[LIB] Finally it is there: The alpha version of the Margi DVD-to-Go for Linux 2.6.24.3
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:08:40 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Finally it is there: The alpha version of the Margi DVD-to-Go for Linux 2.6.24.3 Hi guys, a nice project for the weekend. Check my updated http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics page. It now contains the linux driver for the Margi DVD-to-Go on Linux 2.6.24.3 kernel. Note that a lot of work still needs to be done: - I'm still struggling with the overlay plane and it's parameters which the neomagic needs ( see http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics/NM2160%20Register%20GUESS.html ) - The dvd player needs to be enhanced etc... Enjoy and let me know if you find anything that is irregular. (Don't spam me :-) ) Note that you need to update your kernel, configure it (there is a ..config that I use), update some files like topic.h and opl3sa2.c, add the margi stuff in the kernel source tree, get a copy of libdvdread, libcssread and libdvdnav. Maybe update your X stuff, install my version of the Neomagic driver (the source code of neovideo.c fix is included). And needless to say: THIS IS UNFINISHED WORK :-) Please realize that when I got the first version running on 2.4 it took me a couple of months... Avi.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:16:31 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html This is my 3rd attempt to post this message. I sent 2 from my hotmail on two consecutive days. Though later posts came through from poeple, my two never made it back to me or to the archives. I wish we could coax Dan to axe the old server software and get something new installed that is stable for once. One of you volunteered to set up up, well, if you're still on the list. I'd really like to get a petition going to see how many people are tired of Dan's server software choking on SPAM all the time, requiring him to manually go in and clean ot out. Inevitably posts end up lost in the process. Anyway... let's see if this makes it to the list from this Yahoo account: -- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 20:59:53 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael... I found 2 options about disabling power saving in DVD-To-Go's settings that were set 'on' by default. I diisabled those two opitions (not sure the difference between them), and was able to configure my own custom ettings for when the system in powered by batteries. Seems to work fine so far. I set the LCD brightness to the lowest setting, CPU speed to the 1/4 point which seems to have the most affect when playing video. Tried these two settings Disable Energy save mode and Disable low power mode but it appears to make no difference under my W98SE system, only audio playback when Power Save Mode is set to Full Power Mode only... That's really odd. We both have similar Librettos, are using the same W98SE OS, ostensibly are using the same drivers... but it works for me and not for you. I wonder if comparing driver files in the same manner Avi I compared Stream.sys files would help. I'm not that technically savvy, and can't find any referent of them in Device Manager, but these seem to be the related files: Pwrsave.cnt Pwrsave.cpl pwrsave.exe Pwrsave.hlp Pwrsave.ico Pwrsave.vxd And it looks like the Toshiba driver package was named: L100ctrl.exe I can't seem to find any other Toshiba driver package in my archives that contains the same power saving files specifically for the 110. And I have L100ctrl.exe filed in a folder labeled: * 100CT W95 Toshiba Windows 95 Controls FDD drivers Toshiba never maintained a consistent method for naming their driver packages from one Lib model to the next which can be frustrating as all get out. And it seems I had to install the W95/100CT driver package with the power saving files onto my 110 to get power saving working properly. Have you checked the data transfer rate from your PCMCIA external HDD to the Libby's HDD Michael? I'll bet it's faster than my USB2 external HDD to the Lib's HDD via a USB2 PC card. No I have not as yet, but a long time with a 4GB file!!!...I'll have to run some tests.I have a USB2 external HDD as well but I will have to buy a Cardbus USB2 card to use with the Libretto. I need to borrow on myself and do some testing. How long have you been able to get your Libby to play DVD video on batteries Michael? I'll be interested to hear back from David Chien on whether or not he's going to try that battery pack rebuilding service. My initial tests have lasted 50 mins continuous playback with the extended battery pack. As my 100CT is new to me I don't know the history of the battery pack so I don't know if this is good or bad. In theory a battery pack from batteryrefill would last a full film as it appears that the rebuilt packs offer nearly double the capacity. Double? Last I checked over a year ago, the highest capacity cells that fit in the Lib packs were 1600mah over the 1200mah originals. Maybe there are new ones out with higher capacity. I know I have said this before, but the playback quality on the Libretto screen is superb.If you have a 100 or 110CT, buy a DVD-to-Go card if you can, you won't be disappointed! And you can get them for as little as $10 - $15 on EBay as I did! Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:23:10 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] The driver/software package has an audio glitch in W2K which is documented in the program's readme. For some reason in W2K, it can't output audio through any notebook's internal circuitry. The recommended work-around is to connect an audio adapter cable from the output RCA jacks on card's dongle to the notebook's audio input. Problem there is that the 100/110 libs only have a microphone input jack. But a pair of headhones connected to the dongle works pretty well, as does connecting the output to a PC's external audio system. The signal on my test DVD ISO was pretty weak through the headphones, but listenable. Powered headphones might be nice when using W2K. I never had any problems with the audio directly thru the libby via the ZV port on the yahamah. Are you using DirectX 8 or 9 on W2K? I'm pretty sure it's 9.0c like in my W98SE partition, as I downloadws the upgrade when I set up W98 W2K to dual boot. I only have DX9.0c in my software archives now, and am pretty sure I never downloaded a different copy. It was the latest version at that point. I'll check it when I get a chance though. Matt _ From photos to predictions, The MSN Entertainment Guide to Golden Globes has it all. http://tv.msn.com/tv/globes2007/?icid=nctagline1
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 16:57:15 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! hi Matt, The signal on my test DVD ISO was pretty weak through the headphones, but listenable. Powered headphones might be nice when using W2K. I never had any problems with the audio directly thru the libby via the ZV port on the yahamah. Are you using DirectX 8 or 9 on W2K? I'm pretty sure it's 9.0c like in my W98SE partition, as I downloadws the upgrade when I set up W98 W2K to dual boot. I only have DX9.0c in my software archives now, and am pretty sure I never downloaded a different copy. It was the latest version at that point. I'll check it when I get a chance though. One other question: did you install any service packs and what is the version of stream.sys because that is where I get BSOD under w2k (and also now on xp...) Avi.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:53:30 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm pretty sure it's 9.0c like in my W98SE partition, as I downloadws the upgrade when I set up W98 W2K to dual boot. I only have DX9.0c in my software archives now, and am pretty sure I never downloaded a different copy. It was the latest version at that point. I'll check it when I get a chance though. One other question: did you install any service packs and what is the version of stream.sys because that is where I get BSOD under w2k (and also now on xp...) I slip-streamed SP4 into a copy of W2KSP3, and installed that. I did try renaming extensions on all 4 of W2K's stream.sys files to disable them, and then copying the one from my WXP to each W2K location. But as I recall, Margi wouldn't even load. here's where I found W2KSP4's stream.sys files: Stream.sys - 40.8kb (41,792 bytes) - X:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ * Stream.sys - 40.8kb (41,792 bytes) - X:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DLLCACE\ * Stream.sys - 40.8kb (41,792 bytes) - X:\WINNT\Driver Cache\I386\ * Stream.sys - 41.0kb (42,000 bytes) - X:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\I386\ ** * Version 5.1.2258.400 by: lab6_N(mmbuild) ** Version 5.00.2195.6663 The one from WXPSP2 is: Stream.sys - 41kb - X:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ * Version 5.00.2185.6663 Hmmm... that looks familiar! Matt _ Find sales, coupons, and free shipping, all in one place! MSN Shopping Sales Deals http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctid=198,ptnrid=176,ptnrdata=200639
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 20:35:36 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! The driver/software package has an audio glitch in W2K which is documented in the program's readme. For some reason in W2K, it can't output audio through any notebook's internal circuitry. The recommended work-around is to connect an audio adapter cable from the output RCA jacks on card's dongle to the notebook's audio input. Problem there is that the 100/110 libs only have a microphone input jack. But a pair of headhones connected to the dongle works pretty well, as does connecting the output to a PC's external audio system. The signal on my test DVD ISO was pretty weak through the headphones, but listenable. Powered headphones might be nice when using W2K. I never had any problems with the audio directly thru the libby via the ZV port on the yahamah. Are you using DirectX 8 or 9 on W2K? Avi.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:28:59 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] A few more discoveries today. If you are playing a movie on batteries only, you may find that you have no audio. I discovered that if you adjust the Libretto power setting (hairy light bulb) to full power mode, the audio is restored! That means inorder to conserve battery life, you have to turn down the screen brightness on the full power mode settings page. You can also turn down the CPU speed also to conserve battery life. Only on the lowest CPU speed does the video start to be choppy (unclocked 166Mhz machine). Its a shame that you do not have audio on the 'user' power setting, this would be great for a custom profile just for video playback. If anyone finds a 'get around' for this audio issue on full power mode only let me know... Thanks for the tip on getting VOB files to play with full DVD-To-Go controls Michael. I set up Daemon Tools and was off and flying. Now I'm thinking of running a few tests at setting DVD Shrink to higher coompression to see how small I can make the resulting ISO file set, and still get better output video resolution than that of the MPEG-1 files's I've been ripping my DVDs to. I'm a little surprised that you didn't seem to be able to create a custom power setting that allowed for audio playback. I'd have thought that would be a piece of cake. I'll have a look a my setup. How long have you been able to get your Libby to play DVD video on batteries Michael? I'll be interested to hear back from David Chien on whether or not he's going to try that battery pack rebuilding service. Matt _ Your Hotmail address already works to sign into Windows Live Messenger! Get it now http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme002001msn/direct/01/?href=http://get.live.com/messenger/overview
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:21:09 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html Here's an update on my progress. The card works perfectly in W98SE/Directx 9.0c on my 110 by just installing the Margi software/driver previously referenced, and doing nothing else. The problem I was having playing a small test clip turned out to be the fault of VideoReDo when it created the clip. The resulting test video didn't have the infomation in it that let's the Margi card know it's the type if file it's been programmed to recognize. I can copy any DVD VOB file to the 110's HDD, and it will play fine. The only problem is that the DVD-To-Go player doesn't have a slider to allow pausing and specifying where in the VOB you want to start play again. If for some reason you stop play, you have to wait until the video reaches the point in the file where you left off. You can pause video play, and resume with no problems. I'm thinking of looking into two things: 1. Whether or not DVD-To-Go will only play traditional 1,073,481,728 byte VOBs and nothing else. 2. How to make my own MPEG-2 encoded files that DVD-To-Go . GSpot reports the standard DVD VOB file as using the MPEG2_Video codec, and TMPGEnc seems t only want to use MPEG2_payload. 3. If I can't get DVD-To-Go to start at a specific play time, can I split a VOB into a number of smaller ones. That'd depend on the answer to my question #1. Matt _ From photos to predictions, The MSN Entertainment Guide to Golden Globes has it all. http://tv.msn.com/tv/globes2007/
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:41:47 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html It does work! It took longer to track down a copy of the wdm1051063.exe Margi software/driver then it did to install it and get the card to play MPEG-2 files on the HDD. Youre link was dead Avi. Turns out I had Directx v9.0c on the W98SE partition of my 110 from a previous attempt to get the card working, and it seems you cant roll it back to a previous version. But I did have limited success at getting both video and audio to play. I first played a couple files captured with a WinTV card on my PC. One was the original MPEG-2, and the other an MPEG-1 file compressed down about 1/6 the size of the original of the type I usually make for playing on the Lib. Both have MPEG-1 Layer 2 encoded audio streams. And the audio for both plays fine through the Libs Yamaha sound drivers. But then I ripped a small section out of a DVD VOB to a 34MB MPEG-2 test file that contains the original AC3 audio stream, and I get no audio playback out of that at all. Now I havent found where to find the option to enable the ZV port in any of the Yamaha W98SE driver settings I can find. Im hoping that may enable the AC3 audio playback. If its because I need Directx v8.1, Ill have to start over and install a new copy of W98SE. Where did you find the ZV port setting in W98 (SE?) Michael? And Avi, did you use the Margi wdm1051063.exe software/driver package in W2k? One thing I was wondering about has been dramatically demonstrated The quality of the MPEG-2 video ripped right from a DVD VOB is incredible. Close to photo perfect on the little Libby screen! Matt _ Get live scores and news about your team: Add the Live.com Football Page www.live.com/?addtemplate=footballicid=T001MSN30A0701
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:32:49 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html I'm wondering if you guys have done video quality test comparisons between MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoded videos as they play on the Libby. I'm assuming the MPEG-2 files have to be sharper. I've been working more with AutoGK recently, and have been playing various XVid encoded captures through a PC DV port to an HDTV. It's interesting to see how small AutoGK can make a file and still retain quite the same quality as it does at settings that result in much larger files. I've been using the Bincsoft Bitrate Calculator to calculate bitrates for MPEG-1 encoded files in TMPGEnc so they'll all fit on a 4.5GB DVD-R. When the resulting videos get displayed on the Libby's little screen, I sure can't see any difference between 850kbps - 1100kbps encoded files. But the quality of MPEG-2 video playback on a Lib is something that hasn't even been discussed to my knowledge (just checked archives to confirm that unless Ive messed something). I think you guys are the first to really get the Margis up and running, and able to do tests on. So while it'll be fun to see if I can duplicate your successes from the work you've put into this, I wonder how practical it'll actually be to play MPEG-2 encoded files on these old under-powered systems with such a limited portable battery source. The battery in my 100 went south a couple of months back. And now I see the one in my 110 is only powering the system for 35-45 minutes with power saving options maxed The Margi has to suck a lot of power. So Im wondering if you guys are going to be able to play an entire 90-120 minute DVD (from file or DVD disk) before using up the charge in the Libbys battery. Even with a rebuilt battery pack as David is looking into, I wonder how long these systems will me able to process all that data through the Margi. Matt _ Fixing up the home? Live Search can help http://imagine-windowslive.com/search/kits/default.aspx?kit=improvelocale=en-USsource=hmemailtaglinenov06FORM=WLMTAG
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 07:14:10 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Michael, That was it DirectX 8.1 is the version that you need including the driver. Just about cracked it now! Updated the DirectX to v8.1 ensured I had the correct Yamaha sound driver loaded and I now have sound to go along with the video. So under 98SE using WDM V1.05.1063 driver/software, DirectX V8.1, I have flawless (and I mean flawless, no chopping or stuttering at all) video sound either from my external DVD-ROM drive or copied VOB's on the hard drive. The only problem now is that I can only play region free/macrovision free dvd's. Don't know why, I could under W95 with the same DVD-ROM drive? That is stange as the Margi is supposed to do the decryption as well. The region must be set but check the region settings of your dvd drive and do a google if there isn't a region free firmware update somewhere. If I can't crack that one I can always DVD shrink my originals use copies, which I can then copy onto the hard drive of course...may need a bigger HDD then though! DVD decrypter is THE tool for this. Or do you use something else? (Let me know :-)) And what DVD player do you have that I don't :-) Avi.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:35:12 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note using W95 I used the MCI v2.18 successfully. Now using W98SE I have tried MCI v2.18 and the driver appears to be okay, but have no picture or sound, That's what ended up happening to me no matter what I tried. the dongle output may work but have not tried. I can't get any of the 3 drivers under WDM v1.05 to work at all, I get the message NTKERN.VXD device loader for this device could not load the device driver So for W98SE, should I be using the MCI or WDM driver/software set? Does anyone have a set of drivers later than the set I have tried? Any other tips, I am all ears! ...I don't want to go back to W95! I tried and tried setting up the Margi card both in W98SE and W2K before I fially gave up. I never got it to output either sound or video. But from what you've written, I'm now tempted to install a copy of W95 to a new partition or drive, and see if it'll work there. However... that means taking some time to drive over to where it's stashed in storage and digging around for the beast. It would be great if I could get the card to play MPEG-2 encoded files from the HDD. Too bad the L110 lacks the power to process DivX and XVid encoded vids. Matt _ Fixing up the home? Live Search can help http://imagine-windowslive.com/search/kits/default.aspx?kit=improvelocale=en-USsource=hmemailtaglinenov06FORM=WLMTAG
