DVD Backup & Video Encoding Blog

Applying myself
UV Cavalier Daily - How do I know they aren’t mocking my prose at this very moment and ripping up my application with glee and relief that they’ve ruined my chances? You see where the panic attacks are coming from. I guess if the internship thing doesn’t pan out I could

Car hits Dover residence, rips off natural gas meter
Times Reporter - Dover police said investigation is continuing into an incident of a car that hit a house on N. Crater Ave. early Sunday, ripping off the natural gas meter and damaging a gas line. Police were notified that a car struck the Michael Murray residence at

Iraqi Couple Finds Love Amid The Bombings
CBS News - A month ago, a series of blasts began ripping through their neighborhood. A Saudi suicide bomber blew up his car in a nearby shopping center. The next day, a blast shook an outdoor market. Methboub son-in-law Ali, a security guard between jobs, and

Home theater: PVR devices: Starview Sound/Picture not in synch.
Latest post to a thread “Starview Sound/Picture not in synch.” has been made by chrooney at 28 February 2007 04:00

Software specific discussion: DVD Shrink forum: Can’t copy saw 3
Latest post to a thread “Can’t copy saw 3″ has been made by chris0001 at 28 February 2007 03:53

EVO demux 0.623b
EVO Demux is a HD DVD Demultiplexer. It has a GUI and capable save all streams. It can read infos from XPL file or from the EVO. You can drag and drop the file, etc. Based on drmpegs EVOB demuxer.

ahsampoo shrink n burn, wanting to go to dvd
As a general (but not exact) rule, converting Divx/xvid encode material to DVD requires 3 - 4 times the bitrate (and therefore space) to maintain similar quality. So your 4GB of Divx/Xvid files realistically needs 3 - 4 (or more) DVD5s. If you are willing to do the conversions manually then you can look at options like half-D1 resolution, which …

DVD jukebox style player to play/manage ripped video_ts files ???
Looking a dvd jukebox player/management software to play the many dvd movies I have ripped to my hard drive. Similar to the in-demand or in hotel. Any thoughts? Thanks.

DV :: Converting Widescreen (16:9) to Regular TV (4:3)
Alright so to summarize, I’m going to create a Widescreen 16:9 project, capture my Widescreen 16:9 AVI files. Next I’m going to open my Full Screen 4:3 project, import the Widescreen AVI files - drag the Widescreen Clips to my timeline, drag the levels effect to the widescreen clips on the timeline - and then the clips should conform to 4:3. …

Consoles: Sony PSP - Mod and firmware discussion: After downgrading to 1.50, everytime I press button screen goes black
Latest post to a thread “After downgrading to 1.50, everytime I press button screen goes black” has been made by BeEdNo at 25 February 2007 22:30

Avi To Vcd
1st, VCDGear is only un-wrapping the MPEG form the DAT track, it’s not doing any re-encoding. You’re left with (nearly) a copy of the original MPEG used in the authoring app. (I say nearly, because (S)VCDs use MODE2 so there could be some data errors). Re-encoding will almost ALWAYS cause noticeable degradation. Going AVI->MPEG is re-enc…

repositing upsidedown video
You do not want to flip vertically. You want to rotate 180 degrees (or flip vertically and flip horizontally).

Google accused of aiding movie pirates
CNET News - Google is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, which was filed by a group of major movie studios against two owners of sites like EasyDownloadCenter.com and TheDownloadPlace.com. The sites allegedly sold software to help people search for movies

The Shadow Internet
Wired - Movie pirates get their booty from one of three sources: industry insiders, projectionists, or agents placed inside disc-stamping plants and retail outlets. “Half the kids in the scene work at Best Buy or Blockbuster to get their hands on stuff they

Solving DRM in the BitTorrent Age 
An anonymous reader writes “FiringSquad has a new article on DRM in the BitTorrent Age. They argue that the movie industry looking for “perfect DRM” should aim for the printed book model (people still buy books even though they can read them for free at Barnes & Noble). They argue that the missing element is that screenwriters are not marketed by Hollywood in the same way the book industry …

Personal Tech 
The Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro was online to discuss recent reviews and answer your personal tech questions.

HP TouchSmart IQ770 PC
PC Magazine - Speaking of the screen, the 19-inch widescreen (1,440 by 900 resolution) is crisp and clear with both 480p DVD and 720p HD WMV, TV, and DiVX content, but the lack of a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray optical drive is a drawback. Hopefully, later this year when HD

Genius on the Court
Wired - Its 4-inch, 480 x 272-pixel LCD is nearly twice as big as the video iPod s perfect for watching MPEG and DivX movie files from its 30-Gbyte hard drive. The player also supports MP3, Ogg, and AAC audio formats, has a built-in FM tuner, works as

GDiVX Zenith Player
PC World - If you’re having trouble playing DiVX-format video on your computer and you think your CPU may be the culprit, try this media player. Global DiVX Zenith Player uses fewer CPU resources than Windows Media Player, so if your movies have trouble staying

Peter Fader on the New iPhone and Matching Technology to Consumer
Wharton - The other kinds of formats that people like to use like Divx, for instance, just aren’t going to be supported. Another problem is that one of the great things about watching video on the iPod was the compression that they used — to make it relatively

Internet First Pirated HD DVDs Released
DailyTech - Something which is more likely is reencoding of HDDVDs. I mean very few people currently download full DVDs compared to 1/2 CD xvid/divx rips. So i think you can expect xvid/divx files at 720p resolutions. Similar to the new trend in TV shows.

Hackers find key to DVD piracy 
Some films in the new high-definition formats are being copied after software code is cracked. The much-vaunted anti-piracy protection on the next generation of DVDs has been cracked, leaving films in the new high-definition formats vulnerable to copying.