Shamus_McFartfinger

Funny, ain?t it. Roger Waters didn?t seem to be missed a great deal as Pink Floyd continued along their merry way. Well, I didn?t miss him. I thought The Final Cut sucked bigtime but that?s just me. ?Pulse? epitomised Pink Floyd at their best. I hope you?re joking as you seem to have missed one or two. KISS spring immediately to mind with a gold or platinum record for every album released between 1974 & 1982 with the exception of The Elder (1981). I have trouble believing the four acts above were making 100 million dollars a year. KISS had reached that by 1980. <huge KISS fan mode off>

Never heard of it. Knowing the actual process name would help alot........ if you can replicate it.

Deepburner support forum: http://www.deepburner.com/forum/

Pink Floyd hit their peak in 1994 with the Pulse tour (IMO). Would I pay to see them these days. What a silly question! Of course I would.

You can use a nomal monitor without pulling it to bits but it doesn't change the fact that the display is damaged to an unknown extent. Not being a chemist I'd prefer to be safe.

Without a snapshot or log of the error it's anyones' guess. You log above looks like a perfect burn. Your media ain't the best either. Look for and ask for Taiyo Yuden media.

In all fairness, it could be (and probably is), still safe but I wouldn't trust it. I suppose if you don't mind using a laptop without the top cover it'd be easy enough to disconnect the thing and use an external monitor as suggested above.

Sounds like a top plan. I look forward to it. You've lost me. I thought you said you used a backup program? You compile the backups yourself by hand? A little help?

Well.... sort of. It'll be fine until you open the folder. The OS still has to use memory to display them. The biggest problem is getting the OS to release the memory once the window has been closed (which it probably won't do). It'll release some but probably not all. Depends. If the video doesn't need compression? No. If it does? Yes. What you hook your player up to shouldn't matter. Afterall, it's as dumb as a post. It doesn't know whether it's connected to anything or not or if anything else is either. Poor media is a likely suspect.

True. However, the chemicals used to produce LCD screens are highly toxic. In particular, barium and arsenic, which are both used to extract oxygen bubbles during the production process. Regardless of whether or not the rest of the machine is functional, I wouldn't be using it. Removing the drive entirely is the safest option.

Laptops are absolute bastards to work on. You almost need a shoehorn to get the bits back into the case. The problem you have though is different. Most critically, a standard 3.5" IDE HD has 40 pins. A standard 2.5" IDE laptop drive has 44 pins. What you need to do to retrieve the information off the laptop drive is use an adapter that allows the smaller drive to interface with a standard PC. (44 pins on one side to connect to the HD and 40 pins on the other side to connect to an ordinary IDE ribbon cable in your desktop PC). <searches Google> Found one. http://shop.store.yahoo.com/directron/nbadapter.html

Hmm... in my haste I seem to have mis-read your post. You want a single image larger than 5gigs to be split then burnt automagically? Hmm... I fooked that one up huh? EDIT: Can your backup software (you didn?t mention which one you use) set the maximum allowed output filesize?

Blu! You?re overdue in Brissy for a beer. I had a bit of think about this and came up with a somewhat inelegant solution which assumes a few things like not minding running a cron utility. So....... Backup software automatically saves the ISO images somewhere. eg. C:\backups\ Your DVD burners are at E:\ and F:\ WinCron is at http://www.tomasello.com/software/wincron/ Now a batchfile for your cron. ECHO OFF ?c:\program files\imgburn.exe /mode isowrite /src ?c:\backups\backup1.iso? /dest e: /verfiy yes ?c:\program files\imgburn.exe /mode isowrite /src ?c:\backups\backup2.iso? /dest f: /verfiy yes Save it as backup.bat (for example) and copy it to your command path - like C:\ Next, a simple crontab for WinCron. 1 0 * * 0 c:\backup.bat Save this as ?crontab? (no file extension) and copy it to your WinCron directory. What all this crap does (when the cron is running) is execute c:\backup.bat at 12:01am every Sunday morning. The cron reads the batchfile which executes the instructions for ImgBurn. ImgBurn will load 2 copies of itself. One will grab backup1.iso and burn it to the E:\. The second copy with grab the other backup and burn it to your F:\ drive. It?ll work as long as you remember to turn off the ?exclusive access lock? within the ImgBurn settings. I don?t know if this is what you were looking for but I?ve used crons for years. They?re reliable and easy to use once you get the hang of them. Hope it helps. Shamus.......

