A pain on my butt the past few months on the last few revisions of VLC players is the problem of skipping back when playing Matroska (.MKV) files. The problem is when it catches a chapter transition, it would skip back to the beginning of the video or the previous chapters.

So far, possible solutions are to manually skip ahead or fast forward right before chapter change, or really, just use Classic Media Player (CMP). But I’m not into switching VLC and other player when playing my videos, so I tried to find another solution.

And I finally find a working work-around! The source is here: VideoLAN Forum

To quote,

After tinkering around with some settings, I found a work-around to the problem.
1) Preferences -> show all settings
2) Input/Codecs -> Demuxers -> Matroska
3) Untick “Ordered Chapters”

I’ve tested it with VLC 1.1.5 to 1.1.7. The last step is to restart the player once you save the changes, and you’re good to go! Thank you, gaz090!

Remember my previous post of “definitely waiting the most for BF3″? That’s because I was an avid BF2 player. Yessir, I was damn good at it. And I enjoyed it thoroughly. Best persistant FPS multiplayer of all time. The game has EVERYTHING – dedicated servers, jets, chopper, boats, tanks, buggies, huge map, 64-player rounds, and beneficial persistent progress. Love it. Can’t wait for BF3 for a graphic upgrade. Heck, they can re-release BF2 with a modified new engine and I’ll be allover it.

Well, looks like they went above and beyond on my expectation. Check out the video below.

Sure it doesn’t give out much, but heck, forget all other games. This is one game I’ll be playing for the next few years. No doubt.

As the previous post outlined, there are many good games coming out this year. One of the important one I forgot to mention is Guild Wars 2.

GW2 is the sequel of the popular Guild War MMO. It’s a massively-multiplayer online game that has serious storyline and gameplay structure, and to top it all off (since it’s an anomaly of the MMO genre) there’s no monthly fee. Yup, it’s all free.

To further reiterate the point that there’s no monthly fee, most gamers (including myself) will be mostly charmed by this single factor. Aside the obvious financial reason, the fact that there’s no monthly fee gives the freedom to the players to play whenever they wish and as long as they want. There’s no pressure on completing a certain quest now since you can do next month or next year. There’s no pressure on leveling fast since there’s no time limit for everybody, so you don’t have to rush just so you can play with your max-level friends… since they’re all taking their time any way. Sure some might argue, certain group of players are *hardcore*. They still want to level as fast as they want. Well, then I recommend looking for a different group to play! Don’t worry, with a solid game and no monthly fee, there will be a good stream of new players all the time. Look at the original Guild War!

Speaking of gameplay, I won’t explain it in detail, but check this out: http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/dynamic-events/dynamic-events-overview/

In an overview, questing is no longer a block of text. Grouping is no longer calculating who gets what kill and which loot. You see and hear what’s happening, and you take action. With or without (some better with) other players. And there’s permanent consequences on the world out of the result of such events.

Those two points combined, plus a solid graphic and engaging combat, I don’t see how Guild Wars 2 can fail the MMO community’s expectation.

Epic Video below:

Here it is. 220 days since the last post, it’s finally coming back again. No more excuses, just trying to pick up where I left off.

Apparently, the main reason I brought my attention back here is that I bumped to this certain blog that I made a post about before, and the blogger is actually kind enough to leave a comment here; it’s called Jakartass - one of the best resource out there to see an insider view of Jakarta from an expat point of view!

Another note is, 2011 seems to be shaping up to be a great gaming year for the PC. Some of the best ones that have been on my radar since last year is finally coming to fruition. Among all, the one I’m waiting the most is definitely Battlefield 3. Honorable mentions are the 14-years delayed Duke Nukem Forever, highly anticipated Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age 2, The Witcher 2, Assasin’s Creed Brotherhood, and, hopefully… Diablo 3. Yes, Blizzard is still wishing that it’ll make it this year……

That’s all for now.