Yet another DVD Playback thread...

Gone through every other thread related to DVD playback issues when you do a forum search for "dvd playback". If I try to play a DVD, the disc spins for quite a while while (S)MPlayer just sits there and eventually crashes. Tried this with multiple DVDs, updated all my software...here's the log. It doesn't play in xine or VLC either.
/usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo xv -ao oss -zoom -nokeepaspect -framedrop -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -wid 41943052 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -subfont-autoscale 1 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -dvd-device /dev/dvd -dvdangle 1 -nocache -osdlevel 1 -vf-add screenshot -channels 2 dvd://1
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9500 @ 2.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
115 audio & 237 video codecs
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 dvd://1.
libdvdread: Invalid main menu IFO (VIDEO_TS.IFO).
ID_DVD_TITLES=19
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_CHAPTERS=5
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_CHAPTERS=5
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_CHAPTERS=5
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_CHAPTERS=5
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_CHAPTERS=5
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_7_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_7_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_8_CHAPTERS=4
ID_DVD_TITLE_8_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_9_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_9_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_10_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_10_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_11_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_11_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_12_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_12_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_13_CHAPTERS=5
ID_DVD_TITLE_13_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_14_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_14_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_15_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_15_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_16_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_16_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_17_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_17_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_18_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_18_ANGLES=1
ID_DVD_TITLE_19_CHAPTERS=2
ID_DVD_TITLE_19_ANGLES=1
*** Zero check failed in ifo_read.c:1361
for vts_tmapt->zero_1 = 0x1b01
libdvdread: Invalid title IFO (VTS_01_0.IFO).
ID_DVD_TITLE_19_LENGTH=6.333
ID_DVD_TITLE_1_LENGTH=1402.600
ID_DVD_TITLE_2_LENGTH=1412.600
ID_DVD_TITLE_3_LENGTH=1412.600
ID_DVD_TITLE_4_LENGTH=1411.934
ID_DVD_TITLE_5_LENGTH=1406.600
ID_DVD_TITLE_6_LENGTH=1271.066
ID_DVD_TITLE_7_LENGTH=483.033
ID_DVD_TITLE_8_LENGTH=740.000
ID_DVD_TITLE_9_LENGTH=279.533
ID_DVD_TITLE_10_LENGTH=260.033
ID_DVD_TITLE_11_LENGTH=203.100
ID_DVD_TITLE_12_LENGTH=591.300
ID_DVD_TITLE_13_LENGTH=573.033
ID_DVD_TITLE_14_LENGTH=218.166
ID_DVD_TITLE_15_LENGTH=185.333
ID_DVD_TITLE_16_LENGTH=51.533
ID_DVD_TITLE_17_LENGTH=122.000
ID_DVD_TITLE_18_LENGTH=225.900
There are 19 titles on this DVD.
ID_DVD_CURRENT_TITLE=1
There are 5 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 128.
ID_AUDIO_ID=128
ID_AID_128_LANG=en
audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (stereo) language: fr aid: 129.
ID_AUDIO_ID=129
ID_AID_129_LANG=fr
audio stream: 2 format: ac3 (stereo) language: es aid: 130.
ID_AUDIO_ID=130
ID_AID_130_LANG=es
audio stream: 3 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 131.
ID_AUDIO_ID=131
ID_AID_131_LANG=en
number of audio channels on disk: 4.
subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_LANG=en
subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: fr
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=1
ID_SID_1_LANG=fr
subtitle ( sid ): 2 language: es
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=2
ID_SID_2_LANG=es
subtitle ( sid ): 3 language: pt
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=3
ID_SID_3_LANG=pt
subtitle ( sid ): 4 language: en
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=4
ID_SID_4_LANG=en
subtitle ( sid ): 5 language: es
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=5
ID_SID_5_LANG=es
subtitle ( sid ): 6 language: pt
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=6
ID_SID_6_LANG=pt
subtitle ( sid ): 7 language: es
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=7
ID_SID_7_LANG=es
subtitle ( sid ): 8 language: pt
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=8
ID_SID_8_LANG=pt
number of subtitles on disk: 9
CHAPTERS: 00:00:00,00:00:45,00:11:29,00:22:35,00:23:21,
ID_AUDIO_ID=128
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
ID_AUDIO_ID=131
ID_AUDIO_ID=130
ID_AUDIO_ID=129
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=3
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=2
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=6
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=5
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=4
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=1
edit: tried installing ogle to see what i could do with that, this libdvdcss output might come in handy. this doesn't make a whole lot of sense because i have libdvdcss and all installed.
[sa@mootop ~]$ ogle
ERROR[ogle_nav]: ifoRead_VTS_ATRT faild
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB (0x000003a0)
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB (0x00005c80)
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB (0x00018120)!!
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB (0x00018360)
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB (0x00018380)!!
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB (0x002379c0)
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB (0x002379e0)!!
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB (0x0029c000)
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB (0x0029c020)!!
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB (0x002c21e0)
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB (0x002c2200)!!
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB (0x002fe7e0)
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB (0x002fe800)!!
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB (0x0032ce60)
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB (0x0032ce80)!!
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.VOB (0x0035d560)
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB (0x0035d580)!!
FATAL[ogle_mpeg_ps]: dvdreadblocks failed
Last edited by sa (2008-05-30 01:19:27)

