Leandro
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The high pitched noise is very easy to remove: it's an almost completely pure 7000Hz tone. You can clearly see it on the spectral view:
One single notch filter [7000Hz; -40dB; very narrow] gets rid of that. I also removed some of the background noise [there is a great 5-second sample of just noise at 15 minutes 45 seconds], but the SNR is so low that trying to remove more of it garbles the voices too much for comfort.
Here's the download link for this. It's a free host, ignore the premium stuff and click the download link at the bottom right.
Here's the spectral view afterwards, for comparison:
The sound is still very quiet; applying a hard limiter to boost the input by 10dB brings the voices out a lot more, but the background noise comes back with a vengeance.
And just in case anyone wants it, here is the file with noise reduction cranked to the max. It sounds like you're listening to it through a telephone, but it might be useful for making a transcript. The spectral view for this:
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This whole thing is silly. Videogames are entangled with a lot of other cultural things.We have comics based on videogames, we have movies based on videogames, we have music based on videogames. By association, the Batman 3 thread shouldn't be allowed to exist because there are Batman videogames. Lost has a videogame. EVERYTHING has a videogame.
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Quote:Hang on, I'll reply to it and discuss the related videogame Lost: Via Domus.Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
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Okay, so I just heard back from NCsoft support:
Quote:Since I'd already done that, I sent a reply saying:Hi Leandro,
Thank you for contacting NCsoft Technical Support.
Please try clearing your DNS cache. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Press and hold the Windows key and press the R key. This should bring up the "Run" dialogue box.
2. In that box, type "cmd" without the quotes, and click the "OK" button. A DOS window should open.
3. Enter the following command below and press enter: ipconfig /flushdns
This should clear your DNS cache. You may need to perform this command a few times.
If the issue persists your ISP may be providing old DNS information. Some ISPs take longer to update this information. You could also try using a 3rd party DNS service like those available at http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ or http://www.opendns.com/start/ . NCsoft does not support these services, but there is information on configuring them at those sites.
Please let us know if this suggestion does not solve your problem.
At this point I realized something... if it is a DNS issue, I don't need them to tell me the IP. I can just use an online traceroute to do that.Quote:Hello,
>Please try clearing your DNS cache.
This was the first thing I did. It didn't help. I also reset my router, and I tried with different computers.
>If the issue persists your ISP may be providing old DNS
>information. Some ISPs take longer to update this
>information.
My personal gaming computer uses Google's 8.8.8.8 DNS; the family computer uses my ISP's standard DNS; and I connected to a neighbor's wifi using my laptop with a different ISP. None of those worked.
If this is a DNS problem, tell me the right IP for secure.ncsoft.com and I'll modify my hosts file to connect to it until the problem is solved. It's currently resolving to 64.25.35.201.
I'm pretty sure the problem is outside my ISP, as evidenced by the traceroute I attached earlier, and also because there is another player in the forums suffering from this problem, here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showpost.php?p=3086123
Thanks for the reply,
Leandro.
So, four minutes later:
So, tech support helped, if not directly, at least they got me to think of how to make it work on my endQuote:Actually, I just used my head and traced the route to secure.ncsoft.com from a web server at http://centralops.net/co/
It identified secure.ncsoft.com as 64.25.35.101 -- so I used my web browser to go to https://64.25.35.101 and it worked.
I still can't access the site using its domain, but the IP works, so I'll make do.
I added the following lines to my hosts file and now everything's fine:
64.25.35.101 secure.plaync.com
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Often, I run Hamidon raids with everybody on /hide, to avoid the zone filling up and people DCing and being unable to get back in. I've found that a lot of people forget to turn off hide afterwards, and they only realize it because they can't get invites to teams afterwards.
Anyway, /seach will only return players online in your "side" of the game (heroes if you're playing blueside, villains if you're playing redside) even if you're in a coop zone. When Going Rogue hits, Praetoria will have its own population filter as well. So there's really no way to tell how many people are on the server at any given time; only how many are playing in a specific side and not hidden. -
Quote:ipconfig /flushdns was the first thing I tried when it didn't work, followed by restarting the router, then trying from my neighbor's open wifi. Looks like I'm out of luck for a while.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Have you tried flushing the DNS cache Leandro? It may be holding some bad data. It looks like something may be holding a bad route at the hop after it leaves the telefonica network.
