Shamus_McFartfinger

What about the laser tellys that are supposed to arrive this year? Know anything about them?

Yeppers. Listening to "Live After Death" which is brilliant. Got "Flight of Icarus" playing ATM.

So I was right! It IS a conspiracy! We shall fight them on the beaches! We shall fight them on the landing grounds! We shall ............... *cough* Sorry. Listening to Iron Maiden and got a bit carried away there.

Yep. I got that bit. (I am paying attention. Honest!) Oh contrare, Grasshopper. DVD did the same thing not that long ago. CDs before that. VHS before that. You can't make the assumption that the entire market share for Blu-Ray/HD-DVD is populated by knowledgeable and rich computer users with multi-terabyte HD capacity with multi-megabyte bandwidth and a degree in computer science. Your average consumer will want to plug a player into the wall and head off to the video shop to rent some movies. That's where the majority of the market is. At least for the time being. Personally, I'm a little dubious about the whole thing. 20 or 40 gigabytes seems awfully large for a movie when DVD produces stunning quality as it is. Perhaps the aim of the whole exercise is to create files that are so large they aren't worth the time or expense to download. <conspiracy mode off>

LOL!! You'll fit in nicely.

Young people. You're not looking at the entire market. When VCRs first hit the scene about 25 years ago we didn't have computers or the internet or the other fangled contraptions we've all become used to. The maket exploded nevertheless because people *wanted* it. I remember video stores charging $100 just for the privilege of joining. Have no fear, young whippersnapper, there's a ready market for these things.

True. However, the Windows validation tool doesn't report what other software you're using or what you do with your PC. Sketchy and unsubstantiated rumour has it that the PS3 reports information about the machine itself.... which is a big no-no. Intel tried it once about 7 years ago with the serial ID thingy on their CPUs which was ruled illegal.

Anything that gets kids exercising is a good thing. Parents will look at the Wii just to get their sluggish kids moving around a bit. Don't forget about the information sent to the $ony servers if the PS3 is allowed access to the internet. One of the things flying around the net a while back was Sonys' apparent ability to disable parts of the PS3 if information sent to their servers indicated it had been modified. Also, being able to completely disable Sony-branded Blu-Ray players that can play non-protected (allegedly copied) media if that player has net access (which is forced upon users in the form of firmware updates). They ain't winning many friends.

<snicker> I've got a few more but being a family forum I think I'll quit while I'm a head.

Remember, the One-eyed Trouser Snake should not be confused with the equally vicious (and similar looking) Purple-Headed Yogurt Slinger.

.... or a one-eyed trouser snake. They grow huge here in Australia.

Is this a music CD? ImgBurn doesn't do multitrack images. More info would help alot.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/03/...4152921467.html Chris Evans March 19, 2007 - 9:52AM AMBULANCE officers treating a man who turned out to have suffered a suspected epileptic fit while behind the wheel of a car early this morning were forced to call police when they spotted what turned out to be a stolen crocodile in the front seat. It was later identified as one of several reptiles reported stolen from a children's education centre in Gippsland yesterday morning. Several more were found in the car when ambulance officers were called to assess the man after he was seen slumped over the wheel of the car at the corner of Havana Crescent and Bowman Court on the Karingal estate, at Frankston, about 5.30am. Sergeant Darren Hedge of Frankston Police was further surprised by what the find would lead to. "Upon arrival, the ambulance officers let us know that there was a crocodile on the front seat," Sergeant Hedge said. "So we had a look and sure enough there was a crocodile and in the back there was a few lizards and reptiles and a snake." Sergeant Hedge said he had seen a report of the wildlife theft on a television news bulletin, and guessed the find was related and contacted the victims of that crime. "And sure enough they've come up here and identified them as theirs," he said. Sergeant Hedge said that while the 21-year-old Frankston man found with the animals was taken "in a disoriented state" to Frankston Hospital, where he remains under observation, he had neither been bitten by something or even affected by any other substance. "No, we don't believe so. We don't believe that's the case. We all thought that, but don't now believe that's the case," he said. "Ambulance officers believed he might have suffered an epileptic fit or something." However, Sergeant Hedge said, not all of the missing animals have been accounted for. Up to $15,000 worth of reptiles were reported stolen from Wildlife Wonderland in the Gippsland town of Bass early yesterday. Park owner Jason Watson had yesterday told The Age he was "terrified" for the animals which included bearded dragons, water dragons, blue-tongued lizards, pink-tongued skinks, children's pythons and a 60-centimetre freshwater crocodile. Oddly, the thieves did not take some of the most valuable creatures, including several frill-neck lizards worth up to $3500 each. Victorian detectives will question a man later today in connection with the theft.

Sorry. Just went and got another beer. What did you say?

1974? LOL!! That makes you almost the youngest person here.

I knew I shouldn't have let that beer get me sidetracked while answering a question.

A couple of things.... Use ALT+PrtScr to take screen snapshots and then Ctrl+V to paste into Microsoft Paint or something and save the image. They look better and are easier to read. Also, it seems like you're doing alot of work just to create a DVD when simpler options are available. ConvertXToDVD (or the freebie version, VSO DivxToDVD) will happily convert this huge file into DVD format for burning onto a single disk. There's no chapter selection available for the user but by default, VSO DivxToDVD inserts chapters at 5 minute intervals automagically. The resultant files can then be loaded into ImgBurn. Try this for starters and see if it does what you want it to do. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_so...xtodvd_free.cfm

Please read the FAQ.

This is bad. The error is caused by your drives inability to focus its laser properly which usually happens with bad media (which isn't your problem). Assuming your drive isn't running low on power, I'd guess that your drive is dying. My Pioneer 109 did the same thing until it died.

ImgBurn doesn't have DVD authoring capabilities. You could always convert your files with another program first and then use ImgBurn if you don't like Ner0. This freebie is one of my favourites: http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_so...xtodvd_free.cfm

You're welcome.

The first thing I'd do is upgrade your firmware as you are using v.A102 and the latest is v.A106. Grab it from here: http://lgodd.lge.com/fwdrv/DVD-WRITER/GSA4163A106.exe

With a burnproof enabled burner it doesn't matter how slow the source drive is. Wouldn't it be more practical to look at why your harddrives are running slow rather than writing code for a function that almost nobody would use?

Dunno. It'd be easy enough to find out. It certainly wouldn't surprise me though. I don't have a 360. Never really saw the need. If the last part of the Oddworld Quintology were ever released on the 360 (which ain't going to happen, apparently), I'd buy one just for it but until then.... Like what? The last *really* good PC game I played was Starcraft. What would you recommend?

What a pack of knuckleheads. They really need their boots rooting. We can add the PS3 hardware (or lack of hardware) debacle to their list of other brilliant achievements...... like the rootkit disaster.