Sort of looks like hardware issues to me. Do you know that the drive works (i.e. tested in another OS, or it used to work and just stopped?)
Did you try just mplayer dvd:// ? That's quite a long options list you've got there.
What kind of drive is it?

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9 net.telestream.wmv.import 0x0d3fea62 0xd205000 + 2071138
10 net.telestream.wmv.import 0x0d22109d MmsDataHandlerComponentDispatch + 31911
11 net.telestream.wmv.import 0x0d217f44 AsfMovieImportComponentDispatch + 66184
12 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cd0c66 CallComponentFunctionCommon + 1048
13 net.telestream.wmv.import 0x0d207d31 AsfMovieImportComponentDispatch + 117
14 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90cd0734 CallComponentDispatch + 34
15 com.apple.QuickTime 0x948f7374 MovieImportDataRef + 91
16 com.apple.QuickTime 0x94a36bb5 newMovieFromFileFromComponent + 873
17 com.apple.QuickTime 0x949dce39 getNewMovieFromFileUsingImporters + 1110
18 com.apple.QuickTime 0x949dc555 NewMovieFromFilePriv + 811
19 com.apple.QuickTime 0x948e04d9 NewMovieFromDataRefPriv_priv + 3356
20 com.apple.QuickTime 0x949138ff NewMovieFromDataRef_priv + 54
21 com.apple.QuickTime 0x949138b5 NewMovieFromDataRef + 52
22 Ozone 0x015bdb96 readThumbnail(NSString*, NSString*) + 1146
23 Ozone 0x015be83d readThumbnailStub(void*) + 121
24 com.apple.procore.framework 0x0067fae0 -[ThreadInfoObj doThreadedProcess] + 76
25 com.apple.Foundation 0x927f82c0 forkThreadForFunction + 123
26 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 pthreadbody + 84
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0xc5b7b1ff ebx: 0x92ea54f1 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0xa0c7ea01
edi: 0xc5b7b1ff esi: 0x2016add0 ebp: 0xbfffeaa8 esp: 0xbfffeaa0
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010286 eip: 0x9171bddf cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037

Yet another x64 xfi thread... finally Beta Driv

Ok, a mate of mine told me that are some Beta xfi drivers out. A little bit of digging shows that there are indeed some drivers out but they are for Vista ie. http://uk.europe.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp?Product_ID=4000&Product_Name=X%2D Fi+Fatalty+FPS&OSName=Windows+Vista+64-bit&OS=27&DriverType=0&details=
If this is true, then maybe xp64 drivers will be out soon. What i cant understand is why release beta drivers for a Beta OS, when there is a commercial OS that needs a decent driver. Is there any news of some beta x64 drivers comingsoon. Reason i am wanting these drivers
Rant Over
Just to add there was a thread on Future mark saying taht these drivers work for xp64bit tooMessage Edited by Bo on -3-2005 09:27 AM

