Ken Cox

DVD Recorders Do Double Duty New models add VHS playback and recording, hard-drive storage. Anush Yegyazarian, PC World Tuesday, January 13, 2004 see http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,...d,114274,00.asp I couldn't find where they would record from your tapes but tis a start as there are some links/urls in the article as well and yes i remember the 2 piece setups -- just had my Minolta vcr model MV - 500S re greased - records fine -- but playback poor -no camera tho'- i opted for the Minolta 1000 camcorder forgot to mention in the paper Feb issue there are some preliminary tests of the new 8x dvd recorders http://www.pcworld.com/magazine/index/0,00.asp Feb issue not on web yet ken

Jacques there was quite a few comments on this subject did try a search interlaced gives http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...lite=interlaced Igor basically said leave it on in PTE and TMPGEnc looks after itself if you have TMPGEnc set at it's default settings ken

Sandra welcome to the forum try taking the music out-- both tracks then add it again and see if it plays both ken

The best check is to go to known pages -- this one is varying shades of soft blue and pure white in the writing areas go to sites where faces are generally shown -- the UK daily http://www.thesun.co.uk/ has a wide variety of faces Periodically i scan in a known value -- in this case i scan a photofinisher's envelope -- when the scan is done i compare what is on screen as to the original and i set the curves of my scanner accordingly as Jim says you have no control over what settings are on other systems I have friend that is colour blind and i use him to test my cd's - he thinks they are great bottom line look for known values and adjust as necessary always please yourself -- you might have a slight bit of colour blindness ken

here is a start http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...t=ST&f=4&t=1350 and i tried to keep the tips in a thread http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...t=ST&f=4&t=1350 ken

Chan welcome to the forum you better study this section http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...t=ST&f=4&t=1408 copying by your customers has been brought up many times use the search function of the forum bottom line -- where there is a will there is a way in exe format in the video format it is quite a bit harder but i wont say it cant be done ken

Harry your svcd will be rencoded to vcd by ezcd so all is not lost i have better results if i make a vcd using a svcd file we are trying to put all video questions here http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index....php?act=SF&f=4 general p2e questions here http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index....php?act=SF&f=2 and comments on presentations here http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index....php?act=SF&f=3 ken

In this week's PCWorld's office letter there are a bunch of stuff on audio - -i got this link out that may interest you http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid...7,tk,sbx,00.asp ken

see http://cit.duke.edu/resource-guides/tutori...dio-longer.html lots of hits here http://ca-en.altavista.com/web/results?tlb...diting+tutorial ken

Jim i just ran across a descrption of what looks like might suit you -- dont know if it is still available tho' Toshiba 17" Satellite P25-S609 was 2799 usa funds ken

dvd media formats http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/DVDMediaFormats/ http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/S...0Tests&Series=0 ken

Jim also format your drives to NTFS ken

I think we are all getting some flicker i have gone to stores and in some cases have seen flicker - and this is even from hollywod studio dvd's it depends on the tv i think Stephen Lau's and other people's findings are worth studying i had a friend over the other day and he couldn't see the slight flicker from where he was sitting, then when we got up within 2 ft of the 29" -- he said well maybe he could see it and he told me i was worrying too much i think we are all being too critical - we dont have the equipment nor the software that the big boys have i have had better luck creating a svcd with tmpgenc, but letting the software ezcd or nero re encode it to vcd --- quite a few players will not play svcd -- i have 2 toshiba's sd3900 and sd 3950 - 1 bought mid summer and the other in Nov that wont play svcd. i lucked on to 2 that will play about anything -- citizen jdvd 3641w -- they were the cheapest of the lot and a Koss ks 3112 that will play svcd it is going to be a bit before all the bugs/quirks etc are worked out -- i am happy with what i am making -- could be better but we shall get there [as long as they still make disks for us to practice on] i am tempted to get a dvd burner but do not see the need as yet ken

Paul welcome to the forum if you made a menu with ezcd dvd maker or nero did you try pushing the "1" or "2" button on dvd player remote control ken

