Personally I don't give a damn how long it takes, my iRiver has ogg support, I'm just hoping they add APE support. And atleast firmware updates help older players not be as outdated. It may not have as nice of an interface as an ipod but even with these price drops, its still cheaper. It comes with remote(with its own display) and carrying case. Has a 16 hour battery life, even apple's latest efforts haven't caught up with that. Greatest thing I like is that it works like a true external hard drive, retaining the full filenames etc. making it easy to copy them back off. Plus it has a radio, has a mic for recording and can record the radio.
Only thing iPod has over it is the navigation wheel of its and a slightly better interface. They're slowly updating the firmware to better the interface, with no differences between 20gb and 40gb.
Maybe the 5th gen iPod will actually be competitive with the current gen iRiver?
So my 1.5mbps/128kbps cable connection with: "NO download limits, traffic shaping, portblocking, restrictions on servers or whatever else" for us$45 is inferior how?
I do admit the 128kbps upload is very dissapointing, alas they lowered it from 768kbps last year.
All the other problems with this comparison aside, anyone else notice that in the frame comparisons of the various codecs its very often not even the same frame? Look at the first comparison from Matrix, in the WMV9 frame neo's arm is quite definately in a completely different position. This seems extremely sloppy in my opinion. Seriously, if people want a proper codec comparison they should go to doom9.net
Its called JOBS, a nice feature virtualdub has. Setup your first-pass, when you save check the box to not run the save now but to instead save it to the job list. then do the same thing for the second pass, then bring up the job manager (file menu or F4 shortcut key), it should list your 2 jobs as waiting, click start.
I hope you haven't been thinking you had to step in after 3 hours for too long.
Similar, but not quite. K3B doesn't seem to do what dvdshrink does, aka transcoding. Its on their feature list as "DVD copy (no video transcoding yet)" so hopefully it will be added. Without that, it only really replaces nero in that list of steps.
Most hard drives now-a-days are actually EXTREMELY resilient, I have a 75gxp 30gb drive and 75gb drive. The 75gb drive I have had for only a month or so. however the 30gb drive I have had for a year. In the course of this year my computer has gone to atleast 10 lan parties, 1 of which was a 4 hour drive and another an hour drive which included driving the streets of boston(many of which seem more like off roading due to pot holes). I think the drive has taken some decently large G's inside the case during all these trips. I guess nowhere near what it could outside of the case being dropped as the case absorbs some of the impact as does the car.
As for vibrations while running? You'd have to be banging the case with a hammer repeatedly to cause some sort of problem, someone walking by isn't going to effect it ever unless they're a 500lb gorilla and your floor can go up and down 2+"'s. Due to lack of space my case has a spot on the floor next to my subwoofer, any time I am listening to music, playing a game the floor is definately vibrating quite a bit and as I said that one drive along with a Seagate barracuda 45gb have been happily running for a year. Likely this does shorten their life span but we're talking from 20+ years to 19+ years nothing too drastic. Having a drive that was poorly manufactured or designed is going to effect when it fails far more than some vibrations.
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Personally I don't give a damn how long it takes, my iRiver has ogg support, I'm just hoping they add APE support. And atleast firmware updates help older players not be as outdated. It may not have as nice of an interface as an ipod but even with these price drops, its still cheaper. It comes with remote(with its own display) and carrying case. Has a 16 hour battery life, even apple's latest efforts haven't caught up with that. Greatest thing I like is that it works like a true external hard drive, retaining the full filenames etc. making it easy to copy them back off. Plus it has a radio, has a mic for recording and can record the radio.
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Only thing iPod has over it is the navigation wheel of its and a slightly better interface. They're slowly updating the firmware to better the interface, with no differences between 20gb and 40gb.
Maybe the 5th gen iPod will actually be competitive with the current gen iRiver?
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So my 1.5mbps/128kbps cable connection with:
"NO download limits, traffic shaping, portblocking, restrictions on servers or whatever else"
for us$45 is inferior how?
I do admit the 128kbps upload is very dissapointing, alas they lowered it from 768kbps last year.
I have to agree with you on that, however Honda's Civic Hybrid looks just like the normal Civic.
All the other problems with this comparison aside, anyone else notice that in the frame comparisons of the various codecs its very often not even the same frame? Look at the first comparison from Matrix, in the WMV9 frame neo's arm is quite definately in a completely different position. This seems extremely sloppy in my opinion. Seriously, if people want a proper codec comparison they should go to doom9.net
Its called JOBS, a nice feature virtualdub has. Setup your first-pass, when you save check the box to not run the save now but to instead save it to the job list. then do the same thing for the second pass, then bring up the job manager (file menu or F4 shortcut key), it should list your 2 jobs as waiting, click start.
I hope you haven't been thinking you had to step in after 3 hours for too long.
Similar, but not quite. K3B doesn't seem to do what dvdshrink does, aka transcoding. Its on their feature list as "DVD copy (no video transcoding yet)" so hopefully it will be added. Without that, it only really replaces nero in that list of steps.
Most hard drives now-a-days are actually EXTREMELY resilient, I have a 75gxp 30gb drive and 75gb drive. The 75gb drive I have had for only a month or so. however the 30gb drive I have had for a year. In the course of this year my computer has gone to atleast 10 lan parties, 1 of which was a 4 hour drive and another an hour drive which included driving the streets of boston(many of which seem more like off roading due to pot holes). I think the drive has taken some decently large G's inside the case during all these trips. I guess nowhere near what it could outside of the case being dropped as the case absorbs some of the impact as does the car.
As for vibrations while running? You'd have to be banging the case with a hammer repeatedly to cause some sort of problem, someone walking by isn't going to effect it ever unless they're a 500lb gorilla and your floor can go up and down 2+"'s. Due to lack of space my case has a spot on the floor next to my subwoofer, any time I am listening to music, playing a game the floor is definately vibrating quite a bit and as I said that one drive along with a Seagate barracuda 45gb have been happily running for a year. Likely this does shorten their life span but we're talking from 20+ years to 19+ years nothing too drastic. Having a drive that was poorly manufactured or designed is going to effect when it fails far more than some vibrations.