We know....
Btw, they work on windows 64 , just run the setup let it unpack when it moans about not vista
dont cancel but copy paste the dir it unpacked , then hit the cancel button because
the stupid exe deletes the unpacked folder when you cancel. Go to the dir
it unpacked and hit the setup button in the driver folder.
Let it install, reboot and then put ur install cd in and run the install
do not install the drivers from the cd but install any utils you want
and the system will now have windows 64 drivers and all the utils

Yet another organizing aperture thread

I saw some fantastic posts. I read them, but would love some personal advice. I am not a pro so I don't think in terms of organizing for clients or publishing. I basically upgraded to aperture for some pretty basic reasons:
Books are more flexible
Slideshows can use movies
Editing is in aperture does most of what I would need.
The issue: I can't get my head around an organizing principle. I have not brought in iPhoto pics yet. However all new imports are to aperture. So now i have a list of projects by date. Literally date of pics taken is name of project. Considering i take 99 percent pics of family, friends, dog etc. What would make sense for the top line folder. Ie parent folder? Do you do things like home, vacations or keep with date and make parent folder 2011. all projects and albums would then go into 2011.
Advice and thoughts welcome. I know it's personal, but I can't get my head around it.

My system is
Top Folder for year
Inside Projects for specific events of the year - vacations, Xmas etc., then consolidated projects for the flotsam and jetsam: 'Spring 10, Winter 09 - that sort of thing.
I do, however, use keywords a lot and this gives me some excellent Smart Albums drawn from the the entire Library - for the kids, for instance.
Regards
TD

Yet another slow speed thread....

Every so often I have issues with the speeds pertaining to my two BT Broadband lines into my house.
So here we go again, I've problems with one of the lines which for my rural village location usually nets very good results...
Normally I get this :-
Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Your DSL connection rate: 3072 kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP profile for your line is - 2500 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 2332 kbps
Presently I'm getting:-
Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Your DSL connection rate: 1344 kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP profile for your line is - 1000 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 878 kbps
Why I ask does the speed keep changing, today BT India claims it's a line CHOKE problem, likely story.
Net result wait another 48 hours for another phone call.
I get these issues every 6 months or so, I suspect the grass wouldn't be any greener with other ISP.
Can anybody offer any thoughts?

No changes, nothing at all, in actual fact I don't even have a PC connected to this broadband line it's purely for the games consoles. I have a separate broadband line for my home office etc.
Just had a call from BT India, with out wishing to sound derogatory I might as well talk to my pet cat. Apparently they were ringing to see if the problem had been resolved, I only reported it 2 hrs ago.

Yet Another Export Settings Thread.

Good Morning,
I'm not that new to video editing, but have been having a hard time getting a project exported in a reasonable format.
Project:
26 30 minute educational lessons shot on a Canon Vixia HF S1000 in full HD against a blue screen. Blue screen was erased using the FCE blue screen key very nicely for a blue tarp stretched over a frame. This has been paired with poerpoint slides cycling through on the left side of the screen (exported as high-res .jpg's from powerpoint).
The project will be delivered on normal DVDs (ideally at least 2 lessons per DVD). There is no need of a higher quality digital file to keep on hand (at this point). If I export as Apple Intermediate Codec with current frame rate and Preset "other" I get some beautiful quality video (massive size) with dimensions HD 1280x720 16:9. These take 2 hours to render and export and my understanding is it's much higher quality than you can tell from a DVD.
I can't find a lower quality setting that looks good. The best shot so far is H.264, high quality, 3000 bitrate, frames reordered, dimensions 720x486. But when the instructor takes up the whole screen (as opposed to when he is minimized for the power point to be seen) the edges are horrible pixelated. I will be burning in Toast Titanium ultimately.

Hello, and welcome to the FCE forum!
If you intend to burn DVDs, then you should export from FCE to _QuickTime Movie._ You should never export to QT Conversion if the destination is a DVD.
If you plan to burn the DVDs +on the same Mac as your FCE project,+ then you can save a lot of export time if you UNCHECK the option called +"Make Movie Self-Contained."+ This will give you what is called a QT reference movie - rather small, and exports very fast. Import it into Toast, iDVD or other DVD authoring tool just the same as you would a self-contained QT movie.
One other tip - before exporting from FCE, you should always do the following:
+Sequence > Render All > Both+ and
+Sequence > Render Only > Mixdown+
Then export your project.

