Comments on: Steam Media Player available; Steam driver added and removed http://steamreview.org/posts/steammediaplayeranddriver/ Comment and discussion on Valve Software's digital communications platform. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:23:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: SteamDrv.sys: virtual filesystem - The Steam Review http://steamreview.org/posts/steammediaplayeranddriver/#comment-3958 SteamDrv.sys: virtual filesystem - The Steam Review Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:07:06 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=53#comment-3958 [...] filesystem March 16th, 2006 :: General :: 5 Responses This just in from Valve, relating to this recent post: The Steam filesystem driver is tool we use to have games see .gcf files as if they were just loose [...] [...] filesystem March 16th, 2006 :: General :: 5 Responses This just in from Valve, relating to this recent post: The Steam filesystem driver is tool we use to have games see .gcf files as if they were just loose [...]

]]> By: The Steam Review » Blog Archive » All-round platform update http://steamreview.org/posts/steammediaplayeranddriver/#comment-1428 The Steam Review » Blog Archive » All-round platform update Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:38:41 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=53#comment-1428 [...] The Steam Media Player launches the videos by default (a system’s default player can be used if desired), but as a wrapper for an unmodified Windows Media Player control it has the frustrating limitations of both preventing any form of streaming and being unable to read from Steam’s GCF format. This second point means extracting the entire video file to a Windows folder, doubling up hard drive usage as well as taking a significant amount of time for large files like the 346MB Zombie Movie. What stops the wrapper from using Steam’s new virtual drive? [...] [...] The Steam Media Player launches the videos by default (a system’s default player can be used if desired), but as a wrapper for an unmodified Windows Media Player control it has the frustrating limitations of both preventing any form of streaming and being unable to read from Steam’s GCF format. This second point means extracting the entire video file to a Windows folder, doubling up hard drive usage as well as taking a significant amount of time for large files like the 346MB Zombie Movie. What stops the wrapper from using Steam’s new virtual drive? [...]

]]> By: The Steam Review » Blog Archive » SteamDrv.sys: virtual filesystem http://steamreview.org/posts/steammediaplayeranddriver/#comment-1427 The Steam Review » Blog Archive » SteamDrv.sys: virtual filesystem Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:37:28 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=53#comment-1427 [...] SteamDrv.sys: virtual filesystem March 16th, 2006 :: General :: 3 Responses This just in from Valve, relating to this recent post: The Steam filesystem driver is tool we use to have games see .gcf files as if they were just loose files on disk (a virtual disk). It’s a great bit of software that lets developers quickly have their game up and running on Steam - this way Red Orchestra didn’t have to change any code in order to use the cache files, it’s just handled transparently for them. It’s only loaded when launching Red Orchestra (and in the future, other Steam games that don’t write to the Steam API directly), and doesn’t have anything to do with DRM. [...] [...] SteamDrv.sys: virtual filesystem March 16th, 2006 :: General :: 3 Responses This just in from Valve, relating to this recent post: The Steam filesystem driver is tool we use to have games see .gcf files as if they were just loose files on disk (a virtual disk). It’s a great bit of software that lets developers quickly have their game up and running on Steam - this way Red Orchestra didn’t have to change any code in order to use the cache files, it’s just handled transparently for them. It’s only loaded when launching Red Orchestra (and in the future, other Steam games that don’t write to the Steam API directly), and doesn’t have anything to do with DRM. [...]

]]> By: Andy Martin http://steamreview.org/posts/steammediaplayeranddriver/#comment-259 Andy Martin Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:25:58 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=53#comment-259 Woah... has anyone else tried running "smp " from the command-line? Has the rather interesting effect of fading your entire screen (HL2-style) to black, and then not playing the file. Hmm. Ah well, I'm sure it'll get sorted in the end, things usually do. Woah… has anyone else tried running “smp ” from the command-line? Has the rather interesting effect of fading your entire screen (HL2-style) to black, and then not playing the file. Hmm.

Ah well, I’m sure it’ll get sorted in the end, things usually do.

]]> By: Koraktor http://steamreview.org/posts/steammediaplayeranddriver/#comment-248 Koraktor Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:38:47 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=53#comment-248 lol ^^ Additionally I found several strings about the media feature of Steam in the steam_%language%.txt files. They are already translated in all available languages. So maybe this new feature isn't to far away now. lol ^^

Additionally I found several strings about the media feature of Steam in the steam_%language%.txt files. They are already translated in all available languages. So maybe this new feature isn’t to far away now.

]]> By: Andy Simpson http://steamreview.org/posts/steammediaplayeranddriver/#comment-247 Andy Simpson Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:35:01 +0000 http://www.steamreview.org/?p=53#comment-247 "SmpStats_PrivacyNotice" "Valve would like to collect some data from you that is not in any way linked to any other information about you, such as your address, phone number, purchase history, lifestyle decisions, pr0n surfing habits, etc. Don't worry - we're the good guys! Trust us. Really. And buy more games. MORE, damn you!\n\n Anyways, back to the data thing - can we send the information we've collected below to our servers to allow us to make better movies for your viewing pleasure?" \resource\vgui_english.txt :) “SmpStats_PrivacyNotice” “Valve would like to collect some data from you that is not in any way linked to any other information about you, such as your address, phone number, purchase history, lifestyle decisions, pr0n surfing habits, etc. Don’t worry - we’re the good guys! Trust us. Really. And buy more games. MORE, damn you!\n\n Anyways, back to the data thing - can we send the information we’ve collected below to our servers to allow us to make better movies for your viewing pleasure?”

\resource\vgui_english.txt :)

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