Video and Movie topics - Week 18, 2005

Video XFer to Laptop - Firewire or USB?

junk1 - 30 Apr 2005 10:10 AM - 9 messages

I have just bought a Sony camcorder which comes with both USB and firewire. I was under the impression that I could only transfer lower quality video over USB, but I seem to be able to stream USB to an AVI file and ...

Windows XP not seeing my DV camera

Rob - 30 Apr 2005 4:22 AM - 6 messages

Does anyone have a solution to Windows XP suddenly not seeing my DV camera? I've made absolutely no changes to my computer, but out of the blue, Windows XP service pack 2 will not recognize that my sony DV ...

sit-rep ... camera in pieces

C.J.Patten - 29 Apr 2005 10:29 PM - 6 messages

I took my TRV320 apart today. It's sitting next to me along with a pile of 12 tiny screws that held the camera together. Did this to try the daytime Infrared Hack described at: [link] ...

Tranfering VHS tapes to DVD with HP dc5000

rjpalace@aol.com - 29 Apr 2005 2:00 PM - 2 messages

Hi This is my first time on this group, so i don't know if this has been asked about before. I bought an HP DC5000 in hopes of transfering my collection of VHS tapes to DVD and preserving them for more years. But, when i try to ...

DVD language *titling* options

C.J.Patten - 29 Apr 2005 4:12 AM - 10 messages

Hey folks! I know a lot you have experience creating DVD's so I'm firing this question out here. Is there a way to define an audio track as something other than a language? Here's the deal: I have a concert DVD which has three versions of the audio. ...

Why must an .MPEG file be transcoded before burning to DVD? How can I prevent this requirement?

Bradley - 28 Apr 2005 6:25 PM - 5 messages

Let me explain what am I doing. I have a Sony TRV-280 Digital 8 camcorder. Im using Nero Vision Express 3 to stream the video directly to hard drive from the camcorder via USB cable. I select 'capturing template' as DVD. Nero ...

i.Link (ieee 1394) video capture software

bob - 28 Apr 2005 1:54 PM - 9 messages

I have a sony D8 (digital recording on 8mm tape) handycam. It has an i.link (ieee 1394/firewire) port. I have a card in my windows pc, and a cable. The Sony software is useless. I want to capture the video through the firewire to my HD, make some ...

Looking back... (and FYI Tom)

C.J.Patten - 28 Apr 2005 1:03 AM - 8 messages

....at posts from as little as two months ago, I was asking all the basic questions - "which camera is best" kinda stuff. Man, I'm so far ahead of where I was! YOU GUYS & GALS ROCK! _________ Tom, FYI: my Task Manager reports memory usage at 671MB and CPU usage at ...

DVR Recording on Cox Digital and Watching another program

Kvue - 27 Apr 2005 8:17 AM - 2 messages

If this has been answered before I apoligize. I could not find it....So here goes. Is there a way for me to hook up my new DVR with Cox Digital and record one program while watching another (Wow what an Idea)....As it is now. ...

Get Desperate Housewifes

rob - 27 Apr 2005 4:42 AM - 2 messages

I missed today's desperate housewifes show. I know that somehow it is possible to transfer a show from somebody else's ReplayTv to my replaytv. Can you explain me how to do this and where I can get the ...

DVD-R blanks compatible with LiteOn 5005

Roy Gardner - 26 Apr 2005 9:06 PM - 4 messages

Hi, LiteOn has a list of recommended blanks for this unit, but virtually all are hard-to-find or obsolete, it seems. If you have a 5005 standalone unit, what do you use for consistently satisfactory DVD-R blanks? Thanks for any help with this. ...

Sony PC-100 vs newer DV camcorder

lgewirtz5 - 26 Apr 2005 6:42 PM - 7 messages

I just saw a used Sony PC-100 for sale for $500. What I'm mostly concerned with is video quality and audio quality, as opposed to effects. Will do better buying a used higher end camcorder such as the ...

RCA TV - Help needed with overscan correction

Karyudo - 26 Apr 2005 6:45 AM - 20 messages

I've got an RCA F27689, built in 2001. Not the world's best 27" TV, but decent enough for me right now. I'm a bit of a tweaker, so I've already found out how to get into the ...

M2V to AVI

C.J.Patten - 25 Apr 2005 5:34 AM - 5 messages

Pulled a boner tonight. Deleted a file before I should have. 16:9 DV-AVI. I have an M2V transcode from the file (eg: the video only portion that I need - the audio is seperate and I haven't deleted that) ...

Recommendations for NTSC Capable TV for UK Gamer?

Andrew McCall - 24 Apr 2005 10:52 PM - 3 messages

Hi Folks, I have recently bought a few Japanese consoles, and their output is NTSC. My main TV allows me to play the Japanese games, but in back and white as its a PAL TV and isn't fully compatible with NTSC signals - because ...

New Sony HDV Camcorder

Charles C. Shyu - 24 Apr 2005 9:40 PM - 7 messages

[link] Part of the Qualia line, priced at about $5,800 and will be available in "spring". ...

Is there a Faq on buying camcorders?

Salad - 24 Apr 2005 1:49 PM - 8 messages

Hi. My girlfriend wants to buy a camcorder. Her basic requirement is that it cost less than $600. We went to a store yesterday and saw a camcorder that uses a mini-DVD to record. Then I saw references to something called SD or SI. Most of ...

Help DVD to CD-R

revedesmer - 24 Apr 2005 12:39 AM - 2 messages

Hello, I was hoping that somebody could help me. Sorry for the newbie question, but... I have a dvd recorder/player on which I have made a copy of my old VHS home movie, that was made using an analog camcorder. My Dvd ...