Windows XP playing of VCD

Hi John, I do hope u get to watch the video - one way or another. I also think LowWaterMark is likely correct.

About this other minor point, my 2nd screenshot does have the R/H panel - when I right-click on certain WMP locations. Software-wise, I don't think anything is wrong with your player.

 

Yeow,

LWM is a superb person who makes his points in a very logical and intelligent manner. I have never been more impressed than reading his posts on a subject, he is so factual and logical. My admiration is beyond reproach.

My problem was that I thought that the CD-ROM disc player on my computer could accept any disc. Events have shown that it cannot.

What I do not like is people assuming that everybody is a PC specialist. I am interested but only up to a certain point. Life does not dictate that the only feature that matters is a thorough knowledge of computers.

There are other pleasures and I could make those who think I am a ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ on computers dissolve in a heap when confronted with my own particular skills in engineering.

Thanks for your comment.
John

PS - the funeral ? I have hooked up my CD player/TV/Set-top box to play the disc, so my computer aspirations have been consigned to the garbage bin.

John

 

Dear John,

I intend to answer any of your posts in any manner I please, within the bounds of the TOS, despite any diatribe you post targeted at me. You are free, of course to put me on ignore, if you can figure out how to do it. The mods and admin will likely rectify any steps I take outside of the TOS.

I have never considered you an ignoramus, I was not the first to use the phrase "waste of time" and if you had read my post #49 which was one of contrition you may have realized my post prior to that was simply a query of the real nature of the alleged VCD you were having a problem with.

I understand you don't seem to catch all the nuances in my posts or those of others so all I can say is try not to paint everything you read in a negative light and have a good day.

P.S. As I alluded to in post #49, it's not all about you, even when it's your own thread.

 

The O.P. is only now contrite in his assessments of his own knowledge because he's been self-outed in so many of his threads and posts.
So now he's the "poor and unnecessarily maligned victim".

Previously, he was self-described thusly:

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=275198

He was more than willing to offer advice and opinions on things of which he knew little to nothing, and took great umbrage to anyone challenging his knowledge or opinions, just as he now takes great umbrage to anything he thinly-skinned takes as a slight to him in any way-- such as your previous post.

He doesn't respond to my posts because he doesn't see them, having already added me to his 'ignore' list for having had the bald temerity to question his knowledge.

This is how he rolls-- post something he agrees with, and you're swathed in praise and lauded for your sagacity and great knowledge.
Disagree with him, his viewpoint, or his claims, and you're told how ignorant and senseless you are and added to his 'ignore' list.

When I now post in his threads, it's generally only to impart something which may possibly be of value to someone else who might happen to chance upon the thread.

 

Oh trust me, he sees them just fine. One must be logged in for the ignore feature to work, so Sensitive John is putting on a big play for us all when he carries on as if he hasn't read certain posts. His form of "shunning" is amusing, while at the same time very telling. It demonstrates how largely incapable he is of interacting in a constructive forum environment.

A very high percentage of Sensitive John's threads go down in flames, self-ignited by a man who divides membership as either for him or against him. He is a very poor advertisement for this forum. People who don't know the personal history see his antics and actually think people are being mean to him.

From what I have seen of this thread, from beginning to end, I am of the opinion that even a small amount of research on the OP's part would have given him the answer he needed.

The drama that he brings to the thread is unfair to the people who have taken the time to try to help him.

 

Apologies to all and to the OP - but I can't help myself and may or may not be punished.

He..he..he post #13 https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1697439&postcount=13

BTW There was a time when I also didn't really understand the salient differences between
a VCD SVCD etc. Was scared to ask anybody in the flesh, so joined Wilders.

 

We can all say the same. Not a single person on this Earth was born with computer knowledge already inherent in their brain.

Nobody knows it all, and there's not a thing wrong with asking questions, learning, and increasing knowledge.
The day I can't learn something is the same day I'd like to be laid in my grave.

There are also many different ways to go about the business of learning, many different ways to present yourself, and many different ways to interact with people.
Individual choices are made in those.