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LooKMaN posted:Download and install Avisynth, download and install Haali Media Splitter, copy avss.dll from where Haali was installed to Avisynth\plugins folder. Launch AvsPmod, type in  This couldn't be any more perfect for my needs. Thanks so much! Now I have to get my supervisor to perform the same steps on the lab computer.
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Great. If you need any information, AvsPmod has built-in help file and AviSynth wiki has a ton of useful information.
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Aug 27, 2011 19:27
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Since the Useful Windows Software link no longer works, what's the best free software for ripping dvd's?
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Aug 27, 2011 19:35
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OK, I got Windows restored no problem, but I've lost everything on here.  Now for another question--I have a WD Passport that I used to backup my former MacBook. I know a lot of my music/photos are on the Passport and if I could get the stuff off it, then I'd have the majority of my stuff recovered. But, the difference in format is preventing me from viewing the files. Is there a way to view what's on the Passport and get it off there? I'm considering going to Best Buy to use one of their display MacBooks so I can see what I have, and possibly burn a DVD.
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Aug 27, 2011 19:53
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leica posted:Since the Useful Windows Software link no longer works, what's the best free software for ripping dvd's? Rip to an ISO, or convert the video content to a given file type, or what? I use AnyDVD to rip to ISO, but I'd be interested in a low-effort way to convert my DVD movies/shows to MKV or whatever without losing image quality.
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Aug 27, 2011 20:31
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MakeMKV does that.
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Aug 27, 2011 20:38
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Hip Hoptimus Prime posted:OK, I got Windows restored no problem, but I've lost everything on here. http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html
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Aug 27, 2011 20:59
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Galler posted:I do. I don't really know if it's necessary but I like to start clean every now and then. Also since all I have on my OS drive (60gb ssd) is the OS and a handful of programs it doesn't take much time to wipe and reload (~2 hours to be completely back to normal). I'm considering doing something like this when I rebuild in a month or two, but have a question for if I feel like re-installing a year or from then: what happens to programs that aren't installed on the OS drive when you re-install Windows? Obviously all their registry entries will be gone, so how do you not need to re-install them as well as the ones on the same drive?
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Aug 27, 2011 21:07
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LooKMaN posted:MakeMKV does that. Neat. What's the best way to save some space without sacrificing too much quality at that point?
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Aug 28, 2011 01:24
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Well MakeMKV just remuxes all the video/audio tracks from DVD and puts them into MKV container, it doesn't encode the video/audio. If you want to encode from DVD to make a "dvdrip" with x264/ac3 and mux it into MKV your best bet would be Handbrake if you don't want to bother with settings too much.
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Aug 28, 2011 01:34
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hooah posted:I'm considering doing something like this when I rebuild in a month or two, but have a question for if I feel like re-installing a year or from then: what happens to programs that aren't installed on the OS drive when you re-install Windows? Obviously all their registry entries will be gone, so how do you not need to re-install them as well as the ones on the same drive? I've found that for the most part so long as I backup the program folders in C:\Users\USERNAME\App Data\ then all I have to do is dump them back in there post install and re-create shortcuts and everything is good. This might not work for everything but it has worked for me. Also a lot of the utilities and such that I have on my other hard drives are standalone/portable versions of programs. For the most part, AFAIK, the only registry entries that actually matter would be for programs that add something to the right click menu or as a file association.
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Aug 28, 2011 01:52
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Toast Museum posted:Rip to an ISO, or convert the video content to a given file type, or what? I use AnyDVD to rip to ISO, but I'd be interested in a low-effort way to convert my DVD movies/shows to MKV or whatever without losing image quality. AnyDVD sounds great, but what are the advantages between that and Handbrake or MakeMKV? I mean, if I can decode with AnyDVD what do I need those for? Sorry if the question sounds dumb, but I just got a new desktop that's capable of ripping DVD's so I'm new to it.
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Aug 28, 2011 03:55
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leica posted:AnyDVD sounds great, but what are the advantages between that and Handbrake or MakeMKV? I mean, if I can decode with AnyDVD what do I need those for? Sorry if the question sounds dumb, but I just got a new desktop that's capable of ripping DVD's so I'm new to it. AnyDVD will give you a copy of the DVD in ISO form. You mount the ISO and then use it exactly like you'd use the DVD. If you want a simple video file and/or want to conserve disk space, you need to convert it.
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Aug 28, 2011 04:00
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LooKMaN posted:MakeMKV does that. This is fantastic. Why have I not seen it before. 
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Aug 28, 2011 04:56
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Toast Museum posted:AnyDVD will give you a copy of the DVD in ISO form. You mount the ISO and then use it exactly like you'd use the DVD. If you want a simple video file and/or want to conserve disk space, you need to convert it. Ok...So do I need AnyDVD to decode it, then use Handbrake/MakeMKV to convert it, or does Handbrake/MakeMKV automatically decode and covert to MKV? If so, I would assume then the main reason to have the decoded ISO form is for burning copies, or just having highest possible quality that takes up a ton of space.....How much space does a typical movie in ISO form take up?
