Mars Beagle Lander, the truth!

Kenny_10_Bellys · Post by **Kenny_10_Bellys** » 2004-01-30 02:09pm

I had a spare hour at work today so I thought I'd waste it by making this little animation showing the Beagle marsprobe 'soft landing' on the surface of the fabled red planet.

http://www.axeman3d.com/beagle.avi

It's 417k and DivX format. Just for giggles

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-01-30 10:39pm

Why does everyone feel the need to use DIVX?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-01-30 10:53pm

because its a great codec?

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2004-01-31 03:11am

The thing doesn't play for me. It opens Windows Media Player and says I don't have the right decompressor.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-01-31 05:03am

Get the newest DivX, which should be version 5.1 or something.

It's the best of the bunch so far.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-01-31 05:04am

darthdavid wrote:Why does everyone feel the need to use DIVX?

Because it's good.

Kenny_10_Bellys · Post by **Kenny_10_Bellys** » 2004-01-31 07:36am

I used Div-X because anything else comes out at 2 to 4 times the size and no better in quality. Believe me I've done tests, encoding the same animation over and over in different codecs to check quality and size, and nothing beats DivX. I liked the older versions of DivX myself, the new one seems to rely on Xvid being present as well. If you have DivX and still get the codec error I'd suggest getting the latest DivX and Xvid codecs to sure it.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-01-31 02:37pm

darthdavid wrote:Why does everyone feel the need to use DIVX?

What do you think they should use? RealVideo? *shudders*

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-01-31 03:57pm

Uraniun235 wrote:
darthdavid wrote:Why does everyone feel the need to use DIVX?
What do you think they should use? RealVideo? *shudders*

No, silly. Standard MPEG with no funky codecs! It's simple, it works, and it'll play on anything you run it through.