oHi all,
Something new this time. Rather than talking about hardware or software, lets get down more detailed on a movie format. I am sure many of you know the classic movie format such as MPG/MPEG4 or AVI and also Windows's own movie format WMV. But how many of you guys are aware of NEW movie format that tackle almost 50% of internet's movie website? Most online streaming video providers are now facing force of technology to roll back their stupid WMV or RM (Real Player Movie) online streaming videos to replace with new FLV format. FLV refers to Flash Video format. This is wonderful and i promise you that this is much stable that RM (Real Player Movie) and 10 times better than the Window's stupid WMV which never stable for most users including me. FLV became famous as the YouTube managed to crack the world with their online video clip streaming capability which never as stupid as other online streamers because they are not using WMV or RM but eventually using FLV. FLV is Flash compactible and works with flash plugin to control the move time (including rewind/forwarding the movie).
And the good news is that This FLV player do not force you to install Real Player or Windows Media Player or Apple QuickTime but it works stable wit any additional softwares except Flash Plugin. If you web browser can load and play flash (SWF) then it can also load this FLV movies online and stream it live. The example site are YouTube.com and DailyMotion.com.
But somehow, if you managed to download those FLV files because some people prefer to keep the video files offline in their hard disk to use it anytime without need of internet connection then you will need to install a local player in your computer to play the FLV files. If you have no idea on how to download the streaming videos from YouTube or Google or DailyMotion? Then i suggest you to visit : http://keepvid.com/ which will definately help you by providing straight link to download the streaming video into FLV format.
After you download into your hard disk, you can't access it that so fast. No software in your computer will support this new type of video format even the Real Player and Windows Media Player also cannot play this format. There are several software players available for you to play FLV including FLVPlayer and nFLVplayer. I had tried them both and also other software. But all of them do not make me happy because i cannot have PLAYLIST to play many movies continuesly and also they provide me poor quality of video.
The best accidental shot that i gave was installing K-Lite Codecs. I did not install it for FLV but i just wanted my notebook to be having all the latest Audio/Video codecs as i can work better on encoding and decoding. This K-Lite codecs definately suprised me as they came with FLV Codec which has the capability of playing this FLV movies in good quality(the original FLV quality) even in full screen and the best part of it that they do provide PLAYLIST for me to play the movies continuosly. The software that attached together with k-lite codec version 3.01 is Media Player Classic. This player is really classy!!! Believe me, this player worth of using it as it is free open source and preforms very good in player all(or most i could say) movie/audio formats including Divx, AVI, MPEG4, VCD, DAT, MPG, RM, WMV, FLV, and many many more. They can be classified as UNIVERSAL MEDIA PLAYER. They provide full pack of codecs which makes our pc up to date.
Now my comment is download K-Lite Codecs (latest version up to now is 3.20) to play most audio/video format including FLV which is latest format that cracking down internet world. Use Keepvid.com to download streaming movies from YouTube, DailyMotion, Google and many more website.
Good luck all. FLV worth of downloading as it is more compact size compare to other video format and it will give you a compatitive quality. Ok then. Until my next blog, bye all.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
ADSL Router connecting error
Hi,
Many of ADSL users know how to setup own broadband connection in windows networking connections menu. This is simple and easy when they use Simple ADSL Modem (NOT Router). But if later you brough a Router, you will be freaked off that Windows Networking Connections won't help you to connect to the broadband internet. You will probably get error like this "The remote computer is not responding". This do not mean your router not working but you are lack in doing the right connection setting. All you need to is login to the Router's Web Interface to edit the settings. To do this, you must login to the Router web interface through an IP Address. Open Internet explorer and goto IP Address as writen in Router's user manual. Most often it will be : 192.168.1.1 (so the web interface URL is : http://192.168.1.1/). Just goto that address and login.
After login, you will see a word such as WIZARD. Click on the WIZARD and do the setting as guided by the Wizard itself. After the wizard is done, you no longer need windows connection to go internet, when ever you turn on your router, you will be online immediately as the router itself will dial-up to the broadband and keep the connnection active.
If in case you don't wish to have your internet always on with that new router and better wish to use Windows Connection to connect and disconnect from internet manually, then you just need to BRIDGE the connection. This means the Router will now not automatically connect to the internet and will disable the build-in dialer. While it will fully demand on Windows Networking COnnection to connect/disconnect from internet. In the router's web interface, search for an option called CONNECTION TYPE. By default it will be "PPPoE/PPPoA", change it to BRIDGE. Then just use your Windows dialer to connect and disconnect from internet as previously.
Note: a Router is not an ADSL modem but it is having advance feature to break through the classic ADSL Modem. So when you no longer need a router but just need an ADSL modem, then simply you can turn it to be a BRIDGE which means the Router just act just as an ADSL Modem which will turn off your hassle of messying up with the Router settings.
