Need Help with DVD recorder (HDMI) to record off DVR

I purchased a philips dvd recorder a few years ago and need help in setting up to record my DVR program recordings. The philips user manual is not very helpful being I'm trying to set-up with just using HDMI cables. I have a HDTV (Vizio) with a HDMI port; a DVD recorder with HDMI port and my Verizon set-top box have a HDMI port. How do i get it all to work and be able to record/copy programs from DVR to my DVD recorder? Do anyone have suggestions on how to set up wiring. Thanks.
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First keep in mind that DVD is not an HD format, so you will not be able to record HD shows in HD; they will be in letterboxed 4:3.
The FiOS STB only has one HDMI (out) port. Therefore, you will need to use some other output from the STB to the DVD recorder. Component, or even composite/RCA, because it's not going to record in HD anyway to DVD, will work just fine. Then you want to set your DVD player to whatever input you used to connect from the STB; i.e. mine uses "Input 1" for my composite connection.
If you turn on your STB and DVD, this will record whatever the STB is outputting to a DVD if you press record on the DVD recorder. This includes all of the program menus and any other on-screen graphics on the STB, and this means you cannot change the channel if you are recording from your STB. You can shut your TV off, but you will not be able to watch another show while recording one to DVD.
Your DVD player might give you an HDCP message at first when the recording starts if it's getting an HD input, but that should go away after a few seconds, at least for my Panasonic DVD recorder with a composite connection.

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Master file
Account Number            Name                     Balance
100                            Alan Jones                   348.17
300                            Mary Smith                    27.19
500                            Sam Sharp                   0.00
700                            Suzy Green                   -14.22Sample data for transaction file:
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Account Number                  Amount
100                                         27.14
300                                         62.11
300                                         83.89
400                                         100.56
700                                         80.78
700                                         1.53
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My FileMatch class program above has bugs in it.
The correct results for the newmast.txt:
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Well not so simple...as you well know, Adobe Acrobat would NOT LET YOU EMAIL anything from itself.....it just wouldn't work (and I know why, and all that hooey), but not being one to take NO for answer,.I started looking for a way to make my little gizmo work.. So I found this company that said they can "hijack" (re-direct actually) the request to email, bypass the wah-wah, and re-transmit it to the proper parties.....for less than $100 a year, I think...its called http://pdf-fillableforms.com/.
A nice gentleman named Joseph Silva helped us program the thing to go to his servers and back out. Please dont hassle them...I need them...for now..it basically does work...try it...you should get back a copy of the form that you filled out...good luck however, if you're on MAC OSX or similar...
I have included a copy of both of our forms (and feel free to fill it out and play with it)...just put test somewhere on it...(and you must include YOUR email or it will balk)..they are supposed to be mostly identical, except one seems to be twice as large....generating a 1.7 meg file upon submission, while the other one only generates a 600K file or so...thats another issue for another day or maybe you can advise on that also...
OK so far so good......In our shop, once Grandma buys a 10 pack (or whatever), Only then she gets to the link on her receipt page ro the relevant "selection form" ,(this prevents "Filling and Sending" with "no order" and "no payment", another early problem we had)... which they can click on and it will usually download and open up on their device if all goes well...Then our little form is supposed to be fillable and is supposed to ADD UP all the quantities, so grandma knows how many she is buying and so forth right on the fly, and even while she changes her mind..., and IT'S LARGE so grandma can see it, and then it TOTALS it all up for them, ( cause remember, they can NOT add).., except there is a programming bug (mouse-click should be a mouse-up probably or something..) which makes you click in the blank spaces to get to a correct TOTAL...about 70-80% of our customers can enable all these features and usually the process completes without problems for them especially on PC's running Windows OS and Acrobat Reader X or XI...at least for most... Unfortunately it is still not the "seamless process" I would like or had envisioned for the other folks out there that do have trouble using our form.... Many folks report to us the following issues that we know of. First of all it takes too much time to load up...We know its HUGE...is there anyway that you can see, to streamline this thing? I would love for it to be more compact...this really helps on the phones and pads as I'm sure you well know.
Some just tell us,"it WON'T work"....I believe this is because they are totally out of it and dont even have Adobe Reader on their machine, & don't know how to get it ( yes, we provide the links).....or it's some ancient version....no one can stop this one...
It almost always generates some kind ( at least one time) of "error message" which we do warn them about..., telling one, basically that "Acrobat doesnt even like this happening at all, and it could be detrimental to ones computer files", blah-blah...(this freaks grandma out really bad)...& usually they end up not even trying to send it... and then I get calls that even you wouldn't believe...& If they DO nut up and push the Red "Submit Form" button, it will usually send the thing to us (and also back to them at the "required email address" they furnished on the form, thats what the folks at the "fillable forms place" do) so, if it's performing it's functions, why it is having to complain?. What are we doing wrong?....and how can I fix it?...Will re-compiling it or saving it as a newer version of "FormsCentral" correct any of these problems ?
Ok, so that should keep you busy for a minute and we can start out with those problems...but the next thing is, how can I take advantage of YOUR re-direct & hosting services?, And will it get rid of the error messages, and the slowness, and the iOS incompatibilities ? (amazingly, the last iOS Reader version worked almost OK.. but the newest version doesnt seem to work with my form on my iphone4) If it will enable any version of the iOS to send my form correctly and more transparently, then it might be worth the money...$14.95 a MONTH you say. hmmmmm...Better be good.
Another problem is, that I really don't need 5000 forms a month submitted. I think its like 70-100 or less....Got any plans for that? Maybe I'm just not BIG ENOUGH to use Adobe's services, however in this case, I really don't care whose I do use as long as the product works most correctly for my customers as well as us. Like I said, If I'm doing the best I can, I won't change anything, and still use the other third party, If Adobe has a better solution, then i'm all for that as well. In the meantime, Thanks for any help you can provide on this...
Michael Corman
VinylCouture.com
(706) 326-7911