2 sticks of 512 ram or more ati all in wonder cw tuner and video/audio in and outs 2 hard drives as big as practical partitioned if you can - get the tray things so you can swap out hardrives and buy matching spare drives partitioned you want to be flexible a standard cd-r drive and either the sony or pioneer dvd drive that does all formats and the fastest processor that is out buy the case that you can see into c/w a 350 watt or bigger power supply mob that supports usb 2 and firewire the creative out of box sound system looks good ken

welcome Marie see http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index....php?act=SF&f=4 ken

welcome to the forum Photoman head over to http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index....php?act=SF&f=4 lots of tips there ken

DVD Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers) http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html http://www.dvddemystified.com/ ken

As we come across urls, maybe we could add them to this thread -- ken http://www.ulead.com/learning/video5/page1.htm http://www.pcworld.com/resource/browse/0,c...ortIdx,1,00.asp http://www.pcworld.com/magazine/index/0,is...iss,2105,00.asp

see http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ ken

Eric, you must remember that i encode with TPMGEnc, then do the rest with Nero -- so TPMGEnc has done the bulk of the work 18:50 1/08/04 using Ulead movie factory 2 with all default settings and stayed with the same exe as above exe = 9.65mb pev = 72.645 = encode time +- 27 mins vcd = 62.9 mb but am not happy with the show -- there are no screen pulsations but there are quite a lot of edge jagginess evident [but i do like the gui of the product-- like having a good retriever dog -- great pet but cant retrieve] so i would say, my best results have been to make a svcd mpg with tmpgenc, then make the vcd with Nero and let it reencode the files to make the vcd -- with this method you make the svcd mpg's once and can make up other disk's with different combinations of shows on the disc. btw the pev goes away the same as the avi/vid made by PTE ken

from http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...E=02&f=4&t=1408 Eric after reading your description i tried the following using the same exe -- create an avi with the sharpen and dvd boxes checked then encode a vcd then a svcd using the default settings of tmpgenc -- 2 properly named mpg's then using nero 5.5 and its default settings created a vcd i used the vcd mpg first then the svcd -- nero re encodes the svcd and then makes the combined vcd disc. i was having pulsations on the screen in the sky areas of the frames the pulsations are still there in the first section, but are gone in the second [re encoded svcd] section stats winxp home PIII 1.3 ghz 512 ram 1 gig min max page file[swp] exe = 9.65mb avi= 118.997mb vcd=116.825 mb-- 28 mins to encode svcd = 142.961 mb -- 33 mins to encode for experimetal purposes i then decided to make a "make believe dvd "-- burned the file to a cd-r to get some idea of time and file size --have no dvd burner used the same 118.997 mb avi and imported into ezcd 6 platinum the final dvd file size was 413 mb and 42 mins to encode wmp 9 will play it on the computor but none of my dvd players will play it:( will try it with a smaller file a different brand of disk. no luck with different brand of cd ken

Eric after reading your description i tried the following using the same exe -- create an avi with the sharpen and dvd boxes checked then encode a vcd then a svcd using the default settings of tmpgenc -- 2 properly named mpg's then using nero 5.5 and its default settings created a vcd i used the vcd mpg first then the svcd -- nero re encodes the svcd and then makes the combined vcd disc. i was having pulsations on the screen in the sky areas of the frames the pulsations are still there in the first section, but are gone in the second [re encoded svcd] section stats winxp home PIII 1.3 ghz 512 ram 1 gig min max page file[swp] exe = 9.65mb avi= 118.997mb vcd=116.825 mb-- 28 mins to encode svcd = 142.961 mb -- 33 mins to encode for experimetal purposes i then decided to make a "make believe dvd "-- burned the file to a cd-r to get some idea of time and file size --have no dvd burner used the same 118.997 mb avi and imported into ezcd 6 platinum the final dvd file size was 413 mb and 42 mins to encode wmp 9 will play it on the computor but none of my dvd players will play it:( will try it with a smaller file a different brand of disk. no luck with different brand of cd this info will be entered into my tips thread ken

Welcome to the forum Lambertus from a forum search see http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...88&hl=violation for a possible solution ken

Steven, likely you have already checked but just in case see http://www.nero.com/en/helptool/641.htm#o641 ken