Yet another DVD ripper

Anything welcome.
#!/bin/bash
say() { echo -en "$@" >&2; }
die() { say "$@\n"; exit 1; }
say_help() {
say "-dvd-device Set the dvd where read from, default $DVD_DEVICE\n"
say "-title Set the title to rip. Default $TITLE\n"
say "-chapter Set first[,last] chapter to read from. Default $CHAPTER\n"
say "-alang Set audio lang to extract, might be repeated\n"
say "-slang Set subtitles to extract, might be repeated\n"
say "-width Set width of the output movie. Default -1 (original width)\n"
say "-video_crop Set cropping as -vf crop of mplayer\n"
say "-temp-dir Set working dir, must not exist. Default $TMP_DIR\n"
say "-o Set output file name: it will be a mkv file. Default $OUTPUT_FILE\n"
say "-noclean Do not delete the temp directory after the work\n"
exit 0
DVD_DEVICE="/dev/dvd"
TITLE=1
CHAPTER=1
declare -a ALANG
declare -a SLANG
ORIZONTAL='scale=-1:-10,'
CROP=""
TMP_DIR="$HOME"/tmp_ripping
OUTPUT_FILE="ripped_movie.mkv"
NOCLEAN='false'
START_DIR="$PWD"
if [[ $# -gt 1 ]]; then
while test -n "$1" ;do
case "$1" in
(-dvd-device)
DVD_DEVICE="$2"
shift;;
(-title)
TITLE="$2"
shift;;
(-chapter)
CHAPTER="$2"
shift;;
(-alang)
ALANG=( "${ALANG[@]}" "$2")
shift;;
(-slang)
SLANG=( "${SLANG[@]}" "$2")
shift;;
(-width)
ORIZONTAL='scale='"$2"':-10,'
shift;;
(-video_crop)
CROP='crop='"$2"','
shift;;
(-temp-dir)
TMP_DIR="$2"
shift;;
(-o)
OUTPUT_FILE="$2"
shift;;
(-noclean)
NOCLEAN='true'
(-help|-h)
say_help;;
esac
shift
done
else
say_help
fi
DVD_DEVICE=`readlink -nf "$DVD_DEVICE"`
say "Input device set to \"$DVD_DEVICE\"\n"
OUTPUT_FILE=`readlink -nf "$OUTPUT_FILE"`
say "Output file set to \"$OUTPUT_FILE\"\n"
TMP_DIR=`readlink -nf "$TMP_DIR"`
say "Temp files directory set to \"$TMP_DIR\"\n"
say "\nExtracting audio: "
for ONELANG in "${ALANG[@]}" ;do
say "$ONELANG "
done
say "\nExtracting subs: "
for ONESUB in "${SLANG[@]}" ;do
say "$ONESUB "
done
say "\n\n\n"
say "Starting in 4 seconds...\nPress enter or ctrl-c to abort\n"
read -t 4 && die "ok, nevermind."
touch "$OUTPUT_FILE" || die "Cannot write the output file!"
if [[ ! -d "$TMP_DIR" ]] ;then
mkdir -p "$TMP_DIR" || die "Cannot create the temp directory!"
else
die "Sorry, the temporary working directory must not exist."
fi
cd "$TMP_DIR" || die "Cannot go in the temp directory!"
touch "test" || die "Cannot write in the temp directory!"
rm "test" || die "Cannot write in the temp directory!"
nice -19 mencoder -dvd-device "$DVD_DEVICE" dvd://"$TITLE" -chapter "$CHAPTER" -o /dev/null -nosound -ovc x264 \
-x264encopts direct=auto:pass=1:turbo:bitrate=900:bframes=1:\
me=umh:partitions=all:trellis=1:qp_step=4:qcomp=0.7:direct_pred=auto:keyint=300 \
-vf "$CROP""$ORIZONTAL"harddup || die "Failed the first passage."
nice -19 mencoder -dvd-device "$DVD_DEVICE" dvd://"$TITLE" -chapter "$CHAPTER" -nosound -ovc x264 \
-x264encopts direct=auto:pass=2:bitrate=900:frameref=5:bframes=1:\
me=umh:partitions=all:trellis=1:qp_step=4:qcomp=0.7:direct_pred=auto:keyint=300 \
-vf "$CROP""$ORIZONTAL"harddup -o video.avi || die "Failed second passage."
declare -a AUDIO
for ONELANG in "${ALANG[@]}" ;do
CHANNELS=`mplayer -dvd-device "$DVD_DEVICE" dvd://"$TITLE" -alang "$ONELANG" -chapter "$CHAPTER" \
-identify -frames 0 2>&1 | sed -n -e '/ID_AUDIO_NCH=[^0]/ s_^.*=__ p'`
if [[ $CHANNELS -ne 6 ]] ;then
nice -19 mencoder -dvd-device "$DVD_DEVICE" dvd://"$TITLE" -alang "$ONELANG" -chapter "$CHAPTER" -ovc frameno \
-oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=vorbis:abitrate=224 -channels 2 -srate 48000 -o "$ONELANG".avi \
|| die "Failed audio extraction of $ONELANG"
else
nice -19 mencoder -dvd-device "$DVD_DEVICE" dvd://"$TITLE" -alang "$ONELANG" -chapter "$CHAPTER" -ovc frameno \
-oac copy -o "$ONELANG".avi \
|| die "Failed audio extraction of $ONELANG"
fi
AUDIO=( "${AUDIO[@]}" --language 1:"$ONELANG" -D "$ONELANG".avi )
done
INDEX=0
for ONESUB in "${SLANG[@]}" ;do
nice -19 mencoder -dvd-device "$DVD_DEVICE" dvd://"$TITLE" -alang "$ONELANG" -chapter "$CHAPTER" \
-ovc copy -nosound -o /dev/null \
-vobsubout subtitles -vobsuboutindex "$INDEX" -slang "$ONESUB" \
|| die "Failed subtitle extraction extraction of $ONESUB"
INDEX=$(($INDEX + 1))
done
if [[ "$INDEX" -ne 0 ]] ;then
SUBTITLES='subtitles.idx'
else
SUBTITLES=''
fi
mkvmerge -o "$OUTPUT_FILE" -A video.avi "${AUDIO[@]}" $SUBTITLES
cd "$START_DIR"
if [[ "$NOCLEAN" == "false" ]] ;then
rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"
fi

