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Living Room / Re: Can someone remind me why are we using email ?
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 15, 2009, 08:38 AM »
The real reason they are using this method is the message carrier will work for peanuts.
-MilesAhead (October 14, 2009, 07:38 PM)

And hopefully wont get any arsenic pop-corn: anyone else remember that Don Martin Cartoon (from MAD)? I've searched, but can't find an image  :(
-Perry Mowbray (October 14, 2009, 08:31 PM)

It's been a long time since I heard that name.  Seems I remember buying books "Don Martin Steps Out" and "Don Martin Bounces Back" or something like that when I was a kid.  Did you ever see the "Russian Roulette" one where the last guy in line shoots through the heads of the previous five?  They thought they had a "lock" on that game.  I remember that one for some reason.
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Living Room / Re: Can someone remind me why are we using email ?
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2009, 07:38 PM »
The real reason they are using this method is the message carrier will work for peanuts.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Cancel :P
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2009, 04:43 PM »
I didn't see this before it was edited.  Can you give more info on your impressions of this Epsilon software?  Have you tried the "application clone" thing or just install watching?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Returnil free home edition with 64 bit support
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2009, 04:37 PM »
A new build was released Oct. 12

http://www.wildersse...rumdisplay.php?f=101

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Living Room / Re: Man names son 2.0
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2009, 03:38 PM »
Hmmmmmmmm, they should add a "nose pinching" avatar for this subject matter. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is best program to create a DVD from any video file?
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2009, 03:11 PM »
QuEnc is a modification of ffmpeg or is at least based on it iirc.  I'm going to mess around a bit more with AVStoDVD using the default except for boosting up the bit rate of the audio.  I think I fell into the trap of comparing different runs.  If you have an .avi with a low bit rate and not very long duration, the output bit rate can be very high and fast to process.  So I may be noticing an "easy" encode in HC running at 130 fps and comparing that with a one pass QuEnc from another run only going at 60 fps.

There's always the chance the author of AVStoDVD may be onto something doing it the way he's doing it.  I know max results would be HC 2 pass, but I'm thinking he may be right or at least close on speed vs quality.  Or at least I suspect it enough that I'll do some more trials with default ranges.

One thing cool about QuEnc I used to do was put a bunch of .avi files in a converter that generates an .avs script for me, so that all the bit rates and all that are calculated.  Then I would just modifiy it to have a script for each title, then manually run a copy of QuEnc with each script for as many cores as I had.  I think the only danger is to make sure the intermediate files don't use a common folder.  I would start them going and end up with an .mpg with navpacks for each title.  Then just plunk that into an authoring program like DVDAuthorGui or SVCD2DVD that accepts .mpg with navpacks.

As usual the complication is subs.  Since a lot of what I watch are Asian vids with subs it can limit the choices esp. if I don't have text subs to work with.

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Living Room / Re: Man names son 2.0
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2009, 02:56 PM »
So the kid is bound to be a stool pigeon?
-MilesAhead (October 14, 2009, 12:34 AM)
I think one could pooh pooh that idea!
-cranioscopical (October 14, 2009, 07:38 AM)

If he's annoying, just tell him to scat. ;)

edit: hmm, the way this conversation is going the mod may flush this thread instead of deleting.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA:Check for program exit and offer to close other programs
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2009, 02:55 PM »
Glad it's working for you. :)
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Living Room / Re: Scientists say: Alcohol DOES make people more attractive
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2009, 03:53 AM »
[...] marriage-a-wanna [...]
-MilesAhead (October 13, 2009, 03:56 PM)

I dont usually get my laugh-of-the-day so early (8.50am here) but I reckon that's it -
thanks Miles :D
-tomos (October 14, 2009, 01:52 AM)

You're welcome. Glad someone enjoys a pun now and then.    :greenclp:
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Living Room / Re: Man names son 2.0
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2009, 12:34 AM »
So the kid is bound to be a stool pigeon?

This reminds me of a cartoon I saw in Playboy.  A flying saucer is coasting just above the tree tops.  The alien and his wife are obviously on vacation.  The husband says to the wife, to her disbelief, "this is a planet where everything they eat turns to sh*t!"  She's utterly horrified!! :)
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Living Room / Re: Scientists say: Alcohol DOES make people more attractive
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 07:35 PM »
Hmmmmmm, I think I'm onto something here.  Like, everyone already knew the results of the study/survey but if they let on, then there'd be no free booze for "research."
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Living Room / Re: Man names son 2.0
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 05:35 PM »
and did they get a birth certificate or EULA?
-Target (October 13, 2009, 05:30 PM)

"By cutting the umbilical cord you accept this license agreement" the nastier parts of which cannot be examined until the kid takes a crap!!   :hanged:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Win7: Anyone else getting excited?
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 05:31 PM »
I believe I actually liked engines better than computers; engines are visceral, tactile, & soulful... while computers are sterile & in-tangent.
-Stoic Joker (October 13, 2009, 05:59 AM)

Yeah, there was something about diagnosing a problem, like if a car is running rough, by just leaning over the running engine, closing your eyes, and listening. The oscilloscopes and all that are fine.  But if you have experience chances are you know the answer in your subconscious.  You just have to relax and let it out. Plus it's more fun than running 128 tests in a series that you can't do if the engine doesn't run. ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is best program to create a DVD from any video file?
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 05:18 PM »
sajman, after substituting May beta as you suggested, in both FAVC and AVStoDVD seems like I was getting @160 fps throughput total with 4 instances of HC in FAVC and with AVStoDVD running multi-thread it was about 130 fps.  So that's not too big a hit.  Are there any good measures of DVD quality you can run for free?  I'm thinking even though it's slower, I should run a few through the QuEnc with Trellis quant to see if I can tell a difference.