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:46:54 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note using W95 I used the MCI v2.18 successfully. Now using W98SE I have tried MCI v2.18 and the driver appears to be okay, but have no picture or sound, That's what ended up happening to me no matter what I tried. For the sound you need to find the toggle that says ZV port. If you don't have it then the driver for the Yahama is outdated. The Neomagic driver might also be outdated. Another possibility is that you need a newer version of DirectX. the dongle output may work but have not tried. I can't get any of the 3 drivers under WDM v1.05 to work at all, I get the message NTKERN.VXD device loader for this device could not load the device driver So for W98SE, should I be using the MCI or WDM driver/software set? Does anyone have a set of drivers later than the set I have tried? Any other tips, I am all ears! ...I don't want to go back to W95! I tried and tried setting up the Margi card both in W98SE and W2K before I fially gave up. I never got it to output either sound or video. But from what you've written, I'm now tempted to install a copy of W95 to a new partition or drive, and see if it'll work there. However... that means taking some time to drive over to where it's stashed in storage and digging around for the beast. It would be great if I could get the card to play MPEG-2 encoded files from the HDD. Too bad the L110 lacks the power to process DivX and XVid encoded vids. Check also the DirectX version installed. You need at least 7 or 8 if I'm not mistaken. Avi.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:49:52 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! In any case, In one of these days I'll update http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics with the margi drivers that I downloaded before the site went down and with pictures of the margi inside. You might need to use the upgraded MCI or WDM driver. Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 23 December, 2006 19:36 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:35:12 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note using W95 I used the MCI v2.18 successfully. Now using W98SE I have tried MCI v2.18 and the driver appears to be okay, but have no picture or sound, That's what ended up happening to me no matter what I tried. the dongle output may work but have not tried. I can't get any of the 3 drivers under WDM v1.05 to work at all, I get the message NTKERN.VXD device loader for this device could not load the device driver So for W98SE, should I be using the MCI or WDM driver/software set? Does anyone have a set of drivers later than the set I have tried? Any other tips, I am all ears! ...I don't want to go back to W95! I tried and tried setting up the Margi card both in W98SE and W2K before I fially gave up. I never got it to output either sound or video. But from what you've written, I'm now tempted to install a copy of W95 to a new partition or drive, and see if it'll work there. However... that means taking some time to drive over to where it's stashed in storage and digging around for the beast. It would be great if I could get the card to play MPEG-2 encoded files from the HDD. Too bad the L110 lacks the power to process DivX and XVid encoded vids. Matt _ Fixing up the home? Live Search can help http://imagine-windowslive.com/search/kits/default.aspx?kit=im provelocale=en-USsource=hmemailtaglinenov06FORM=WLMTAG
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:16:15 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! I'm getting nearer using 98SE! I am now using the WDM driver/software set very slightly a higher version number v1.05.1063 that works...partly! I have seamless video, again using my external DVD-ROM drive, but no audio. Also I can't play DVD's with a menu structure, only my own DVD's that play without an opening menu? wheird! I will have to now check a few things following your post Aviwhat are the slight mods that you have made to your WDM driver listed on your web site? I assume that you have the DVD-to-Go working normally with video audio on your libretto with 98SE installed? The fact that I can now get seamless video playback (only) using 98SE is pushing me to crack this one! Cheers, Mike.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:37:17 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! You should be able to play full DVD's including the menu structure. For the audio, be sure you have the correct driver and find that ZV port toggle! The difference in my driver is that it doesn't use Kernel Stream Synchronization when using the kernel streams. (don't ask) Also it modifies a timeout value somewhere. Use at own risk :-) Note that a large part of the DVD menu handling is being done by Windows in the Kernel Streaming (KS) software. The Margi only does the hardware decoding. The DVDplay.exe sets up the kernel streams etc and sends events like play, menu etc. to the KS modules. Me thinks that I had audio running with SE as well. BE SURE TO FIND THE ZV PORT ENABLE :-) That will do the audio trick. It should be hidden somewhere in the Advanced settings of your audio volume controls. (I hope. SE was a very long time ago...) Avi. -Original Message- From: Michael Heathcote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 24 December, 2006 0:16 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:16:15 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! I'm getting nearer using 98SE! I am now using the WDM driver/software set very slightly a higher version number v1.05.1063 that works...partly! I have seamless video, again using my external DVD-ROM drive, but no audio. Also I can't play DVD's with a menu structure, only my own DVD's that play without an opening menu? wheird! I will have to now check a few things following your post Aviwhat are the slight mods that you have made to your WDM driver listed on your web site? I assume that you have the DVD-to-Go working normally with video audio on your libretto with 98SE installed? The fact that I can now get seamless video playback (only) using 98SE is pushing me to crack this one! Cheers, Mike.
[LIB] ZV for Margi DVD-to-Go
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:15:16 +0300 From: Vitaly Pavlenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ZV for Margi DVD-to-Go Avi, you seem to posess a real knowledge about Margi DVD-to-Go. AFAIR it requires ZV port. Strangely enough my Lib SS1000 does not have the one (I mean, L1x0 series which is equipped with ZV port is a previous generation). Is it really a must or maybe some tricks exist to make it work? Thanks. Regards, Vitaly
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:45:27 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Hi Matt, From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got the card running with 98SE, W2K and XP. But only with XP I got it stable enough. What kinds of issues did you have with stabilty in W98 W2K? W98 the playback was not smooth and with W2K I got BSOD in stream.sys from time to time. Just got a BSOD in stream.sys under XP as well... maybe I should try 95 again or work again on the linux driver... And XP was more stable for you!? I'll be interested in hearing how W95 works for you. Yesterday I tried a test with a PCMCIA DVD drive to try to follow up on what Phillip wrote in relation to thruput speed ISA vs PCI/PCMCIA. For some reason my Freecom drive isn't pushing bytes fast enough into the Margi. As I have the sources of the Margi driver I have to check if I didn't make a slight change somewhere in the code as my tests that I did (before my 40Gb hd drive made problems) a couple of months ago was with DVD's ripped to the HD. Also I played a bit with the bios setting by letting the OS do the irq assignments. That didn't made any real difference as far as I could see. I diff-ed the code I got vs the changes I made and I'm going to do a test again with my modified driver. The changes are little but might be significant. I don't know if I'm going to reinstall W95 again to check dvd replay. I might either try to write an own driver without leaning on Kernel Streams and reuse the existing sources partially and make a user mode driver with giveio or something else. (If i find some time.) Avi. N.B. For NDA reasons I cannot share the source code.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:53:45 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Okay I got my Margi DVD-to-Go card to work under Windows 95, but now having problems under 98SE! Firstly drivers. Margi's web site appears to be down, have they gone bust? Anyhow I have managed to download drivers from Billionton suitable for W95 'MCI' v2.18 and from DELL suitable for W95 'MCI' v2.16 98SE/2000 'WDM' v1.05 Note using W95 I used the MCI v2.18 successfully. Now using W98SE I have tried MCI v2.18 and the driver appears to be okay, but have no picture or sound, the dongle output may work but have not tried. I can't get any of the 3 drivers under WDM v1.05 to work at all, I get the message NTKERN.VXD device loader for this device could not load the device driver So for W98SE, should I be using the MCI or WDM driver/software set? Does anyone have a set of drivers later than the set I have tried? Any other tips, I am all ears! ...I don't want to go back to W95! Thanks, Mike.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:24:20 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html Wow I'm bown away here on the dialogue about getting the Margi DVD-to-Go card to work. Michael Heathcote (quoted above and below) indicated that he got his up and running in Win95 with only the small hitch of having to replace the driver Win95 loaded with the proper one that came with the card! Seems that was the OS the margi card was tweaked for. And I'd guess Win95 was probably the lease resource hungry of the beasts that followed. From what Avi has been talking about, I'm not sure if he's running Win98 or Win2000 with the card. He spoke about replacing an existing Win98 driver with the same from Win2000... and I assumed that meant his Margi card was working in Win98. But from Avi's dialogues with Phillip, it sounds like he's got the card working in Win2000, or both Win2000 and Win98. So I'm extremely tempted at this point to dig my card out of storeage, set up Win95 on my 100's 20GB HDD, and do some testing myself here. Video encoded to MPEG-2 files would look a lot sharper than the ones I've been re-encoding with MPEG1 compression with Tsunami. Matt From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com Subject: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:38:35 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:16:42 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Margi DVD-to-Go card works! I've been a member of this list for over 6 years or more, but I have not used my 50CT for quite a while since buying a Portege 3490CT. The main problem of the 50CT been lack of 32 bit cardbus USB with modern peripherals. While surfing on ebay last week I noticed a 100CT going for a good price with only a few minutes left, an impulse bid and I won! For only 87 pounds I now have a 100CT, std extended batteries, standard dock, enhanced dock, power supply floppy. Well pleased! Unmodified standard clock speed, original HDD but unfortuately only the on board 32MB RAM...you can't have it all I guess!!! Now a few years ago I bought a Margi DVD-to-Go card with dongle for my Portege, but at the time I did not realise the Portege was not Zoom Video supported, so the card has not been used. Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Presently the 100CT is running windows 95 with only 32MB Ram running at 166MHz. What I did notice was that windows automatically loaded the incorrect driver for the card when first inserted and did not initially work. Updating the driver for the correct one from Margi solved the problem. Full screen seemless DVD playback audio playing a DVD from my 16 bit PCMCIA 4x Argosy external DVD ROM drive. Amazing! Now that I know it works I am going to change the HDD for something larger and load Windows 98SE for the USB support. Hope the Margi DVD-to-Go card works okay under Windows 98SE! Now a quick question. Does it matter whether I use 100CT or 110CT drives for my 100CT? There appears to be more drivers available for the 110CT on the Toshiba website for 98SE. Thanks, Mike. _ Get FREE Web site and company branded e-mail from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:41:33 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Hi, I got the card running with 98SE, W2K and XP. But only with XP I got it stable enough. And of course I got the card running with Mandrake 9.2 with a modified kernel 2.24.something, a margi linux driver I found and updated and the x program I wrote to playback the DVD's with linux plus changing the Neomagic Xserver (and the sound card driver) after a lot of and really a lot of reverse engineering the windows drivers. (And the end I called Margi and they gave me the source code of the Margi WDM driver...) Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 21 December, 2006 20:27 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:24:20 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html Wow I'm bown away here on the dialogue about getting the Margi DVD-to-Go card to work. Michael Heathcote (quoted above and below) indicated that he got his up and running in Win95 with only the small hitch of having to replace the driver Win95 loaded with the proper one that came with the card! Seems that was the OS the margi card was tweaked for. And I'd guess Win95 was probably the lease resource hungry of the beasts that followed. From what Avi has been talking about, I'm not sure if he's running Win98 or Win2000 with the card. He spoke about replacing an existing Win98 driver with the same from Win2000... and I assumed that meant his Margi card was working in Win98. But from Avi's dialogues with Phillip, it sounds like he's got the card working in Win2000, or both Win2000 and Win98. So I'm extremely tempted at this point to dig my card out of storeage, set up Win95 on my 100's 20GB HDD, and do some testing myself here. Video encoded to MPEG-2 files would look a lot sharper than the ones I've been re-encoding with MPEG1 compression with Tsunami. Matt From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com Subject: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:38:35 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:16:42 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Margi DVD-to-Go card works! I've been a member of this list for over 6 years or more, but I have not used my 50CT for quite a while since buying a Portege 3490CT. The main problem of the 50CT been lack of 32 bit cardbus USB with modern peripherals. While surfing on ebay last week I noticed a 100CT going for a good price with only a few minutes left, an impulse bid and I won! For only 87 pounds I now have a 100CT, std extended batteries, standard dock, enhanced dock, power supply floppy. Well pleased! Unmodified standard clock speed, original HDD but unfortuately only the on board 32MB RAM...you can't have it all I guess!!! Now a few years ago I bought a Margi DVD-to-Go card with dongle for my Portege, but at the time I did not realise the Portege was not Zoom Video supported, so the card has not been used. Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Presently the 100CT is running windows 95 with only 32MB Ram running at 166MHz. What I did notice was that windows automatically loaded the incorrect driver for the card when first inserted and did not initially work. Updating the driver for the correct one from Margi solved the problem. Full screen seemless DVD playback audio playing a DVD from my 16 bit PCMCIA 4x Argosy external DVD ROM drive. Amazing! Now that I know it works I am going to change the HDD for something larger and load Windows 98SE for the USB support. Hope the Margi DVD-to-Go card works okay under Windows 98SE! Now a quick question. Does it matter whether I use 100CT or 110CT drives for my 100CT? There appears to be more drivers available for the 110CT on the Toshiba website for 98SE. Thanks, Mike. _ Get FREE Web site and company branded e-mail from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:10:47 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Hmmm Just got a BSOD in stream.sys under XP as well... maybe I should try 95 again or work again on the linux driver... Avi. (sh*t) -Original Message- From: Avi Cohen Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 21 December, 2006 21:53 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:41:33 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Hi, I got the card running with 98SE, W2K and XP. But only with XP I got it stable enough. And of course I got the card running with Mandrake 9.2 with a modified kernel 2.24.something, a margi linux driver I found and updated and the x program I wrote to playback the DVD's with linux plus changing the Neomagic Xserver (and the sound card driver) after a lot of and really a lot of reverse engineering the windows drivers. (And the end I called Margi and they gave me the source code of the Margi WDM driver...) Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 21 December, 2006 20:27 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:24:20 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html Wow I'm bown away here on the dialogue about getting the Margi DVD-to-Go card to work. Michael Heathcote (quoted above and below) indicated that he got his up and running in Win95 with only the small hitch of having to replace the driver Win95 loaded with the proper one that came with the card! Seems that was the OS the margi card was tweaked for. And I'd guess Win95 was probably the lease resource hungry of the beasts that followed. From what Avi has been talking about, I'm not sure if he's running Win98 or Win2000 with the card. He spoke about replacing an existing Win98 driver with the same from Win2000... and I assumed that meant his Margi card was working in Win98. But from Avi's dialogues with Phillip, it sounds like he's got the card working in Win2000, or both Win2000 and Win98. So I'm extremely tempted at this point to dig my card out of storeage, set up Win95 on my 100's 20GB HDD, and do some testing myself here. Video encoded to MPEG-2 files would look a lot sharper than the ones I've been re-encoding with MPEG1 compression with Tsunami. Matt From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com Subject: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:38:35 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:16:42 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Margi DVD-to-Go card works! I've been a member of this list for over 6 years or more, but I have not used my 50CT for quite a while since buying a Portege 3490CT. The main problem of the 50CT been lack of 32 bit cardbus USB with modern peripherals. While surfing on ebay last week I noticed a 100CT going for a good price with only a few minutes left, an impulse bid and I won! For only 87 pounds I now have a 100CT, std extended batteries, standard dock, enhanced dock, power supply floppy. Well pleased! Unmodified standard clock speed, original HDD but unfortuately only the on board 32MB RAM...you can't have it all I guess!!! Now a few years ago I bought a Margi DVD-to-Go card with dongle for my Portege, but at the time I did not realise the Portege was not Zoom Video supported, so the card has not been used. Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Presently the 100CT is running windows 95 with only 32MB Ram running at 166MHz. What I did notice was that windows automatically loaded the incorrect driver for the card when first inserted and did not initially work. Updating the driver for the correct one from Margi solved the problem. Full screen seemless DVD playback audio playing a DVD from my 16 bit PCMCIA 4x Argosy external DVD ROM drive. Amazing! Now that I know it works I am going to change the HDD for something larger
