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Probably a Diamond-Backed Water Snake?
I would have to agree with this. The faded colors could have to do with it getting ready to shed it's skin.
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One word: Godzilla
^ This. I just hope it's better than the last one.
A release of "The Return of Godzilla" on blu ray would also be nice.
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Jungle Hunt, Congo Bongo, Dig Dug, Cyber Sled, Golden Axe, Knights of the Round.
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Your rocking some pretty old hardware there. You're most likely on a PowerPC based system, so you may want to check the PowerPC version linked to here. If that doesn't work then we can try to find you a bootable linux distro to try instead. Most linux distros still support the PowerPC hardware.
Edit: You'll have to scroll down on the link above to find where it mentions the PowerPC version.
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What OS do you run on your computer: Linux, OSX? You said you don't use windows.
Have you checked to see if it supports the pdf files?
The documentation for these players seems to rather crap, so you'll probably have to experiment with it. I'd try uploading a few different formats to it and see which it recognizes. According to it's site Calibre has support for both Linux and OSX so you should still be able to use it for the conversion process.
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If this is movies only, I'd have to go with Shaun of the Dead, or Zombieland. The more "serious" zombie flicks have really never applied to me. I wouldn't mind seeing a The Walking Dead movie at some point in the future. Maybe have it follow a completely different story arc and take place in a different state.
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Do you have the girls permission to be posting this on the internet? I don't think it really breaks any rules, but it does have a rather high creepy factor.
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I don't use windows, also it just said ebook format, it was not specific.
What OS do you run, and what brand/model is the music player? Calibre supports more than Windows, so it could still be of help.
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what OS are you on O.o"
The actual OS is Debian, and it uses the testing repo. You could get an almost identical system by installing Crunchbang linux. Crunchbang uses the stable repo but it's easy to change.
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I was really excited about this one when I heard it was coming to Adult Swim. After the first episode however, I was less excited. Wouldn't say it's a bad show, could do with a little more Honey, but it's no where close to Cowboy Bebop. To me, it seems like the perverted love child of Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star tripping hard on some LSD. I plan to keep watching, but I would have to say that I'm a bit disappointed.
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Any chance we could get a sub forum in the tech center for tech news? It's not that I take any issue with the large amount of news articles being posted there lately, except for those with strong anti-american themes. I'm just worried that the amount and frequency may cause the posts of people who are in need of help to get buried. Another idea would be to post the tech news on the main kametsu.com site with any anime news.
Something completely different:
Wouldn't the place for tokusatsu be with all the other live action shows? Sorry I can't remember that forum's name anymore, just know that it was removed from lack of use.
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I agree with johnflower and llama, but I would add the step of creating an image of the entire drive with clonezilla first if you can. This will allow you to come back to it again if you ever realize there is something you forgot to copy. PartedMagic would usually be the go to distro I would recommend here, but the creator has started requiring a donation to download the distro. It's worth the price, but you could use any live distro that comes with gparted, and clonzilla.
Windows XP is also nearing end of life, so you may want to consider installing linux instead of re-installing XP. There are a few desktop environments that look similar to XP, so you should be able to find something that feels close to what your use to. As for which distro to install, I'd probably start with a buntu based distro if you're new to linux. The lubuntu that llama mentioned is a pretty decent distro, and xubuntu could also be worth a look. The Mate and Cinnamon versions of Mint are another two you may like. Out of the four I've listed, Cinnamon would be my preferred, but xubuntu may be a better option. You can find links to all of them and many others at distrowatch.com.
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There's not many differences between XMBC and Plex since Plex is based on XMBC. I think the biggest difference between them would be Plex's remote streaming component. It lets you stream to Android, iOS and Windows Mobile through their native apps locally and across the web with not a lot of setup. You also get a front-end at plex.tv so you can access it from any browser.
If I remember correctly XMBC have add-ons that can do some of this stuff, but I haven't used XMBC in a while.
-Happy Plex User
XBMC has iOS, Android, and Raspberry Pi versions that support UPnP. There are also many apps that allow you to control it from a remote device.
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Handbrake and MeGUI+Avisynth are to very different things. One is a gui driven encoder with some filtering support. The other is a gui used to simply the creation of scripts written in a language that is designed specifically for editing audio and video.