I need help with my mapping - CL_MAPPING_XMS_PLSRV3-ENTER_PLSRV

hi, guys, i need help with my mapping, i dont know this error (i not speak english)
<Trace level="1" type="B">CL_MAPPING_XMS_PLSRV3-ENTER_PLSRV</Trace>
<Trace level="2" type="T">......attachment XI_Context not found </Trace>
<Trace level="3" type="T">Mapping already defined in interface determination </Trace>
<Trace level="3" type="T">Object ID of Interface Mapping 4B903E2DDC853C1493E1DED5C5ED70A3 </Trace>
<Trace level="3" type="T">Version ID of Interface Mapping 88D96A70BAAE11DFAE5EE925C0A800C2 </Trace>
<Trace level="1" type="T">Mapping-Object-Id:4B903E2DDC853C1493E1DED5C5ED70A3 </Trace>
<Trace level="1" type="T">Mapping-SWCV:88D96A70BAAE11DFAE5EE925C0A800C2 </Trace>
<Trace level="1" type="T">Mapping-Step:1 </Trace>
<Trace level="1" type="T">Mapping-Type:JAVA_JDK </Trace>
<Trace level="1" type="T">Mapping-Program:com/sap/xi/tf/_mm_sgipi_fi001_vta_clientes_ </Trace>
<Trace level="3" type="T">MTOM Attachments Are Written to the Payload </Trace>
<Trace level="3" type="T">Dynamic Configuration Is Empty </Trace>
<Trace level="3" type="T">Executing multi-mapping </Trace>
<Trace level="1" type="E">CL_XMS_PLSRV_MAPPING~ENTER_PLSRV</Trace>
help me please

you can use the sharedobject to record a user/computer has taken your quiz, the session data and record their results. at the start of your quiz, check for the sharedobject and, if it exists, check the other data and take appropriate action.

I need help with a SELECT query - help!

