Yes, there is a blacklist of product keys it will not accept, and at least 3 product ID prefixes are banned. Dell also has had it's volume key (used by the DevilsOwn release) revoked and has been issued a new one.
People who are changing their keys on a warez copy just to update to SP1 are pretty stupid, as Microsoft has said they will begin server-side verification of product keys pretty shortly. So next time you go to Windows Update, don't be surprised if you get a "Sorry, your key is invalid." message. (Or worse, your copy of Windows deactivated, and your key banned.)
They can give as much programs with their system as they like, but they should build it WELL. Windows lacks all these programers who give there time free to recheck the code and add to it, this is what makes Open source powerful.
Yeah, cause, you know.. Microsoft doesn't hire decent programmers at all and doesn't PAY THEM MONEY to do their job around 8 hours a day or more.
If you want open source, run open source. Don't bitch about closed source or demand a closed source application be opened up. That's just stupid.
Gee, thanks for allowing me to hide the stuff M$, everyone likes having useless software that still takes up disk space and probably still loads DLLs into memory that they can't see. I want the ability to remove the stuff, not just hide it. If I wanted to just hide it, I just wouldn't look at it!
Typical moronic comments from someone who loves to bash MS and doesn't have the slightest idea of how the Windows environment even works.
Cause gee, IE's complete API's are always loaded in memory and never get unloaded. And same with those pesky Outlook Express API's, even if I'm not using it! And they slow down my gaming so much, Quake3 runs 1 FPS slower! Can you believe that!? How dare Microsoft do that!
And disk space? Pfft. Give me a break. Is that even an issue with ANYTHING nowadays?
Why don't you go back to Windows 95 (without IE integration) and tell us all how great it is.
As a beta tester and someone who has done work for Nullsoft in the past, I can assure you that IN_MP3.dll isn't going anywhere. Besides, there isn't going to be any new versions of Winamp 2. Winamp 3 is released and development is being focused on that.
It isn't a matter of the player engine, it's a matter of the engine providing the audio stream with the ads cut out.
Radio stations use low frequency tones to indicate when a commercial block starts/stops. They are run through a notch filter so the end user listening over the internet, or on a regular FM radio, will not hear the tones. But these tones activate equipment on the radio station's side. Presumably this is what Hiwire is doing. They have some sort of server software to detect the tones and start showing custom advertisements on your browser (instead of the radio station's.)
If they wanted, they could probably make a shoutcast-based solution. But maybe it's not cost effective to them. (After all, probably 95% of their online listener base would be using Windows anyhow.)
It's a 120mm fan, and looks to be pushing air out of the case, through the heatsink fins.
Also, with newer revisions of chips (smaller dyes/etc.), the chip should actually give off _less_ heat, not more. This is the case most of the time, but not always.
That's because the pixel recharge/cycle delay is too great... I have a Dell 2000FP 21" LCD (around $1,400), and there's no such "smearing" or blurring that I've noticed. If you buy a cheap LCD, you're most likely going to hate it for gaming/video/etc. The cheapies are really meant for "2d" type stuff.
Maybe because Linux isn't a very good easy-to-use desktop OS yet. Granted, Windows isn't perfect, but right now I'd say it's leaps and bounds ahead of Linux. Also the fact that switching your mother from Windows to Linux means that whenever she gets new hardware or upgrades, she'll have to recompile her kernel with support for her new hardware. Gimme a break, like a newbie user will know how (or even want to) do that. Also the fact that she now can't run the same software she was using before.
If your mother/family/grandparents/etc are calling you about computer problems, you should probably just upgrade them to WindowsXP or 2000. WindowsME and 98/95 have major issues of their own, and who can blame them? How old are they? Sheesh.
There's a few ways you can do this. My easiest solution was to set my All In Wonder to record to high-bitrate MPEG1, then use VirtualDub to load the MPEG and edit out the commercials, saving each chunk out to AVI (Using the HuffyUV lossless codec). This takes up a bit of hard drive space, but the quality is great. Then I'd load the AVI's into TMPEGEnc and encode them into an SVCD program.
I haven't dealt with SVCD in a while, though, as now I am ripping video right off of the TiVO and deinterlacing/processing it, then compressing it using DiVX. I've found I can fit a 30 minute show inside of around 250 megs and it still looks great.
Something else you might want to try it TMPEGENc's "cut" feature, where you can cut out portions of an MPEG2. It works 90% of the time (and the other 10% it bombs out), but it may work for you.
