Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
In particular the 3 I use are the XPCodecPack, The Real Alternative, and the Quicktime alternative. They use the opensource Media Player Classic, which if you have not tried is an amazing no nonsense player.
These cover the major codecs, and the alternatives save you from needed realplayer which wants to hijack everything, and quicktime which is just a slow piece of crap that does not even allow fullscreen without paying.
Nobody here using VLC Media Player? It plays literary everything, even without codecs installed. Try it out guys, and you'll never need to install another codec __________________
The version of VLC I use is nice, but doesn't play everything, there are some files it won't open. And besides, the interface lags, when I press stop it stops about half a second after I pressed. __________________
Well, I don't give a shit really, but Quicktime and Realplayer sucks ASS! I see it as a bad omen, when game previews are released in any of these f**ed up formats. Any gamedeveloper with a little selfrespect would choose wmv, to not hassle people! __________________
WMV is a proprietary format from Microcrap, a lot of people don't like it (including me). I'd say they should use an open, widely supported format like MPEG or some kind of MPEG 4 (this includes DivX). __________________