Hello, I need help with a select statement.
I have a table with 2 fields as shown below
Name | Type
John | 1
John | 2
John | 3
Paul | 1
Paul | 2
Paul | 3
Mark | 1
Mark | 2
I need a query that returns everything where the name has type 1 or 2 but not type 3. So in the example above the qery should bring back all the "Mark" records.
Thanks,
Ian

Or, if the types are sequential from 1 upwards you could simply do:-
SQL> create table t as
2 select 'John' as name, 1 as type from dual union
3 select 'John',2 from dual union
4 select 'John',3 from dual union
5 select 'Paul',1 from dual union
6 select 'Paul',2 from dual union
7 select 'Paul',3 from dual union
8 select 'Paul',4 from dual union
9 select 'Mark',1 from dual union
10 select 'Mark',2 from dual;
Table created.
SQL> select name
2 from t
3 group by name
4 having count(*) <= 2;
NAME
Mark
SQL>Or another alternative if they aren't sequential:
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 select name from (
2    select name, max(type) t
3    from t
4    group by name
5    )
6* where t < 3
SQL> /
NAME
Mark
SQL>Message was edited by:
blushadow

Need help with SQL Query with Inline View + Group by

Hello Gurus,
I would really appreciate your time and effort regarding this query. I have the following data set.
Reference_No---Check_Number---Check_Date--------Description-------------------------------Invoice_Number----------Invoice_Type---Paid_Amount-----Vendor_Number
1234567----------11223-------------- 7/5/2008----------paid for cleaning----------------------44345563------------------I-----------------*20.00*-------------19
1234567----------11223--------------7/5/2008-----------Adjustment for bad quality---------44345563------------------A-----------------10.00------------19
7654321----------11223--------------7/5/2008-----------Adjustment from last billing cycle-----23543556-------------------A--------------------50.00--------------19
4653456----------11223--------------7/5/2008-----------paid for cleaning------------------------35654765--------------------I---------------------30.00-------------19
Please Ignore '----', added it for clarity
I am trying to write a query to aggregate paid_amount based on Reference_No, Check_Number, Payment_Date, Invoice_Number, Invoice_Type, Vendor_Number and display description with Invoice_type 'I' when there are multiple records with the same Reference_No, Check_Number, Payment_Date, Invoice_Number, Invoice_Type, Vendor_Number. When there are no multiple records I want to display the respective Description.
The query should return the following data set
Reference_No---Check_Number---Check_Date--------Description-------------------------------Invoice_Number----------Invoice_Type---Paid_Amount-----Vendor_Number
1234567----------11223-------------- 7/5/2008----------paid for cleaning----------------------44345563------------------I-----------------*10.00*------------19
7654321----------11223--------------7/5/2008-----------Adjustment from last billing cycle-----23543556-------------------A--------------------50.00--------------19
4653456----------11223--------------7/5/2008-----------paid for cleaning------------------------35654765-------------------I---------------------30.00--------------19
The following is my query. I am kind of lost.
select B.Description, A.sequence_id,A.check_date, A.check_number, A.invoice_number, A.amount, A.vendor_number
from (
select sequence_id,check_date, check_number, invoice_number, sum(paid_amount) amount, vendor_number
from INVOICE
group by sequence_id,check_date, check_number, invoice_number, vendor_number
) A, INVOICE B
where A.sequence_id = B.sequence_id
Thanks,
Nick

It looks like it is a duplicate thread - correct me if i'm wrong in this case ->
Need help with SQL Query with Inline View + Group by
Regards.
Satyaki De.

I need help with this code error "unreachable statement"