Hope these suggestions help, let me know if you need anything.
Or if you want to remove a middle step, get a Sony DVAnalog converter. It will convert S-Video/Composite, as well as audio into a DV stream through firewire. Makes capturing digital satellite/etc. a snap. They run around $300 though.. so they're not cheap. But they're the best.
First and easiest solution is to just make a "media box" with an All-In-Wonder in it to record your shows to MPEG2. Then I used TMPEGEnc and other tools to make them into SVCD (or sometimes DiVX.) An hour long episode could be edited down to 40 minutes or so (with all the commercials out), and it would be pretty decent quality on a single 700meg CD as SVCD.
The second and more difficult solution is to get a Tivo, install TurboNet on it (a 100mbps NIC), and try to extract the streams off of the Tivo. I have had a lot of problems with this method, as most "long" shows (over an hour) won't extract properly, or give me other errors. The nice thing about this method though is that it's interlaced, and already in the proper resolution for TV. Plus, the hardware MPEG2 encoder of the TiVO is by far a million times better than the software one of the All-In-Wonder.
For more information on TiVO hacks, visit http://www.9thtee.com/ -- and for more information on video stuff in general I'd try http://www.vcdhelp.com and http://www.doom9.org
The DirecTiVO stores encrypted streams, but a regular TiVO does not.
I don't know of anyone that's modified their DirecTiVO to do what you mentioned.. I think it would require quite a bit of work.
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I have a 50 second MP3 clip I made of it, if you want it.. just send me an e-mail.
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Another track that gets used a lot in trailers is a piece from the movie "Judge Dredd". I believe it's by Alan Silvestri, and is part of Judge Dredd's main theme...
Oh, another one that's used constantly (ie: the Lord of the Rings trailers) is "Mother Africa" by Hans Zimmer.
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Yes, there is a blacklist of product keys it will not accept, and at least 3 product ID prefixes are banned. Dell also has had it's volume key (used by the DevilsOwn release) revoked and has been issued a new one.
People who are changing their keys on a warez copy just to update to SP1 are pretty stupid, as Microsoft has said they will begin server-side verification of product keys pretty shortly. So next time you go to Windows Update, don't be surprised if you get a "Sorry, your key is invalid." message. (Or worse, your copy of Windows deactivated, and your key banned.)
Yeah, cause, you know.. Microsoft doesn't hire decent programmers at all and doesn't PAY THEM MONEY to do their job around 8 hours a day or more.
If you want open source, run open source. Don't bitch about closed source or demand a closed source application be opened up. That's just stupid.
Typical moronic comments from someone who loves to bash MS and doesn't have the slightest idea of how the Windows environment even works.
Cause gee, IE's complete API's are always loaded in memory and never get unloaded. And same with those pesky Outlook Express API's, even if I'm not using it! And they slow down my gaming so much, Quake3 runs 1 FPS slower! Can you believe that!? How dare Microsoft do that!
And disk space? Pfft. Give me a break. Is that even an issue with ANYTHING nowadays?
Why don't you go back to Windows 95 (without IE integration) and tell us all how great it is.
It's also a service pack, ass.
Try to restrain your MS bashing for just one minute.
It should be noted that this is just for "critical" files, not optional patches or hotfixes.
Use Exact Audio Copy with LAME and the --r3mix command line, and never worry about quality again.
You are so full of shit it isn't even funny.
As a beta tester and someone who has done work for Nullsoft in the past, I can assure you that IN_MP3.dll isn't going anywhere. Besides, there isn't going to be any new versions of Winamp 2. Winamp 3 is released and development is being focused on that.
It isn't a matter of the player engine, it's a matter of the engine providing the audio stream with the ads cut out.
Radio stations use low frequency tones to indicate when a commercial block starts/stops. They are run through a notch filter so the end user listening over the internet, or on a regular FM radio, will not hear the tones. But these tones activate equipment on the radio station's side. Presumably this is what Hiwire is doing. They have some sort of server software to detect the tones and start showing custom advertisements on your browser (instead of the radio station's.)
If they wanted, they could probably make a shoutcast-based solution. But maybe it's not cost effective to them. (After all, probably 95% of their online listener base would be using Windows anyhow.)
Hah! You rock. Crocodile Hunter++
It's a 120mm fan, and looks to be pushing air out of the case, through the heatsink fins.
