Courtesy of South Park: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcY9jp6mGts

ffdshow has support for Indeo 2 and 3 at the very least. This is based on the video format list in the configuration dialog box. I haven't got anything to test against but I have no reason to doubt it. Check it out - http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/ - open source and has support for Windows 7. There are also some 64-bit builds you can try.

Yeah, v4.2 is a joke. Inane ads at the bottom of your contact list and popping up near the top as well. All the ads aren't even promoting anything of value - it truly is crap like "Call your friends using Skype!"

Mod this guy up - I can't get over how many stupid pop-up windows v4.2 has. And the worst thing is that it's not even advertising that could be considered to be remotely useful. It truly is messages along the lines of "Call your friends now!" Ridiculous.

Not to mention a lot of NIC drivers let you specify your own MAC address.

Thanks for finding that list. A lot of good games and apps there. Like you, I was amazed that some games I played had an OpenGL renderer but defaulted to D3D (Deus Ex and Far Cry for example!) My argument is simply that there are enough good examples of OpenGL software. OpenGL just lost out to Microsoft's marketing.

What about all the stuff id put out? GLQuake (remember how much of a quantum leap that was over anything at the time with a 3dfx card?), Quake 3, Doom 3, etc...When you think about that, one does wonder if it's just MS and it's marketing droids that got Direct3D to where it is today.

I'm not sure how "[Biden] makes Palin look like an Oxford Scholar" can be modded insightful. I will agree that Biden makes the odd gaffe but he is unquestionably better informed. He has chaired senate committees on the judiciary and foreign relations which will have exposed him to a whole gamut of issues that Sarah Palin may not even have conceived of. Let's not confuse willful ignorance with an otherwise intelligent person getting caught with their foot in their mouth from time to time!

Disclosure: Note that I'm not American and don't have a particular interest in either the Republicans or the Democrats. From where I sit both parties do little to effect any real improvement over the status quo. And I think Obama has done little to back up his rhetoric of hope and change from the election campaign

Here in New Zealand just about every console/PC game, DVD and CD vendor has decided to refuse product returns due to the "risk" of piracy. I think you can still return a product if it is blatantly defective (i.e., bad media), but otherwise you are out of luck...so it's too bad if the system requirements on the back of the box are outright lies and your machine can't run the game, or if the copy protection doesn't like your DVD drive...

Anyway, there is one retailer (JB HiFi) who have signs all over their games section which state something to the effect of: "No game returns permitted. Your consumer rights are not being violated." I kid you not.