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General Software Discussion / Re: dvd players + video formats

« on: November 02, 2016, 04:45 PM »

It is floundering in the dark unless the hardware is specified(TV as well as DVD Player, connections to TV etc..)  But as for playing through the USB port directly on the DVD player my Philips was very restrictive.  It pretty much wanted compliant .avi or .divx files if you wanted both video and audio to come out of the TV set in sync. 

If you think you may soon upgrade your TV to HD or Ultra HD for the money you can't beat a set top box.  Once I got a set top box the video conversions I did dropped to about 10% of my previous activity.  And most of those were processing through the .mp4 program I mentioned that batch converted and muxed to get compliant audio.  I had the portable program, plus the video input, intermediate, and output files on an SSD.  Man that thing went through 2 hour movie videos in like 5 minutes each!  It was fun to watch the processing rather than tedium.

-MilesAhead (November 02, 2016, 02:51 PM)

If the post is about recommendation for media players then here is mine:

If you has to use a old dvd player I think what money is important factor here, so I recommend you the cheapest (but great) hardware for a media player: The Raspberry Pi 3
For $ 40 you have a perfectly capable media center. Only put a SD card with OSMC or OpenElec and you have Kodi working in no time.
No more tedious transcoding... You download and play... Easy!

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General Software Discussion / Re: dvd players + video formats

« on: November 02, 2016, 12:33 PM »

If h.264 in .m4 container don't work your DVD player is old.

To be sure you must go with DivX/xVid codec for video, MP3 for audio in an .avi container.

Also be sure don't surpass the 720x480 max resolution. (NTSC).

With this surely your DVD player accept the files.

Before convert a movie you could test with xvid releases in torrent sites. That would be more quick what convert a movie yourself. That releases have thousand of seeders. In minutes you could download a new release to test.

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Living Room / Re: External 5.25 floppy usb drive or another way?

« on: September 30, 2016, 12:15 AM »

WOW I have to say A.D.S. sound amazing for a high school student 
Congrats in recover a piece of your past!

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Living Room / Re: Goodbye to my father

« on: September 19, 2016, 08:22 AM »

Late to the thread... I discovered because the newsletter.

Seems like a great guy your dad...
Please accept my heartfelt condolences.

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Living Room / Re: External 5.25 floppy usb drive or another way?

« on: September 12, 2016, 05:02 PM »

I'm intrigued now!

How was the experience with Retrofloppy?
It worked?
Could you retrieve your old code?

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Living Room / Re: Super Annoying Freezing Mouse (and Keyboard) - can ANYONE help, PLEASE!?

« on: July 22, 2016, 08:29 AM »

If you say what this occurs after a Windows Update... Are you try to re-install Windows?
I know what is a radical solution but this kind of problems are so difficult of track what you gain some time only re-installing the whole OS.

If you dont want to loose your current Windows setting, you could try remove the HD, get another (old or borrowed...) and install Windows from zero.
First thing to do after that is DISABLE AUTOMATIC UPDATES.
If after that the problem persist is a hardware problem, surely the mobo. If the problem is gone sadly you have to re-install the OS from zero in your main HD and disable automatic updates.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor #1 at TechRadar's Article on Best Screen Capture Software 2016

« on: July 21, 2016, 03:10 PM »

Congrats mouser !!!!!!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendation for extracting video clips: Avidemux

« on: June 18, 2016, 12:10 AM »

It was much better under the old versions where you could just drop clips on the interface to have them appended.

-4wd (June 12, 2016, 04:16 AM)

In the last version (windows) dragging files in the interface also appends it.

To cut, join wmv files I recommend ASFbin.
Not the best interface but always good results.

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Living Room / Re: how can I save this video?

« on: June 17, 2016, 11:57 PM »

A good and clean site what dont fool you to install questionable "extensions"
is Savefrom.net
saves videos from Youtuve and several others sites.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for MP3 player with "speed up playback" option

« on: June 17, 2016, 11:52 PM »

KMPlayer could do that (and many other things) easily!
Shift + or
Shift -     to alter the speed.

Look for the last good versión. 2.9.4.1435 before became crapware with Pandora.

Cheers!

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« on: March 22, 2016, 10:10 AM »

Meanwhile the $40 Odroid-C2 is superior in virtually every way, other than a slight price premium.

-Deozaan (March 15, 2016, 05:48 PM)

That could be true. Hardware is better (way better) but sometimes a active community of developers are important.
Is useless have the cutting edge hardware with buggy software.
Maybe Odroid-C2 developers are dedicated but nothing compares with the HUGE raspberry pi community.

