DVD Backup & Video Encoding Blog http://www.dvdclonepro.com/blog DVD Copy and Conversion News Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 en Future looks bright for Crystal http://www.dvdclonepro.com/blog/future-looks-bright-for-crystal-902 http://www.dvdclonepro.com/blog/future-looks-bright-for-crystal-902#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:00:08 +0000 admin News http://www.dvdclonepro.com/blog/future-looks-bright-for-crystal-902 Future looks bright for Crystal
Tacoma News Tribune - I m donating some to the church so we can work on our multimedia equipment and make our sound system and our CD and DVD recording ministry working more excellently. My hope is to have a totally cordless environment. Outside of that, I m

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Minneapolis Star Tribune - His most recent addition was a DVD rental machine, after he noticed the neighborhood had no video stores. Since the beginning, Java J’s has hosted shows for local artists and displayed their work; the shop also has been the site of retirement and

Let’s close our wallets until the new DVD format is settled
AZCentral.com - Remember the Betamax-VHS battle of the 1980s? Companies couldn’t agree on a standard for videotapes, and a lot of us were stuck with obsolete products. Well, here we go again. With astonishing amnesia, the consumer electronics industry has two

27 Dresses is a Can t Miss film
MSNBC - The anniversary DVD includes commentary by director Norman Jewison as well as Steiger, Lee Grant and cinematographer Haskell Wexler, plus a peck of featurettes. This is a film that, after 40 years and considerable progress in race relations, still

120 essential pop albums
Daily Telegraph - The bonus DVD isn’t bad either. Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill (1986) With producer Rick Rubin showing Led Zeppelin’s power-chords the same exemplary disrespect Page and Plant had once shown to generations of elderly bluesmen, this

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Helluva first post ……………

HR-S9800u problem
Darn…..still the same problem! Any other suggestions :(

Reaper 2.031
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.

which dvd recorder
Divx and Xvid are very similar. If you use a Xvid encoded with the same settings as a Divx that works on your player, you should have no problems. Some converters like AutoGK can use either codec and output Divx player compatible output. I copied this from a post about encoding settings that aren’t usually compatible with most set top Divx p…

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One of the video clips I have plays upside down in the Windows Media Player but it is fine when played in Media Player Classic.How can I fix it in the WMP? I have windows xp+sp2

FAVC 1.06
All-In-One DVD Converter. A GUI for several different free video tools. Accepts one, or more, avi video files and produces a ready-to-burn dvd folder (and an iso if required). Output can be either PAL or NTSC and most of the work is automated. Subtitle support(srt, hardcodec and switchable). Very little input is needed and the applications used are optimised for speed. QuEnc is used for encoding.

Vista home - Unlock HL-DT-STDVDRAM GSA-T20L
get anydvd and let it run in the background. or this may work on vista, it works in winxp. right click on the drive/properties/hardware/select drive/properties/dvd region tab/select new region. you get a limited number of changes then it locks in. Tried the second idea, Region 0 does not appear to be available. You have to change it …

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Denver Post - The A- (Excellent) rating applies to American Strategic Insurance Corp, ASI Assurance Corp, and ASI Lloyds. For further information, please see http://www3.ambest.com/frames/frameserver.asp?site=press&tab=1&altsrc=14&altnu m=&refnum

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Tech Dirt - Beta, VHS, Laser Discs, DVD, Blue-ray, HD for the movie industry. Since a CD has no copy protection, and neither does a DVD, why should downloads be any different? The industry is so focused on pirates that they

Over 2.7 million Blu-ray players sold
TG Daily - However, as a bonus, I got a Blue Ray Disk Player. Some are saying my BD player doesn’t count. Well, it’s in my living room, and the player has supplanted my old DVD player as my DVD player of choice, now including the playing of Blue Ray DVDs.

FastMac Announces 4x Blu-ray Burner for Pro Macs
Mac Observer - That is the question! I almost purchased its predecessor before I learned that it couldn’t play blue-ray movies. I’m not going to spend a dime on that drive until they add the ability to also play HD movies on my Mac.

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WTOP Radio - Hart; photographed by John Mathieson; edited by William Steinkamp; music by Mark Mancina; production design by Michael Shaw; produced by Richard Barton Lewis. A Warner Bros. Pictures release. Running time: 1:53. MPAA rating: PG (some thematic

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Ars Technica - This wouldn’t be the first time that extra layers of copy protection have harmed legitimate consumers: earlier this year Sony had to recall 20 DVD titles protected with ARccOS that caused problems on some DVD players. When Paramount recently

]]> http://www.dvdclonepro.com/blog/new-blu-ray-discs-with-bd-drm-failing-to-play-on-some-devices-895/feed/ Using Canopus ADVC110 to copy DVD http://www.dvdclonepro.com/blog/using-canopus-advc110-to-copy-dvd-894 http://www.dvdclonepro.com/blog/using-canopus-advc110-to-copy-dvd-894#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:40:40 +0000 admin News http://www.dvdclonepro.com/blog/using-canopus-advc110-to-copy-dvd-894 Using Canopus ADVC110 to copy DVD
You’d use it no different than any other analog device… No reason why it shouldn’t work. Having said that I’d try ISO buster on the DVD’s.

eac3to 2.14
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.

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CNBC - The company was immediately ordered to stop making and selling wireless CDMA products in the U.S. that were found to infringe Broadcom’s ‘686 video encoding patent. Qualcomm said separately Wednesday it has launched new chips and expects to have

Tests: Vista SP1 worsens HD, network speed
MacNN - The software is notably faster than its six-year-old XP predecessor in general performance on a new quad-core Xeon system, besting the earlier OS in CPU-heavy tasks such as video encoding as well as 3D tasks. However, the Vista update is also shown

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