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Quote:Not working for me. The link from plaync.com is to the same "dead" server as the one in cityofheroes.com and ncsoft.comOriginally Posted by Aggelakis
Start at plaync.com and then access the account/store/whatever from there. ncsoft.com is passing the wrong credentials and doing weird crap.
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I'm in the same boat as OP. https://secure.ncsoft.com is redirecting to https://secure.gtm.ncsoft.com/ and returning an error. This is not an OS problem, or a ISP problem: the tracert suceeds until it leaves my ISP, then dies.
Code:Compare with a trace to, say, Google:1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1 3 32 ms 34 ms 35 ms 172.16.0.1 4 34 ms 31 ms 34 ms router.cotea.com.ar [201.251.19.193] My ISP ends here. 5 36 ms 34 ms 35 ms 10.0.0.1 6 37 ms 41 ms 37 ms 76B-G10-V405.mrse.com.ar [200.51.235.21] Packets leave my country and head to Spain here. 7 34 ms 34 ms 36 ms So4-0-0-0-grtbueba2.red.telefonica-wholesale.net.10.16.84.in-addr.arpa [84.16.10.141] 8 198 ms 175 ms 169 ms xe7-1-2-0-grtmiabr8.red.telefonica-wholesale.net [84.16.15.86] 9 197 ms 221 ms 193 ms Xe-2-3-0-0-grtwaseq4.red.telefonica-wholesale.net [94.142.124.121] 10 194 ms 194 ms 192 ms Pccwbtn-0-3-0-0-grtwaseq4.red.telefonica-wholesale.net [213.140.53.22] Detour to Spain's servers end here. 11 * * * Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud. 11 * * * Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud. 12 * * * Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud. 13 * * * Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud. 14 * * * Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud. 15 * * * Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud.
Code:1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1 3 35 ms 34 ms 32 ms 172.16.0.1 4 36 ms 35 ms 35 ms router.cotea.com.ar [201.251.19.193] My ISP ends here. 5 34 ms 32 ms 35 ms 10.0.0.1 6 35 ms 37 ms 37 ms 76B-G10-V405.mrse.com.ar [200.51.235.21] Packets leave my country and head to Spain here. 7 38 ms 99 ms 40 ms So4-0-0-0-grtbueba2.red.telefonica-wholesale.net.10.16.84.in-addr.arpa [84.16.10.141] 8 169 ms 171 ms 177 ms Xe5-1-3-0-grtmiabr8.red.telefonica-wholesale.net.125.142.94.in-addr.arpa [94.142.125.142] 9 177 ms 171 ms 173 ms Xe5-0-1-0-grtmiana2.red.telefonica-wholesale.net.122.142.94.in-addr.arpa [94.142.122.249] Detour to Spain's servers end here. 10 169 ms 172 ms 190 ms xe-7-2-0.edge1.Miami2.Level3.net [4.71.212.41] 11 216 ms 217 ms 217 ms GOOGLE-INC.edge1.Miami2.Level3.net [4.59.240.26] 12 232 ms 204 ms 209 ms 209.85.253.74 13 328 ms 335 ms 329 ms 209.85.249.12 14 332 ms 332 ms 334 ms 216.239.43.38 15 336 ms 324 ms 325 ms 209.85.251.26 16 344 ms 341 ms 342 ms 209.85.251.6 17 323 ms 321 ms 320 ms eze03s01-in-f104.1e100.net [209.85.195.104]
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No, if I have a problem with a bad player, I make a note for that player and move on. Most of the time I don't even look at people's supergroup names; I don't know how well it applies to the global population, but I've found that a lot of players have their own supergroup or very small supergroups with close friends, in order to use them for storage. The old function of the supergroups (to find teams and chat with a large group of people) is being filled by global channels.