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:22:48 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got the card running with 98SE, W2K and XP. But only with XP I got it stable enough. What kinds of issues did you have with stabilty in W98 W2K? Just got a BSOD in stream.sys under XP as well... maybe I should try 95 again or work again on the linux driver... And XP was more stable for you!? I'll be interested in hearing how W95 works for you. Matt _ Dave vs. Carl: The Insignificant Championship Series. Who will win? http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp007001msn/direct/01/?href=http://davevscarl.spaces.live.com/?icid=T001MSN38C07001
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:09:57 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Philip, I'll check the 32 bit properties. Any hints where I should look? As far as I can see on XP the PCMCIA takes irq 11. I also have these problems with DVD playback even I use a USB 2.0 and a HD or a DVD drive. Any tips on the settings? Avi. -Original Message- From: Philip Nienhuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 December, 2006 22:35 To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:32:21 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Avi Cohen Stuart wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:47:02 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! snip I use XP with a dvd iso copied to HD and that also works with the WDM driver. I've read your post on this subject a few days back. What strikes me is that you copy DVDs to your HD, as cardbus (=32 bit) DVD players are supposedly faster than the Lib100/110's internal hard disks which are on an ISA bus (= 16bit no DMA). And on top of that there's a software layer simulating iso image access which adds overhead, too (though a similar HW or SW layer is present in the DVD player stuff). Have you properly enabled 32-bit on the pcmcia ports? Does XP use proper drivers for them? I read somewhere that the Lib100/110 cardbus ports use polling rather than IRQ for a number of things. That might explain some of the slowness you've encountered when playing DVDs. Philip
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:07:14 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Hi Avi: Avi Cohen Stuart wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:09:57 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Philip, I'll check the 32 bit properties. Any hints where I should look? First try: BIOS settings. I believe I had it set to Auto-Selected. You can try your luck with 16-bit/Cardbus (sic). (I think PCIC-compatible is strictly 16 bit.) And check the CPU cache (write back). As far as I can see on XP the PCMCIA takes irq 11. I also have these problems with DVD playback even I use a USB 2.0 and a HD or a DVD drive. On Win2K both pcmcia-ports take irq 09. Shouldn't make much difference I'd guess. But XP is an enormous resource hog on a 64 MB 233 Mhz PC. Do you use that to play DVDs? Any tips on the settings? Not much more, actually. I was simply surprised that a 16-bit ISA bus is faster than a 32-bit cardbus (= PCI-extension). Philip
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:47:02 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Mike, The 100CT and 110CT are the same, except for a faster CPU. Any 100CT or 110CT can be overclocked to 266 MHz. Interresting that you could get the Margi working with a PCMCIA DVD player. I used (several) freecoms and all where too slow... I use XP with a dvd iso copied to HD and that also works with the WDM driver. But with 98SE I don't think you can have DVD iso as they are bigger than 2Gb. Avi. -Original Message- From: Michael Heathcote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 December, 2006 21:39 To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:16:42 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Margi DVD-to-Go card works! I've been a member of this list for over 6 years or more, but I have not used my 50CT for quite a while since buying a Portege 3490CT. The main problem of the 50CT been lack of 32 bit cardbus USB with modern peripherals. While surfing on ebay last week I noticed a 100CT going for a good price with only a few minutes left, an impulse bid and I won! For only 87 pounds I now have a 100CT, std extended batteries, standard dock, enhanced dock, power supply floppy. Well pleased! Unmodified standard clock speed, original HDD but unfortuately only the on board 32MB RAM...you can't have it all I guess!!! Now a few years ago I bought a Margi DVD-to-Go card with dongle for my Portege, but at the time I did not realise the Portege was not Zoom Video supported, so the card has not been used. Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Presently the 100CT is running windows 95 with only 32MB Ram running at 166MHz. What I did notice was that windows automatically loaded the incorrect driver for the card when first inserted and did not initially work. Updating the driver for the correct one from Margi solved the problem. Full screen seemless DVD playback audio playing a DVD from my 16 bit PCMCIA 4x Argosy external DVD ROM drive. Amazing! Now that I know it works I am going to change the HDD for something larger and load Windows 98SE for the USB support. Hope the Margi DVD-to-Go card works okay under Windows 98SE! Now a quick question. Does it matter whether I use 100CT or 110CT drives for my 100CT? There appears to be more drivers available for the 110CT on the Toshiba website for 98SE. Thanks, Mike.
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:32:21 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Avi Cohen Stuart wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:47:02 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! snip I use XP with a dvd iso copied to HD and that also works with the WDM driver. I've read your post on this subject a few days back. What strikes me is that you copy DVDs to your HD, as cardbus (=32 bit) DVD players are supposedly faster than the Lib100/110's internal hard disks which are on an ISA bus (= 16bit no DMA). And on top of that there's a software layer simulating iso image access which adds overhead, too (though a similar HW or SW layer is present in the DVD player stuff). Have you properly enabled 32-bit on the pcmcia ports? Does XP use proper drivers for them? I read somewhere that the Lib100/110 cardbus ports use polling rather than IRQ for a number of things. That might explain some of the slowness you've encountered when playing DVDs. Philip
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:27:23 -0500 From: Tony Oresteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Congrats on your 100CT! I overcloced mine to 266MHz but found it unstable when using PCMCIA cards. I slowed it to 233MHz and all is fine. Any 110CT driver will work with the 100CT. Get the latest BISO from Toshiba. I run Win98SE on mine and it is very stable. You really need to find a 32MB RAM module to get to the max of 64 MB RAM. I have a 40 GIG hard drive in my 100CT which is very nice. With FAT32 partitions you can use ISO images. Right now a 120 Gig drive will cost you $90 plus shipping. Good luck! Tony Oresteen W1AJO Montverde, FL De Oppresso Liber - Original Message - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:38 PM Subject: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:16:42 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Margi DVD-to-Go card works! I've been a member of this list for over 6 years or more, but I have not used my 50CT for quite a while since buying a Portege 3490CT. The main problem of the 50CT been lack of 32 bit cardbus USB with modern peripherals. While surfing on ebay last week I noticed a 100CT going for a good price with only a few minutes left, an impulse bid and I won! For only 87 pounds I now have a 100CT, std extended batteries, standard dock, enhanced dock, power supply floppy. Well pleased! Unmodified standard clock speed, original HDD but unfortuately only the on board 32MB RAM...you can't have it all I guess!!! Now a few years ago I bought a Margi DVD-to-Go card with dongle for my Portege, but at the time I did not realise the Portege was not Zoom Video supported, so the card has not been used. Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Presently the 100CT is running windows 95 with only 32MB Ram running at 166MHz. What I did notice was that windows automatically loaded the incorrect driver for the card when first inserted and did not initially work. Updating the driver for the correct one from Margi solved the problem. Full screen seemless DVD playback audio playing a DVD from my 16 bit PCMCIA 4x Argosy external DVD ROM drive. Amazing! Now that I know it works I am going to change the HDD for something larger and load Windows 98SE for the USB support. Hope the Margi DVD-to-Go card works okay under Windows 98SE! Now a quick question. Does it matter whether I use 100CT or 110CT drives for my 100CT? There appears to be more drivers available for the 110CT on the Toshiba website for 98SE. Thanks, Mike.
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:04:38 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems Okay... after doing a number of tests now, I have a few quick thoughts on all this. From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been successful yourself at transcoding widescreen 2:39:1 anamorphic, letterboxed 720x480 video files to non-anamorphic, non-letterboxed video files that stretch to the full width of the 100/110's 800 pixel screen using Windows Media Player v6 David? H, the last time I came across a 2.39:1 movie was when?. I've actually only started accumulating DVDs, but 4 out of 36 have a 2.39:1 A/R No, I haven't because all of the movies I've been watching are 16:9 or 4:3. But it's just as easy to convert as 16:9 films. 1) Run DVD Decrypter to pull a region/protection free copy to the hard drive first for faster processing (otherwise, run AnyDVD for live rendering). 2) Get the latest DVDx 2.4 at www.videohelp.com. 3) Open the movie you want to convert. In the INPUT SETTINGs of DVDx make sure you have audio/video sync checked (otherwise, they'll be out of sync). Select appropriate frame rate, etc. to match the original. 4) In the OUTPUT SETTINGs, here's where magic occurs. Make sure you have FULL 16:9 or 4:3 selected for the output ratio (not letterboxed, not custom). This will stretch the video to fit the full frame you specify. Next specify the resolution. Here, you'll use a 2.39:1 ratio. Thus, if you output a full 800xsomething pixel video, it'll be 800x334 setting. You can pick a lower setting such as 512x214 to fit the 2.39:1 ratio if you so desire. I've tried that several times now, and haven't been able to get DVDx to output a video file that's not letterboxed. The only way I can get DVDx to produce a non-letterboxed MPEG-1, 384x176 files is to use its cropping tool. Here's a clip I've been testing. Can anyone else get DVDx to do what David is describing? http://rapidshare.de/files/18053459/SBClip02.mpg.html 5) Simply pick the codec you want, eg. Divx or Xvid, Tho' Divx Xvid will only play back on 300-400MHz CPUs, not our old 50/70/100/110 Libbys... right? and make sure you don't resize, crop, etc. I've only gotten DVDx to process that file above properly by 1st cropping it. I haven't found any other program that will do that automatically either. what's being output from DVDx (this ensures you're getting the full frame of the original). 1-pass, 1000-2000kbps will generally give you good quality across most movies, but you may need to adjust depending. (see www.cdfreaks.com and www.videohelp.com forums for help) 6) when you play back this video full-screen, the side-to-side will fit the full width of the 800 pixel screen, but the top-bottom will have letterboxing due to the dissimilar ratio. 2.39:1 is not the same as 800x480. (You can stretch it vertically if you desire, simply adjust step 4 above to use a 800:480 ratio.) 7) Voila! done. Okay... well DVDx is free, and I can get it to work. But its interface and functionality are a bit funky limited. I've just found TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress, and it seems to do just about everything I've been doing with a number of applications: http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te3xp.html Not free, but at US$ 58.00... it's quite a nice program. And again, I can dump the complicated time consuming multi-application process I was happy with up to finding it. If there's any interest in how to use it I'll be glad to share what I know. Matt ...Guess-we-got-Margi-To-Go, huh? Away at least! ;-P Libretto list info: Libretto list archive #1: http://www.technoir.nu/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Libretto list archive #2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/ To unsubscribe: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2001/msg03388.html
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:19:44 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems Have you been successful yourself at transcoding widescreen 2:39:1 anamorphic, letterboxed 720x480 video files to non-anamorphic, non-letterboxed video files that stretch to the full width of the 100/110's 800 pixel screen using Windows Media Player v6 David? H, the last time I came across a 2.39:1 movie was when?. No, I haven't because all of the movies I've been watching are 16:9 or 4:3. But it's just as easy to convert as 16:9 films. 1) Run DVD Decrypter to pull a region/protection free copy to the hard drive first for faster processing (otherwise, run AnyDVD for live rendering). 2) Get the latest DVDx 2.4 at www.videohelp.com. 3) Open the movie you want to convert. In the INPUT SETTINGs of DVDx make sure you have audio/video sync checked (otherwise, they'll be out of sync). Select appropriate frame rate, etc. to match the original. 4) In the OUTPUT SETTINGs, here's where magic occurs. Make sure you have FULL 16:9 or 4:3 selected for the output ratio (not letterboxed, not custom). This will stretch the video to fit the full frame you specify. Next specify the resolution. Here, you'll use a 2.39:1 ratio. Thus, if you output a full 800xsomething pixel video, it'll be 800x334 setting. You can pick a lower setting such as 512x214 to fit the 2.39:1 ratio if you so desire. 5) Simply pick the codec you want, eg. Divx or Xvid, and make sure you don't resize, crop, etc. what's being output from DVDx (this ensures you're getting the full frame of the original). 1-pass, 1000-2000kbps will generally give you good quality across most movies, but you may need to adjust depending. (see www.cdfreaks.com and www.videohelp.com forums for help) 6) when you play back this video full-screen, the side-to-side will fit the full width of the 800 pixel screen, but the top-bottom will have letterboxing due to the dissimilar ratio. 2.39:1 is not the same as 800x480. (You can stretch it vertically if you desire, simply adjust step 4 above to use a 800:480 ratio.) 7) Voila! done. adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:21:52 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] run anydvd to do live decsssing, then dvdx (http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/) to I'm either missing something there, or it's DVDx is still producing a 480x640 letterboxed VCD with a tiny video component when you process a widescreen DVD. Have you gotten DVDx to produce a non-letterboxed video file that stretches to the full 800 pixel width of the 100/110 screens David? That was my You can specify the output screen dimensions - see OUTPUT menu. You can easily dump out a file that has any resolution you'd like =) as long as the codec you are using is game for it as well. eg. Divx tends to like mutiples of 2. I'll have a look. Have you been successful yourself at transcoding widescreen 2:39:1 anamorphic, letterboxed 720x480 video files to non-anamorphic, non-letterboxed video files that stretch to the full width of the 100/110's 800 pixel screen using Windows Media Player v6 David? Matt Libretto list info: Libretto list archive #1: http://www.technoir.nu/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Libretto list archive #2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/ To unsubscribe: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2001/msg03388.html
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:56:17 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can specify the output screen dimensions - see OUTPUT menu. You can easily dump out a file that has any resolution you'd like =) as long as the codec you are using is game for it as well. eg. Divx tends to like mutiples of 2. Unless you've discovered some magic David, I'm not quite sure why you're bringing up the subject of DivX with respect to video on a 100/110. All of my attempts at getting DivX files to play on a Libby have resulted in the old, slow CPUs just not heving enough power to display them. DivX files seem to take more processing power to display than even MPEG-2 files that the Libbys con't deal with. That was why I followed you're tip a while back and got one of those Margi DVD-To-Go cards off EBay. They are supposed to have a controller chip dedicated to that process. The only type of video files I've ever gotten to display well on the Libbys (besides Quicktime .mov files I've never had any use for) have been basic MPEG-1 files. Matt Libretto list info: Libretto list archive #1: http://www.technoir.nu/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Libretto list archive #2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/ To unsubscribe: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2001/msg03388.html
