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A) My friend who works at HP also spent quite a while searching for audio / video codecs, and he was just using one OS, I'm using 2. And I wasn't finding just codecs, I was finding codecs that actually made movies watchable (i.e. I downloaded VLC first but when that didn't work is when the search began, especially considering that I barley use Windows as it is).
Did it ever occur to either of you to go to the Matroska page? I dunno.
About five seconds of searching turned up with their dl page with comments on players and codec packs/splitters/etc, which are all available for dl from one page.
Just because someone works at HP doesn't make them magically be able to use the internet.
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B) Your argument would make sense IF MS / Apple did not link to 3rd party software from their websites. However, they have
some (in other words: not all that one would need) codecs / software / plugins made by 3rd parties available for download directly or linking from their websites.
Explaining the way the world works to you is going to take me longer than I care to devote to this topic. Sorry. MS, to the best of my knowledge does not link to say, Apache, Debian, Sun OpenOffice, or Mozilla Firefox to name a few examples, from their page (as far as I know) Because their in-house products COMPETE with that of the above mentioned open source projects. Matroska is an open source file envelope that is an alternative to MPEG, AVI, Quicktime, RealMedia, and etc. Not just some codec or standard file format.
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Since you are so much better at searching the internet than I, perhaps you can find a solution as to why when I connect the laptop via HDMI to my Sony 60XS955 TV all the way on the left side of the screen there is a perfectly straight 1/4 black bar? I.e. instead of the screen filling in to the end of the left side there is a rail-thin black line, which does not occur when watching digital cable via HDMI or DVD's.
Don't even need to search the internet for this one. Your picture is slightly off center due to some weird frequency or pixel size command flaw or signal lag in PC to TV that happens with some but not all computer hardware. (could be a number of things, doesn't really matter) Being slightly off-center, you are seeing the "hard edge" of the actual image itself, which you normally don't see. IMMSMC, it's called the "overscan" area and it's usually not displayed. On my television remote , I can just press L or R on my directional pad to adjust the image left or right during normal image playback (not in a menu setting) and it only affects that one particular input. Yours might be in a menu. I don't know. Let me know if that solves your problem chief. If not, I'll actually try to find some menu walkthroughs for you.
