Posted by Alpha on 11/16/05 23:01

"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:437bb6d3.83319546@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:18:16 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote:
>
>>It looks like if I want that clip for my collection I am going to play
>>the music video DVD from a player into a DVD recorder and burn a new,
>>fully-compliant DVD copy, and work with that. Since the source DVD is
>>not copy protected I will not have that issue to fool with.
>
> As a followup to this little saga, I did manage to copy the clip from
> the original DVD onto a DVD in my DVDR. I put it at highest resolution
> and pushed the little red button on cue.
>
> I then ripped the mpg with VRD and sized it. It rendered it briefly
> (according to the dialog) and then did the stream fix. I was then able
> to import it successfully into MF4 and export it without any problems.
> I treated it the same as the other clips in terms of the render
> setting, eg Two Pass, etc. Now I have my last clip and have compiled
> the final version, which has 16 of my favorite clips - and it just fit
> a 4.3GB DVD. Talk about luck.
>
> There is a serious bug in MF4. I would have been willing to share all
> this with Ulead developers but they ignored my request to become a
> beta test site. Anyway I am off to evaluating TDA which hopefully is
> well written.
>
> One last point. Having been involved with computer development for
> over 45 years, I have seen just about everything, in particular with
> embedded systems. I know why they work and why they do not work.
>
> If an lone individual working weekends and evenings can put together a
> masterpiece like DVD Shrink

This is hardly the masterpiece you think. It chokes on may input files (see
the newsgroups). You don't know much do you?

You fail to check newsgroup threads for information via Google etc. and then
act as if your personal experience defines every parameter of everyone else.

Unbelievable arrogance you display.


>or DVD Decrypter, and have no major bugs
> (or minor ones either), then there is no excuse for a company like
> Ulead to be screwing the consumer like they do with their outright
> crap.
>
> They have adopted the Microsoft business model which is "Publish in
> Haste, Repent in Leisure - On the Way to the Bank".
>
> The only thing we can do is to warn others about what crooked
> companies like this are doing.
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> BOYCOTT SONY!
>
> SONY IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER YOUR COMPUTER!
>
> HOMELAND SECURITY TOLD SONY TO CEASE AND DESIST!
>
> YOU DO THE SAME - BOYCOTT SONY!
>

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