Also, with newer revisions of chips (smaller dyes/etc.), the chip should actually give off _less_ heat, not more. This is the case most of the time, but not always.
Quit trying to be a karma whore.
Blockbuster is owned by Viacom, who owns Paramount, UPN, MTV, Nickeloden, VH1, Comedy Central, Showtime, BET, TNN, CMT.. etc.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Oh man, if I could mod you up I would. Rock on!
Yeah, but just don't upgrade to the latest version of the Multimedia Center, unless you enjoy not being able to record video anymore.
That's because the pixel recharge/cycle delay is too great... I have a Dell 2000FP 21" LCD (around $1,400), and there's no such "smearing" or blurring that I've noticed. If you buy a cheap LCD, you're most likely going to hate it for gaming/video/etc. The cheapies are really meant for "2d" type stuff.
My question is.. isn't AGP Pro supposed to combat this?
Maybe because Linux isn't a very good easy-to-use desktop OS yet. Granted, Windows isn't perfect, but right now I'd say it's leaps and bounds ahead of Linux. Also the fact that switching your mother from Windows to Linux means that whenever she gets new hardware or upgrades, she'll have to recompile her kernel with support for her new hardware. Gimme a break, like a newbie user will know how (or even want to) do that. Also the fact that she now can't run the same software she was using before.
If your mother/family/grandparents/etc are calling you about computer problems, you should probably just upgrade them to WindowsXP or 2000. WindowsME and 98/95 have major issues of their own, and who can blame them? How old are they? Sheesh.
There's a few ways you can do this. My easiest solution was to set my All In Wonder to record to high-bitrate MPEG1, then use VirtualDub to load the MPEG and edit out the commercials, saving each chunk out to AVI (Using the HuffyUV lossless codec). This takes up a bit of hard drive space, but the quality is great. Then I'd load the AVI's into TMPEGEnc and encode them into an SVCD program.
I haven't dealt with SVCD in a while, though, as now I am ripping video right off of the TiVO and deinterlacing/processing it, then compressing it using DiVX. I've found I can fit a 30 minute show inside of around 250 megs and it still looks great.
Something else you might want to try it TMPEGENc's "cut" feature, where you can cut out portions of an MPEG2. It works 90% of the time (and the other 10% it bombs out), but it may work for you.
Hope these suggestions help, let me know if you need anything.
TivoApp will work again if you update your ShowList.tcl -- I can send you the updated version if you'd like.
TivoApp works on some shows, but ones that are long end up bombing out or being corrupt TyStreams. Haven't figured out a solution yet.
Or if you want to remove a middle step, get a Sony DVAnalog converter. It will convert S-Video/Composite, as well as audio into a DV stream through firewire. Makes capturing digital satellite/etc. a snap. They run around $300 though.. so they're not cheap. But they're the best.
First and easiest solution is to just make a "media box" with an All-In-Wonder in it to record your shows to MPEG2. Then I used TMPEGEnc and other tools to make them into SVCD (or sometimes DiVX.) An hour long episode could be edited down to 40 minutes or so (with all the commercials out), and it would be pretty decent quality on a single 700meg CD as SVCD.
The second and more difficult solution is to get a Tivo, install TurboNet on it (a 100mbps NIC), and try to extract the streams off of the Tivo. I have had a lot of problems with this method, as most "long" shows (over an hour) won't extract properly, or give me other errors. The nice thing about this method though is that it's interlaced, and already in the proper resolution for TV. Plus, the hardware MPEG2 encoder of the TiVO is by far a million times better than the software one of the All-In-Wonder.
For more information on TiVO hacks, visit http://www.9thtee.com/ -- and for more information on video stuff in general I'd try http://www.vcdhelp.com and http://www.doom9.org
The DirecTiVO stores encrypted streams, but a regular TiVO does not.
I don't know of anyone that's modified their DirecTiVO to do what you mentioned.. I think it would require quite a bit of work.
I have a 50 second MP3 clip I made of it, if you want it.. just send me an e-mail.
Another track that gets used a lot in trailers is a piece from the movie "Judge Dredd". I believe it's by Alan Silvestri, and is part of Judge Dredd's main theme...
Oh, another one that's used constantly (ie: the Lord of the Rings trailers) is "Mother Africa" by Hans Zimmer.
Anyhow!
Thanks for posting anonymously and being a jackass.
And if you think DivX 3 with nandub is better than DivX 4/5, you are a freaking moron.