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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: MFCRecorder - Continued

« Last post by 4wd on February 11, 2016, 08:26 PM »

In the original version, the audio used to be transcoded to MP3 which I think is incompatible, (or not recommended), for Transport Stream container.

From the original:

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1. //Create process info
2. string pararms = string.Format("-i \"{0}\" -c copy -acodec mp3 \"{1}\"", this.URL, path);
3. ProcessStartInfo oInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("ffmpeg.exe", pararms);

The current version accepts the streams as they are, h.264 and AAC (ADTS muxed) which are just saved as a Transport Stream.

EDIT: It would be good if it could go back to encoding the audio to MP3 and then muxing into an MP4 container as that can be directly imported into a NLE, eg. Sony Movie Studio.

I'm not sure how successful this would be though as currently the program streams in the TS are perfectly in sync, as soon as you transcode to an MP4 or MKV container the slightest glitch in one of the streams throws the syncing out badly.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Using the folder contents of a directory to auto fill an input window

« Last post by 4wd on February 11, 2016, 08:09 PM »

From a purely DOS point of view ... unlikely.

Type in enough so that an entry is uniquely identifiable and then hit TAB and see if it auto-completes.

Otherwise, I suggest start using a simple PowerShell GUI with drop-down selector, for example.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Use batch script to merge 2 .png files into single png or other option

« Last post by 4wd on February 11, 2016, 07:20 PM »

Using ImageMagick Q16 x86 portable:

1) Extract to a folder
2) Open a CLI there
3) To append:

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1. convert.exe "this.png" "that.png" +append "this+that.png"

4) To resize to 8.3", assuming 200DPI otherwise recalculate the pixel values:

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1. convert.exe "this+that.png" -resize 1660x2340 "this+that+A4.png"

You can also use ImageMagick to convert PNG to PDF:

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1. convert.exe this.png this.pdf

You'll probably need to play around with the options to get the output how you want.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 2GB additional Google Drive storage for free

« Last post by 4wd on February 10, 2016, 05:41 PM »

I've done something like 10 accounts so far, the longest any of them has taken to show up the change is 3 minutes - just sit in GMail and refresh the page every minute

-4wd (February 10, 2016, 05:35 PM)

This is why we can't have nice things!

No wonder if there was a bit of load on their systems with people doing that...

-f0dder (February 10, 2016, 05:37 PM)

Who me?   

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 2GB additional Google Drive storage for free

« Last post by 4wd on February 10, 2016, 05:35 PM »

Just completed the checkout, but Drive still shows 15gig... does it take a while before the extra gigs are added?

-f0dder (February 10, 2016, 07:49 AM)

Think so yes, mine showed 15GB right after as well, but today it says 17GB.

-Jibz (February 10, 2016, 07:53 AM)

I've done something like 10 accounts so far, the longest any of them has taken to show up the change is 3 minutes - just sit in GMail and refresh the page every minute, it tells you how much you have down the bottom of the email list, eg. Using xx of 17GB (or more, it's cumulative, I have 19GB on a couple of accounts).

I don't get the Upgrade Storage button either, just get this:



The 2GB was added by the time I switched to the other tab to check.

EDIT: That's just from logging into https://myaccount.google.com

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 2GB additional Google Drive storage for free

« Last post by 4wd on February 10, 2016, 01:09 AM »

Log in to 20 Google accounts and answer the survey to gain 40GB of storage ... hell yeah!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by 4wd on February 10, 2016, 01:03 AM »

Oh yay ... I've reached .63 ... whooppee ... still, I guess all you guys get to find all the data destroying bugs at least a month before I do ... there is a plus side ...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help: Utility to force set monitor/LCD refresh rate

« Last post by 4wd on February 07, 2016, 06:47 PM »

Could this be because of nVidia's G-Sync?

Any way to disable it and check?

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Living Room / Re: Now that AI has mastered 'Go,' are all our jobs next?

« Last post by 4wd on February 07, 2016, 06:38 PM »

AI can never be able to apologize to our wifes like we do, for no fault of ours.

-anandcoral (February 06, 2016, 04:12 AM)

This doesn't count as it has just as much chance at being believed as we do. 

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by 4wd on February 07, 2016, 12:35 AM »

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This ancient sculpture has conspiracy theorists convinced TIME TRAVEL exists - can you see why?