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Living Room / Re: TouchPad for PC w/Windows 7 vs. carpal tunnel ?

« on: July 30, 2015, 10:29 PM »

I think what the key to avoid RSI pain is use several types of mouse alternately.
After several years of using a regular mouse in my desktop PC I switch to a notebook with touchpad.
I would dont be one of these people what the first thing when buy a notebook is to add it a mouse.
So a force myself to use only the pad.
After 5 years I note a pain in my pointer finger from the use of the touchpad.
So I bought a Logitech Trackball (to move the ball with the thumb) and I use both.
In mi living room I use the Logitch Trackball, when I am in bed I use the touchpad.
The pain in my pointer finger is gone.

So the key for me is use at least 2 differents mouses/trackballs what exercise different fingers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?

« on: July 25, 2015, 10:16 PM »

In my Vertical TaskBar
In the Taskbar Notification Area

- The Bat!
- Vuze (Bittorrent Local)

Hidden

- Graphics Intel HR
- Synaptics Touchpad
- Intel Rapid Storage
- Battery Charge
- Clipboard Help + Spell
- Filebox Extender
- Transmission Remote GUI (Bittorrent in NAS)
- Locate 32
- Keyla
- Dropbox
- Workrave
- f.lux
- Genius Software for Wireless Trackball

Above the Notification Area

- Perfgraph CPU Use
- Perfgraph CPU Temp
- BatteryBar Free

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: I love the Bulk Rename Utility!

« on: May 02, 2015, 09:04 AM »

To sum a rename program to the list I want to contribute with the program I use and I think it is great 
Ant Renamer

This are the features:
This program can rename large amounts of files and folders in few clicks. It only modifies files/folders names:

    Changing extension
    Replacing character strings by others
    Inserting a character string
    Moving characters
    Deleting several characters
    Enumeration
    Name creation with mp3's Tag (ID v1.1)
    Name creation with file's last modified date and time
    Random names creation
    Case change (uppercase, lowercase, first letter of each word in uppercase, ...)
    Take names from a list/file
    Use of EXIF info
    Regular expressions

Availble in several languages: English (default), Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified & traditional), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.

Unicode file names are supported, so it is possible to rename without problems files that have names containing characters from Japanese, Chinese, Arab, etc.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Tested successfuly under various Windows versions, from 98 (with a few updated system files) and NT4 (SP4 required) up to current ones (Windows Vista, 7 and 8 ).

The program is Open Source.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release - Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination)

« on: April 15, 2015, 04:01 PM »

Splat can call a profile so you could make this work like this:
 (see attachment in previous post)
Please update to the latest Splat v1.1.7 to get the new wait intervals.

-skwire (April 15, 2015, 03:10 PM)

Wow! that was fast!

Thank you so much!

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release - Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination)

« on: April 15, 2015, 01:15 PM »

Interesting program... seems very useful!

Could you suggest a new type of Action?

Go to First Action

...to make a loop. Sometimes it is useful.
Of course could (but not always) be based in a condition because could be a little dangereous of start a infinite loop.

if XXXX process is [not] running Go to First Action or
if CPU is below|above XXX % then Go to First Action
or If time is < 12:00 go to First Action
or Repeat X number of times

Could sound as a odd request but I give you a real scenario:

I have to encode several files with Vidcoder but I dont want my computer 24 hours with the CPU at 100% because is dangerous, so Vidcoder have a option of pause encoding if XXXX process is running.
I could use your program to launch a process say each 2-3 hours to pause Vidcoder, wait 30 minutes and terminate that process to Vidcoder keep encoding.
But I need to loop this process at least to Vidcoder finish your jobs.

This could be a real case scenario, but I'm sure is not the ony one.
Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Showing CPU core temperature(s) in system tray

« on: February 13, 2014, 10:21 PM »

While it may be quite good, Pergraph is merely a version of an old CPUID, and hasn't been updated since November 2008. I think that is one of the reasons the site is called "Code from the 70s".

-Curt (February 12, 2014, 04:27 PM)

...could be.
But I'm using it in Windows 7 64 without a problem....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Showing CPU core temperature(s) in system tray

« on: February 11, 2014, 10:35 PM »

Hi I am using Perfgraph... is not in the tray, it is better they add a graph in the taskbar.
like this:



Quick description:

Perfgraph is a CPU / memory / network / hardware monitor. It is implemented as an Explorer toolbar so it does not necessarily take up space from your desktop.