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:37:39 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems run anydvd to do live decsssing, then dvdx (http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/) to I'm either missing something there, or it's DVDx is still producing a 480x640 letterboxed VCD with a tiny video component when you process a widescreen DVD. Have you gotten DVDx to produce a non-letterboxed video file that stretches to the full 800 pixel width of the 100/110 screens David? That was my You can specify the output screen dimensions - see OUTPUT menu. You can easily dump out a file that has any resolution you'd like =) as long as the codec you are using is game for it as well. eg. Divx tends to like mutiples of 2. The latest 2.4 version is out this week, so grab it at www.videohelp.com adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:39:19 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] another way: run anydvd to do live decsssing, then dvdx (http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/) to do live conversion from any DVD to just about any format that has an accessible codec (eg. Divx, Xvid, MJPEG, VCD, SVCD, etc.). Boringly easy I'm either missing something there, or it's DVDx is still producing a 480x640 letterboxed VCD with a tiny video component when you process a widescreen DVD. Have you gotten DVDx to produce a non-letterboxed video file that stretches to the full 800 pixel width of the 100/110 screens David? That was my objective, and I haven't seen the capability in most DVD to VCD software I've looked at so far. Matt PS: Sorry for not getting back to Jose. I've been very busy, but will have some things to discuss offline soon. Libretto list info: Libretto list archive #1: http://www.technoir.nu/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Libretto list archive #2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/ To unsubscribe: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2001/msg03388.html
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:49:47 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems another way: run anydvd to do live decsssing, then dvdx (http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/) to do live conversion from any DVD to just about any format that has an accessible codec (eg. Divx, Xvid, MJPEG, VCD, SVCD, etc.). Boringly easy adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:49:55 -0300 From: Jose Tavares [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 21:57 -0800, Matthew Hanson wrote: on my U105, wide screen too, I play vcd (standard) with 2 black borders on the sides of the video I missed that... You have a U105 as well as the 70... and Linux on it too. I still don't know if there's anything I can learn from info on a video stream from that test mpg file made in Linux. I'd love to be able to work with Linux. But I'm light years from that point. Yes, I have both of them and they are running Linux.. 70CT = Win98SE + Debian Stable U105 = WinXP + Debian Unstable .. I'm trying to sell my 70CT because I think I'll not use it anymore.. It's in perfect conditions without any problems with screen, HD, case, keyboard, mouse .. About Linux .. Pick a dedicated machine, put Debian Stable and start to use it.. Start trying to do the things you usually do with free/open software.. Almost everything can be done with free/open software.. In a few days you'll be leaving your windows machine off.. :) No more hang ups .. I did this 6-7 years ago and a friend of mine said that I should pick up my best machine to put Linux and I picked up the worst.. After 30 days, I swapped the machines and put Linux on the best one for everyday use.. :) Don't use Linux as you use Windows.. Setup a user account other than root and use it!.. Forget about the windows way of doing things.. Pick a good Unix/Linux book with concepts about user management, services, etc .. It will be worthwhile.. [] JA Tavares
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:03:11 -0300 From: Jose Tavares [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems I have some experience with XVid/DivX - (S)VCD.. I did it too many times to watch movies on my DVD Player at home.. I used Virtualdub for processing frames, resizing, cropping, filling, etc, etc and started a frame server inside virtualdub.. This frame server created a type of fifo or a kind of link. You open this file (fifo/link) in TMPGEnc and you can start encoding directly what's being processed in virtualdub. The tip is to use the frame server and write directly to .mpg .. The trick is to configure the filters correctly on virtualdub. I've beem downsampling videos to watch on my Nokia 6600 too. It has an ARM 104MHz. When comparing it to my old libby 70CT, they have almost the same processing power. So, on Nokia's screen, the little XVid is played ok, but on 70CT the video plays in a really small resolution or trying to using acceleration on XFree86/mplayer, it returns too much skipped frames when playing in fullscreen.. On 70CT I quit trying even playing .mpg or downsampled XVid .. [] JA Tavares
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:44:07 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems From: Jose Tavares [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 23:17 -0800, Matthew Hanson wrote: Check this out: http://pike.fireflyinternet.co.uk/Ap13_clip2AVISynthed.mpg I saw this sample .. I think you have to fill the source to get something like 384x288 and then input it in TMPGEnc as a VGA source 1:1 .. don't you? If not, I was doing one step that I didn't need .. :) I'm not really clear why that .avs script works Jose. I stopped getting feedback from my Doom9 posts after I was handed the script. So my questions on just how those apsect ratios where arrived at, and why they work are things I still don't know at this point. But the widescreen files it outputs only seem to display properly in Windows Media Player. I get a 'kind of' 640x480 'squarish' display display from the same file in PowerDVD on the desktop... though I've been assuming I can probably go into PowerDVD's settings and fix that. Doesn't matter, as the old WMP v6 on the Libby is the most resource friendly media player I can find for the Windows OSs. Thought you were objecting a (S)VCD standard .. I'm not following you there Jose. I've been making VCDs for some time, and have been relatively happy with them. So I have no objection real to them. I would like to get this Margi card to play standard MPEG-2 DVD files if I could get a sharper image. But short of that, I'm happy to get these tweaked VCD (not SVCD) files to display the full 800 pixels of the Libby's screen. For not standard mpegs, you can use some factor for framerate and decrease your bitrate.. It's easy enough to lower the bitrate in TMPGEnc from it's default of 1150kbps to output a bit smaller files. There's a little free utility called Bearson's Bitrate Calculator that helps you find a bitrate that will fit a VCD onto a 700MB CD-R easily if you don't want to figure out the math on your own. I've been archiving my VCD files to DVD+-Rs, and at some point will want to ask about recommendations for DVD drives for the Libby to access them. For fastest transfer rate to the Lib's HDD, I'm wondering if I should go to a USB2 DVD drive over PCMCIA. Old libby has a poor sound too.. If you're considering to use subtitles with the libby's sound speaker, you can convert the audio to mono and use the worst quality.. Anyway, you'll be reading :) Haven't yet run into subtitles. They don't affect the rate of playback, or slow it down at all, do they? You're just saying you can convert to mono to shrink file size a bit, right? The Libby's sound for music isn't stellar. Last year David Chien pointed me to an EBay auction for a fantastic old W98-based TDK sound card that plays through my HIFI beautifully. I don't find the Libby's sound quality too terribly bad for these custom 16:9 VCDs though. The demuxed dolby .ac3 files are pretty high quality, and TMPGEnc transcodes them with up to 384kbps MPEG-1 Layer II audio. I haven't yet tried listening to the audio with the TDK yet, but I assume it'd be pretty good. I have some experience with XVid/DivX - (S)VCD.. Well... one problem there is the original DVD source files have already been transcoded down in video and audio size and quality to XVid/DivX format. By transcoding a 2nd time to MPEG-1, you're going to loose even more. I did it too many times to watch movies on my DVD Player at home.. I used Virtualdub for processing frames, resizing, cropping, filling, etc, etc and started a frame server inside virtualdub.. What was involved with that? Did you use VDub, or VDubMod? And where other apps involved in frame serving? This frame server created a type of fifo or a kind of link. You open this file (fifo/link) in TMPGEnc and you can start encoding directly what's being processed in virtualdub. Am I understanding this correctly? You end up with VDub process the video, and simultaneously feeding the data to TMPGEnc which is compressing to MPEG-1 while VDub is processing? The tip is to use the frame server and write directly to .mpg .. The trick is to configure the filters correctly on virtualdub. Which filters did you use, and for what specifically? I've been using vsoDivxToDVD to convert XVid files to MPEG-2 .vob files for burning them right to DVD-Rs that comply with the home DVD playback standard. As I've been merging DVD .vob files on one single one, and then processing through the .avs script procedure I've described successfully without having to convert them to fully complient MPEG-2 files... I assume I could do the same for XVid/DivX files converted to .vob files. I've beem downsampling videos to watch on my Nokia 6600 too. It has an ARM 104MHz. When comparing it to my old libby 70CT, they have almost the same processing power. So, on Nokia's screen, the little XVid is played ok, but on 70CT the video plays
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:08:37 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - LoadPlugin(C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\pluginsDGDecode.dll) Video=mpeg2source(X:\ enter path here \DGIndex project file.d2v) Audio=directshowsource(X:\ enter path here \DGIndex produced audio file.ac3) Audiodub(Video,Audio) DelayAudio(0.066) crop(0,60,718,362) lanczosresize(384,160) - Once the 1st line is configured for the DGDecode.dll file, the only lines that seem to need changing on a regular basis are #2 and #3. When you load your widescreen MPEG-2 file made from a DVD's VOB files into DGIndex, and save the project, DGIndex outputs a series of files. The project itself is saved as a .d2v file. DVD audio tracks are usually saved as Dolby .ac3 files, and the largest is usually the main audio file. You know because Jose had a question about aspect ratio values, I looked back at this script to see how the last 2 lines (#8 #9) were dealing with clipping and resizing the video component of these files. In the process I noticed line #7. I'd forgotten that DGIndex outputs .ac3 audio files that specify an audio delay at the end of their file name. And that value has to be entered on line #7. 0.066 in this example isn't very long. But if it was extremely long, and not configured properly, the output audio video would get significantly out of sync. Matt Libretto list info: Libretto list archive #1: http://www.technoir.nu/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Libretto list archive #2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto(put @ here)basiclink.com/ To unsubscribe: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2001/msg03388.html
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:17:10 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Drouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems May need to provide external power for a USB-attached drive with a Cardbus adapter. I had a slim DVD+/RW drive in a USB enclosure and it needed external power to read DVDs (not CDs though) even when attached to an integrated USB port. When I was playing with the Margi card in the L110 I was using an IBM Portable Drive Bay with an ultraslimbay DVD drive since I also have a Thinkpad 600E and 600X which use that format. The drive bay uses its own PCMCIA-to-ATA card and takes power from 3 AA cells if needed. Drive bay and drives are pretty cheap on eBay. Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:17:22 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems I've been archiving my VCD files to DVD+-Rs, and at some point will want to ask about recommendations for DVD drives for the Libby to access them. For fastest transfer rate to the Lib's HDD, I'm wondering if I should go to a USB2 DVD drive over PCMCIA. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:33:15 -0300 From: Jose Tavares [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 12:47 -0800, Matthew Hanson wrote: Old libby has a poor sound too.. If you're considering to use subtitles with the libby's sound speaker, you can convert the audio to mono and use the worst quality.. Anyway, you'll be reading :) Haven't yet run into subtitles. They don't affect the rate of playback, or slow it down at all, do they? You're just saying you can convert to mono to shrink file size a bit, right? not to shrink the file but to decrease the throughput necessary to play the stream.. substitles does not affect the video timing and the overhead is not perceived .. I did it too many times to watch movies on my DVD Player at home.. I used Virtualdub for processing frames, resizing, cropping, filling, etc, etc and started a frame server inside virtualdub.. What was involved with that? Did you use VDub, or VDubMod? And where other apps involved in frame serving? VDub.. It does frame serving by itself .. TMPGEnc can use VDub's frame server .. Worked great for me .. This frame server created a type of fifo or a kind of link. You open this file (fifo/link) in TMPGEnc and you can start encoding directly what's being processed in virtualdub. Am I understanding this correctly? You end up with VDub process the video, and simultaneously feeding the data to TMPGEnc which is compressing to MPEG-1 while VDub is processing? yes .. you write the file just once to HD.. you have just one compress to mpeg.. :) The tip is to use the frame server and write directly to .mpg .. The trick is to configure the filters correctly on virtualdub. Which filters did you use, and for what specifically? for 6600, I had to touch the brightness/contrast because it's screen is a little bit dark for playing these dark divx I found .. let me load my saved setup here .. for 6600 (output is xvid), I had crop, rotate, fill and resize .. for converting to (s)vcd, I had just resize, fill and crop .. you can save your convertion settings .. I've been using vsoDivxToDVD to convert XVid files to MPEG-2 .vob files for burning them right to DVD-Rs that comply with the home DVD playback standard. As I've been merging DVD .vob files on one single one, and then processing through the .avs script procedure I've described successfully without having to convert them to fully complient MPEG-2 files... I assume I could do the same for XVid/DivX files converted to .vob files. I have no idea about what you are talking .. :) I just use virtualdub for almost everything I do.. I've never played with .vob files.. I use some kind of app to create VCD on windows that makes the convertion.. VCDHelp, I think... I really hate windows and avoid it.. My w2k install in one of my machines is just returning lots of errors of wrong memory addresses being accessed and I'm not in the mood for reinstalling it.. The problem is the for I more that 3 months.. :) I use mplayer for extracting streams from video files .. mplayer is infinitely better than any windows player, as soon as you get used to.. :) I've beem downsampling videos to watch on my Nokia 6600 too. It has an ARM 104MHz. When comparing it to my old libby 70CT, they have almost the same processing power. So, on Nokia's screen, the little XVid is played ok, but on 70CT the video plays in a really small resolution or trying to using acceleration on XFree86/mplayer, it returns too much skipped frames when playing in fullscreen.. On 70CT I quit trying even playing .mpg or downsampled XVid .. It would seemt hat something's going wrong in the process of transcoding your video files. I had all kinds of problems finding a process that would get a widescreen MPEG-1 file to play on the Libby correctly. But I've never had any problem with my Lib playing files I make from TV captures. Those are encoded directly to 706x480 MPEG-2 DVD complient .mpgs, and from there get transcoded to VCDs in TMPGEnc that play fine on the 110 . 110 has an infinitely better HW for playing video when compared to 70CT :) You're running Linux eh? Did that sample file of mine play properly for you? sure.. I can even extract some stream information from the file, if you want .. :) again, mplayer is great! :) Video files are extremely complicated, and there seems to me hundreds of approaches to achieve any number of ends. And then where one procedure may result in a file that plays back well in one device or piece of software, it may not in another. I'd almost given up on creating a MPEG-1 file that would display 800 pixels wide on the Libby before having that .avs script handed to me. on my U105, wide screen too, I play vcd (standard) with 2 black borders on the sides of the video but I configured mplayer to maintain the aspect ratio by specifying the 16:10 screen aspect ratio. when I play a wide
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:18:24 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems From: Jose Tavares [EMAIL PROTECTED] Haven't yet run into subtitles. They don't affect the rate of playback, or slow it down at all, do they? You're just saying you can convert to mono to shrink file size a bit, right? not to shrink the file but to decrease the throughput necessary to play the stream.. Ah okay. So subtitles eat up some system resources during playback on their own eh? I'll have to start transcoding some of my foreign films and see how my 110 deals with them. What was involved with that? Did you use VDub, or VDubMod? And where other apps involved in frame serving? VDub.. It does frame serving by itself .. TMPGEnc can use VDub's frame server .. Worked great for me .. VDub right into TMPGEnc... cool! Which filters did you use, and for what specifically? for 6600, I had to touch the brightness/contrast because it's screen is a little bit dark for playing these dark divx I found .. let me load my saved setup here .. for 6600 (output is xvid), I had crop, rotate, fill and resize .. for converting to (s)vcd, I had just resize, fill and crop .. you can save your convertion settings .. Wow... you really had to tweak things for that Nokia, huh? I've been using vsoDivxToDVD to convert XVid files to MPEG-2 .vob files for burning them right to DVD-Rs that comply with the home DVD playback standard. As I've been merging DVD .vob files on one single one, and then processing through the .avs script procedure I've described successfully without having to convert them to fully complient MPEG-2 files... I assume I could do the same for XVid/DivX files converted to .vob files. I have no idea about what you are talking .. :) I just use virtualdub for almost everything I do.. From what you're saying below, everything but ripping DVDs to VCDs. On a DVD, movies are contained in a series of MPEG-2 complient .vob files. Each is a little over 1GB, I guess to comply with some file system requirements. So to rip an entire movie, the main movie .vob files have to be merged together. VDub could probably process a .vob file via frame server to TMPGEnc or some other MPEG encoder for making (S)VCDs. But somewhere along the way the mulitple .vob files would have to be joined top produce a complete movie. Guess that's why you're using something else for that job. I've never played with .vob files.. I use some kind of app to create VCD on windows that makes the convertion.. VCDHelp, I think... Hmm can't find much on VCDHelp. www.vcdhelp.com seems to have been merged into www.videohelp.com.. about all I can find quickly. So you're making VCDs right from DVDs with another piece of software? But you say below that you've got a L70, huh? So you probably wouldn't know whether or not the VCDs it creates from widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) DVDs playback the full 800 pixel width of a L100/110 system. I haven't really shopped around to see if there's software out there that would make that task a bit easier than what I've been doing with TMPGEnc, DGINdex and AVISynth. The folks over there on the Doom9 forums seem to like as many little apps as they possibly can. I'd sure prefer to have an 'all-in-one' application to create VCDs from DVDs that would play the full 800 pixel width of the 100/110s. I really hate windows and avoid it.. My w2k install in one of my machines is just returning lots of errors of wrong memory addresses being accessed and I'm not in the mood for reinstalling it.. The problem is the for I more that 3 months.. :) Windows can be a real pain... that's for sure. Those are encoded directly to 706x480 MPEG-2 DVD complient .mpgs, and from there get transcoded to VCDs in TMPGEnc that play fine on the 110 . 110 has an infinitely better HW for playing video when compared to 70CT :) Oh wow... I should try copying over some of these custom VCDs onto my 70 running W98SE, and see how they play there. But you did say that sample played the full 600 pixel width of your 70. See... I had no problem making VCDs from 16:9 DVDs that played 600 pixes wide. But it was a struggle getting them to play 800 pixes wide in Windows Media Player v6 on the 100/110s. You're running Linux eh? Did that sample file of mine play properly for you? sure.. I can even extract some stream information from the file, if you want .. :) Well... since you've only got a 600x480 screen, I don't think it would be useful. on my U105, wide screen too, I play vcd (standard) with 2 black borders on the sides of the video but I configured mplayer to maintain the aspect ratio by specifying the 16:10 screen aspect ratio. when I play a wide screen movie, it fits the entire screen maintaining the aspect ratio too .. There's a free, 'advanced' WMP clone, Media Player Classic that allows you to force widescreen playback