the error_
F:\Java\Projects\Tools.java:51: unreachable statement <-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------THIS
int index;
^
F:\Java\Projects\Tools.java:71: missing return statement
}//end delete method
^
F:\Java\Projects\Tools.java:86: missing return statement
}//end getrecod
^
3 errors
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class Tools//tool class
private int numberOfToolItems;
private ToolItems[] toolArray = new ToolItems[10];
public Tools()//array of tool
numberOfToolItems = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < toolArray.length; i++)//for loop to create the array tools
toolArray[i] = new ToolItems();
}//end for loop
}//end of array of tools
public int search(int id)//search mehtod
int index = 0;
while (index < numberOfToolItems)//while and if loop search
if(toolArray[index].getID() == id)
return index;
else
index ++;
}//en while and if loop
return -1;
}//end search method
public int insert(int id, int numberInStock, int quality, double basePrice, String nm)//insert method
if(numberOfToolItems >= toolArray.length)
return 0;
int index;
index = search(id); <-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------HERE
if (index == -1)
toolArray[index].assign(id,numberInStock, quality, basePrice,nm);
numberInStock ++;
return 1;
}//end if index
}//end if toolitem array
return -1;
}//end insert method
public int delete(/*int id*/)//delete method
}//end delete method
public void display()//display method
for(int i = 0; i < numberOfToolItems; i++)
//toolArray.display(g,y,x);
}//end display method
public String getRecord(int i)//get record method
// return toolArray[i].getName()+ "ID: "+toolArray[i].getID()
}//end getrecod
}//end class
Edited by: ladsoftware on Oct 9, 2009 6:08 AM
Edited by: ladsoftware on Oct 9, 2009 6:09 AM
Edited by: ladsoftware on Oct 9, 2009 6:10 AM
Edited by: ladsoftware on Oct 9, 2009 6:11 AM

ladsoftware wrote:
Subject: Re: I need help with this code error "unreachable statement"
F:\Java\Projects\Tools.java:51: unreachable statement <-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------THIS
int index;
^
F:\Java\Projects\Tools.java:71: missing return statement
}//end delete method
^
F:\Java\Projects\Tools.java:86: missing return statement
}//end getrecod
^
3 errorsThe compiler is telling you exactly what the problems are:
public int insert(int id, int numberInStock, int quality, double basePrice, String nm)//insert method
if(numberOfToolItems >= toolArray.length)
return 0; // <<== HERE you return, so everyting in the if block after this is unreachable
int index;
index = search(id); //< -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------HERE
if (index == -1)
toolArray[index].assign(id,numberInStock, quality, basePrice,nm);
numberInStock ++;
return 1;
}//end if index
}//end if toolitem array
return -1;
}//end insert method
public int delete(/*int id*/)//delete method
// <<== HERE where is the return statement?
}//end delete method
public String getRecord(int i)//get record method
// return toolArray.getName()+ "ID: "+toolArray[i].getID() <<== HERE you commented out the return statement
}//end getrecod
}//end class

I need help with Analytic Function

Hi,
I have this little problem that I need help with.
My datafile has thousands of records that look like...
Client_Id Region Countries
[1] [1] [USA, Canada]
[1] [2] [Australia, France, Germany]
[1] [3] [China, India, Korea]
[1] [4] [Brazil, Mexico]
[8] [1] [USA, Canada]
[9] [1] [USA, Canada]
[9] [4] [Argentina, Brazil]
[13] [1] [USA, Canada]
[15] [1] [USA]
[15] [4] [Argentina, Brazil]
etc
My task is is to create a report with 2 columns - Client_Id and Countries, to look something like...
Client_Id Countries
[1] [USA, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, China, India, Korea, Brazil, Mexico]
[8] [USA, Canada]
[9] [USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil]
[13] [USA, Canada]
[15] [USA, Argentina, Brazil]
etc.
How can I achieve this using Analytic Function(s)?
Thanks.
BDF

Hi,
That's called String Aggregation , and the following site shows many ways to do it:
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/StringAggregationTechniques.php
Which one should you use? That depends on which version of Oracle you're using, and your exact requirements.
For example, is order importatn? You said the results shoudl include:
CLIENT_ID COUNTRIES
1        USA, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, China, India, Korea, Brazil, Mexicobut would you be equally happy with
CLIENT_ID COUNTRIES
1        Australia, France, Germany, China, India, Korea, Brazil, Mexico, USA, Canadaor
CLIENT_ID COUNTRIES
1        Australia, France, Germany, USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, China, India, Korea?
Mwalimu wrote:
... How can I achieve this using Analytic Function(s)?The best solution may not involve analytic functions at all. Is that okay?
If you'd like help, post your best attempt, a little sample data (CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements), the results you want from that data, and an explanation of how you get those results from that data.
Always say which version of Oracle you're using.
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