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Brandon

Member since: Sep 28th, 2005

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Joyswag: Joystiq's Legendary Halo 3 Giveaway (Joystiq)

Sep 26th 2007 1:50PM I'd like to meet the Master Chief. I'd love to shake his hand.

How-To: Transcode & stream videos on Xbox 360 (Joystiq)

Nov 9th 2006 1:06PM This is indeed transcoding. Transcoding converting from one encoder's format into another. (like div to WMV) Just because its not streaming and on-the-fly doesn't mean it isn't transcoding. Re-encoding is a broader definition that describes this process as well as on-the-fly transcoding. But generally re-encoding infers that the output file will be in the same format as the input was with a maybe a different sample rate.

That said, this transcoder and batch script is not very space efficient. I used Dvdx to convert a DVD to WMV then used Window Movie Maker to break episodes out of the file into 20 minute files. My conversion process resulted in 250 to 300 meg files. These files playback on my 1080I 55" tv with very little compression artifacting. However when I used VLC and the batch file above, the same file re-encoded to over 700 megs. At that rate, I would be back up to the original DVD file size if I converted them all.

AudioShell - tag music files in Windows Explorer (Download Squad)

Oct 19th 2006 12:37PM id3 tags are already accessible from within the XP Explorer Shell. You can edit them too... maybe not as easily but you can right click an MP3 and edit the id3 properties natively.

Convert docs to PDF online, free (Download Squad)

Aug 22nd 2006 12:43PM Any what do they do with all the docs you upload to them to convert when they are done with the conversion?

MetaGeek's Wi-Spy 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer spies interference (Engadget)

Dec 23rd 2005 2:31PM I'd love to see a link to a program that will do this with a regular WiFi card if anyone knows of one.