yousonuva
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Post by yousonuva on Mar 18, 2004 11:23:15 GMT -5
Hello and welcome to my "Technical Question" thread.
Okeedoke, so I have a lot of episodes, I downloaded from the DAP, copied to a lot of CD-Rs. What I want to know is:
1. Is there any other way to play these other than on my computer (ie. DVD players; specific video players for VCDs)?
2. I have a Dell which came with only a PCI graphics card, so I don't have any video out plugs, which I know are equipped with most AGP cards. I've heard of video adapters for the monitor-to-TV setup, but found those to be far too expensive ($50 & ^). Any cheap way of hooking my video output to my VCR so's I can record my show?
Sorry, I know I should probably ask a tech site this stuff, but I don't like to leave this one (plus I'm lazy)
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Post by Domi on Mar 18, 2004 11:26:28 GMT -5
Dumb question, but what's this DAP that you and everybody else speaks of?
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Post by yousonuva on Mar 18, 2004 11:43:00 GMT -5
what's this DAP that you and everybody else speaks of? Dumb question. It's the Digital Archives Project where you can download episodes. And it's free. You just need to get the e-donkey. Just go to thier site, it'll tell you everything. www.dapcentral.org/ |
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Post by TheOne19 on Mar 18, 2004 12:05:24 GMT -5
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Post by yousonuva on Mar 18, 2004 12:10:58 GMT -5
Just what I was looking for! Thanks One. I was seriously questioning if this really WAS a dumb question. guess not. |
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Post by TheOne19 on Mar 18, 2004 12:15:28 GMT -5
It's not a dumb question. I was wondering the same thing myself, but didn't have the guts to ask. ;D
Then I remembered the site from my last post.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Mar 18, 2004 19:44:06 GMT -5
I've heard the downloads called .avi, MPEG 4 and XVID. Their only playable on a computer. You can convert an MPEG 4 to MPEG 2, the DVD format but you will lose quality. I've had several DVDs converted from DAP downloads and they look kind of soft. Their watchable but I don't like them. It's always possible some new DVD players will support MPEG 4.
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Post by TomServo69 on Mar 18, 2004 19:47:11 GMT -5
I've heard the downloads called .avi, MPEG 4 and XVID. Their only playable on a computer. You can convert an MPEG 4 to MPEG 2, the DVD format but you will lose quality. I've had several DVDs converted from DAP downloads and they look kind of soft. Their watchable but I don't like them. It's always possible some new DVD players will support MPEG 4. If you have the right burning program, you can burn any of these formats to a DVD. Just depends on what you have. I can burn just about anything due to the fact the software that came with by burner (which I had to install myself) is frickin' awesome. It converts everything and transcodes it all in one. Servo |
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Post by nightfalcawk on Mar 18, 2004 20:03:47 GMT -5
I can't get mine to work because it "can't locate pref.met" Sucks, don't it?
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Mar 19, 2004 1:05:33 GMT -5
If you have the right burning program, you can burn any of these formats to a DVD. Just depends on what you have. I can burn just about anything due to the fact the software that came with by burner (which I had to install myself) is frickin' awesome. It converts everything and transcodes it all in one. Servo Which program Servo? And I did say you can convert them to DVD, I just said it doesn't turn out that well. |
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