To Apple Discussions!
Go to your OS Help Menu. In the search field type dvd
Click on all the troubleshooting topics & Support Articles that pertain to your issue.
You can also do the same in Disk Utility. Open same up.
At the bottom left of the window, click on the purple button w/the "?" in the middle.
This will bring up the Help Menu.

Yet another .avi import thread...

I've been doing this for years, on all kinds of software, and I'm stumped.
Old .avi files - GSpot says they are RAW l420 and no codec is required. PE9 will not import them.
One is small, about a 10 minute clip, and I opened in in QT, File>Save, and PE9 imports it just fine when it's an .mov. The other is 2 hours, QT will only load the audio, and exports same, which PE9 accepts, but does me no good.
So, after converting to .avi, .mov, and .wmv, I still can't get the 2 hour video to import. I've used QT, Nero, VLC, Movie Maker to try to make it save as something PE9 likes, but I can't find it. The closest I came was getting a VLC export out which VLC played as video only, and Nero played as audio only.
Any ideas? Re-capping the original is not an option, this VHS tape walked years ago.
Thanks,
Jim

SUPER finished, making a 26 GB .avi into a 110 MB .avi. Video is just black and audio is silent, but it does open and play...2 hours of black silence.
SUPER settings:
AVI-DV-mp3.
Video settings: 720x480 3:2 29.97 29040 HiQ and Stretch.
Audio: 44100 2 channels 96kbps default.