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:42:51 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems You're talking about USB1.1 there, right Jim? Transfer rates for large video files in USB1.1 would be way too slow for me. I have a dandy little SIIG USB 2.0 Datalink Adapter cable that transfers files pretty quickly between desktop and Libby. And I've found Win2000 can do it at about 3x the speed of Win98. So I'm thinking of a USB 2.0 external DVD drive. And yeah... it'd have to run on an AC adapter, batteries, or preferably both. I just don't know how transfer rates for a USB 2.0 DVD drive would compare to a PCMCIA DVD drive. I've found full sized desktop external USB 2.0 DVD-+R-RW drives on Pricewatch.com for as little as about $65. And I think with an AC adapter included. That'd be an option. But it'd be nice to have something a bit more portable. There are a bunch of these Targus Slim External PCMCIA 8x DVD CD going for $39 on Ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Targus-Slim-External-PCMCIA-8x-DVD-CD-Drive-Germany_W0QQitemZ6859902945QQcategoryZ31565QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem But 8x might just defeat the whole idea of fast transfer rates in USB 2.0. Seems going 16x DVD-+R/RW means pushing the $200 mark and above. I may just get a reader, though it'd be awfully nice to burn DVDs. Matt From: Jim Drouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] May need to provide external power for a USB-attached drive with a Cardbus adapter. I had a slim DVD+/RW drive in a USB enclosure and it needed external power to read DVDs (not CDs though) even when attached to an integrated USB port. When I was playing with the Margi card in the L110 I was using an IBM Portable Drive Bay with an ultraslimbay DVD drive since I also have a Thinkpad 600E and 600X which use that format. The drive bay uses its own PCMCIA-to-ATA card and takes power from 3 AA cells if needed. Drive bay and drives are pretty cheap on eBay. Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:17:22 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems I've been archiving my VCD files to DVD+-Rs, and at some point will want to ask about recommendations for DVD drives for the Libby to access them. For fastest transfer rate to the Lib's HDD, I'm wondering if I should go to a USB2 DVD drive over PCMCIA.
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:50:52 -0300 From: Jose Tavares [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 21:21 -0800, Matthew Hanson wrote: I've never played with .vob files.. I use some kind of app to create VCD on windows that makes the convertion.. VCDHelp, I think... Hmm can't find much on VCDHelp. www.vcdhelp.com seems to have been merged into www.videohelp.com.. about all I can find quickly. I remembered right now that the name of the SW is EasyVCD ou VCDEasy .. :) Not VCDHelp .. Oh wow... I should try copying over some of these custom VCDs onto my 70 running W98SE, and see how they play there. But you did say that sample played the full 600 pixel width of your 70. See... I had no problem making VCDs from 16:9 DVDs that played 600 pixes wide. But it was a struggle getting them to play 800 pixes wide in Windows Media Player v6 on the 100/110s. You misunderstood me .. I said the sample played ok in mplayer in one of my machines .. :) Not 70CT .. MPlayer sees the following from your video .. The machine is my home server .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mplayer Ap13_clip2AVISynthed.mpg MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 3)Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes MMX2 supported but disabled CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.) Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : Permission denied Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing Ap13_clip2AVISynthed.mpg. Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG1 384x160 (aspect 1) 23.976 fps 1150.0 kbps (143.8 kbyte/s) == Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad... Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 160.0 kbit/11.34% (ratio: 2-176400) Selected audio codec: [mad] afm:libmad (libMAD MPEG layer 1-2-3) == vo: X11 running at 1400x1050 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (:0.0 = local display) == Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 384 x 160 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2)) == Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le - 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... AF_pre: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le [AO ESD] latency: [server: 0.28s, net: 0.00s] (adjust 0.28s) AO: [esd] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le - 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 384 x 160 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [xv] 384x160 = 384x160 Planar YV12 [zoom] A: 2.3 V: 2.3 A-V: 0.016 ct: 0.180 49/ 49 14% 2% 5.4% 0 0 49% Exiting... (Quit) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [] JA Tavares
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:56:12 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're running Linux eh? Did that sample file of mine play properly for you? sure.. I can even extract some stream information from the file, if you want .. :) Well... since you've only got a 600x480 screen, I don't think it would be useful. on my U105, wide screen too, I play vcd (standard) with 2 black borders on the sides of the video I missed that... You have a U105 as well as the 70... and Linux on it too. I still don't know if there's anything I can learn from info on a video stream from that test mpg file made in Linux. I'd love to be able to work with Linux. But I'm light years from that point. Matt Libretto list info: Libretto list archive #1: http://www.technoir.nu/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Libretto list archive #2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/ To unsubscribe: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2001/msg03388.html
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:15:30 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems From: Jim Drouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got one of these too and never got it to display on the L110's screen, only on the TV output from the card's dongle. Huh... I didn't try the dongle. But the whole reason I got the card was because it was supposed to play MPEG-2 files on the system's hard drive. There must be a fix. But there seems to be no support for the darned anywhere on the net anymore. At least none I can find. Meanwhile, I have managed to learn how to transcode widescreen DVDs to customzed VCDs that play video the full width of the 100/110's 800x400 screen. Check this out: http://pike.fireflyinternet.co.uk/Ap13_clip2AVISynthed.mpg Right clck and choose 'Save target as in MSIE. Matt Libretto list info: Libretto list archive #1: http://www.technoir.nu/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Libretto list archive #2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto(put @ here)basiclink.com/ To unsubscribe: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2004/msg01419.html
Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:03:48 -0800 (PST) From: Jim Drouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems I've got one of these too and never got it to display on the L110's screen, only on the TV output from the card's dongle. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[LIB] Margi DVD-To-Go problems
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:29:04 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Margi DVD-To-Go problems I picked up this card on EBay, and right out of the starting gate am having problems. I downloaded and setup the latest WDM drivers for the card to run in W98SE on my 110. But the Margi video player didn't play audio or display video (black sreen) when running an MPG file. It showed the file being played by way of the time cursor moving, but nothing more. I uninstalled the driver and software, and then found info on having to enable the SV port in the advanced sound driver settngs from its system tray icon. But after repeating the process of inserting the card, and directing the new hardware dialogue to the proper folder file, the Windows 98 installation process popped up and started to run its installation after setting up the Margi drivers. I Ctrl-Alt-Del..ed and stopped the process. On another occasion I found the process aborted itself finding an improper command line switch having been run. I've since disabled W98's setup.ex_ But now when I try to launch the Margi DVD-To-Go media player, I get an error message: . Unable to load hardware driver MMSYSTEM262 MMSYSTEM.DLL is the target dll, and all I can find online about this says to uninstall the Margi driver, and reinstall it. But after several tries I find it doesn't resolve the issue. Not a whole lot about these puppies online anymore, and Margi is not providing support at this point. Reading through the archives didn't come up with anything. Seems you tried an MPEG-To-Go card Lee, but didn't have any luck with it either. Any chance someone on the list has dealt with this? Thanks, Matt Libretto list info: Libretto list archive #1: http://www.technoir.nu/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Libretto list archive #2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto(put @ here)basiclink.com/ To unsubscribe: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2004/msg01419.html
[LIB] cutting a linux boot dvd
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 17:34:47 -0700 (PDT) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cutting a linux boot dvd has anyone used else mkisofs to make a boot dvd image for linux under windows? seems pretty easy--was wondering if there is any problems booting with it using the dvd drive on the U100. john __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[LIB] RE: DVD playing project
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:18:23 +0200 From: Chris Hogan \(social\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: DVD playing project Apologies if this is a repeat, but I haven't seen this (or any other messages from the list) since I sent it. If anyone did reply, forward them to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than bore everyone on the list again. Thanks, Chris -Original Message- From: Chris Hogan (social) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 June 2005 17:57 To: Libretto Subject: DVD playing project Hi all, Just bought a USB DVD drive/rewriter and was musing about playing DVD's on the Lib (100 CT, not o/clocked (yet)). What's the best / most efficient W9x software for playing movies that people have found? I'm also considering a Linux project to keep me amused, now that I have a 20Gb drive installed, so recommendations for Linux players also welcomed. (Mea culpa -- I'm working in France for the summer and the phone line is a) provided by work and b) an emergency line for tourists who have inconveniently died or something, so its difficult for me to trawl the net for answers. I also now agree with Matt about the effect of the last mile on data transfer rates -- 57k in rural France seems to be about 2400baud!) Thanks in advance, Chris In France again till the end of September 2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.7/20 - Release Date: 16/06/05
[LIB] DVD playing project
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:57:04 +0200 From: Chris Hogan \(social\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DVD playing project Hi all, Just bought a USB DVD drive/rewriter and was musing about playing DVD's on the Lib (100 CT, not o/clocked (yet)). What's the best / most efficient W9x software for playing movies that people have found? I'm also considering a Linux project to keep me amused, now that I have a 20Gb drive installed, so recommendations for Linux players also welcomed. (Mea culpa -- I'm working in France for the summer and the phone line is a) provided by work and b) an emergency line for tourists who have inconveniently died or something, so its difficult for me to trawl the net for answers. I also now agree with Matt about the effect of the last mile on data transfer rates -- 57k in rural France seems to be about 2400baud!) Thanks in advance, Chris In France again till the end of September 2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.3/15 - Release Date: 14/06/05
RE: [LIB] Off-topic: Philips DVP642 DVD/DIVX/etc. player for $70 at Walmart,
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:52:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Drouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Off-topic: Philips DVP642 DVD/DIVX/etc. player for $70 at Walmart, I have the Margi DVD-to-Go ZV card and I believe the playback was OK, but only on the card's video output. Never managed to get it to play on the LCD. I used: Libretto 110 (233MHz), Thinkpad 600E 2x DVD drive and external PCMCIA case (Portable Drive Bay). Jim Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 23:11:08 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Off-topic: Philips DVP642 DVD/DIVX/etc. player for $70 at Walmart, something that would play DVDs on our Librettos! That's not been done at this point, has it? I've been under the impression that even the 110's at 233MHz, or clocked to 266MHz, don't have the umph required for DVD playback... yes? Sadly, not even a 266Mhz L110 will play a DVD directly from the disc under the various software players such as WinDVD in real-time. All will skip frames and will do under 15 frames per second. Here, some have looked into those MPEG-2 Zoomed Video (ZV) accelerator cards from Margi, but I don't recall anyone saying one way or the other that you can definitely achieve DVD playback on the Libretto w/o skipping and such. === __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
RE: [LIB] Off-topic: Philips DVP642 DVD/DIVX/etc. player for $70 at Walmart,
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 23:11:08 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Off-topic: Philips DVP642 DVD/DIVX/etc. player for $70 at Walmart, something that would play DVDs on our Librettos! That's not been done at this point, has it? I've been under the impression that even the 110's at 233MHz, or clocked to 266MHz, don't have the umph required for DVD playback... yes? Sadly, not even a 266Mhz L110 will play a DVD directly from the disc under the various software players such as WinDVD in real-time. All will skip frames and will do under 15 frames per second. Here, some have looked into those MPEG-2 Zoomed Video (ZV) accelerator cards from Margi, but I don't recall anyone saying one way or the other that you can definitely achieve DVD playback on the Libretto w/o skipping and such. I've gotten highly compressed MPEG videos (I think just MPEG-1) to play on my 70CT, and maybe on the 50CT, but my memory of the 50CT performance there is fuzzy. I was able to do VCD quality full screen just okay on my overclocked L50 years ago, but I think at a reduced color depth. The L110 seems fine with this, and with lower bitrate DIVX files -- it may still be skipping frames, but you certainly don't notice it while the videos playback. What sorts of things are available on the net in the DIVX/MPEG-4 format that are worth transferring to a home multimedia playback system? every movie on the planet - usual talked about sharing sources have them. Otherwise, you can convert anything you have with Dr.Divx, Quicktime, etc. into this format for playback. more stuff at divx.com = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
RE: [LIB] Off-topic: Philips DVP642 DVD/DIVX/etc. player for $70 at Walmart,
Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 21:29:46 + From: Matt Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Off-topic: Philips DVP642 DVD/DIVX/etc. player for $70 at Walmart, etc. From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Highly recommended DVD player if you want the ability to play DIVX/MPEG-4 encoded files (eg. internet movies). Works well for $70, available at Walmart, jandr.com, target, and other stores in the USA. Hey David, At first I missed you're putting Off-topic in the message subject field of this post, and thought somehow miraculously Philips had put together something that would play DVDs on our Librettos! That's not been done at this point, has it? I've been under the impression that even the 110's at 233MHz, or clocked to 266MHz, don't have the umph required for DVD playback... yes? I've gotten highly compressed MPEG videos (I think just MPEG-1) to play on my 70CT, and maybe on the 50CT, but my memory of the 50CT performance there is fuzzy. What sorts of things are available on the net in the DIVX/MPEG-4 format that are worth transferring to a home multimedia playback system? Matt _ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! http://join.msn.com/?page=features/mlbpgmarket=en-us/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] Off-topic: Philips DVP642 DVD/DIVX/etc. player for $70 at Walmart, etc.