It's logical when you think about it. The OS has to use memory to display these things on your desktop. These days, with machines running a gig or more of RAM, it's not as important as it used to be. My desktops (running 1gig or more of memory) are almost bare. They all run 16bit colour at 1280x1024 and only run s/ware in the background that needs to be run. There's no point chewing up memory if you don't have to. That MaxMem program linked above is a great tool for periodically cleaning up your RAM. There's also bucketloads of other great tools on that site if you feel like looking around.

Yeah...... it should. No point trying to find an error within the program if it doesn't exist though.

You're welcome. I don't. Philosophers and experts might care about the minor differences but I can't see the diffence usually. Both are great programs. It shouldn't be a problem. Playing a DVD isn't that stressful on a PC. The only thing I can think of that would make the playback jerky is using too many resources on other needless tasks. eg. Lowering the resolution of your desktop. Lower resolution = less memory usage. Running a 32bit colour desktop is pointless. A 16bit desktop can display 65,536 colours and 32bit can display 4,294,967,296. The human eye can detect around 10,000 unique colours which makes it impractical to make your PC work harder than is has to to display colours that you can't see. Deleting icons from your desktop and placing the icons into your taskbar or menus. Again, less memory usage. Having said that, a P3 is easily capable of playing back a DVD correctly. Windows Media Player and WinDVD use bucketloads of resources to do what is essentially a very basic task. Media Player Classic is fast, streamlined and very low on resource usage. The interface is a bit cack but it's a brilliant program. If you add some codecs it'll play almost any media format around, even the really weird ones. Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ K-Lite Codec Pack - http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm Grab a memory flushing program. I use a memclear program called MaxMem which is a free download from www.analogx.com. Lastly, make sure DMA is enabled and working for all of your drives which ensures data is travelling as fast as possible from your drives to the cpu. Glad you got it all working and thanks for your feedback.

Silly question: Have you refreshed the drive after formatting?

You're right about one thing - the source is DVD9. ImgBurn will not split an ISO for burning either. I do have a few suggestion though. Compress your DVD so it fits on a DVD5 (Pretty easy) Split your ISO with Vob******* and burn it to 2 disks (not for the faint of heart). Buy a dual-layer burner - the most simple and elegant solution. You might want to try a dedicated backup forum for a proper answer as legal contraints prohibit us from telling you how to accomplish what you wish to do. Yeah..... it sucks but that's life.

I visited xbox-scene once and made a suggestion regarding Qwix. No response......and it seemed like a reasonable idea. Now you're attempting to do what I suggested with Qwix. I'm having a deja vu moment. <deja vu moment off>

You can't add chapter points with DVD Shrink. Not that I'm aware of anyway. VSO DivxToDVD can add chapter points but I think it's in time intervals (e.g. every 5 minutes or 7 minutes or whatever) rather than selecting a specific point within the video itself. ImgBurn cannot add chapter point either. Shouldn't your Adobe package be able to do that?

Doh! Happens to me all the time.

Because it's not a full format. It's a quick format. It just erases the file headers from the files and tells the OS that the space that was being used by the files is now available to be overwritten. You can format a 500gig HD in a few seconds in the same way or do a full format and wait hours.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this won't happen. It sounds fairly complicated. Would it not be easier just to build an ISO and burn it? Something similar to UltraISO etc? I'm fairly sure that support for audio CDs won't be included any time soon simply because of the way they function. BTW, whatever happened to Qwix? Did development stop entirely?

LOL!!

I'll keep that in mind.