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Toshiba shows off HD DVD and LCD at CEDIA
At the CEDIA (Custom Electronics Design and Intallation Association) Expo Toshiba is announcing two new 1080p LCD televisions, as well as third generation HD DVD players.

need mpeg audio codec?
What do you mean by “it has no sound”? Where are you trying to play this–a Settop DVD player? If so, maybe your settop doesn’t support MP2 audio (quite possible with NTSC models). However, a PC software-based player has MP2 audio usually built-in to stock Windows installs–shouldn’t be a problem. What’s your “playback chain”? What are your …

Tevion 8001
it doesn’t support my USB harddrive but it support my friends

Pioneer DVR-107D mistakes certain DVD+R/DVD-R discs as "blank CD"
I too would reccommend replacing the drive but your problem may be the combination of your drive and the media you use. You drive may be marginal in operation with that maker’s media.

Problems converting files using either mencoder or ffmpeg
This was taken directly from some website that was for converting any file to a dvd spec file… I believe a gentoo wiki, actually. Well, you certainly might be right about the out of spec, because it is the audio that is the problem using that mencoder script and trying to make a dvd… As for the output, it always outputs as an mpg…. -…

Sony restocks 60GB PS3 online
Late last week, Sony responded to demand by restocking the 60GB version of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console on the Internet. After completely selling out its online supply, the company decided to replenish..

Help Fitting Videos on CD…
one advantage is that the videos are not high quality to start. Unfortunately, that’s a dis advantage. Specially if it’s shaky hand cam material. Eats bitrate like h*ll. /Mats

Is It A DMCA Violation To Tell People To Delete Some Files From Their
Tech Dirt - This violating feature must be removed immediately from all operating systems, and replaced by a mechanism where the user must submit a request for deletion to the RIAA, MPAA, BSA, ASPCA, FBI, CIA, and PETA. Then

Not just another teen movie
Shelby Star - To our readers: Classified Advisor Amy Mills loves movies so much that she spends her weekends taking in the newest DVD releases from Blockbuster. This week she watched the teen suspense Disturbia. Name Of Movie: Disturbia MPAA: Rated PG

Yeas & Nays: Wednesday, Apr. 18
San Francisco Examiner - Rima Al-Sabah, wife of the Kuwaiti ambassador; and MPAA chief Dan Glickman. Some say that television is the cheapest form of therapy, quipped Glickman. Wow, this is a roast, Wentworth replied before roasting Glickman back. Upon taking the

Industry Voices
Twice - While Jack’s MPAA legacy may be the movie rating system, greater copyright protection or even a world leading motion picture industry, I see even more. Jack’s near biblical humility lead him to reach the heart of his opponent and touch it deeply and

Adventure, Rated PG-13
OregonLive.com - Charles Vess; photographed by Ben Davis; edited by Jon Harris; music by Ilan Eshkeri; production design by Gavin Bocquet; produced by Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Michael Dreyer, Gaiman and Vaughn. A Paramount Pictures release. Running time: 2:05. MPAA

Bratz pack
World Magazine - Bratz earned a PG rating from the MPAA for “thematic elements” the MPAA’s catch-all phrase but the rating doesn’t give the full story on just how insidious Bratz can be. Boston Globe reviewer Ty Burr sarcastically advised parents to rent a copy

Simple yet good…
Grab gspot first to asses internals are correct length or simple joining could lead to audio alignment problems .

Software, operating systems and more: Windows - Software discussion: how 2 copy game dvds and cds
Latest post to a thread “how 2 copy game dvds and cds” has been made by johney69 at 3 September 2007 05:04

audio precede video..
What is the video format in question ?

MediaCoder 0.6.0 3866
MediaCoder is a free audio/video batch transcoder, putting together many excellent audio/video softwares from the open source community into one friendly GUI. On video side, MEncoder, ffmpeg are used as back-end, which provides support for nearly all known video compression and container formats as well as rich and useful video filtering features (e.g. post-processing, 3D de-noise).

Samsung YP-M1 Portable Media Player
CNet - Compatible video formats are MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, AVI, and WMV. JPEG and BMP images and TXT files are also viewable on the device. The YM-P1 works as a video recorder as well, so you can record directly from your TV and unprotected DVDs. And you can

Open Source Goes Mobile
Guerrilla News Network - Xvid, the open source video compression alternative to Divx, and OpenOffice.org, the essential M.S. Office competitor, are just two of the many open source alernatives available free of charge to users. By distributing the code freely and forming a

Long list of Vista bugs that will keep me off Vista
ZDNet.be Blogs - This might be caused with a bad interaction with the DivX and XVID CODECs from the K-Lite mega pack , but it doesn’t change the fact that I still need to be able to play those videos. Media Center can’t play DVD folder rips on the Hard Disk Drive

Convert YouTube FLV Videos to MPG or AVI
Softpedia - So why get through all this trouble, when you can easily download the file in Flash Video format (FLV), convert it into mpeg4 or xvid video with mp3 audio and watch it on your PC or even on your mobile phone? However, the standard ffmpeg package is

How to convert RM/RMVB to AVI or MPEG1/2
I managed to convert the RMVB file to DIVX except the original files dimension was 640 x 480 and the converted DIVX file is now 320 x 240. How do I keep the original dimensions.

Error: Can’t Activate Recorder. Try Resetting Camera.
Filmerit is pretty good at finding and removing what isn’t working. That said, transfer of DV is primarily a data transfer exercise, taking the data from the tape and parking it inside an avi wrapper on your disc.