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Quote:That's not what I got from Support at all. I received "The server causing your issues should now be available for use. Please let us know if you are still having problems connecting in the future." and indeed, the problem was fixed by then.Originally Posted by Pyber
The only thing I've heard is that support suggests to "keep trying" and "try rebooting the game or your computer".
If you can't login, FILE A SUPPORT TICKET. They can't fix things for you if you don't let them know something's wrong.Quote:Originally Posted by B_Witchedso glad we pay for this. -
According to my support ticket, it's all fixed now. Next time you have issues, FILE A SUPPORT TICKET. The people in charge for fixing the servers don't look at the forums on a saturday night. You need to file a support ticket if you want them to know something's wrong.
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I can't login either. The one time I got through the login screen, all the servers appeared disabled.
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Any chance of the rules changing to allow worldwide entries once this comes back? This whole bit makes me sad: "(d) you must be a resident of the United States (excluding the State of Rhode Island, and excluding Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. territories, military installations and commonwealths), Canada (excluding Quebec) (Canadian residents will be required to answer an additional mathematical question in order to claim their prizes), or the European Union."
If the prizes were physical things that needed shipping I would understand, but forum titles and costume codes? I've been quite disappointed that I'm not eligible to participate in any of the games. -
Quote:Civilized answer to the question while pointing that the devs are busy with GR. Quick exit in an attempt to not get tangled in the thread's general doominess.Originally Posted by 2short2care
Demanding an answer from a dev about something done that most people wanted but me the 1% didn't. Demanding a redname post an answer to why it was done.
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Quote:When I'm bored, I follow them on an incognito window and give all fake information, such as username "no idiot will fall for this". A couple of times I've had the scammers email me back to say "you think you're clever, but we get thousand of accounts this way". While I won't take a scammer word's for it, I don't doubt that they get a lot of accounts; many people forget to bring their brains with them when they go online.Originally Posted by SiGGy
Only a complete and utter imbecile would click a link in an email like that, considering that everyone here is smart enough to be able to find the forums then I'd hope they wouldn't take an email like that seriously.
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In Brickstown you have the very large area that starts in a parking lot, and then you have the other underground area all the way East in the zone.
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I'm quite sure that the l33t trailer is there already (look at Neutra's videos), and I'll add the others as soon as I feel good enough to get out of bed. I've had a nasty viral flu of some sort for over a week now, and extended laptop usage in bed is not comfortable.
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Quote:You wouldn't have that problem if Leandro Pardini had won :POriginally Posted by DumpleBerry
Well, you have to post in here under your REAL names so we can congratulate you all.
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Phew! I just finished backdating all 78 videos so they show in the right order in the "recent videos" list. That was annoying, but it had to be done. Now I can start adding more without breaking the list.
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Done. In this post there was a link to the video, but since I'm considering on redoing all the posts to properly backdate them, that link would get broken. It's going to be rather annoying to re-do 76 posts, but it's only going to get harder as I add more videos, so, going to be doing that.
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Quote:Gibbain. I left them in there anyway in case he changes his mind and enables embedding later. Samuraiko, however, has two videos that use music from WMG and they disabled the videos entirely, so I can't even get their embed code.Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
Nice stuff, though one videographer has disabled embedding. Forget his name already, but did Daydream, tiki god, dance gun, etc.
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Added so far:
Ashcraft (17)
Gibbain (12)
Leandro (5)
NCsoft's Official Video (15)
OminousVoice (3)
Samuraiko Productions (19)
Vertical Studio (4)
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Quote:With what name should I credit you? Dechs Kaison like on the forums, Ace of Allan as no YouTube, or something else?Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
I approve this project.
*Shameless plug* Feel free to add my Dark Armor Sucks video to your compilation. -
Quote:They're YouTube embeds. Isn't that obvious? They say YouTube everywhere and link back to YouTube :POriginally Posted by Hyperstrike
One thing. Have you gotten permission from the video makers?
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Work in progress: http://cohtube.blogspot.com/
Just done loading all the official videos (except the 7-second dimension shift demo), I'll be adding Samuraiko's next and then looking at the threads for more videos, until every COH video is in one place.
Thoughts?