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« Reply #25 on: November 02, 2009, 01:23:33 AM »
Quote from: 4wd on November 02, 2009, 12:47:57 AM
Quote from: MilesAhead on October 27, 2009, 08:42:24 PM
I'm pretty happy with my Philips dvp 5990.  For the price I can't complain.  The main things on my wishlist are:

Have you checked for alternative firmwares at DivXpert Firmwares ?

To me flashing firmware requires a major reason to take the risk.  I've experienced "instant paper weight" once. I don't want to go there again.
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« Reply #26 on: November 02, 2009, 07:37:38 AM »
Check your connection, sniff some packets when using Mediacoder.  His custom Firefox session loaded adverts a while back and he was almost removed from Sourceforge.  I have no idea why he would use a Firefox server setup to encode media.  Look in the Mediacoder directory and open the files with an editor, and monitor outgoing connections when you use it.
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« Reply #27 on: November 02, 2009, 02:09:37 PM »
Spyware issues aside, isn't it a transcoder anyway?  So not what you'd use for quality conversions(or maybe I'm reading something into the description that isn't there?)
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« Reply #28 on: November 03, 2009, 10:06:01 AM »
Quote from: MilesAhead on November 02, 2009, 01:23:33 AM
To me flashing firmware requires a major reason to take the risk.  I've experienced "instant paper weight" once. I don't want to go there again.

And my experience has shown me that you don't want to flash a Philips DVD player no matter what. In my model's case, later firmware updates removed features that never returned & with Philips DVD players you can almost never downgrade the firmware as the original stock firmware is never uploaded to their site.
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« Reply #29 on: November 03, 2009, 02:41:56 PM »
Yeah, on my list of "why aren't these features standard?" near the top would be, why can't you perform a firmware save?  Even better, the original should be in ROM or something so you could hold down some controls on power up and it would prompt you to restore the original firmware from ROM.  At least then as long as the thing had working hardware you could get back to square one.

But that might cost like $.03 per unit.  Sad
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« Reply #30 on: November 15, 2009, 04:29:42 PM »
Quote from: cmpm on November 01, 2009, 11:03:08 AM
This is free and works, although I use Pazera a lot.

http://www.oxelon.com/media_converter.html

cmpm, thanks for mentioning this nice one I hadn't heard about. Oxelon Media Converter conveniently works via context menu, and it can use four threads to take advantage of quad-core multi-processor systems. Thmbsup
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« Reply #31 on: November 16, 2009, 01:37:59 AM »
video conversion/modification always makes me feel lost - sooo many choices of codecs etc!

I have several times wanted to share a video taken with my camera but wanted to remove the sound track - have given up, lots of time wasted trying to find one tool that could remove the sound and would not end up with a file 10 times bigger than the original...

For example with virtualdub i did countless attempts with different settings to a)not lose too much quality and b)remove the sound. Results were... mixed

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« Reply #32 on: November 16, 2009, 01:56:54 AM »
You can easily user Super or MediaCoder and just uncheck the audio track for encoding. Encode to MOV with h.264 codec, commonly available, efficient and high quality. Or an MPEG4 codec variant.

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« Reply #33 on: November 17, 2009, 09:36:08 AM »
I almost never convert video files, which is why I haven't said anything on this thread until now, but I convert several audio files each day. For this, Media Coder is by far the fastest and the best - "best", referring to both sound quality and working stability.

Only the home version is freeware, the Premium version is $300 $299, but they can do the same!! The only differences are:

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If you are a cooperative user who needs serious use of the software for your business, we encourge you to purchase MediaCoder Premium. Comparing to the free version, it has following differences and features:

    * Un-interrupted large volume batch transcoding
    * No pop-up web pages
    * Higher priority response for bugfix
    * Custom splash screen
    * Technical assistance and support

One reason I am telling this is, that Media Coder also comes in a $300 $299 HD Video edition:

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MediaCoder HDV (Hi-Definition Video) Edition

High-definition (HD) video refers to video system of higher resolution than standard-definition (SD) video, most commonly at display resolutions of 1280×720 (720p) or 1920×1080 (1080i or 1080p). High-definition image sources include terrestrial broadcast, direct broadcast satellite, digital cable, high definition disc (BD), internet downloads and the latest generation of video game consoles. MediaCoder HDV Edition is specially customized and configured for encoding hi-hefinition video contents to several industrial standard video formats like H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4.
 
Key Features:

    * Transcoding hi-definition video contents in most popular formats to H.264, MPEG-4 or MPEG-2 in TS and MOV container (can support more if customer requests)
    * 5.1-channel AAC and AC-3 audio encoding, supporting mixing 5.1-channel audio by individual waveform/PCM files
    * Batch processing capability (customized process flow according to customer request)
    * Real multi-threading design, optimized for multi-core processors (over 90% CPU utilization on quad-core)
    * Easy-to-use user interface
    * More suitable for enterprise/massive production use (no popup web pages, no Firefox dependency for advanced settings access)

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
http://www.mediacoderhq.com/solutions/hdv.html
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