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Posted by jeffambrose424 on 08/09/07 02:44
On Aug 8, 9:51 am, "Gary" <Garys...@spamasmailorder.com> wrote:
> <jeffambrose...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:1186577750.314793.104220@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
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> > On Aug 7, 4:48 pm, Colin Wilson
> > <REMOVEEVERYTHINGBUTnewsgr...@phoenixbbsZEROSPAM.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > What is the best program to make the conversion balancing loss of
> >> > quality with ease of use ?
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> >> There are several apps that will rip to mpeg / divx (autogk.me.uk for
> >> instance), but for general file conversion I use "Super"
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> >>http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html
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> >> Sadly, the owner of the site tried to make it as f*cking hard as
> >> possible to find the download link for some reason...
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> >> What might be really useful would be to buy a divx capable player -
> >> that way you should be able to dodge most conversion problems !
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> >> I still find I have to re-convert from divx5 to divx4 for my player
> >> though to get the best compatibility :-/
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> > Ah, I'll look into that, thanks. I had bad experiences with Divx.
> > Don't know
> > why. I tried some encoding on it a while back, and it just produced a
> > picture
> > that was not as good as regular VOB or MPEG2/4, or even AVI. It was
> > bloody
> > slow to process also.
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> > What I've done lately is use IFOedit and VOB Blanker and manually edit
> > the
> > VOB files on my HD. Guess what? It worked. Almost. The PAL disc
> > works
> > in my player now, but the problem is I lost the reason I wanted it to
> > work.
> > The subtitles. So the picture, menus, audio is ok, but I lost the
> > subtitles.
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> > But when I pop the disc in my computer - subtitles are there.
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> > I think I'm going to pull out my wallet, thin as it is, and buy a
> > multi region player.
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> You probably meant to say MULTI SYSTEM i.e. PAL and NTSC not multiregion
> i.e. Australia -USA
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> What you really need is REGION FREE and MULTI SYSTEM.
> I know Amazon.co.uk do these but I don't know if they ship overseas.maybe
> Amazon.com do them
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> Cheers
> Gary
Recommend any models over others?
Region free and multi system....got it.
Oh my, shipping from UK would be murder, the s&h costs that is.
Have to find something domestic. Maybe a model with a confirmed
unlock code (fingers crossed)
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