DVD Backup & Video Encoding Blog

Sony caught violating GPL
The Inquirer - Blue Ray? Somebody needs to check the Blue Ray copy protection code for Open Source snippets. They might just have invalidated the copyright on every disk they ship.

Holiday Tech Guide: Digital TV
Washington Post - Blue Ray vs. HD-DVD: I know when can buy an upconverting DVD player, but when is this war going to end and who is going to win? Phillip Swann: I think you will see a single format in 2008 due to pressure from the studios. Not ready to say which one

Can’t have more than 24 chapters on TMPGEnc DVD Authoring?
do you edit mark in and out for clips? Did you ever notice some clips not showing the menu?

2007- Year in Photographic Review
Softpedia - With a 7.2 megapixel 1/2.5-inch CCD-shifting imaging sensor and its slim case, together with the H.264 video encoding method for video clips, the V7 looks like an excellent camera for amateurs. However, you should check out some reviews before

Vigor Unveils Penryn Gaming desktop PC
GameSHOUT - Vigor gaming has announced a new desktop gaming PC based on Intel’s Penryn Core 2 Extreme Quad 9650 processor. Do you constantly dream of that ultimate gaming PC? Well it seems that many are constantly upgrading their gaming PCs to get that extra

Will the Middle Kingdom sinicise its latest barbarian invader?
CNET Asia - Gary’s partner Marc Vander Chijs just blogged that they are rolling out a new H.264 video encoding format , which means that you can expect higher quality vids coming from Tudou. I’m hoping that this means that we’ll finally see streaming in full

George Ou
ZDNet Blogs - SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) launched its first standardized energy efficiency benchmark SPECpower_ssj2008 this week which tackles something that the computer industry has struggled to define in recent years. With datacenter

Qualcomm hit with patent infringement injunction
VNUnet - The order imposes an immediate injunction on WCDMA products for the US market that were found to infringe the ‘686 video encoding patent,” Qualcomm stated. “Qualcomm today announced the availability of new chips that have already been sampled to

‘High School Musical 2′ takes its blockbuster status seriously
Newsday - The film’s DVD releases (the original and a two-disc “remix”) and CDs (soundtrack and sing-along) reportedly have sold at least 7 million each. Officially licensed products include karaoke discs, video games, novelizations, T-shirts, backpacks, lunch

With stats that pop, scout goes for salesmanship badge
Philadelphia Inquirer - don’t just read from a sheet.” Nearly 300 Boy Scout councils nationwide participate in the campaign. Seventy percent of the money raised goes back to local scout councils, to aid with various projects. Top-selling scouts earn prizes (from bikes to DVD

making a "music video"
You might want to open one of the VOB’s on the actual dvd itself with Gspot or Avicodec to get the FPS for sure….. It’s kind of hard to know what you are working with when you don’t have your location listed, or the version of the dvd, region, format, ect. Any program you import it in is prob. going to report it as what it actually is,…

Help: Sound only plays from left speaker
The file might be around 760 mb after you save it in direct copy because maybe only one channel was used to have higher bitrate for the video.Best to leave it the way it is if you want to stay at 700mb.

MediaCoder 0.6.0 3999
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).

Why DRM on Video Will Persist: DVD-CCA Targets Kaleidescape (Again)
Electronic Frontier Foundations - As everyone knows, CSS has been broken for years, and despite early lawsuits against products like DeCSS and DVD X Copy, easy-to-use DVD copying software remains available for free from many sources online (the print magazine MacWorld reviews one of

How to upgrade your home movies
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - While most VHS-to-DVD copying devices either do nothing else or use your computer to release your inner Martin Scorsese, a new Sony product tries to strike a balance among ease of use, versatility and creativity for non-tech types who want to keep

Using Inlet s Fathom, Amusement Park Media Achieves 80 Percent
dBusinessNews.com - APM, the studio arm of ADV Vision Inc., selected Fathom specifically for its Flash video encoding capabilities. This key feature helps APM create and deliver free, full-length episodic previews as a promotional tool for a new animated series for ADV

AviDemux 2.4
Video editor and encoder. It can edit, encode, requantize AVI, DivX, XviD, MPG, MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, DV, FLV. Very much like VirtualDub, but can also encode to VCD/SVCD/DVD mpg.

Samsung HT-TX75
Have you found a solution for that? I’m suffering the same

multiple AVI to DVD (definately resolved)
That’s a pretty good, albeit lengthy summary, paulhagstrom. Thanks. I agree with you about the subtitles. It’s a lingering question on my mind too. I remember when I tried experimenting with those, I always ended up with hard-coded subs no matter what I did. What I haven’t tried yet is to do the authoring as a separate step using the ffmpegx…