A quick overview of its features:

    CPU utilization display for up to 8 cores
    Memory utilization indicator
    Network throughput monitoring via SNMP
    Network performance & reliability monitoring by pinging remote hosts
    Hardware monitoring
        CPU temperatures
        Chipset temperatures & fan speeds
        HDD temperature
        Gigabyte Odin PSU support (voltage, current, power, etc.)
    Very lightweight: minimal CPU and memory utilization

Perfgraph will run on both x86 and x64 versions of Windows XP or later.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Non-Notepad(MS) Thread!

« on: August 17, 2013, 08:11 AM »

One more vote to Metapad 

Cheers!

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Unfinished Requests / Re: UNFINISHED: Copy and Paste from a txt file to a directory

« on: October 06, 2011, 04:38 PM »

It's a old topic... but if you don't could solve this problem, try this.

Copy the files as usual (order don't matter)
Now Use Reorganize 2.3.1
to re-order the files as you wish (alphabetic A-Z or Z-A or custom order)
Speed is not a issue because the soft don't move the files itself, but change the FAT table so it takes only a few seconds.


---Extract from Re-Organize help-------

It's not a surprise that portable MP3 players turned out to be big sellers: They're small, easy to fill with music and energy-saving. And because of the lack of moving parts, they may even be considered to be the perfect music players for all kinds of sports. Sadly, many makers didn't think about ease of use. A common problem: The player refuses to play tracks in a user-defined order.

ReOrganize! is able to solve this problem in many cases. You can freely move track by track or sort them all with just one click. The program also supports file up- & download and ID3 tags. It even features a small media player for prelistening tracks, rivalling many "Audio Managers" shipped with most players.

I hope this help you.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Right Click any file and create New Folder by its Name

« on: September 15, 2011, 10:18 AM »

Thank you SO MUCH!!!! 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Right Click any file and create New Folder by its Name

« on: September 15, 2011, 08:03 AM »

Wow... thanks for the speed on fulfill my request  

...but some strange happens (at least in my W7 64) now the OK and Cancel buttons don't work at all (neither the accelerators)  
 I have to downgrade to 1.0.8 what works like a charm...

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Right Click any file and create New Folder by its Name

« on: September 14, 2011, 05:50 PM »

Hi, I congratulate you for this fantastic application and +1 to the gebeleisis suggestion to fill the "move all the files into a subfolder named:" box with the name of the file right clicked and if is posible all selected.

I would love too if Cancel and OK button include keyboards shortcuts (Cancel and OK) because I am a keyboard lover. 

Keep up the good work 

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: [Release] SRTFilter: Simple Automatic Subtitle Editor & Renamer

« on: September 02, 2011, 05:01 PM »

I don't know if you have all the scene groups already added to the custom word list (sorry, I'm not on my PC) but I find the thought strangely amusing 

-nosh (September 02, 2011, 04:39 PM)

The program has a very short list, only the majors, but is capable of detect and add automatically other groups (based in the construct -scenegroupname)

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DC Member Programs and Projects / [Release] SRTFilter: Simple Automatic Subtitle Editor & Renamer

« on: September 02, 2011, 04:06 PM »

Here's a little program i made for myself to automatically remove credits from .srt files. Also the program clean and rename the .srt and video filenames.
You could find a more accurate description (and F.A.Q. and Screenshots) here:

SRTFilter Blog

The program is FREEWARE.
I know what this dont help so much to english-speak people but could help others (like me) what use srt subtitles a lot.

Description from the blog:

SRTFilter is a program to automatically edit and rename subtitle files in SubRip format (.srt)
It is fully configurable both in appearance and language.
Their Windows Explorer Shell extensions allow access to the program from any folder/file on your disk.
It also supports drag & drop of subtitle files.
It is extremely fast. Process 45 subtitle files by second.



A quick and easy way to:

* Correct common errors in. srt files. Errors that can cause trouble on household divx players, especially a very common error on machines with Mediatek Chipset does not display the last subtitle line.

* Delete according to preferences set by the user, captions containing certain keywords (credits)

* Remove <tags> style.

* Rename automatically subtitle (and video) files, removing year, scene groups and user defined words, all thru regular expressions filters (also user defined).
Special module for Series with Episode Numbering Style choice (s01e01, S01E01, 1x01).

I hope you enjoy it.
Cheers!