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Nebraska Furniture Mart Formally Debuts Sony Shop
Twice - Ricoh might have the solution with a development that will allow the recording of both Blueray and HD-DVD formats. Omaha, Neb. Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM) marked the official opening of a new Sony shop here yesterday with a ribbon-cutting

Gadgets Xbox 360 May Eventually Feature HD DVD Built-in
DailyTech - camp, and Toshiba also can use the fact its HDDVD player can play Xbox 360 games would be good for Advertising as well. Plus if Microsoft Integrates HDDVD support into the High-End units it could help as well. Personally I’m not going to go Blueray or

Acer Aspire Gemstone 5920G (302G20N)
Australian PC World - It will easily handle most commonly used programs, such as Adobe Photoshop, as well as video encoding and rendering applications. In other words, while it’s not quite a desktop replacement model, it will ably handle the majority of what you can throw

Is 480i the best an average Joe can hope for?
On every capture card card I can find, the best input they have is S-video. S-Video from what I’ve read cannot carry a 720×480 progressive signal. I can only assume the cards that capture with S-Video and produce a 480p file are applying an interlacing filter on-the-fly. I want to capture a signal that is not interlaced (i.e. component or hdmi/d…

QuickTime Alternative 2.1.1
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).

Post-conversion processing?
Is there any way to attach and applescript or other instructions to FFmpegX ? For example, after processing, I need to FTP the resulting file to a server and I would like to have this done automatically.

Kiss DejaVu Enc 2008.R02
Easily re-encode problem mpegs to DVD-complaint MPEGs or streams. Also works great as a batch encoder/ demuxer. New version (v2008) automatically creates a Cutterman project file (*.cfp) and a GUI for dvd author project file (*.gfd). Uses FFmpeg(encoder), Comskip(automatic commercial detection), DGIndex demux. Requires MS Framework 2.0.

MeGUI 0.2.6.1040
MeGUI is the most comprehensive GUI based ISO MPEG-4 solution. It suports MPEG-4 ASP (XviD & libavcodec MPEG-4) using mencoder, MPEG-4 AVC (x264) using x264 CLI or mencoder, (HE)AAC audio using BeSweet & Nero AAC encoder and MP4 muxing using mp4box.

MPEG StreamClip 1.9/Win 1.2b2
You can use MPEG Streamclip to: open most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; play them at full screen; edit them with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Trim; set In/Out points and convert them into muxed or demuxed files, or export them to QuickTime, AVI, DV and MPEG-4 files with more than professional quality, so you can easily import them in Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Toast 6 or 7, and use them with many other applications or devices. Requires Quicktime or Quicktime Alternative 1.81 installed.

Will There Be A New Bittorrent?
Tech Dirt - The RIAA/MPAA are attacking tracker sites. Trackers/DHT should be built right into the application. That’s what I liked about limewire’s interface. You could do search and download all in one GUI. Bit-torrent

Fraps 2.9.3
Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology. Realtime Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join the Machinima revolution! Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy!

Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal
Hindustan Times - Familiar elements from such DVD-rotated sportfests as Shaolin Soccer, Goal: The Dream Begins and The Replacement s are more of a bore than a score. Snore. Familiar elements from such DVD-rotated sportfests as Shaolin Soccer, Goal: The Dream Begins and

A different kind of family bonding: Bargain hunting
Philadelphia Inquirer - The Torres family secured a good spot in line by showing up at 1:30 a.m., then sent some members to Kohl’s where they picked up toys, watches, a portable DVD player and a griddle in a frenzied 4 a.m. shopping spree they said took only six minutes.

A treat for fans of ‘Galactica’
Boston Globe - And of course, “Razor” will soon be available on DVD.) For the benefit of the masses, here’s as quick a “Battlestar” background lesson as I can muster: Somewhere far away and possibly long ago, a race of renegade robots called Cylons launched a sneak

Weather doesn’t dampen shoppers’ zeal
Houston Chronicle - I just grabbed it and left, said Hall, who had come with a friend specifically for a DVD player discounted $30 and a digital camera. We scoped out Wal-Mart last night, so we made the rounds and will go there next. Kohl manager Mark Smith was

JJ DILLION TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW DVD PROJECT
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Q DVD-Author 1.0 RC3
Q DVD-author is a Linux GUI frontend for dvdauthor and other related tools.

What’s the time limit on a DVD?
Lord Smurf makes some good “technical” additions/corrections/opinions to my post, but it probably still remains that “the eye of the beholder” is the final determinant. You play with the “stuff” you have and decide how much quality degradation you can stand–if any–to put more on a disc.

How to burn a DVD with TWO (2) selectable set of subtitles?
Can anybody help me? I’m using a MAC OS X computer 10.3.9 (may upgrade to Leopard soon when money surface). I want to burn a movie I made to add to my DVD Resume, and need to add subtitles. I NEED to do it two languages. But I can’t find any software that let’s me do this the easy way. I have DVD Studio Pro (an old version maybe 2), but I…

DVD43 4.0.0
DVD43Free is a small, free tool that integrates into Windows XP/2000 and overrides DVD-Video copy-protection and DVD Region limitations.

TitleWriter 4.61
Titlewriter is a program to used to add DVD_TEXT, and (Re)Add Original or Generic Menus to Dvd Compiliations (Specifically designed for DVDShrink reauthored mode Compiliations). DVD_TEXT is almost a requirement for dvd jukebox players internal menu systems and only about 13% of commercial disks contain it. If you ever get a jukebox and havent been titlewriting youll find out what a pain youre in for.

eac3to 2.03
eac3to is able to convert E-AC3, TrueHD, PCM and DTS-HD audio tracks to AC3, DTS or FLAC. Converts E-AC3, TrueHD, PCM, DTS-HD and FLAC tracks to AC3/DTS/FLAC. Removes Dialog Normalization from AC3, E-AC3, DTS and TrueHD tracks. Extracts AC3 frames from Blu-Ray AC3/TrueHD tracks. Extracts DTS core from DTS-HD tracks. Applies a positive or negative delay to the audio track. Command line tool but GUI also available. Requires external audio decoders.

4 port capture card - avermedia lx5004 - not working correctly
Got it!!! - The Linux distribution I was using was kubuntu edgy, but I switch over to ubuntu feisty and the card works perfectly. In the /dev folder there are four devices and no symbolic links to any of them. 4dplane

High-Definition Players
PC Magazine - This move is expected to power Blue-ray sales tremendously. We expect Blu-ray and HD DVD movie releases to improve significantly as developers gain familiarity with iHD and BD-J, and as new audio and video compression tools become available. Blu-ray

The Future Is Now
MediaPost - The video is encoded in h.264, which is the codec used for Blue-Ray and HD DVD video. A few months ago I wrote a piece pointing out that digital distribution through the Xbox360 had allowed “South Park” to broadcast in HD — when Comedy Central is an

Baa-nefit to benefit Lamb Theatre
Sioux City Journal - There will be one Bingo game (called Lambo) played right after intermission for a Sony Blue Ray High Definition DVD player. Lamb Arts Ltd. presents a “Baa-nefit” musical performance, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 20 at the Orpheum Theatre. General admission is $25

Keys to Enjoying High Definition Television
WNDU - High definition DVD is currently locked in a format war between “Blue-Ray DVD” and “HD-DVD”. Each format is backed by major companies and at this time, they are not compatible with each other. But until the dust finally settles, and one format

Sony details first BD Profile 1.1 Blu-ray movie
TG Daily - We should have had a Blue ray disc with HDDVD features. Sony should have not been able to help with the featureset/hardware at all. They are gonna screw it up like they did with PS3. They again released a product based on higher specs with no