MeGUI doesn't have any filters that are exclusive to it. It also has little support for the hundreds of filters and scripts you can run in avisynth. You can still add them to the scripts megui helps you create, but once you get to that point AvsPmod would be the better option. It supports a lot more filters, and offers syntax highlighting.
The handbrake filters you're looking for in megui should be found in it's script creator tool. There should be a button that allows you to analyze the video. It will recommend you a method to deinterlace/detelecine once it finishes analyzing the video. The denoising filter should be around the analyze button somewhere (below it if I remember right).
Edit: To help compress the video you could try using spresso. It doesn't require much in the way of plugins and what it does require are commonly used.
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I built a new computer in august of last year an i installed windows 7 i beta tested 8 and 8.1 by default i hate that you have to do so much to get it to shut down or even find stuff that now takes 8 clicks instead of 2 or 3 for certain tasks like in windows 7. I've got classic shell installed on my moms new computer just to get half way usable for us she actually likes how its a mix of new and old now. I will have to look into the settings about using the old preview later. I'll talk to my mom about it she uses the new full screen app to rotate her cross stitch patterns. When the 8.1 update 1 releases ill play with it. I've heard win9 may be back to windows 7 look but you know how rumors are. I build pc's for people and i ask them win 7 or 8/8.1 I then ask about classic shell. I worked on a older gentleman's computer last week and told him about classic shell. He then told to install it and he loves it as it makes it functional for him again as he is use to windows xp and it makes much more sense to him now. My thing is i think the install should ask whether on you want the old look or the new look for people for me mix it so i can get some what use to it maybe.
I can confirm that changing the default app for images does work. It was the same process you'd use to change it in windows 7.
I just hope both apps are the same program using different interfaces, but it's probably just unnecessary bloat.
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They've been very hush-hush about his condition at ihs point I'm sad to see. If there's one constant I'd say though is that he'll likely be half the person he used to be if he survives al of this-- Cool to see a fellow F1 fan on here though.

I'd agree that he probably won't be the same Michael if he does recover, and I can understand why the family would want to keep it hush-hush. I thought it was just the poor quality of news networks we have here in the States. I'd hate for him to never be able to race again. I was hoping he'd go back to being the Stig on Top Gear now that he's retired.
I probably miss about have the races due to the time difference, but I do try to keep up with it as much as possible. I find it to be more watchable when the drivers have to turn in both directions instead of what NASCAR offers.
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I've always used XBMC myself, is there something I would get with Plex that XBMC doesn't offer?
It looks pretty but I'd want a little more before I switch.
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I found and downloaded AvsProd and the two scripts you mentioned. Not yet sure how to use any of it, so i will try and find some tutorials.
So you think I should use AvsProd instead of MeGUI? I just feel like as soon as I start to learn one program, someone directs me to another. Handbrake -> MeGUI -> AvsProd. Not really sure what makes one better than another, although I am starting to see some benefits of MeGUI over handbrake. The NERO Audio codec is MUCH better than the ones available in Handbrake, and I assume that the added benefits of Avisynth is also important, yet I still dont even completely understand what it is.
I did take a QUICK look at the Doom9 forum, and my first impression was a lot of the tutorials on there seemed rather out of date (several years old). I agree that I should probably still read through them to learn some more of the basics, I just wonder if there are more updated (2013-2014) tutorials available somewhere, or how much the information has changed since its been posted.
If your scripts contain filters to help clear up my videos then that would be helpful. I find that my main problems are the Older Media that I am trying to encode. Even though I try to find the best possible source (Actual Retail DVDs), the original video is only Standard Defination and therefore not that great to begin with, while makes it hard to not ruin the quality even more while encoding it. I feel that encoding Bluray movies would be MUCH easier since the quality is so high to begin with, that you have more room to work without losing quality. However I prefer to start with my own personal collection of DVD's first.
The Animated Cartoons (like the duck dodgers images I uploaded) are, still not perfect, but easier to do than Film tv shows/movies. For example, I am still getting nowhere trying to encode Saved-by-the-bell Tv show episodes direct from the Source DVD. My encodes look rather pixelated and when i apply too many filters to clear it up then many parts look dull or even blurry. Not sure if your scripts will help fix that or not.
EDIT: I have read that the Avisynth Scripts you mentioned require the Unofficial Multi-Threaded version of Avisynth. Is that true? If so, does it matter if I use the version by SET and JoshyD OR Avisynth+ by Ultim?