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 22:56:10 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Off-topic: Philips DVP642 DVD/DIVX/etc. player for $70 at Walmart, etc. Highly recommended DVD player if you want the ability to play DIVX/MPEG-4 encoded files (eg. internet movies). Works well for $70, available at Walmart, jandr.com, target, and other stores in the USA. Competes well against the well-known LiteOn 2001/2002 series DVD/DIVX players, but at a much lower cost and available in more stores. Nice! = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:25:51 -0500 From: Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go Hi, Sorry for the slow reply, I'm only just catching up with personal email. What are you using to play VCDs? I have good results playing standard VCD-resolution MPEG-1 files (352x240/352x288, std 1150 bitrate) without What's the secret? I've tried to play VCDs and, at a certain point, the image starts to break up, then everything stops. This is on a L100CT w/64MB and using a Sony PRD-650 CDROM, under W98se and with several players. I haven't tried playing off a CD-ROM. There is slightly more data to read in a VCD than in a raw MPEG file, so maybe that affects results (though I doubt it). You could try ripping the VCD - you can't just copy the DAT, you should use a purpose-built ripping program. It just works under Linux using MPlayer, and I would assume that it would work just as well using Media Player and DirectX. -- -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (http://www.larwe.com/) Learn how to develop high-end embedded systems on a budget! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0750676094/zws-20 ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] DVD drives for a Libby 100
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 07:40:42 -0500 From: Carnage [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DVD drives for a Libby 100 Thus far, I've successfully installed a 10G HD and OC'd it to 266 (with a jumper to select the speed, so as to avoid burning it out), and have drivers for just about everything working on it. But I can't seem to get the stupid thing to play DVDs. I've tried a couple of different drives, and have a DVD to Go card, but I still can't seem to crack the problem. After searching the list, I've noticed several have posted that they're able to use it for DVD playback, but I can't seem to find an exact model that's listed as working well. I'm thinking that it's something to do with the specific drives I'm using. Any suggestions? Also, are there any recommendations for helping to dissipate the extra heat that the 266 OC will generate? Thanks! -Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] margi dvd to-go
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:41:13 -0800 (PST) From: ned thammakhoune [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: margi dvd to-go Hi: Has anyone made the Margi-DVD card to work under Win2k on Lib110? I want to play mpeg2 and vcd files from the hard drive hoping that it will run smoother. Are both of pcmcia slots support ZV? Do I need to config them to do so? Thanks ned __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:35:30 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go In a message dated 10/30/2003 9:42:55 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi: Has anyone made the Margi-DVD card to work under Win2k on Lib110? I want to play mpeg2 and vcd files from the hard drive hoping that it will run smoother. Are both of pcmcia slots support ZV? Do I need to config them to do so? Thanks ned I tried to get the Margi MPEG-To-Go card to work on my L100 under W98se, but never could. Got only audio, and a black screen. I've been tempted to try the DVD-To-Go card, and will soon install W98se/W2k dual-boot on my L100, so please post your results to the list. The research I did at the time suggested that both L100 slots are ZV-enabled, and no tweaking or configuration should be necessary. But then I never got it to work, either. Good luck. Lee ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:48:40 -0500 From: Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go Has anyone made the Margi-DVD card to work under Win2k on Lib110? I want to play mpeg2 and vcd files from the hard drive hoping that it will run smoother. What are you using to play VCDs? I have good results playing standard VCD-resolution MPEG-1 files (352x240/352x288, std 1150 bitrate) without any special software. Low-res DivX movies are OK too. -- -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (http://www.larwe.com/) Learn how to develop high-end embedded systems on a budget! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0750676094/zws-20 ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:38:58 +0100 From: Paul Bristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go ed thammakhoune wrote: Has anyone made the Margi-DVD card to work under Win2k on Lib110? I want to play mpeg2 and vcd files from the hard drive hoping that it will run smoother. I made one work on a 100CT under Linux. Don't ask how much effort that was, but it did work well, for both MPEG-2 and VCD, so the hardware is OK. -- Paul Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://paulbristow.net ICQ:11965223 ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:28:01 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go In a message dated 10/30/2003 1:06:48 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are you using to play VCDs? I have good results playing standard VCD-resolution MPEG-1 files (352x240/352x288, std 1150 bitrate) without any special software. Low-res DivX movies are OK too. What's the secret? I've tried to play VCDs and, at a certain point, the image starts to break up, then everything stops. This is on a L100CT w/64MB and using a Sony PRD-650 CDROM, under W98se and with several players. Lee ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:06:16 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go On my L110, VCDs play fine as well. With DVDs, I've noticed that even with a fast DVD player like WinDVD 4, the L110 can only do about 10fps playing off an external Sony PCMCIA CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. Divx? Depends on bitrate - some play full screen okay, most of the 'heavy' ones don't play at full speed. I've thought about a dvd-to-go card as well, so it would be interesting to hear if anyone has gotten it to work since they're dirt cheap on www.ebay.com. = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:09:35 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] margi dvd to-go What's the secret? I've tried to play VCDs and, at a certain point, the image starts to break up, then everything stops. This is on a L100CT w/64MB and using a Sony PRD-650 CDROM, under W98se and with several players. was that a 4x cdrom drive I recall vaguely? it maybe that you're using a 16-bit card and it's not pushing enough data; a slower 4x (or whatever it is) drive that can't push enough data towards the outer edge of the disc (later in the video); got virus scanners or other applications running; not using WinDVD 4 or simply 6.4 Windows Media Player full screen IT SHOULD work! Heck, I had my L50/J at 100Mhz playing VCDs full screen just fine = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] bus powered cdrw/dvd
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:34:27 -0700 (PDT) From: admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bus powered cdrw/dvd I have a 110ct and am looking for a CDRW/DVD combo drive. Does anybody have experience with one that can be powered off our pcmcia slot? I contacted Addonics and EXP and they say the libretto's don't put out enough power. I would rather not carry around another power pack. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] bus powered cdrw/dvd
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 01:36:31 -0700 (PDT) From: admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LIB] bus powered cdrw/dvd --- admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 02:34:27 -0700 (PDT) From: admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bus powered cdrw/dvd To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a 110ct and am looking for a CDRW/DVD combo drive. Does anybody have experience with one that can be powered off our pcmcia slot? I contacted Addonics and EXP and they say the libretto's don't put out enough power. I would rather not carry around another power pack. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] External Slim DVD-ROM player, 32-bit Cardbus PCMCIA $49
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:08:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin McClelland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] External Slim DVD-ROM player, 32-bit Cardbus PCMCIA $49 On Wed, 25 September 2002, Lines, Nick wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 05:36:55 -0400 From: quot;Lines, Nickquot; lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; Subject: Re: [LIB] External Slim DVD-ROM player, 32-bit Cardbus PCMCIA $49 @ Wow! Sold out already? Nick. In case anybody is interested, they also have the Archos MiniCD drive for the same price as well. Comes with PC Card and USB connectors, powered off the laptop, and apparently has DOS drivers for the PC Card, based on the website. You could always pick it up and switch out the internals with a cheapo laptop DVD drive, per Anke's earlier post. Providing you can find one. - Get your free @Elvis e-mail account at Elvis.com! http://www.elvis.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] External Slim DVD-ROM player, 32-bit Cardbus PCMCIA $49 @
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:09:55 +0200 (MEST) From: Anke Otto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] External Slim DVD-ROM player, 32-bit Cardbus PCMCIA $49 @ I've got several Archos products such as the pcmcia cdrom player, the cdwriter and several external diskdrive housings. All have worked flawless so far. For that price you would not get teh PCMICA/cardbus cable on its own here. The nice thing (to my mind) about the square boxed dvd/cdrom players is that they use IDE/APTI [sp?] standard connectors internally, so I was able to 'upgrade' the cdrom player with a cheapo internal notebook DVD drive and that works fine too. On a totally unrelated note: does anybody know where I might be able to source an external battery charger fmade by Span Inc (model DCR12-1535)? I need one for some Duracell DR15s notebook batteries (also made by GoldPeak), but can't find a supplier for these things. I've mailed Span Inc directly, but they haven't ever responded.. maybe they don't ship outside the US? Any help would be appreciated. Best Anke Leeds, UK For $49, how can you loose? But I wonder if anyone knows about the quality of the player. The Archos MP3 Jukebox as had a bit of a history of having problems. -- Werden Sie mit uns zum OnlineStar 2002! Jetzt GMX wählen - und tolle Preise absahnen! http://www.onlinestar.de ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] External Slim DVD-ROM player, 32-bit Cardbus PCMCIA $49 @
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 01:48:47 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] External Slim DVD-ROM player, 32-bit Cardbus PCMCIA $49 @ tigerdirect.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Sep 2002 01:48:47.0582 (UTC) FILETIME=[8603F7E0:01C2636C] From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?SRCCODE=BEFREESKU=a685-2000sourceid=00294806945814670416bfinfo=0-0-0-0-44h4f For $49, how can you loose? But I wonder if anyone knows about the quality of the player. The Archos MP3 Jukebox as had a bit of a history of having problems. m. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Pres-baby! Can we all get a free Lord of the Rings DVD
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:14:56 -0400 From: Pres Waterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Pres-baby! Can we all get a free Lord of the Rings DVD I only want it if Pres comes riding up on horseback to deliver it. Heh heh. I don't believe the Dealer is supposed to be the Deliverer, but I will check the rules! ;) Thanks Pres Waterman W2PW c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc. Long Island Ford and Kia dealer GO BILLS! ©¿© ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] Pres-baby! Can we all get a free Lord of the Rings DVD coupon? =)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:28:35 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Pres-baby! Can we all get a free Lord of the Rings DVD coupon? =) Pres Waterman, W2PW c/o 112 Motors, LLC Long Island Ford, Kia and Used Dealer Gee, now that Kia is doing that free Lord of the Rings DVD deal, think maybe us Libretto members can get coupons w/o the test drive hassle? ,) Anyways, just to let everyone know, Kia.com is doing a free LOTR DVD if you go test drive any Kia from now until next month or until supplies run out. Lots of people have already got their's shipped to them (lucky!) since they went early. Me, I'm still bummed here in So. Cal - way too many people here and all of the five Kia dealers in my area are totally out every time I go hit them up for one =( Hopefully, y'all will be in more fruitful areas! d =) oh, well. guess I'll have to hit them all up again this weekend to see how my luck holds... = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Pres-baby! Can we all get a free Lord of the Rings DVD
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:44:11 -0400 From: Pres Waterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Pres-baby! Can we all get a free Lord of the Rings DVD coupon? =) Gee, now that Kia is doing that free Lord of the Rings DVD deal, think maybe us Libretto members can get coupons w/o the test drive hassle? ,) Hmmm. Since the LOTR DVD is worth about $20, maybe we can work something out... Thanks Pres Waterman W2PW c/o Patchogue 112 Ford//Kia 112 Long Island Ford and Kia and Used dealer GO BILLS! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Pres-baby! Can we all get a free Lord of the Rings DVD
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:37:20 -0400 From: Michael Berlant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Pres-baby! Can we all get a free Lord of the Rings DVD I only want it if Pres comes riding up on horseback to deliver it. - Original Message - From: Pres Waterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 19:48 Subject: Re: [LIB] Pres-baby! Can we all get a free Lord of the Rings DVD Gee, now that Kia is doing that free Lord of the Rings DVD deal, think maybe us Libretto members can get coupons w/o the test drive hassle? ,) ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX316G/P4 (Built in DVD-R!!)