-Arizona Hot (February 06, 2016, 09:43 PM)

Turkish Delight didn't come in boxes back then?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by 4wd on February 06, 2016, 08:33 PM »

Anyway, a browser I've been using for a while: Frost

Has a password protected vault for your bookmarks and any saved images, unlocked by entering a pin/password as you would a web address, ie. if your pin is 1234 you just enter that as the web address in a tab, the vaults become unlocked and any previous session tabs can be restored.

When you exit, all history is removed and the vaults lock.

-4wd (February 06, 2016, 01:28 AM)

According to Google Play, Frost was last updated in November 2014.  That's more than a year ago.  A very long time for a browser.

-xtabber (February 06, 2016, 10:58 AM)

All I wanted was a browser that displayed 98% of the websites, didn't leave your bookmarks on view, didn't require wading through a bucket load of options just to find the one that said "Clear on exit", and didn't require 30+MB of storage to do it in.

After looking at other privacy browsers I settled on Frost because it does it all in under 9MB.

Think of it as the bog-standard Android browser with privacy - plus it didn't cost me anything.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by 4wd on February 06, 2016, 01:28 AM »

New phone again, Xiaomi Redmi Note 2, they're getting bigger 

Anyway, a browser I've been using for a while: Frost

Has a password protected vault for your bookmarks and any saved images, unlocked by entering a pin/password as you would a web address, ie. if your pin is 1234 you just enter that as the web address in a tab, the vaults become unlocked and any previous session tabs can be restored.

When you exit, all history is removed and the vaults lock.

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Living Room / Re: Windows Phone Narrator should be punished!

« Last post by 4wd on February 06, 2016, 01:11 AM »

Wow!  After that I just got to try it 

Time to fire up the 530 and see what happens ... stay tuned ...

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Living Room / Re: In-Car Emergency Kit - Your Recommendations

« Last post by 4wd on February 06, 2016, 01:02 AM »

I read somewhere that if a person wants to pull over off the side of a road and sleep off 'one drink too many' while remaining in the vehicle, they can still charge you with a technical DUI if the car keys are in the car, so the suggestion was to put the keys on the road under the car; don't know how good the advice is, and I don't drink; so comment--anyone?

-holt (February 05, 2016, 09:32 PM)

I was under the impression this is only if the keys are in the ignition (same as the UK), in the same sense as you could get charged with "Intention to drive without a license" if you have the engine running whilst in the drivers seat, and don't have a license (also the same if you are on the phone and have the engine running/are in gear) - It's safer just to turn off the engine and put the keys in your pocket IMHO...If you put the keys outside the vehicle, you risk them getting stolen or lost (sudden heavy rain could easily wash them away)

-Stephen66515 (February 06, 2016, 12:20 AM)

It seems to be, as usual, a matter of intent and interpretation:

Being Drunk in Charge of a Motor Vehicle

The offence of being Drunk in Charge is committed if:

“a person is in charge of any motor vehicle on a road or other public place after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of it in his breath, blood or urine exceeds the prescribed limit he is guilty of an offence”

Whether or not a person is in charge of a motor vehicle is or the facts of each individual case, the key question being whether the person is in control of the vehicle and whether in the circumstances there is a realistic possibility of him taking control of the vehicle. These cases will usually arise in circumstances where a motorist who is above the prescribed limit is found inside a car, but is not driving. The unwitting motorist can easily stumble into this situation, where they enter their car for the purpose of sleeping or with the intention of removing belongings.

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Living Room / Re: In-Car Emergency Kit - Your Recommendations

« Last post by 4wd on February 05, 2016, 07:30 PM »

Let's see, in the Landcruiser:

• Enough tools so that I could conceivably drop the engine, gearbox, transfer case, differential, or anything else that would require repair.
• Two 4m polypropylene tow ropes rated at 3 tonnes, (great for removing downed trees and impromptu winching), plus rated D-shackles.
• Pocket chainsaw.
• Heavy duty air compressor.
• Top/bottom radiator hose - not really necessary, can improvise with aluminium can and duct tape.
• Can of body filler, (good for repairing holes in radiator cores).
• Approximately 40 metres of 12mm nylon rope.
• A load of cable ties small -> big.
• First aid kit.
• Matches, hexamine stove.
• Analog multimeter.
• Duct tape.
• Aluminium frypan - not just for cooking, have repaired an exhaust using this and fencing wire
• Aluminium billy.
• Puncture kit.