Also, when trying to add the Scripts to MeGUI to test them, I noticed that the format is completely different. The current Scripts are XML files whereas the new scripts you mentioned seem to come in HTML and AVSI files. Do I simply copy them directly into the MeGUI/All Profiles/Avisynth folder without any modification needed?
I would like to say first that I decided to suspend encoding of my own videos a little over a year ago, so I'm sure the little knowledge I have is already outdated. I really should have mentioned that in my first post so I'm sorry for that. I've been waiting for x265, and avisynth replacements like vapoursynth to mature before I start back up.I'm not really sure which version of avisynth to use because the one by SET is the only one I remember besides the official versions, and they're the only version of Avisynth I ever used. Neither of the scripts I mentioned needed the MT version the last time I used them, but I do have MT_masktools-25.dll for both. I haven't encoded anything in a while, so they may have been updated since then. Both are really, really slow, so MT would defiantly be recommended. The avsi files are the scripts and the html files are either documentation or something having to do with the script. Put the scripts in megui's plugins folder if you intend to use them with it, but put them in avisynth's plugins folder if you intend to use them with AvsPmod. Some of avisynth's plugins don't cohabitate well, so for big scripts like AnimeIVTC and QTGMC you may want to put them inside their own folder. You can then load them into your scripts manually. This will also make it easier for you to keep track of them and archive them if you ever need to.
The trick to getting the kind of encodes you want will probably come down to the settings you use in x264, and some very clever denoising. If you can use VFR (Variable Frame Rate) video on the device you want to watch these on. You could utilize filters like dup to replace duplicate frames with null frames and save even more space. AnimeIVTC supports doing this itself and also allows you to deinterlace the credits of hybrid video (like anime) while detelecining the rest of it. This is really the only reason for using AnimeIVTC. So if you'll never encode hybrid, or can't use VFR then you probably won't have much use for it. QTGMC is just a really awesome really slow deinterlacer. The best thing about it is you really don't have to mess with all the parameters all the much. Just find a preset you like that has a speed you can live with and use it.The filters that Megui comes with will do a good job as well. If you look at the filters needed to run AnimeIVTC and QTGMC. You'll likely see all the filters that MeGUI comes with. That's because their used by the scripts for the deinterlace/detelecine part of what they do. It's the rest of the goodies they offer that cause me to prefer them over the individual filters themselves.The reason I recommended AvsPmod over MeGUI is due to the fact that AvsPmod makes the script the focal point, rather than hiding it behind a gui. It also supports more filters and scripts than MeGUI as well. I started with MeGUI, and it is a good program, but the only thing I remember learning from it was how to click buttons. Adding custom filters that weren't already supported was always a huge pain. The script it uses to tell you what kind of video you have is worth keeping it around though. It also has a really nice gui interface for your encoders.
The reason all the tutorials about avisynth are old is because avisynth is badly outdated. A lot of stuff like 10bit video support is hacked together. Development stopped on the 3.0 version that was never finished and it's remained mostly the same ever since. Vapoursynth the program I mentioned earlier is meant to be a "logical" replacement for avisynth, but it's still pretty new and lacks the native filter support that avisynth has. It is suppose to be capable of running avisynth scripts, but I haven't yet tried it.
Hope this clears up some of the questions you had about my post at least. As for what you should use, I'd use what you think will be easiest while giving you the result you want. I personally think that AvsPmod, AnimeIVTC, and QTGMC will help you the most, but everyone will give you their own preferred method. I'd just experiment until you find your own method and stick with it. Doom9 is a really good source of knowledge though.
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I dont know how exactly you were able to read the site with every is Blue including the font is blue.
To be honest, I don't have any problem at all reading the site. I actually find the varying shades of blue to be easier on my eyes. I'd like to remove all instances of white from my computer if could, text included.
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Anyone happen to know how Michael Schumacher is doing? Apparently he's still in a coma, but news here in the States rarely ever mention anything about it.



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I would have to agree with this. It has built in support for some of the more common filters, and provides you with buttons and sliders for their different options. They should be located in the bottom right corner unless it's being hidden. It will also give some limited help with trouble shooting scripting errors by telling you what line is causing the error. It's really just a more advanced version of what you're using now.