Yet Another "Passing Objects" Thread

Hi All,
Quick question about passing objects:
I have three classes - ClassA, ClassB and ClassC. Lets say I create an object of ClassA in ClassB. Also, I would like to send the ClassA object from ClassB to ClassC to update its data. My question is, can I set the ClassA object in ClassC and modify it through ClassB? Confusing? I'll try to create an example below.
ClassA:
public class ClassA {
       // data
} ClassB: creates and calls update methods for ClassA object
public class ClassB {
       ClassA object = new ClassA();
       // print object
       ClassC ClassCFacade = new ClassC();
       ClassCFacade.setClassAObject(object);
       ClassCFacade.updateClassAObject(object);
       // print object
}ClassC: updates object
public class ClassC {
      // set object
      public void setClassAObject(ClassA object) {
               // sets object
      // get object
      public ClassA getClassAObject() {
              // returns object
      // modify object
      public updateClassAObject() {
            ClassA o = getClassAObject()
            // modify o
            setClassAObject(o)
}So if objects are passed by reference, handle, or whatever you call it, essentially the above code should modify ClassA object created in ClassB, meaning the ClassA object should display it was modified after second print in ClassB. Although I've tried this implementation and the ClassA object is not modified after updateClassAObject method call from ClassB.
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob

OK. Here's snippets of actual code:
public class ClassA implements SessionBean, ClassARemoteBusiness {
    // ClassA Attributes
    Integer ID;
    String name;
    // SET METHODS
    public void setClassAID(Integer ID) {
        this.ID = ID;
    public void setClassAName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    // GET METHODS
    public Integer getClassAID() {
        return ID;
    public String getCLassAName() {
        return name;
import classa.ClassA;
import classc.ClassC;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class ClassB extends HttpServlet {
    private ClassA object;
    private ClassC ClassCFacade;
    private ClassCFacade = lookupClassCBean();
    protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
    throws ServletException, IOException {
          HttpSession session = request.getSession();
          // display object values - displays default values
          out.println("ID: " +object.getClassAID());
          out.println("Name: " +object.getClassAName());
         // update object
         ClassCFacade.setClassAObject(object);
         ClassCFacade.updateClassAObjectID(someInteger);
         ClassCFacade.updateClassAObjectName(someName);
          // display object values - displays updated values
          out.println("ID: " +object.getClassAID());
          out.println("Name: " +object.getClassAName());
    // LOOKUP METHODS
    private web.ServiceLocator serviceLocator;
    private web.ServiceLocator getServiceLocator() {
        // service locator code
    private classc.ClassCRemote lookupClassCBean() {
        // lookup code
import classa.ClassA;
public class ClassC implements SessionBean, ClassCRemoteBusiness {
    private ClassA o;
    // SET METHODS
    public void setClassAObject(ClassA object) {
        o = object;
    // UPDATE
    public void updateClassAObjectID(Integer ID) {
        o.setClassAID(ID);
    public void updateClassAObjectName(String name) {
        o.setClassAName(name);
}

Yet Another iMessage Activation Thread

New iPhone 5 (AT&T) can't get iMessage activated. I have followed every tip I saw to the letter, and nothing works. (Reset network settings, reset all settings, restore, turn off wifi, toggle iMessage on and off 100 times)
If anyone has any other ideas to get this to work before I just return the phone, I'd appreciate it.
<Edited by Host>

That's the way it's been since the beginning. Don't know why, but that's the way it is. Anyone using a supported carrier shouldn't have to worry about it. One of the agreements between Apple and the carriers is that they will allow those messages to pass on their networks and not charge for them.
This comes as a shock to people on unsupported networks from time to time...
Anyway, the provisioning on your account can get messed up pretty easily. Make sure they got it right.
And don't deal with 1st tier support. Make sure they escalate it to someone who knows the meaning of the word "provisioning".

Yet another HP printer thread

I've got a hp 4215 all-in-one. The scan and fax doesn't work. I've browsed through this forum and tried various fixes but noting seems to work. Actually, t briefly worked and then when I tried it today, nothing. I've uninstalled, reinstalled, installed the entire. hp driver package. I'm at a loss. Any ideas? I'm supposed to be happy with an all-in-one that prints only?

Review these:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#HP
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01664444&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01910186&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01855252&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en

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