DVD Backup & Video Encoding Blog

Newbie needs advice on Capty MPEG Editor EX
I’ve had a good look through the forums but nothing useful has appeared. Provided I’m using the right search terms, of course…. I just invested in Pixela’s Capty MPEG Editor EX, having seen promises and reviews that it can do frame-accurate editing of MPEG-2 source material. Well, yes and no: it won’t let me set in and out points within the s…

ProgDVB 4.87.5/5.11.5
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.

Any Tivo to PC transfer experts? Got file transferred but corrupt?
ugh! Knew I forget to mention something! I did re-download but thru Tivo Desktop again. Noticed the problem yesterday. Re-downloaded overnight and found that it had the same problem this morning. So now transferring thru Firefox instead of Tivo Desktop. Of course, am at work and won’t be home for several hours to know if there is any differe…

ChrisTV 5.10
ChrisTV is designed for TV Tuners that have WDM Drivers installed. This software was also tested succesfully with Video Capture Cards with Video IN, on Webcams, on DVcam Capture and on TV Cards with VFW drivers installed.

Photodex Proshow 3.1.2018
ProShow lets you create amazing slide shows that play on your PC or TV. Create VCD and DVD slide Shows. Use ProShow to easily create stunning slide shows for friends, family, business, or just for fun! Just select your photos and drop them in the show. Add a custom soundtrack or pick from over 280 stunning transition effects to add that final touch.

Can’t copy VOB file?
That sounds more like an avisynth or AutoGK installation issue.

Tmpgenc requires a serious solution
Uh, two things I firmly recommend you to avoid are any of the TMPGenc 4.0 products (they’re no match for the older TMPGencPlus 2.5, which you can still buy and download for 38 bucks) — and stay away from de-interlacing interlaced originals. Rule 1: 3dos, you are using the wrong field order. Almost all interlaced video except DV is Top Field…

PiMPstreamer 1.0
PiMPstreamer is a realtime video/audio streamer from your PC to your PSP (Playstation Portable). Any format/size avi/mpeg/wmv/etc can be streamed without any delay. Now with an extra addition: any FLV capable browser/system can also use PiMPStreamer (including Wii or PS3).

Internet War: Hackers Strike Hard Against RIAA Ally
DailyTech - The group calling itself the MediaDefender-Defenders (MDD) has, as promised , struck again, this time leaking what appears to be the full, uncompiled source code to anti-piracy watchdog MediaDefender s toolset. MediaDefender’s software is used

Force10 Networks Names Loren Hillberg as General CounselLoren Hillberg
Consumer Electronics Net - Hillberg served as general counsel and general manager for the digital commerce initiative at Macrovision, where he was responsible for driving the adoption of key strategic business objectives. While serving as senior vice president and general

Disney to end Disney Mobile phone service
Los Angeles Business - St. Joe names president, executive VP [Jacksonville] Hong Kong discussing future of stake in Disney park [Los Angeles] Disney, KB Home strike deal on home furnishings [Los Angeles] Disney to launch site aimed at parents [Los Angeles] Macrovision

The semiconductor industry’s shattered supply chain must be
Chip Design Magazine - The best example is the FlexLM suite, a standard among EDA tools for software licensing from Macrovision Corporation. Where previously EDA companies would write a chapter in its user manual on its license manager, designers are referred today to

Motorola and Macrovision Announce Analog Copy Protection Technology
dBusinessNews.com - CHICAGO — Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and Macrovision Corporation (NASDAQ: MVSN) today announced a renewed agreement to make Macrovision s analog copy protection (ACP) technology available in Motorola s portfolio of set-tops. This collaboration

Videora iPhone Converter 3.05
Videora iPhone Converter is a free iPhone video converter that converts video files, YouTube videos, movies and DVDs so you can play them on your iPhone. The software, developed by the creators of Videora, can convert all types of video files (avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVDs, YouTube, etc.) into the proper video formats (MPEG-4, H.264) that play on the iPhone.