Recently, one of D-Link Router which has an advance ADSL feature and named as D-LINK ROUTER ADSL+2. This is more advance and our Malaysia Streamyx Home-User broadband is not as advance as it looks like. So if you brought an ADSL+2 ROUTER then you probably will have the error in router showing Router Connection Status as "CONNECTING" but it never connect to internet. The status will remain as Connecting. Haha, this is definately because your router having advance setting ADSL+2. This setting would have different values for PVC, VPI and VCI. And you need to set it back to our classic ADSL setting. Here is the value that your Router suppose to have:
(In Router's Web Interface, Go to the WAN settings and adjust this values...)
1) PVC : Pvc0
2) VPI : 0
3) VCI : 35
After doing editing this changes to the right value, save the setings. Restart your router and it will work prefectly right! You can see your status as "Connected" and able to surf the internet. Enjoy... by the way, you are always welcome to catch me if you need any assistant in setting your Router.
Many of ADSL users know how to setup own broadband connection in windows networking connections menu. This is simple and easy when they use Simple ADSL Modem (NOT Router). But if later you brough a Router, you will be freaked off that Windows Networking Connections won't help you to connect to the broadband internet. You will probably get error like this "The remote computer is not responding". This do not mean your router not working but you are lack in doing the right connection setting. All you need to is login to the Router's Web Interface to edit the settings. To do this, you must login to the Router web interface through an IP Address. Open Internet explorer and goto IP Address as writen in Router's user manual. Most often it will be : 192.168.1.1 (so the web interface URL is : http://192.168.1.1/). Just goto that address and login.
After login, you will see a word such as WIZARD. Click on the WIZARD and do the setting as guided by the Wizard itself. After the wizard is done, you no longer need windows connection to go internet, when ever you turn on your router, you will be online immediately as the router itself will dial-up to the broadband and keep the connnection active.
If in case you don't wish to have your internet always on with that new router and better wish to use Windows Connection to connect and disconnect from internet manually, then you just need to BRIDGE the connection. This means the Router will now not automatically connect to the internet and will disable the build-in dialer. While it will fully demand on Windows Networking COnnection to connect/disconnect from internet. In the router's web interface, search for an option called CONNECTION TYPE. By default it will be "PPPoE/PPPoA", change it to BRIDGE. Then just use your Windows dialer to connect and disconnect from internet as previously.
Note: a Router is not an ADSL modem but it is having advance feature to break through the classic ADSL Modem. So when you no longer need a router but just need an ADSL modem, then simply you can turn it to be a BRIDGE which means the Router just act just as an ADSL Modem which will turn off your hassle of messying up with the Router settings.
Recently, one of D-Link Router which has an advance ADSL feature and named as D-LINK ROUTER ADSL+2. This is more advance and our Malaysia Streamyx Home-User broadband is not as advance as it looks like. So if you brought an ADSL+2 ROUTER then you probably will have the error in router showing Router Connection Status as "CONNECTING" but it never connect to internet. The status will remain as Connecting. Haha, this is definately because your router having advance setting ADSL+2. This setting would have different values for PVC, VPI and VCI. And you need to set it back to our classic ADSL setting. Here is the value that your Router suppose to have:
(In Router's Web Interface, Go to the WAN settings and adjust this values...)
1) PVC : Pvc0
2) VPI : 0
3) VCI : 35
After doing editing this changes to the right value, save the setings. Restart your router and it will work prefectly right! You can see your status as "Connected" and able to surf the internet. Enjoy... by the way, you are always welcome to catch me if you need any assistant in setting your Router.
Convert Audio from Cassette to CD
Hi all,
Maybe most of you have heard about "real-recording". But when questioned about real-recording and what it is used for? Most of us could not answer it. But the answer is Real-Recording used to convert Audio/Video more technically rather than using special softwares. Just a simply Audio/Video recording software could do the magic of converting. The process of converting is very simply where as the Real-Recording will play the original Audio or Video in it's existing format while software is used to capture the audio and video in real time later save it to any perferred format as allowed by that software. Similar case apply to convert audio from Cassette to Audio CD.
If any of you wish to convert cassette audio to CD then here i write my experience which was one of my latest experiment of real-recording. All you need is a Cassette player and audio cables. Your Cassette player should support AUDIO-OUT (Output Audio). And the cable that you need is a special cable that could connect RCA to PC Sound Card. RCA is nothing else than just the normal RED, WHITE, and YELLOW connector available cable that used for TV and Hi-fi systems. But this special cable will have only audio RCA which is RED and WHITE. On the other end of cable, it would have normal Sound Card plug like you usually have for your headphone. All you need to do is connect that end into your computer's sound card at "LINE-IN" (Blue color). And the RCA side use it to plug to the Cassette player. Then open audio real-recording software, Adobe Audition is best software while i personally prefer and used Audacity (Free Open Source software). Adjust your Windows Mixer to record from LINE-IN and Mute other recording channels including Microphone. Only allow Line-In to record. Now use the software to start recording and PLAY the cassette in it's player. After few seconds, you should able to see the Audio Waves displaying the software which proves that real-recording is running. Leave i to run until the cassette stop playing. It will be around 25 minutes for one side of cassette to finish playing. Then stop recording. In the audio waves, cut out the silent parts by highlighting and deleting it. And you can save the track right away in that software. I suggest you to save it in MP3 rather than Wave because it compress the audio and saves your hard disk space.
