DVD Backup & Video Encoding Blog

Working RV670, Phenom system pixellated
The Inquirer - AMD s only stumbling block could be Video Encoding that utilises SSE4.1 as somehow Intel has really pulled something out of the hat on this one and I am not sure SSE4a that AMD has will be quite up to the standard. But then again if the Ati side of

Real World Computing
PC Authority - of tabs that you can click through step-by-step to configure the rip. There are some other good special-purpose frontends like PSP Video Converter and Simple iPod Video Encoder as well, but I haven t yet found a great general-purpose video encoding

Streaming Networks Extends the Functionality of Its iRecord
dBusinessNews.com - iRecord uses H.264 video encoding technology, which combines high picture quality with smaller files sizes. iRecord can store up to three (3) hours of video in as little as 1 GB of storage. MP3 and AAC encoding are supported for audio recording.

New Internet Video Delivery Platform Bridges the Gap between
Forbes - To guarantee the above, mDialog licensed video encoding technology from Apple, and has gone on to become one of the first in the web video field to adopt the more advanced h.264 standard. As a result, mDialog’s video sharing service is completely

Movica Beta 6.3
A graphical editor for Windows Media (.asf, .wmv), MPEG files and FLV files. Select or delete multiple portions from a video file. The system lets you copy, paste and fine tune the selections. Also supports joining of video / movie files. Requires .NET Framework 2.0.

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

Which to buy "Blueray or HD DVD"
In sum, I’m waiting for a recorder with ATSC/QAM tuner and HDV IEEE-1394 input that also plays both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Netflix rentals. Well the only reason why i’m asking this question is because i have nexflix, so getting the DVDs is not an issue (cost wise). After doing more research it seems both formats are the same quailtiy wise, b…

DLNA Interoperability Guidelines and Media Formats Adopted as IEC
dBusinessNews.com - MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV and others for video. This standard provides an extensive list of broadly-used format profiles for image, audio, and AV formats, as well as introduces the notion of mandatory profiles, supported by all devices, as a way to provide

Online Television Turning Into a Scavenger Hunt
Washington Post - NBC has been mum on the exact specifications, such as resolution and encoding, beyond acknowledging that the shows will be WMV files with digital rights management protection. The company has revealed that the offerings will be similar to the files

KidCaster (37)
KGMB9 - Acceptable formats include WMV, MOV, MPG, MP4. KGMB9 will select five children between the ages of 4 and 12 to do the weather, LIVE during Sunrise on KGMB9 during the month of November. Submitted tapes, DVDs, and electronic files become property of

Wolverine Offers 160GB To Go
Twice - Video playback is in the motion JPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-4, XviD and unprotected WMV 9 formats. It doesn t support playback of authorized video downloads transferred from a PC. It s available through brick-and-mortar and online retailers, including J&R

Start Building Your Own Web Applications via Popfly
Softpedia - social network, enabling the hosting, sharing, rating, commenting and even remixing of materials. The public beta of Popfly can be accesses via Firefox 2.0 or IE6 and higher and delivers support for JavaScript, Ajax libraries, HTML, XHTML, CSS, WMV

Comskip 0.79.110
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.

Mpeg 2 video captured via Beyond TV play back question.
Can you fast forward other mpeg2 files in wmp ? If you can I would try “fix” the mpeg with Videoredo using the quickstream fix. If not you probably have some mpeg2 decoding problems, try change to another one using windows dvd decoder checkup utility http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DE1491AC-0AB6-4990-943D-627E6ADE9FCB

DGMPGDec 1.5.0 beta8
DGMPGDec DGIndex is an MPEG2 decoder suite. It is used to decode MPEG2 streams from such sources as DVD VOBs and Blu-ray, captured transport streams, dvb/digital/hdtv streams, *.mpg, *.m2v, *.ts, *.m2ts files, etc. Based on DVD2AVI and MPEG2Dec. Can also demultiplex to video and audio files.

Home theater: DVD players: DVD Hook up
Latest post to a thread “DVD Hook up” has been made by ZoSoIV at 25 October 2007 08:27

Movica Beta 6.3
A graphical editor for Windows Media (.asf, .wmv) and MPEG files. Select or delete multiple portions from a video file. The system lets you copy, paste and fine tune the selections. Also supports joining of video / movie files. Requires .NET Framework 2.0.

PC hardware: Other PC hardware: Official Gecube x1950xt Thread
Latest post to a thread “Official Gecube x1950xt Thread” has been made by abuzar1 at 24 October 2007 19:37

Avi to Ac3 1.0.4.2
AVI TO AC3 takes the audio from avi and avs files, extracts it to uncompressed wav, then converts them to dvd ready AC3 audio. Requires Avisynth.

Avid ’s .dv to dvd chapters & audio issues
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Are SOme Flash Movies Protected From Capturing?
AWESOME! Orbit grabbed it first time, no hassle!

DVBcut 0.5.4 r93
dvbcut is a Qt application that allows you to select certain parts of an MPEG transport stream (as received via Digital Video Broadcasting, DVB) and save these parts into a single MPEG output file. It follows a keyhole surgery approach where the input video and audio data is mostly kept unchanged, and only very few frames at the beginning and/or end of the selected range are re-encoded in order to obtain a valid MPEG file.

Announcements: News discussion: OiNK, a private torrent tracker, gets raided
Latest post to a thread “OiNK, a private torrent tracker, gets raided” has been made by goodswipe at 24 October 2007 15:45

Consoles: PS2 - DVD backup discussion: pro evolution soccer 2008 dnas ps2
Latest post to a thread “pro evolution soccer 2008 dnas ps2″ has been made by Prepel1 at 24 October 2007 16:03

Stanley Miller II
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Click of Milwaukee - Stan I’ve been caught completely unguarded with this new HD DVD versus Blueray DVD discussion. HELP! What, do I need to replace my five year old DVD player now in order to play the latest releases? How much financial pain am