TSReader Lite 2.8.46
TSReader is a transport stream analyzer, decoder, recorder and stream manipulator for MPEG-2 systems. It supports DVB, ATSC and Digicipher II extensions to the base MPEG-2 specification

Consoles: Xbox - Software discussion: Softmod Installed! What Ethernet Cable do I buy?
Latest post to a thread “Softmod Installed! What Ethernet Cable do I buy?” has been made by chunkhead at 18 October 2007 09:40

If Womble is so great then why the shakiness of video?
Womble Video Wizard DVD can author. The standard Video Wizard cannot. Under normal circumstances, Womble doesn’t re-encode the video. However, it depends on what else you change as to whether or not it may be forced to. The symptoms you describe sound a lot like a reversed field order. Can you check the following for me. Open Womble and load …

Consoles: Sony PSP - Mod and firmware discussion: Very Strange Problem…
Latest post to a thread “Very Strange Problem…” has been made by ArmorRavn at 18 October 2007 05:13

Are High-End Systems Naughty or Nice?
Law.com - An external Blue-Ray disc writer for transferring data and watching video is also a nice addition. PRICING So what does a high-end system like this cost? If you go to one of the major PC manufacturers’ Web sites, you can custom-design a

Gadgets Wal-Mart Canada Sale Hints at New 80GB PS3 Price
DailyTech - Sony forgot the minor detail that people’s demand for a gamebox isn’t driven by Blue-Ray, isn’t about complex Cell CPU hype, isn’t about stunning graphics. Its about the damm game. That in stock WII sign I saw at Bestbuy was gone by Tuesday. That

Sony debuts 4x Blu-ray burner drive
TG Daily - burners always start out at slower speeds. My first CD burner was a 2X and took 30 minutes to burn a normal CD. My first DVD burner was 4X and took around 16 minutes to burn a standard DVD. Give it time and we’ll be seeing 8X and 16X blue ray

HD, rentals, P2P coming to Apple TV?
MacNN - Throw in the fact that you don’t have to deal with the messy Blue-Ray vs HD-DVD & you pay less for the downloaded version than for a DVD from Wal-Mart. Oh yeah, & you can play it on your iPod when you travel, purchase portable screens that attach to

Sony s PS3 strategy: Have your say
MCV - Okay yeah something like 60 new titles before christmas but the main selling point for the console when it was first announced was its backwards combatibility and blue ray player function So to me this has been as a big v sign to europe from the

Gadgets Nintendo Won’t Meet Wii Holiday 2007 Demand
DailyTech - Even a year after launch, the Nintendo Wii still remains a hot item that rarely ever stays in retail stock and comments from Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime indicate that demand will once again outstrip supply this holiday season

Recipient E-mail
DailyTech - Plenty of people, including my parents, have 15 year old TVs that they are perfectly happy with and that they use only with the DVD player and the antenna. In fact, plenty of people with 5 year old TVs are in the same boat because ATSC tuners haven’t

Magma Partners With Inovys and Source III to Ensure Interoperability
MSN MoneyCentral - Magma’s software for designing integrated circuits (ICs) is used to create complex, high-performance chips required in cellular telephones, electronic games, WiFi, MP3 players, DVD/digital video, networking, automotive electronics and other

World to plug into AC/DC
News.com.au - AC/DC are poised to shatter international sales records with the release of a definitive live retrospective DVD collection Plug Me In this week. More than 500,000 copies have already been ordered worldwide for the concert footage compilation which is

Our sexy superheroes
News.com.au - Hugh Jackman’s hairy Wolverine from the X-Men movies and Tobey Maguire’s portrayal of Spider-Man in the trilogy rounded off the top five. The poll was conducted to mark the DVD release of comic book adaptation Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Youtube Upload, increase quality/control
yes, tvc is crap. it’s not so difficult. try again. be specific about where you get stuck. gl

TmpgEnc Menu Confusion
Yes, DVD-Lab is an authoring app - not a converter. It expects you to have the assets ready in DVD format. /Mats

Reaper 2.0
REAPER is a powerful Windows application for multitrack recording and editing of audio. It will accept avi, mpg or wmv files & give you a video preview, thus enabling you to mix extra tracks in with your source audio!. You cannot perform any video editing within Reaper, but you can work on the soundtrack. You can edit the existing soundtrack, and/or add create new tracks and media items to be mixed with it.

Download the Latest Harry Potter Movie: Legally!
Misleading. It’s not “downloading” as most people understand it. It’s copying FROM A DVD to a media player. Something we can easily do already, though perhaps not legally. It’s just a slight loosening of DRM.