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:10:36 -0400 From: Gennadiy Tsygan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX316G/P4 (Built in DVD-R!!) I was referring mostly to other (including future) versions of Windows. I am not a big fan of Linux on laptop or desktop. With Windows, if Sony doesn't provide a driver- nobody will. There are some workarounds, but they are limited. Looks like I am trolling, because I don't need a large laptop and I wouldn't by Sony anyway, because I prefer eraserhead type pointer to a touchpad. - Original Message - From: Christian Gennerat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 2:14 AM Subject: Re: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX316G/P4 (Built in DVD-R!!) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:03:03 +0200 From: Christian Gennerat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX316G/P4 (Built in DVD-R!!) Gennadiy Tsygan wrote: Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:55:14 -0400 From: Gennadiy Tsygan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX316G/P4 (Built in DVD-R!!) Slashdot recently had an interesting discussion about this laptop. I learned that all Sony laptops support only the operating system they are sold with. BIOS may prevent installation of a different OS and Sony doesn't provide any drivers. They don't support. True. But BIOS let you install what you want. And you can find help with the usual Linux mailing lists and downloads from all Linux sites ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest ** ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX316G/P4 (Built in DVD-R!!)
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:55:14 -0400 From: Gennadiy Tsygan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX316G/P4 (Built in DVD-R!!) Slashdot recently had an interesting discussion about this laptop. I learned that all Sony laptops support only the operating system they are sold with. BIOS may prevent installation of a different OS and Sony doesn't provide any drivers. If this is true, I will never buy a Picturebook. Link to the discussion: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=35875cid=0pid=0startat=threshold=5m ode=nestedcommentsort=0op=Change Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:36:31 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX91G/P!!! (Built in DVD-R!!) http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Style-a/Catalog/02su/Grx91gp/index.html Okay, so if you've got $4000+ sitting around and can wait until after their October release, this baby, while nowhere near a subnotebook in size or form factor, will be an awesome laptop for anyone that wants to replace their TV, DVD, VHS, Monitor and Desktop PC with one laptop. Built-in DVD-R recorder! TV tuner! 5.1 Sound with Remote control!! 2Ghz, 512MB, 60GB, 16.1 screen!!! aaa!! drrl!!! o!!! drôle ? do you mean funny ? I have now a GRX316, as workstation, only 256MB, 20GB, but DVD with Cygwin Xfree, and always the Libretto on the side, as file server, HTTP server, GeneWeb server It is quite different from the Libretto, but, as I become old, a large screen is very nice. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest ** ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX316G/P4 (Built in DVD-R!!)
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:03:03 +0200 From: Christian Gennerat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX316G/P4 (Built in DVD-R!!) Gennadiy Tsygan wrote: Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:55:14 -0400 From: Gennadiy Tsygan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX316G/P4 (Built in DVD-R!!) Slashdot recently had an interesting discussion about this laptop. I learned that all Sony laptops support only the operating system they are sold with. BIOS may prevent installation of a different OS and Sony doesn't provide any drivers. They don't support. True. But BIOS let you install what you want. And you can find help with the usual Linux mailing lists and downloads from all Linux sites ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX91G/P!!! (Built in DVD-R!!)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:36:31 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX91G/P!!! (Built in DVD-R!!) http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Style-a/Catalog/02su/Grx91gp/index.html Okay, so if you've got $4000+ sitting around and can wait until after their October release, this baby, while nowhere near a subnotebook in size or form factor, will be an awesome laptop for anyone that wants to replace their TV, DVD, VHS, Monitor and Desktop PC with one laptop. Built-in DVD-R recorder! TV tuner! 5.1 Sound with Remote control!! 2Ghz, 512MB, 60GB, 16.1 screen!!! aaa!! drrl!!! o!!! --- Okay, well, reality check says in two years you can buy similar for $1000 (50% drop in computer prices on average per year based on past 10+ years on computing). --- Besides, $4000 spent on a 42 plasma screen that looks better.. = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX316G/P4 (Built in DVD-R!!)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:08:14 +0200 From: Christian Gennerat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX316G/P4 (Built in DVD-R!!) David Chien wrote: Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 11:36:31 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LIB] Defecting to Sony GRX91G/P!!! (Built in DVD-R!!) http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Style-a/Catalog/02su/Grx91gp/index.html Okay, so if you've got $4000+ sitting around and can wait until after their October release, this baby, while nowhere near a subnotebook in size or form factor, will be an awesome laptop for anyone that wants to replace their TV, DVD, VHS, Monitor and Desktop PC with one laptop. Built-in DVD-R recorder! TV tuner! 5.1 Sound with Remote control!! 2Ghz, 512MB, 60GB, 16.1 screen!!! aaa!! drrl!!! o!!! drôle ? do you mean funny ? I have now a GRX316, as workstation, only 256MB, 20GB, but DVD with Cygwin Xfree, and always the Libretto on the side, as file server, HTTP server, GeneWeb server It is quite different from the Libretto, but, as I become old, a large screen is very nice. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] DVD and L100 was VCD and L100
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:21:20 +0200 From: Paul Bristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] DVD and L100 was VCD and L100 Pres Waterman wrote: snip I am not sure what the differences are with the DVD-to-Go and the MPEG-to-GO. I have the ( Margi ) Dell DVD-to-Go and it was once working but I know not if it is the wrong video driver in W98 or the wrong player WDM??? the other??? ) or what. Errors include pink screen and MMSYSsomethiog errors. As you can tell I am remembering this poorly. The MPEG-to-go handles MPEG-1 files, as used on VideoCD. The DVD-to-go handles MPEG1 MPEG2 video, covering VideoCD and DVD. Unfortunately I can't help on the software, as I am using a DVD-to-go card under linux, with VCD DVD files ripped to the 40G hard drive. -- Paul Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:http://paulbristow.net ICQ:11965223 ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] DVD and L100 was VCD and L100
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:56:12 -0400 From: Pres Waterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] DVD and L100 was VCD and L100 So the Margi DVD-to-go cards/software are difficult to install and/or configure? Wonder if that holds for the MPEG-to-go? I decided on VCD (vs DVD) to lessen the load on the Lib, and lower my entry costs for this playing-movies-on-computers experiment (I don't have a DVD drive on any of them.) And in fact, the VCD plays (after decreasing from 24-bit to 16-bit) pretty well on the L100 in W98se with no help from Margi. Just needs a little smoothing. I am not sure what the differences are with the DVD-to-Go and the MPEG-to-GO. I have the ( Margi ) Dell DVD-to-Go and it was once working but I know not if it is the wrong video driver in W98 or the wrong player WDM??? the other??? ) or what. Errors include pink screen and MMSYSsomethiog errors. As you can tell I am remembering this poorly. It DID work at one time in both W95 and W98. Occasional choppy audio, but usable in a pinch. My theory was like yours, hey- have the DVD player, why not! Pres Waterman, W2PW c/o Patchogue 112 Ford//Kia 112 Long Island Ford and Kia Dealer GO BILLS! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] DVD problems
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:34:00 - From: George Derby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DVD problems From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Help with Portege I recently received a Toshiba Portege 3110. It is larger than my Lib50 but the screen is so much easier for my older eyes to see. It came with the Toshiba authorized DVD drive that uses a PCMCIA card for the interface. I am trying to play a movie on it,but it has the occasional jitter and dropped audio. It has the max RAM (192 meg) and a 300 mhz processor. Is there a player that is more efficient than the others? Is there anything I can do, other than making the picture size smaller, to make it all play smoothly? (I do not think I am ready to tackle Linux just yet) I know this is (slightly) off topic, but it is a Toshiba, right? And you guys are some of the most savvy people I know. Hello I have quite a bit of experience of trying to get DVD to work on Librettos and other laptops. Essentially, it is down to the speed of the processor (300 Mhz) is just below recommended so I am not surprised it is jittery. I have had the Libretto running DVD and that was initially slow / jittery and the audio broke up. Ensure that DMA is enabled on the DVD drive - this is certainly an option on PC drives but I am not sure that it is on PCMCIA drives. Go to Control Panel, System, Device Manager, click CD rom, and go to properties of your drive. If you use a Margi card, that is a big improvement. It is a dedicated DVD PCMCIA card - that really did improve the quality of the picture / sound, rather than using just software only, such as PowerDVD. Best wishes George ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: L110CT DVD
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 19:08:02 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: L110CT DVD Question: Which is the best DVD for the Libretto 110CT? I'd say La Femme Nikita followed by The Professional (director's cut). Beyond that, Four Weddings and a Funeral. If you mean DVD drive, I'll let that question go for the others (don't forget to search prior posts on DVD players for Librettos in the Libretto Mailing List Archives linked on my site). d =) = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
L110CT DVD
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 23:29:50 -0300 From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: L110CT DVD Hi everyone: Question: Which is the best DVD for the Libretto 110CT? ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: DVD and ZV port sound
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 17:28:10 -0400 From: Pres Waterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD and ZV port sound I have DVD running on a 100 - sound and picture a little jumpy at times but just about acceptable. However, the sound is routed out of the Margi card's connector, through the lead into the 2.5mm jack socket. I wanted to route it directly through the ZV sound port, like on my other laptop. However, the sound profiles do not show ZV port available and I do not seem to be able to choose it from anywhere. There seem to be 2 drives available for the Yamaha sound system... or is it the Dell/Margi card? Well, one is WDM and one is not. You have the wrong one. If you are still stuck, let me know directly. I have DVD sound playing out the little Libretto speaker. With stuttering too. Arrgh Thanks Pres Waterman W2PW c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc. Long Island Ford and Kia dealer GO BILLS! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: DVD and ZV port sound
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:52:08 +0100 From: George Derby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD and ZV port sound I have DVD running on a 100 - sound and picture a little jumpy at times but just about acceptable. However, the sound is routed out of the Margi card's connector, through the lead into the 2.5mm jack socket. I wanted to route it directly through the ZV sound port, like on my other laptop. However, the sound profiles do not show ZV port available and I do not seem to be able to choose it from anywhere. Help. George ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: DVD question
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:03:25 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD question Anyways, given the lower processor power of the older Librettos and the smaller size of VCDs, you may also want to consider VCD'ing everything (or buying them from your favorite stores in Singapore, etc. for $1-5 each). http://www.vcdhelp.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
DVD/Margi Problems
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:12:36 +0100 From: Philip G Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DVD/Margi Problems I've just got a new Margi DVD-to-Go card to go with my Freecom Traveller DVD-ROM for my L100. Initially, I couldn't get any sound out, but installing L110 drivers fixed this. (I assume L100 and L110 use the same sound hardware). Video play was perfect, though the sound was fairly poor quality. Anyway I wanted to try player software that was more fully featured. First I tried PowerDVD, but I couldn't get it to recognise the Margi code so it tried to do software decoding. Next I tried WinDVD. Again it wouldn't recognise the Margi card. However shortly after starting it, WinDVD crashed. After a reboot windows started acting strangely with 1-2s freezes every 10-15s. I uninstalled WinDVD (leaving the shared DLLs in place, but foolishly not making a note of what they are). Now windows recognises the PCMCIA card (in the card app in the icon tray), but the DVD-ROM doesn't show up in Explorer. The original (working) Margi player software now hangs the machine. I've tried reinstalling the DVD-ROM drivers with no luck. I assume WinDVD modified some Windows CD/DVD-ROM drivers and that's screwing up my system. Has anyone else had this problem? Any advice about cleaning WinDVD out of my system? Does anyone know what junk WinDVD has left behind on my hard drive (especially those shared files I kept). The windows 98 (1st edition) tool that restores system files thinks that just about all the windows files have changed since the initial install, so that's not much help without knowing what files to restore. Any ideas? Please? I really don't want to do a full Windows reinstallation (I just did that about a month ago and it took me ages to get everything working OK). I get digest postings and I'm going away for a few days (wanted to take my L100 to watch a few films), so if anyone has any advice or answers to they please send mail to me personnaly as well as the list. Cheers, Phil Spencer. This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of J.P. Morgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: DVD/Margi Problems
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:58:12 +0100 From: Philip G Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD/Margi Problems Emergency over. I managed to figure out which files needed restoring by comparing things with another laptop. Everything's working now. My advice to anyone else: stay well clear of WinDVD on the Libretto. I'd still like to get PowerDVD working, since I prefer it's interface to Margi's DVD app. and it has more functionality. Has anyone had any success here? Cheers, Phil Spencer. This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of J.P. Morgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: DVD/Margi Problems
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 08:47:26 -0400 From: Lawrence Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD/Margi Problems I don't think any of those Software DVD player supports hardware decoders. They usually support some kind of hardware assistance from most 3D Video cards but not DVD decoding. - Original Message - From: Philip G Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 7:03 AM Subject: Re: DVD/Margi Problems Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:58:12 +0100 From: Philip G Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD/Margi Problems Emergency over. I managed to figure out which files needed restoring by comparing things with another laptop. Everything's working now. My advice to anyone else: stay well clear of WinDVD on the Libretto. I'd still like to get PowerDVD working, since I prefer it's interface to Margi's DVD app. and it has more functionality. Has anyone had any success here? Cheers, Phil Spencer. This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of J.P. Morgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... ** ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: DVD question
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:36:26 -0400 From: Clinton Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD question Chris and list, OK, I've learned a lot in the past few days. With regards to the Margi DVD-to-Go card: has anyone been able to get it to work playing DVD files from the HD? PLEASE read my other comments BELOW and look at: http://www.digital-digest.com/nickyguides/piracy-info.htm This is just my opinion, but I think the facts will back it up. Thanks! Regards, Clinton Parker Chris Kalos wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2001, Clinton Parker wrote: NOTE: from what I've seen, the encrypting is mostly for PRICE FIXING - NOT copy protection!!! - there's NOTHING (physically) that prevents someone with a DVD writer from copying a DVD disk encryption and all - that copy would play on ANY DVD player - just as I said before, the movie companies are trying to control PRICES!! - WAKE UP PEOPLE - IT IS NOT COPY PROTECTION - IT'S OUR RIGHTS THEY ARE STEALING - DMCA is REAL BAD. Yes, DMCA is bad. However, there is a difference in terms of the Copy Protection. You can't burn a duplicate disk that easily, since the stuff available on the market is DVD-R General. You'd need the DVD-R Video disk to be recognized as one that the CSS descrambler should be used on. Ideally, you're right. Realistically, it's the same issue that early generation CD players had with CD-R's, where you have to pay an absurd amount extra per disk to play it anywhere (and not really anywhere, either, since many recent devices aren't CD-R capable, such as single laser DVD players) And it *is* copy protection. It's been taken to a sickening extreme, but it's copy protection. Good luck using the media that you paid for, right? Without backup capabilities, we're kinda stuck at the moment. That said, I'll be ripping my DVDs to DivX over time, and backing that up on hard disk, CD-R, and tape. NO, IT IS NOT COPY PROTECTION If is were, then you would have NO trouble copying a non-encrypted DVD to a DVD-R (and playing it back). I don't know that much about DVD-R, but the issues you mention have nothing to do with the encryption!!! The encryption is NOT processed in the DVD-ROM player, thus you could potentially make a DVD disk that is an exact copy of the encrypted disk (whether a drive or medium exists to make this copy on I don't know enough to say, but I know that it is possible to read the encrypted files off the DVD-ROM in the encrypted format). I also understand that it is possible to playback the encrypted files, copied from the DVD-ROM, on the HD. What if someone (and I am not advocating this) sent those encrypted files to someone else (OK, it might take some time, but as bandwidth increases this will be less and less of an issue). That person could also play those files from their PC (with the appropriate DVD software or hardware). Where is the copy protection??? Copy protection would involve doing something that would make it impossible (well difficult) to create a duplicate of the original DVD disk (similar to the way this has been done with protected software in the past). Encryption has NOTHING to do with this! It does affect your ability to edit the DVD material - which is a different issue. PEOPLE WAKE UP!!! This and DMCA is all a PLOY by the movie industry to allow them to do PRICE FIXING. Most other businesses (MS included) would find themselves in court for this. Why is the movie industry able to do this kind of PRICE FIXING and not find themselves in court (well actually, this is, in some regards, in court in that the constitutionality of DMCA is being challenged)??? PLEASE SEE: http://www.digital-digest.com/nickyguides/piracy-info.htm ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: DVD question
