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Continue reading →: SHN: Lossless Compression
a little ludwig goes a long way: SHN. John points out that instead of using lossy Mpeg compression. Going to a lossless compression scheme like SHN might be better. Great point. With disk space so available, I’m already encoding at 320Kbps variable rate which is still 5x less than the…
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Continue reading →: PowerDVD Update
CyberLink Patch Files. Yet another update for the DVD player on my machine. For some reason PowerDVD works, but nothing else can play a DVD. Not Real, Windows Media Player or Interactual. Feels like a codec got blown away.
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Continue reading →: Windows XP ASPI Drivers
Adaptec?Windows ASPI Package. Here it is the current Adaptec ASPI drivers, so I can flash my DVD drive.
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Continue reading →: Nearly There…DVD+RW
DVDplusRW.org – Compatibility List DVD-Video Players. Well, I finally blew the DVD+RW as a test with MovieFactory. It looks decent, not great. Main problem now are the many incompatibilities with players. “Compatibility hacking for DVD Recorders”:http://www.dvdplusrw.org/resources/bitsettings_pc.html. My Toshiba 6200 needs a compatibliity hack, but the Sony DRU-120A drive I have…
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Continue reading →: DV to DVD or DiVX
Well, I’ve finally mastered the Video Explosion/VideoFactory tool and have a nice video, now there is the issue of how to get it out to the real world. It isn’t easy: * Sonic MyDVD. This has got to rate as one of the most ugly programs I’ve ever used. Main…
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Continue reading →: Naveen
a little ludwig goes a long way: Naveen. Proving once again, I don’t understand the law. Naveen Jain owes Infospace $200M or more dollars!
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Continue reading →: Jabber
Jabber Software Foundation: open instant messaging powered by XMPP. An open IM standard. Supposed to be pretty good according to Gary.
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Continue reading →: Wifi Hotspot Directories
Here are some of the top Google hits for wifi hotspot directories. Interesting to see the third tier actually building networks: * “Node DB”:http://www.nodedb.org/. Wireless node database. * PDAStreet: Software: Other Internet & Communications: WiFi HotSpot Directory. An Excel spreadsheet of access points. * “Riverwalk Directory”:http://www.makewirelesswork.com/directory.htm. Another directory. I think…
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Continue reading →: VideoFoundry can split MP3 and WAV
Sonic Foundry. After all that, it turns out that VideoFoundry/Video Explosion can strip out the audio tracks and produce MP3 or WAV files. It is buried in the custom render menu when you choose Make Movie. Not documented anywhere either. Sigh.
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Continue reading →: AVI Joiner
Divx Avi Asf Wmv Wma Rm Rmvb Fix Joiner – Download.com. Another utility program. This does fixup of various video files. Good for fragmented downloads. For me, this is most useful for various segments of AVI files that Video Explosion creates. I create one large file and then extract all…
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