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Aug 28, 2011 05:50
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leica posted:Ok...So do I need AnyDVD to decode it, then use Handbrake/MakeMKV to convert it, or does Handbrake/MakeMKV automatically decode and covert to MKV? They can go straight from the DVD. If you want something that behaves exactly like the DVD (menus, etc) or you intend to make copies, you want ISO. The size of the ISO is whatever the disc's capacity was.
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Aug 28, 2011 06:02
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I've just had a flash stick go pop on me, so now that I'm loading up the replacement, what essentials are everyone sticking on theirs nowadays?
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Aug 28, 2011 15:08
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Is there anyway to get rid of this obnoxious looking glare that appears on open windows in the Windows taskbar?
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Aug 28, 2011 17:04
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Kerbtree posted:I've just had a flash stick go pop on me, so now that I'm loading up the replacement, what essentials are everyone sticking on theirs nowadays? good question. whats the best way to run an OS off the stick? or do you all just put portable apps on them? gonna be on the go a lot for the remainder of the year so would be useful to have a nicely setup flash drive to attach to my wallet/keychain
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dox posted:good question. whats the best way to run an OS off the stick? or do you all just put portable apps on them? gonna be on the go a lot for the remainder of the year so would be useful to have a nicely setup flash drive to attach to my wallet/keychain Ah, now that one I can do. I've used the Universal USB Installer to install the contents of the Ophcrack liveCD onto the stick. I've added the XP rainbow tables, too. Adding portable apps and the like to the stick shouldn't affect it having an os on it at all, and as long as you don't click the 'format' option, you can install on a stick that's got stuff on it without issue, too.
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I don't know where else to put this, but it seems like when my office upgraded to Windows 7 at long last, with Office 2010 products, I've lost the ability to target which instance of Excel I open documents into. I use a dual monitor set up usually to compare two sheets side by side, and although I can easily start up two instances of Excel, opening documents from email or from anything other than the File -> Open menu of the particular instance ALWAYS pops them up in the FIRST instance of the program I started. This is frustrating, in XP all I had to do was give one window focus and all documents would open in that particular instance. Anybody know a fix for this? I'm not keen on saving every attachment in my inbox to my desktop and then navigating a menu to open it. VV I cannot from outlook. I can from explorer. so that helps halfway, thanks! VV Gunshow Poophole fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Aug 28, 2011 |
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Aug 28, 2011 18:20
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Can you drag and drop it on the instance of excel you want the file to be opened into? I've read that works if you do it from explorer, but I'm not sure about outlook. This is similar to my issue with excel 2010. I can't open new instances of excel simply by clicking on a random excel file, and this is so annoying and inconvenient. If anyone knows a work-around, I'd be glad to hear it.
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Aug 28, 2011 18:23
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I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but... I have a copy of Office 2007 which was on my soon to be dead laptop. How many installs can you have? Would I be able to install it back on my laptop and also on my desktop? Depending on the above answer I would like to know if it's even worth it. How good is Libre Office? I have been using Open Office and I hear Libre is even better.
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Aug 29, 2011 10:37
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Tom Foolery posted:Is there anyway to get rid of this obnoxious looking glare that appears on open windows in the Windows taskbar? Turn off desktop effects/Aero glass (leave Aero enabled, though).
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Aug 29, 2011 14:24
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Does anyone know if the Windows 7 inbound connection limit (20 connections) applies to an Apache web server as well? We want to repair our real web server with a fresh install and want to temporarily move it to a decent Windows 7 machine. My Google search has ended in no definitive answer with some saying the limit is no longer applied, is that true? Edit: The server serves three internal sites with about 300 users. IT Guy fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Aug 29, 2011 |
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Hip Hoptimus Prime posted:I'm in a bit of a panic, hoping I'm doing the right things here... I think it's adorable how people still think their data is somehow tied to their OS install. As long as the hard drive spins, you can get that data off. Hell, you could have taken it to Best Buy and for some number of  they would have done it for you.
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AlexDeGruven posted:Turn off desktop effects/Aero glass (leave Aero enabled, though).