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:18:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Kalos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD question Let's try this again. Read below. And please, lay off the caps lock. CK On Fri, 18 May 2001, Clinton Parker wrote: Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:36:26 -0400 From: Clinton Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD question Chris and list, OK, I've learned a lot in the past few days. With regards to the Margi DVD-to-Go card: has anyone been able to get it to work playing DVD files from the HD? PLEASE read my other comments BELOW and look at: http://www.digital-digest.com/nickyguides/piracy-info.htm This is just my opinion, but I think the facts will back it up. Thanks! Regards, Clinton Parker Chris Kalos wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2001, Clinton Parker wrote: NO, IT IS NOT COPY PROTECTION If is were, then you would have NO trouble copying a non-encrypted DVD to a DVD-R (and playing it back). I So, you can copy an unencrypted disc. I thought we were talking about encrypted DVDs, ne? don't know that much about DVD-R, but the issues you mention have nothing to do with the encryption!!! The encryption is NOT processed in It has *everything* to do with the player. Not the DVD drive on a PC, maybe, but the standalone hardware player, which is the true point of control for the MPAA. the DVD-ROM player, thus you could potentially make a DVD disk that is an exact copy of the encrypted disk (whether a drive or medium exists to make this copy on I don't know enough to say, but I know that it is possible to read the encrypted files off the DVD-ROM in the encrypted format). I also understand that it is possible to playback the encrypted files, copied from the DVD-ROM, on the HD. What if someone (and I am not advocating this) sent those encrypted files to someone else (OK, it might take some time, but as bandwidth increases this will be less and less of an issue). That person could also play those files from their PC (with the appropriate DVD software or hardware). Where is the copy protection??? Copy protection would involve doing something that would make it impossible (well difficult) to create a duplicate of the original DVD disk (similar to the way this has been done with protected It *is* impossible to create a duplicate disc without special hardware and media. It simply won't descramble on a home deck if you use a DVD-General disc. software in the past). Encryption has NOTHING to do with this! It does affect your ability to edit the DVD material - which is a different issue. Also, consider this: Even the PC players were not *meant* to allow what we've been discussing. Just because it's been bypassed doesn't mean it's suddenly legal. Now, I'm not going to say that the law is right, because that's another issue altogether. PEOPLE WAKE UP!!! This and DMCA is all a PLOY by the movie industry to allow them to do PRICE FIXING. Most other businesses (MS included) would find themselves in court for this. Why is the movie industry able to do this kind of PRICE FIXING and not find themselves in court (well actually, this is, in some regards, in court in that the constitutionality of DMCA is being challenged)??? I never said it wasn't about price fixing. However, that's not the only issue. It's also about copy protection. I still don't see anyone making copies of these movies that we can play in a DVD player with the same quality video and 5.1 channel audio. VCDs don't match that, and affordable DVD copying hardware simply doesn't exist. The very nature of CSS was to protect the data from being copied. So they blundered. It doesn't stop their initial intent. Macrovision was added to ensure that the stream couldn't be dumped to VHS. That too can probably be bypassed. Again, not their fault. CSS was *intended* to be hard to break, if not impossible. It failed. That doesn't make it open season on DVDs without any legal repercussions. Granted, the DMCA protects the poorly devised protection schemes in a somewhat insidious way, but that's besides the point. We all know it's a bad law. Now, if you want to talk about price fixing on DVDs, why don't you mention region coding? *That's* the part of DVD technology that enables price fixing so readily. It might be a part of CSS, but it's not all of it. If it were only about region coding, then why encrypt it? PLEASE SEE: http://www.digital-digest.com/nickyguides/piracy-info.htm More information provided to make all of this seem ok. It's not. If you want to make a difference, we have to handle this from the legal aspect, not by shattering the industry and flooding the 'net with DivX copies of every film known to man. Once the DMCA is repealed (which will have to happen,) we'll have a lot more breathing room. That said, I think we've strayed too much from the topic of the Libretto
Re: DVD question
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:20:15 -0400 From: Clinton Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD question Chris Kalos wrote: So, you can copy an unencrypted disc. I thought we were talking about encrypted DVDs, ne? I used that to illustrate the point I was trying to make. That one could also copy the encrypted data files on a DVD-ROM just as easily (not that I am advocating this). You do not have to decrypt the files to copy them! It *is* impossible to create a duplicate disc without special hardware and media. It simply won't descramble on a home deck if you use a DVD-General disc. The fact that it might be costly to get hardware and media (at least for now) that will do this, does not change the fact that it can be done. Your argument is simply saying that the media is the copy protection, not the encryption. If the media and recorders become reasonably priced (as happened with CD-R), you will quickly see how meaningless your argument is. I am sure that the MPAA knows this and that is why they are doing everything they can to paint a false claim that this is copy protection. Sorry, the facts just don't support this claim. Once copied, the DVD player is quite happy to do the decryption for you when it plays back the copy. So where is the copy protection? Answer: the encryption does not offer any! Think about this. The encryption offers some access protection (for price fixing and distribution control by MPAA, etc. ...) but it offers NO copy protection. The MPAA is just trying to sell you and everyone else on this so that they can justify it's (CSS) existence and the need for a law to protect CSS (and thus use it for price fixing). As I original said, I am not trying to do anything illegal. It is not illegal to copy, for personal use, the encrypted files from the DVD-ROM disk, that I own, to my HD. I am not decrypting them, the DVD player will do this when it plays back the video. I am just trying to find out what (legal) hardware and/or software is available (if any) to do this so that I can play back the HD copy of the DVD on my Libretto 100CT. It really should not be that complicated and sorry for getting off topic. I really would like to do this. Just trying to find out how - legally. Regards, Clinton Parker see: http://www.digital-digest.com/nickyguides/piracy-info.htm for a better description of this than I can give ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
RE: DVD question
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 23:38:57 +0200 From: Alexandre Kaoukhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: DVD question -Original Message- From: Clinton Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 8:23 PM To: Libretto Subject: Re: DVD question As I original said, I am not trying to do anything illegal. But who cares? Personally I would like to watch only illegal movies downloaded from internet thus boycotting producers. I feel personally offended by those companies as they splitted the world. Now Russia is in the zone 5 along with Africa while I am living in zone 2. For some reasons there are no Russian films in Paris. Am I supposed to buy two players? MRIAA are just bunch of greedy persons ancapable to see more than its nose. Unfortunately, neither Divx offer quality I want nor the number of films I see per month would justify paying broadband access. This is my point of view. It may be different from your's. I know your arguments and I understand them. I do understand that artists need support but you have also agree that customers should not be viewed as shit. Cheers, Alexandre ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
RE: DVD question
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 22:10:17 +0200 From: Alexandre Kaoukhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: DVD question I have tested grabbing vob files. It did work but the problem is that Margi player somehow refused using hardware decompression while playing from HD. Thus, I just got about 5-10 fps - the same as PowerDVD. There should be some DVD emulators available. Do not know if this would allow to cheat Margi player. I will give it a try when I get some time. Another option is to convert DVD to VCD and then emulate VCD. Margi specs say that it plays VCDs. I have never tried DIVx but I wonder how it could be possible to play them even on overclocked Libretto. Even if it works, how about thermal shutdowns? Anyway, unless you download films from the net it should take more than overnight to convert DVD to DIVx. The same is true for VCDs. Alexandre ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 17:19:15 -0400 From: Clinton Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD question Alexandre, Thank you! This is good and bad news. The good new is that this is just as I had suspected. It is possible to copy the raw (encrypted) files from the DVD disk. From what I have seen, it is the decoder that does both the decrypting and mpeg decoding. Thus if the decoder will process the files from the HD that's it - just what I was looking for. From what I can tell, this is perfectly legal too (all of the decrypting and decoding are being done by an approved device. NOTE: from what I've seen, the encrypting is mostly for PRICE FIXING - NOT copy protection!!! - there's NOTHING (physically) that prevents someone with a DVD writer from copying a DVD disk encryption and all - that copy would play on ANY DVD player - just as I said before, the movie companies are trying to control PRICES!! - WAKE UP PEOPLE - IT IS NOT COPY PROTECTION - IT'S OUR RIGHTS THEY ARE STEALING - DMCA is REAL BAD. The bad news: Margi is the only PCMCIA hardware decoder that I know about. Maybe there is some way to get it to play properly off the HD? Does anyone know about any other PCMCIA decoders? Would they work? DVD software just won't cut it on the 100CT - it's too slow. Any Margi users out there have any help? TIA Regards, Clinton Parker Alexandre Kaoukhov wrote: Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 22:10:17 +0200 From: Alexandre Kaoukhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: DVD question I have tested grabbing vob files. It did work but the problem is that Margi player somehow refused using hardware decompression while playing from HD. Thus, I just got about 5-10 fps - the same as PowerDVD. There should be some DVD emulators available. Do not know if this would allow to cheat Margi player. I will give it a try when I get some time. Another option is to convert DVD to VCD and then emulate VCD. Margi specs say that it plays VCDs. I have never tried DIVx but I wonder how it could be possible to play them even on overclocked Libretto. Even if it works, how about thermal shutdowns? Anyway, unless you download films from the net it should take more than overnight to convert DVD to DIVx. The same is true for VCDs. Alexandre ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
DVD question
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:52:05 -0400 From: Clinton Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DVD question Hello List, I would like to find out what is required to load a movie from a DVD onto a 100CT HD (20 GB) and view it from there. I realize that it will require a PC Card decoder, so that is not the real issue (although I'd like to hear about experiences with that too). I'm not trying to do anything illegal. I just want to take some movies I own on trips with me so that I can view them on the road. I don't have a portable DVD player, but have one on the desktop and could transfer the file over the network to the Libby. I have seen posts before talking about doing this, so I believe that it is possible, but have not seen any details on how to do it or what software is available/needed. Please respond privately if you don't want to post to the list. TIA Regards, Clinton Parker ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:26:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Kalos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD question Well, I don't think you're meant to do this, so if anyone *can* help you, be aware that we're talking about DMCA violations regardless. With that in mind, let's see if I care... nope! A UDF dump may be a tad tricky, so your best bet might be to actually rip the whole thing and re-encode as a DivX. My 110 handles DivX just fine, but you may need to O/C your 100 to make it work. If you want a hardware solution to ripping this, it'll cost ya. Components: DVD player, CardBus FireWire card, DV converter. You'll need drivers for this, but the quality is excellent. You'll get a raw DV feed, which you'll need to re-encode, and then playback's nice and simple. I learned this when we needed to muck around with some video clips from a protected DVD. We weren't stealing the material, it never left our LAN, and no one's ever going to see it outside of the owner of the disc, really, but it's stilla DMCA violation. This country sure knows how to suck sometimes. CK On Wed, 16 May 2001, Clinton Parker wrote: Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:52:05 -0400 From: Clinton Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DVD question Hello List, I would like to find out what is required to load a movie from a DVD onto a 100CT HD (20 GB) and view it from there. I realize that it will require a PC Card decoder, so that is not the real issue (although I'd like to hear about experiences with that too). I'm not trying to do anything illegal. I just want to take some movies I own on trips with me so that I can view them on the road. I don't have a portable DVD player, but have one on the desktop and could transfer the file over the network to the Libby. I have seen posts before talking about doing this, so I believe that it is possible, but have not seen any details on how to do it or what software is available/needed. Please respond privately if you don't want to post to the list. TIA Regards, Clinton Parker ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... ** ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: DVD question
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:54:47 -0400 From: Pres Waterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD question I would like to find out what is required to load a movie from a DVD onto a 100CT HD (20 GB) and view it from there. I realize that it will require a PC Card decoder, so that is not the real issue (although I'd like to hear about experiences with that too). This is an interesting approach. Since you can see the DVD files when read in Windows Explorer, why not copy them as a group? Start a DVD player application ( you will also probably NEED a Margi MPEG decoder card because the processor may not have the horsepower to run a software-MPEG application such as Power DVD ) and open a file which will have the .VOB extension. It should be as possible to play a DVD from a huge HDD just as it would be from a DVD player. Thanks Pres Waterman W2PW c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc. Long Island Ford and Kia dealer GO BILLS! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:00:37 -0400 From: Pres Waterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD question Hi. I am interested in your approach but please: EXPLAIN: A UDF dump may be a tad tricky, EXPLAIN: so your best bet might be to actually rip the whole thing EXPLAIN: and re-encode as a DivX. My 110 handles DivX just fine, but you may need to O/C your 100 to make it work. EXPLAIN: If you want a hardware solution AS OPPOSED TO? to ripping this, it'll cost ya. Components: DVD player, CardBus FireWire card, EXPLAIN: DV converter. You'll need drivers for this, but the quality is excellent. EXPLAIN: You'll get a raw DV feed, EXPLAIN: which you'll need to re-encode, EXPLAIN: and then playback's nice and simple. I like the nice and simple part! This looks like a nice thing to do although perhaps entirely too time-consuming, but if it could be automated on an overnight task, maybe worth doing. If I had a big enough HDD to keep a movie or 2 on the Libretto, it could be great for plane rides and lonely hotel evenings. But, I thought DIVX was a dead marketing format? EXPLAIN: Thanks Pres Waterman W2PW c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc. Long Island Ford and Kia dealer GO BILLS! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 09:12:31 -0700 From: Regis Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD question But, I thought DIVX was a dead marketing format? EXPLAIN: Divx is a Mpeg4 Codec. Not referring to the pay-per-use DiVX recently canned Check out Tomshardware.com - How to copy DVD to CD (for that matter, your HD) http://www4.tomshardware.com/video/01q2/010424/index.html Reg Thanks Pres Waterman W2PW c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc. Long Island Ford and Kia dealer GO BILLS! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... ** ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