Apart from water if traveling into desert/arid area, that's pretty much it.  Anything else can be scavenged from the bush, eg. fencing wire, etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Copy Being Discontinued as of May 1, 2016

« Last post by 4wd on February 01, 2016, 11:57 PM »

Other choices for refugees on Linux appear to be SpiderOak, Owncloud, Dropbox, and InSync.

-wraith808 (February 01, 2016, 12:34 PM)

There's also Seafile which I now use instead of ownCloud on a VPS.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opt-in before January 31, 2016 to keep your current OneDrive storage size

« Last post by 4wd on January 30, 2016, 06:03 PM »

Just a reminder for those that have forgotten - https://preview.onedrive.com/bonus/ - you are running short of time. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Agnitum (makers of Outpost Firewall and AV) has been acquired by Yandex

« Last post by 4wd on January 30, 2016, 05:46 PM »

The extent of my knowledge was that it was the only firewall (other than Agnitum's) that will pass 100% of leak tests.

-Innuendo (January 30, 2016, 02:08 PM)

I actually went from using Comodo to using Agnitum because the number of alerts Comodo generated started to drive me nuts 

If this doesn't pan out I think I'm going to try 4wd's solution of MBAM and WFC.

That's going to depend on what you expect of WFC, it is just a frontend to Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (WFwAS), so if you're used to the almost geek-like control that Outpost and Comodo gives over connections then you are going to be really disappointed.  I just wanted something that would notify me of outgoing connections and give me the option to temporarily/permanently ban them.

My review of an earlier version (it's currently 4.6.0.0) is over here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by 4wd on January 29, 2016, 09:25 PM »

Just thought I'd expand a bit on one of the addons I use: Advanced URL Builder





Helps if you ensure the extra space that's selected when double-clicking text is not selected, in about:config

layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word;false

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by 4wd on January 29, 2016, 05:47 AM »

I may be a bit slow today, but can anybody explain me where I can find this info screen in Windows 10? I've been unable to find it since I started using Windows 10

-Ath (January 29, 2016, 01:49 AM)

Open a CLI and type winver.exe, or do it from Start->Run

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Living Room / Re: Thinking of switching to WP8 from Android

« Last post by 4wd on January 28, 2016, 07:55 PM »

On my old Lumia 520, it is not a problem to make a backup to an SD card. In my 'System Settings' there is an option called 'Contacts and Messages backup'.

-Shades (January 28, 2016, 06:45 PM)

On the 530 there is only: backup - save stuff to the cloud

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by 4wd on January 28, 2016, 07:50 PM »

Pale Moon does not work with XP or I would switch.

-holt (January 28, 2016, 06:48 PM)

https://www.palemoon.../palemoon-atom.shtml

This version of Pale Moon is optimized specifically for use on Intel Atom™ processors and compatible with the Windows XP and Server 2003 operating systems.

These builds are specifically optimized for Intel Atom™ processors, and are not recommended for regular Intel or AMD processors on current operating systems (Vista or higher). The extra optimizations only work on Atom processors and will execute a little slower than the normal version of Pale Moon on a non-Atom processor (but otherwise run just fine). In general use, you will likely not notice much (if any) difference if run on a non-Atom processor that is likely more powerful, anyway.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Agnitum (makers of Outpost Firewall and AV) has been acquired by Yandex

« Last post by 4wd on January 28, 2016, 06:12 PM »

I have given up using anything other than built in security software ...

-Carol Haynes (January 28, 2016, 12:37 PM)

Same here except I use it because of the lack of performance hit.

The built in firewall

With the addition of WFC for outgoing connection control.

And Malwarbytes AntiMalware (lifetime licenses).

With Website Protection turned off because it's more annoying than useful.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by 4wd on January 28, 2016, 05:38 PM »

Meh, two machines with Win10Pro (x86/x64) still say 10568.36 with no pending updates - their build/version numbers are about as useful as the paper they're written on.

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by 4wd on January 27, 2016, 05:23 AM »

If you use google street view to go up the road (away from Ouyen) and then come back, you can see:
a. what looks like the google camera car (I don't quite understand that)
b. work being done on the fence installation.

-tsaint (January 27, 2016, 12:00 AM)

Ah yes, they did the Street View on the two sides of the highway on different dates: May 2008 for eastbound, Nov 2009 for westbound.  You can stand on the crossing and jump from one lane to the other to see the change.

See what you mean about the camera car, how strange.