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Finished the wardrobe at last, doors on, shelves in, etc. The room's looking a bit bare now without clothes hung randomly about the place, I'm sure we'll soon sort that out.
Saturday shopped in Canterbury, and went out in Sandgate on Saturday night, for a change. A nice crawl of The Providence, Gate 28, The Ship and the little fish and chip shop.
Sunday finally got some use out of my little computer, I converted some new episodes of LOST. So now I can watch them on the train! Picture and sound quality are great, and it's even widescreen (with the little computer turned sideways). Too tired to watch them this morning, but SOON, oh yes. Need to get my DVD burner out of the old broken computer so we can watch these on the TV too...
Man it's cold today, I wish it was still the weekend.
pauly :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
good luck with converting them. i can assure you, if you want to author them properly, you'll need to put aside a good....errr....50 years....
mOOMINTRUDE :: 7 Nov :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
Can't I just get some software to handle all that? My DVD player can play data disks anyway, so I don't need to write them out with menu screens and things.
Or do you mean converting them for the IPAQ? Already done that, I found a good bit of software that takes AVI files, and resizes them. Important for the IPAQ as the originals would be too big to store, and the screen size is only 320 x 170 anyway.
pauly :: 7 Nov :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
yes, but unless your dvd player is proper bo, it wont have the right codec to play the avi's on, as most of them tend to need a xvid codec.
whilst you're right, there's software out there, i'm yet to find something which does it all, without needing the user to posess a phd in piracy...you need to work out your frame rates, your res, your ratios, bitrates, etc. for conversion to mpeg2, and it's often difficult cos the sources will be different and not all encoded in the same way. and i'm guessing your lost episodes will be in ntsc, which might need sorting out etc.
mOOMINTRUDE :: 7 Nov :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
A friend burned me a bundle of episodes onto a disk, and I can watch them with that, guessing I'll find it as easy. Also I'm a bit smart, so I'm sure to figure it out.
There has been some converting to do already, to get the filesizes down to fit on the IPAQ. To sort that I think I used virtualdub.org, nice and easy. I got that link form this handy tutorial.
pauly :: 7 Nov :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
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pauly :: 8 Nov :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
so what you're kind of saying is that you're much more smarter than me... :o(
mOOMINTRUDE :: 7 Nov :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
Having other people around to help. I'm not saying I can create a DVD that'll run on any player either, but I know mine is alright and can play just data disks, as well as regular DVDs.
pauly :: 7 Nov :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
Virtual Dub rocks and does most things you need it to, including rotating video images (handy if you've been using a Sony digital camera for video and then finding that everything's 90 degrees out when you watch it on your PC screen).
Also, unless you're converting the xvid file into a DVD VOB format (MPEG-2) then you shouldn't have to worry about whether it's PAL or NTSC. You're playing on your iPAQ and PC (or DVD player that reads XVID's MPEG-4 stream) so the players will sort out all the hard stuff for you ;o)
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