DVD Backup & Video Encoding Blog

Software, operating systems and more: Windows - Virus and spyware problems: Please can someone help with my HJT log
Latest post to a thread “Please can someone help with my HJT log” has been made by hilu at 20 September 2007 06:41

Home theater: Digital TV (DVB) discussion: tsop
Latest post to a thread “tsop” has been made by jimpage at 20 September 2007 06:42

RCA to USB
USB is purely digital, RCA is analogue. You would need some form of digitiser in between to convert the signals. I don’t believe such a beasty exists cheaply. RCA-USB does exist for encoding for the PC, but you can’t use these to get video into your camera.

SageTV 6.2
SageTV gives you more features than any standard Personal Video Recorder without subscription fees. Its also the only PVR solution for the PC with a full-screen Interface for live TV viewing and video (or music) playback on any PC on your network! HDTV Support.

Workers made to walk the plank
This is Wiltshire - IT was like a set from Hollywood movie Pirates of the Carribean at a Trowbridge mobile phone firm today. Employees at Virgin Mobile on the White Horse Business Park have donned patches and parrots to take part in an international Talk Like a Pirate

DVD-Hunting Dogs Find Pirated Movies in Malaysia
KWWL - The U.S.-based Motion Picture Association loaned them to the Malaysian government to help wipe out piracy and movie pirates. They uncovered DVDs and machines used to burn discs. Raids netted 26 people. The pooches were so good at their job that

Could audio watermarking could help make MP3s free?
Australian PC World - A technology mostly associated today with crackdowns on music and movie pirates could instead be used to help make multimedia content free — and file-sharing legal. So claims a small Seattle firm, Activated Content, which appears to be the leader in

Unlocked iPhones highlight DMCA absurdities
Ars Technica - Should the company release its tool (in either open- or closed-source versions) into the wild, stopping its spread would be impossible; one need look no further than the recent AACS key fiasco or the DVD industry’s attempt to bottle up DeCSS to see why

Infinite Loop
Ars Technica - There’s even a copy of the DeCSS and AACS code , thoughtfully submitted by Make magazine. We may see more art appear as more artists find out about the site, and I’m hopeful that someone will create giant pixel drawing of Steve Jobs or a slide show of

Infinite Loop
Ars Technica - There’s even a copy of the DeCSS and AACS code , thoughtfully submitted by Make magazine. We may see more art appear as more artists find out about the site, and I’m hopeful that someone will create giant pixel drawing of Steve Jobs or a slide show of

Unlocking the iPhone could invite DMCA suit
Australian PC World - Movie studios have successfully sued Web site operators for distributing the DeCSS DVD-copying code, noted Carole Handler, an IP lawyer with Foley and Lardner LLP. The unlocker of the iPhone who posts code online could be held liable for secondary

Coupon Hacker Faces DMCA Lawsuit
Wired News - But Coupons Inc. argues the coupon hack is no different from cracks like “DVD Jon” Johansen’s program DeCSS . Scores of companies contract with Coupons Inc. to release a limited number of coupons for each product. If somebody cracks the code and

Digging in
Open Democracy - In 1999, the Hacker Quarterly published a program called DeCSS that could crack the encryption code that prevented DVDs from being played on “unauthorised” machines. DeCSS was created to fill a gap in the market, because although DVD player programs

xvid support on 360?
Digital Spy - From one of the links i saw earlier it mentioned updates to the 360 this fall one of them was xvid support. Has anybody heard about this? does this mean we should soon be able to play our xvid/divx movies on the 360 I think it was only support for

YAMB 2.0.0.8
Yet Another Mp4Box GUI for windows, create, split, join, multiplex, demultiplex MP4 files. Features: Mux Audio (aac, mp4, mp3, vorbis…) & Video Files (mp4, mpeg, vob, ogg, avi…) with subtitles and chapters support. Split/Join mp4 files. Extract some tracks from AVI files or raw/mp4 streams. Have some infos about your files.

QuickTime Alternative 1.90
With this package you will be able to play QuickTime movies without having to install the offical QuickTime player. Works good with Media Player Classic(included).

Comskip 0.79.100
Comskip is a free mpeg commercial detector. It is a windows console application that reads a mpeg file and analyses the content based on a large amount of configurable parameters. After analysis it generates a file in various possible formats containing the location of the commercials inside the mpeg file. The formats include input files for interactive video editors (VideoRedo, Cuttermaran,…) command line video cutters (mpgtx, mencoder) and video players (zoomplayer, mplayer.

ProgDVB 4.86.5 / 5.10.3
ProgDVB allows you to watch Digital Television and listen to Radio channels directly from satellite by using DVB cards with hardware decoders on the board, SAT-dish, and personal x86-compatible computers.

iTunes 7.4.1
iTunes is a digital media player application for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the content on Apples popular iPod digital media players.

Comskip 0.79.100
Comskip is a free mpeg commercial detector. It is a windows console application that reads a mpeg file and analyses the content based on a large amount of configurable parameters. After analysis it generates a file in various possible formats containing the location of the commercials inside the mpeg file. The formats include input files for interactive video editors (VideoRedo, Cuttermaran,…) command line video cutters (mpgtx, mencoder) and video players (zoomplayer, mplayer.

Flash 9 a Multi-Codec ‘Moviestar’
InternetNews.com - Version 9 now includes enhancements that allow playback of files encoded and compressed with H.264, which is based on the now popular video encoding known as MPEG-4 ( define ). MPEG stands for Motion Picture Experts Group. In association with the

61% of Americans unaware of DTV transition
Advanced Television - digital media infrastructure market, recognising its early provision of MPEG-4 technologies and solutions. It also received the 2006 Frost and Sullivan Product Innovation Award for its work in the field of video encoding

HCbatchGUI - New Tool (batch processor for HCenc). Development Thread.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/hc under other info.

Mini Guide: Normalizing Audio for Multiple AVI files
Sorry about that… Mirror http://www.savefile.com/files/847228 Thanks so much for your work Soopafresh, I was pleased to find a command line solution and it worked well for me. I modified your code a bit - couldn’t see what mencoder was doing in the lossless batch file so removed it (and it worked fine for my files) as well as removi…

Samsung DVD-V6700 (US) make them multi region ?
A greetings to All, do I see that there is a new one post based on this model, have they found some solution for this model?, do those that have had the possibility to prove the firmware, unblock the region and does it activate the function of reading VCD?. in case somebody finds it fact, please it could share the information?

VisualHub 1.27
Easily convert video to DVD, iPod, PSP, TiVo, AVI, WMV, FLV and back again.

Wireless video transmitter and Wifi
hi, I have a Wireless video transmitter to send the tv signals to my room. All was working for a couple of years but now, some people in my neighbourhood have installed some crappy Wifi routers. Now, I can’t use my vide transmitter. The pictures is always scrambled or full of noise. It only works fine during the night (when the rou…