Video Recording/Playback/Editing/Converting/etc.

tabana wrote:I don't know what kind of DVD and burner you have, but for my part even thought my burner supports 1X to 16X, the blanks I have only supports 4x, 8x and 16x.

You can download dvd info. Put a blank in the drive and click it should tell you what kind of burn speeds it supports.

I'm not sure what kind of burner I have either, but when I have the time, I'll check out that download that you mentioned. THanks!

Anime Dad wrote:Yay cori! Keep it up, girl :)

It's such a good feeling to know I'm able to author my own DVDs. I wish I had stuck with it earlier because it's kind of fun. But I'll probably get bored of it in a week. :P

cori wrote:

It's such a good feeling to know I'm able to author my own DVDs. I wish I had stuck with it earlier because it's kind of fun. But I'll probably get bored of it in a week. :P

Short attention span, ne? :hehe:

I just set it up and let it do it's thing overnight :) Then I don't have to worry about it finishing.

Anime Dad wrote:

Short attention span, ne? :hehe:

I just set it up and let it do it's thing overnight :) Then I don't have to worry about it finishing.

VERY short attention span. :P

And I realize that the converting procedure takes about 3 1/2 hours to 4, so I don't really want to let it stay on over night. I figure as soon as I come home from work or later on in the night, I'll start it up and I can do one disc a night, which isn't so bad. :)

And yay! The Nemureru Mori series is complete. :victory:

cori wrote:And I realize that the converting procedure takes about 3 1/2 hours to 4, so I don't really want to let it stay on over night. I figure as soon as I come home from work or later on in the night, I'll start it up and I can do one disc a night, which isn't so bad. :)

You shouldn't feel odd about leaving your PC on overnight... I do it all the time when I run multiple encoding jobs... :)

I don't think I've ever posted in this thread before (mainly because i use a mac and therefore there's little help here for me) but last night I converted my first .avi file to a DVD format for Eve!

I can now burn in DVD format. Mind you, I can only do it for hardsubbed stuff. I still have to work on the soft-subbed stuff. :sweat:

Wynter wrote:I don't think I've ever posted in this thread before (mainly because i use a mac and therefore there's little help here for me) but last night I converted my first .avi file to a DVD format for Eve!

What program did you use?

Must've been a dedicated Mac proggy, ne?

I can now burn in DVD format. Mind you, I can only do it for hardsubbed stuff. I still have to work on the soft-subbed stuff. :sweat:

Do you have a desktop PC or similar available?

Wynter wrote:I don't think I've ever posted in this thread before (mainly because i use a mac and therefore there's little help here for me) but last night I converted my first .avi file to a DVD format for Eve!

I can now burn in DVD format. Mind you, I can only do it for hardsubbed stuff. I still have to work on the soft-subbed stuff. :sweat:

Cool! Maybe we can do a DVD trade as well?

bmwracer wrote:
Do you have a desktop PC or similar available?

I used iMovie and iDVD (mac proggys to the core lol). The good thing about them is that I can do while things with the menus.

I DO have a desktop PC! Well, it's my sister's, and it's on that that I do all my downloading, so it's available for me to use.

cori wrote:

Cool! Maybe we can do a DVD trade as well?

Yea sure! Only hardsubbed stuff I can convert right now. But I'm working on Soft subs. :sweat:

Wynter wrote:But I'm working on Soft subs. :sweat:

Like I mentioned to cori: VirtualDub and VobSub are the programs you need...

You can get them and other info/help/tools/etc. from VideoHelp.com: http://www.videohelp.com/

Wynter wrote:

Yea sure! Only hardsubbed stuff I can convert right now. But I'm working on Soft subs. :sweat:

Awesome! I'll PM you soon. :D

bmwracer wrote:
Like I mentioned to cori: VirtualDub and VobSub are the programs you need...

I'll have to try that out. But for now I'm starting out small.

Question for the tech savvy:

I have recently burned a couple of DVD-Rs (Taiyo Yuden) on my Sony burner and the disc looks fine after the process is complete but the disc will not playback on said burner....but i know the burn was successful because i played those discs in my standalone dvd player that can read .avi files. what do you think?

Wynter wrote:

Yea sure! Only hardsubbed stuff I can convert right now. But I'm working on Soft subs. :sweat:

go get ffmpegX, take a bit to set up, but it's what i use.

bmwracer wrote:
Like I mentioned to cori: VirtualDub and VobSub are the programs you need...

You can get them and other info/help/tools/etc. from VideoHelp.com: http://www.videohelp.com/

Okay! Next time I'm on the PC (hopefully tomorrow) I'll look into those! I don't need to convert stuff for myself, but I know I'm inconvienincing those I trade with. :puppydog: So I want to learn for them.

cori wrote:

>>awaits Cori's PM<<

krim wrote:

go get ffmpegX, take a bit to set up, but it's what i use.

Is that for a mac? Actually, I'll look it up! Thanks. :victory:

Tu_triky wrote:Question for the tech savvy:

I have recently burned a couple of DVD-Rs (Taiyo Yuden) on my Sony burner and the disc looks fine after the process is complete but the disc will not playback on said burner....but i know the burn was successful because i played those discs in my standalone dvd player that can read .avi files. what do you think?

Weird...

Can you see/copy the files from the DVD to the hard drive or is the disc unreadable on the PC?

tabana wrote:
Weird...

Can you see/copy the files from the DVD to the hard drive or is the disc unreadable on the PC?

unreadable....

Probably a rootkit. Tons of copy protection mechanism are known to install them. (DVDs, games, music CDs...) It's some kind of hardware wrapper that prevents you from copying the content. I don't know why it prevents the avi tho. Unless your burner is dying.

You can download RootkitRevealer to see if that's the case. It's free.

tabana wrote:Probably a rootkit. Tons of copy protection mechanism are known to install them. (DVDs, games, music CDs...) It's some kind of hardware wrapper that prevents you from copying the content. I don't know why it prevents the avi tho. Unless your burner is dying.

You can download RootkitRevealer to see if that's the case. It's free.

thanks man. i'll check it out :)

Wynter wrote:>>awaits Cori's PM<<

>>PM'ed<< :thumbsup:

And yay! The third time worked and now I'm 2 DVDs done with the series I'm working on (Tentai Kanzoku). One more disc to go and I'll probably start another series tomorrow. This is fun. :D

Tu_triky wrote:Question for the tech savvy:

I have recently burned a couple of DVD-Rs (Taiyo Yuden) on my Sony burner and the disc looks fine after the process is complete but the disc will not playback on said burner....but i know the burn was successful because i played those discs in my standalone dvd player that can read .avi files. what do you think?

That's bizarre.

What was the content of the material you copied? A movie? A drama?

bmwracer wrote:
That's bizarre.

What was the content of the material you copied? A movie? A drama?

Just a drama....i've burned hundreds of disc like this before without any problem. that's what struck me...you could burn the disc but not play it.