What a day for a day-dree-min boy-oy-oy.

[captain_slinky]

It was a good day to be a day off today. I really needed it.

Watched "Anchorman" again. Funnier every time I se it!

Watched "Midnight Movies", about the rise and fall of the 70's Midnight Movie showings. Focused mainly on the Big 6 movies, 4 of which I have ever actually heard of ("Eraserhead", "Pink Flamingoes", "Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Night Of The Living Dead").

Watched 3 episodes of Attack Of The Show that I have DVR'ed (OOH! NEW WORD FOR THE LEXICON!)

Ate a bag of Pork Rinds with salsa.

Drank 3 liters of water.

Listed minor items on Ebay.



Meanwhile, the Bit torrent of MST3K Season 2 that I started downloading last Thursday keeps coming in bit-by-bit, now at 82.3% done. Dear LORD I hope this is a good quality copy!

Anybody know how to convert this stuff in to files that my DVD player will recognize?

Comments

[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

Sonic MyDVD will import a lot of different formats. What format is the file you're downloading?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Seesm to be a batch of rebular .avi files, but the Red Dwarf I downloaded (which also appears to be .avi) has no picture and no sound when I play it through WinAmp Media Player. It's an actual *file*, actully pops up a screen and says it's 24 minutes long, and the scroll bar indicates that yes it's playing *something*, but all I get is a black screen with no sound. So I'm a little worried.

[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

You're probably missing some codecs. Odds are good it's in DivX or some close variant.

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

Like he said.

Your average DVD is in Mpeg 2 format, which is what you want to burn to if you're making Video CD's (which go on normal cd's, but the file has to be under 700 megs).

Nero will also handle the creation of a VCD, including re-encoding it from whatever it is to the Mpeg2 your DVD player needs. If its already Mpeg2, it won't need to be re-encoded, and there's a lot of software out there that can edit & burn on the fly. (I have a program from cyberlink that was bundled with my capture card. and Yes I've done it before, and had it work. Ask jon, he's been my beta a few times.)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Must ask Jon...