My guilty secret is I used to run 4 instances of QuEnc 0.72 single pass average quality with no Trellis just to crank stuff out at 63 fps per instance!! :)

But that was before I had divx ultra stand-alone players.  No need to convert so much to DVD these days.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is best program to create a DVD from any video file?
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 05:10 PM »
y0himba I have 3 versions of Flick installed.  Seems like one build will like an input format better than another.  Usually though, if you drag and drop a video and it takes it, it completes without error.  I like flick.  Just seems like some of the other apps get more out of multi-core CPUs.  I hope the author updates it again.  1307 has been out for awhile.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA:Check for program exit and offer to close other programs
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 05:06 PM »
Updated to v. 1.05   Added About, Show Readme, and Donate commands to the tray menu.  About digs out the file version from the resource so no need to use explorer Property page to check the file version.

The About box automagically closes after 5 seconds.
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Living Room / Re: Scientists say: Alcohol DOES make people more attractive
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 04:20 PM »
Hmmmmm, guess I was a naive youth!! I thought when you gave an apple to the teacher, he would eat the thing, not make a hash pipe out of it!!  :)
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Living Room / Re: Scientists say: Alcohol DOES make people more attractive
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 03:56 PM »
Hmmmmmm, makes me wonder if laws in the U.S. against "being in the presence" of marriage-a-wanna is because they don't want people getting a free contact high.
 :beerchug:
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Living Room / Re: Man names son 2.0
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 03:22 PM »
Hmmmmmm, I don't see the big deal.  The dude just came out of the dark ages of using Roman Numerals.  If he named the kid Jon Blake Cusack.dll that might be a different story(or even a whole library.)

-MilesAhead (October 12, 2009, 07:12 PM)

If he did that, the "terrible twos" would give a whole new meaning to the term "DLL Hell". And 2.0 might give a new meaning to "terrible twos", now that I think about it.  :P
-app103 (October 13, 2009, 03:16 PM)

Not only that but if somebody moves out of the house a message might pop up "This shared library is not being used by anyone.  Delete it?"  :)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA:Check for program exit and offer to close other programs
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 03:16 PM »
Icons in the tray of the closed programs doesn't get cleaned up in windows 7
-paarkhi (October 13, 2009, 12:18 AM)

Did you try the latest v. 1.04 ?  I hit it twice now. It's working for me on Vista64 and 7.
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Living Room / Re: Scientists say: Alcohol DOES make people more attractive
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 03:13 PM »
...
And there are way too many creeps out there already. :up:


-40hz (October 13, 2009, 06:55 AM)

I think Groucho said it best:

"There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook."

But, I can also imagine Groucho saying "Show  me an honest man and I'll show you a guy paying a divorce attorney" or something like that. :)

edit: btw it's easy to recognize the creeps.  They are the ones with a hot babe on each arm. :)
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Living Room / Re: Scientists say: Alcohol DOES make people more attractive
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 03:07 PM »
I just wish it worked in the reverse direction too, i.e. me drinking made me more attractive.
-Eóin (October 13, 2009, 08:42 AM)

I'm sure it does.  After a few you think you're Don Juan.  heh heh
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Living Room / Re: Man names son 2.0
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2009, 03:05 PM »
What happens when the next child comes along? Presumably a new version will be an upgrade and therefore they lose the right to the original version!

Presumably the poor kid will be relagated to a dusty cupboard where old software goes to be out of site (until the tidy up and throw out).

Seriously though how many parents actually think about the consequences when they inflict names on their offspring!

I once new a teacher called Rhoda, she married a friend called Andrew Dick.

Needless to say he adopted her surname after the wedding otherwise she would never have gone to school again!
-Carol Haynes (October 13, 2009, 02:36 AM)

With the hyphenated names it could get pretty weird eventually.  You could get a person with family name something like Butcher-Baker-Candlestick Maker .NET 10.9
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to run a program and minimize it?
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 12, 2009, 11:29 PM »
When programs override the minimize, maximize or close buttons on the frame, there's no standardized way that I've found to predict what action will happen or if it will detect the current state it is in if it didn't cause it internally.

I wrote a "single instance" component where I try to maximize the already running instance before the second instance quits. In the end I had to add an option to turn that attempt off because it could produce weird results like what you mention here. If the program minimized "normally" with a button on the taskbar, usually things worked as expected.  But if the program minimized to tray, once you acted on it from outside all bets were off.

About all I can suggest is mess with it by sending it Hide and Show messages, if it has a System Menu, try that and see what happens.

I just messed around with Gigaget download manager which has no option to start in the tray that I know of, but if you click the 'x' on the frame, it will minimize to tray with no task bar button.  Great.  So I send it a 'hide' msg with NirCmd.  Now it won't open normally.  The only solution was to run another program that made Gigaget the active window and sent it an Alt-F4 since it handled that as minimize to tray also.

Every program is going to be different. Unless you run one of those monitor things that can figure it out, then it's pretty much trial and error.

At least afaik.  I haven't done one of those tray minimizer hider apps. Someone that has will likely have more insight.

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Living Room / Re: Man names son 2.0
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 12, 2009, 11:20 PM »
most likely you'd just get a BSOD...
-Target (October 12, 2009, 08:15 PM)
Well, I do declare!

Might never come out of his shell.  Even if he did, it might be with a resounding thunk!
-MilesAhead
Nice one, Miles!  :Thmbsup:



-cranioscopical (October 12, 2009, 11:05 PM)

Heh heh.  I bet the fellow turns out to be a philosopher.  "I thunk, therefore an instance of me exists!"
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