quite some time because it required 32MB of RAM. Wouldn't even let you past the installer without it
To watch it on your tv?
To make some space on your 40GB HDD?
To share it with friends?
What the frick are you talking about
Kinda
SVCDbros, I remember
Nej
Being able to play digital media in anything besides your computer was such a novel concept to me back then, specially before DVD players with DIVX/Mpeg support became a common thing.
I remember the Dreamcast having a decent VCD homebrew player, I got a few episodes of dubbed Evangelion from a friend in some burned CDs along with a bunch of pirated games, they looked pretty decent and could fit like 3-4 episodes per disc. Way before that though, I got one of those I/O modchips for my fat PSX and the software on it would allow you to browse the contents of a game CD and play any FMVs if they were in "str" format. Eventually I found software online that could encode videos into that format and remember burning a few porn clips so that I could play them and fap in my room, lol. My computer back then was too shitty to even attempt encoding anything more ambitious like a full episod or a movie, but I wonder if that was a thing. Granted the way I was doing it wasn't very convenient, but I remember seeing shady standalone burned porn CDs specifically for PSX being sold at some convention. I wonder what the quality was like on those and how much you could fit.
>I remember the Dreamcast having a decent VCD homebrew player
GypPlay wasn't really a VCD player as you had to burn discs with the program files on it along with your video file. There was a chinese retail VCD player that had dongle protection which was eventually cracked, but it was a piece of shit anyway that would lose sync while playing. DCDivx was an even bigger piece of shit.
To be fair, the DC didn't really have to processing power to decode DiVX/XVid streams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Versatile_Disc
What do vcds have to do with games?
A child on youtube that I get my opinions from told me that I could become an interesting person by posting about it
You can play VCDs on Sega Saturns and Dreamcasts.
Shitrate encoding