Now repeat the step for the other side of the cassette, play the cassette and let the software to record in real-time. And save it too. The final step is just to burn that MP3 to Audio CD. Simple to do this, just use Nero Burning Rom and get it done by locating the MP3 files and burn it as Audio CD.
Hope you get it all right. But one important thing that you need to keep in remark; plug the cable to LINE-IN (Blue) of your sound card and NOT in the MICROPHONE (Red) plug. This is because it would waste the Audio Quality which i had experienced it.
Give it a try, experience teaches you better than your teachers DO !
Good luck buddy !
Maybe most of you have heard about "real-recording". But when questioned about real-recording and what it is used for? Most of us could not answer it. But the answer is Real-Recording used to convert Audio/Video more technically rather than using special softwares. Just a simply Audio/Video recording software could do the magic of converting. The process of converting is very simply where as the Real-Recording will play the original Audio or Video in it's existing format while software is used to capture the audio and video in real time later save it to any perferred format as allowed by that software. Similar case apply to convert audio from Cassette to Audio CD.
If any of you wish to convert cassette audio to CD then here i write my experience which was one of my latest experiment of real-recording. All you need is a Cassette player and audio cables. Your Cassette player should support AUDIO-OUT (Output Audio). And the cable that you need is a special cable that could connect RCA to PC Sound Card. RCA is nothing else than just the normal RED, WHITE, and YELLOW connector available cable that used for TV and Hi-fi systems. But this special cable will have only audio RCA which is RED and WHITE. On the other end of cable, it would have normal Sound Card plug like you usually have for your headphone. All you need to do is connect that end into your computer's sound card at "LINE-IN" (Blue color). And the RCA side use it to plug to the Cassette player. Then open audio real-recording software, Adobe Audition is best software while i personally prefer and used Audacity (Free Open Source software). Adjust your Windows Mixer to record from LINE-IN and Mute other recording channels including Microphone. Only allow Line-In to record. Now use the software to start recording and PLAY the cassette in it's player. After few seconds, you should able to see the Audio Waves displaying the software which proves that real-recording is running. Leave i to run until the cassette stop playing. It will be around 25 minutes for one side of cassette to finish playing. Then stop recording. In the audio waves, cut out the silent parts by highlighting and deleting it. And you can save the track right away in that software. I suggest you to save it in MP3 rather than Wave because it compress the audio and saves your hard disk space.
Now repeat the step for the other side of the cassette, play the cassette and let the software to record in real-time. And save it too. The final step is just to burn that MP3 to Audio CD. Simple to do this, just use Nero Burning Rom and get it done by locating the MP3 files and burn it as Audio CD.
Hope you get it all right. But one important thing that you need to keep in remark; plug the cable to LINE-IN (Blue) of your sound card and NOT in the MICROPHONE (Red) plug. This is because it would waste the Audio Quality which i had experienced it.
Give it a try, experience teaches you better than your teachers DO !
Good luck buddy !
Friday, June 1, 2007
Burn DVD Video using .VOB Files without .BUP and .IFO
Hi, here is my another experience. Alright, i downloaded some one movie which had 4 parts. All of it was .VOB files. I knew VOB is DVD Video files because previously i had deal with them before and i am not new to hear that file format. But one thing made me suprise is that, VOB files cannot be burned as DVD Video without the .IFO and .BUP files which will actually contain the movie chapter information. And this is the first time to deal it this way without that 2 additional files. After googling, i read some articles and other user's opinions and as result of it i downloaded IFOedit. Here is the fun part, i just open IFO Edit application which is just around 500KB and create the IFO by just locating the VOB file. IFOEdit did the magic, it took some time to analyze the VOB files and create Chapters based on it and outputs .IFO and .BUP file. Now, what i wanted can be done, I just open Nero Burning Rom 6.6 and selected DVD-Video and added all the files .VOB, .IFO, and .BUP. But Nero showed that the IFO not found due to the Naming conflict and i changed the name of IFO and BUP manually and it worked wonderful. Taadaaaa.... Nero Burned the DVD-Video without any problem. Hope my experience will help you guys too. Oh ya, the great magic was done by that tiny software called IFOedit. Its a free application, could help you out if faced same problem as i did. Below is the screen shots:
IFOedit version 0.971
Nero Burning Rom version 6.6 OEM
IFOedit version 0.971
Nero Burning Rom version 6.6 OEM
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