On Friday 24 Feb 2006 15:09, Guillaume Laurent wrote: > HD-based recorders aren't too expensive these days, and are the most > convenient way to record video.
True -- now -- but not exactly relevant to the original question. > What about subtitles, or multiple audio tracks ? Pretty nice to have > around here when you actually want to hear the actor's actual voice and > not the one of the post-synch guy. I mentioned captioning, but you're right, I was forgetting the serious problem with dubbed videos. Not especially an issue for me personally at the moment but yeah, an important one all in all. Mmm. > > but DVD players are just too clumsy to operate > > Most of the time you just slide the DVD in and press 'play' repeatedly. Maybe you're just more relaxed than me. I find the whole user experience with DVDs much less satisfactory -- too much waiting around and telling it to do things that should be obvious. Videos have all sorts of time-evolved usability improvements, like the fact that you can usually press the button you want before the video has even loaded and it'll take effect when loading has finished, and the fact that it'll play by default if the video is record-protected. Add that to much better localised seeking, and it's just slicker and simpler all round. I guess there probably are DVD players that are that good to use; we don't have one. Also, I hate seeking by scene -- it means you end up with a disproportionate overexposure to the first two seconds of each scene, and end up encouraged to think of a film as a set of little bites. > > and DVDs too easily destroyed with small kids around. > > Easier than a video tape ? Much. So far we've never had a video tape destroyed completely -- though there's still time. It's very easy to scratch a DVD so it won't play at all, e.g. by putting it in while the drawer's closing and then trying to yank it out again, or just leaving it around on the floor and letting the baby chew it a bit. It's not at all uncommon to rent DVDs and find they won't play at all either, and that's no fun when you have a demanding audience. Videos sometimes have tracking problems, but you can always get _something_ out. > I'm surprised none of your kids have figured out yet how to unwind a tape > out of its shell. That little catch on the end of the tape works better than you might expect. Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