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Tom Foolery posted:Is there anyway to get rid of this obnoxious looking glare that appears on open windows in the Windows taskbar? I asked a similar question a page or two back and didn't get a response. The aero glass effects were a little heavy handed on the taskbar for my taste. I ended up installing a theme called Shine 2.0 from DeviantArt. Most themes I've found are incredibly tacky and ugly, but this one is pretty graceful and minimalist, I think. I'm liking it a few days in, at least. It has a very clean taskbar treatment, especially. http://zainadeel.deviantart.com/art/Shine-2-0-for-Windows-7-172671190
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LooKMaN posted:Great. If you need any information, AvsPmod has built-in help file and AviSynth wiki has a ton of useful information. Thanks for the info. The Doom9 forums have some ridiculous 5-day waiting period before I'm allowed to post there, so I was wondering if you know anything about this seeing as you seem to know a lot about it. AvsPmod works fine for the most part. However, when I jump back and forth between frames a lot it starts to do strange things. The video stops updating consistently when navigating and then starts duplicating frames or segments of the video. This only happens after I framejump backwards for some time. I can go forwards all I want, but as soon as I start going backwards things start to get screwy no matter which direction I go. I'll try my best to explain with a made up example in the context of one of my videos: A bee flies and lands on a flower at frame 295 (9.453 seconds). To find out when it begins to fly and take off, I start seeking forward. In the process of doing this I accidentally skip past the point of take-off (let's jut say it's frame 310), so I seek backwards. Then, the video freezes and when it updates it shows a point after its take-off time (i.e. after frame 310), but the status bar reports that the video is at a position before that (i.e. before frame 310). If I seek around again I see a number of frames jump around and repeat themselves until I get back to a position that wasn't seeked back. It's really aggravating  I hope that was clear. It's a really hard to explain phenomenon, but only seems to happen with the m2ts files. It's consistent with those, but can't be duplicated on another format. Is it a problem with the plugin, or do you think that it's because m2ts files are so resource-intense that it just fucks up somehow? Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Aug 31, 2011 |
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If I have a document open in Word, and I click the email button to open Outlook and send it to someone, the outgoing message isn't saved in my sent folder. Is this supposed to happen? Is there a way to change it so they are saved there? Or if Outlook provides a log somewhere of all sent/recieved messages then that would be nice too, I just want a record that I sent the thing.
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Mak0rz posted:Thanks for the info. The Doom9 forums have some ridiculous 5-day waiting period before I'm allowed to post there, so I was wondering if you know anything about this seeing as you seem to know a lot about it. AvsPmod works fine for the most part. However, when I jump back and forth between frames a lot it starts to do strange things. The video stops updating consistently when navigating and then starts duplicating frames or segments of the video. This only happens after I framejump backwards for some time. I can go forwards all I want, but as soon as I start going backwards things start to get screwy no matter which direction I go. Can you remux it into MKV and then try again. For MKV you can use FFMS2 too, unlike DSS2 that one doesn't work with m2ts.
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In Windows 7, how do I make double clicking on a disc open it as a folder, rather than running the autoplay?
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Jetsetlemming posted:In Windows 7, how do I make double clicking on a disc open it as a folder, rather than running the autoplay? Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\AutoPlay You can get pretty granular with what you want to do for various kinds of disks, but there's a checkbox at the top to disable AutoPlay entirely.
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LooKMaN posted:Can you remux it into MKV and then try again. For MKV you can use FFMS2 too, unlike DSS2 that one doesn't work with m2ts. Okay you're going to have to explain this a little more 
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stubblyhead posted:Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\AutoPlay You can get pretty granular with what you want to do for various kinds of disks, but there's a checkbox at the top to disable AutoPlay entirely.
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I gave my old computer to a friend today. I custom reinstalled Windows 7 on the machine, then deleted windows.old. He's got kids, and I'm frankly worried that they're going to install something like winrar and see something like "ladyboysuckfest.zip" in the Recent Documents, or run across an old bookmark, or something like that. Is that even possible after a re-installation?
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Why didn't you just format it before the reinstall if this was a concern?
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Javid posted:Why didn't you just format it before the reinstall if this was a concern? I assumed a format would be a part of the re-install. When I realized it wasn't, my friend was already on his way to pick it up. Whoops.
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I have a desktop pc running Windows 7, and the hard drive windows is installed on seems to be failing (restarts on its own sometimes and says 'primary hard disk failure'). I upgraded to windows 7 from windows vista, but I don't have a windows 7 disc. I have another hard drive inside my pc which i'd like to use instead of the current one - what's the best method for getting a clean install of windows 7 on there? I have the disc from my old vista, I was considering using that to install vista on the new drive and then upgrading it but that sounds a but dodgy to me. Also, will it be a problem installing windows on the drive considering that it's a slave? I can swap them over if that's necessary but I'm pretty bad with PC maintenance so I'd like to be as hands-off as possible.
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Mak0rz posted:Okay you're going to have to explain this a little more If you have a Nvidia card your best bet would be buying a 15$ licence for DGDecNV, use that to index the file and create a .dgi file, you can use that file in AvsPmod code:Then use that file in AvsPMod code:So if DSS2 doesn't work for you I'd recommend going with DGDecNV, but it does require Nvidia card with VP2 or newer engine. Mayne fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Sep 1, 2011 |
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