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16. August 2009 @ 18:12

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Check out this badboy(Roxio Cineplayer)! I think im in love♥ LOL! It kind of reminds me of nero showtime. But the drop down is sure prettier!

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17. August 2009 @ 00:17

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NIce screeny... :) BUT has Roxio gotten better about playing nicely with other progies?? I'm a NERO fan personally... yep fanboy here. :P

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17. August 2009 @ 00:24

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It hasn't interfered with other programs. However, MyDvd(DvdBuilder), is not nearly as quick as NeroVision. NeroVision utilizes more of my quad than Roxio does. I will continue to play with it though. And there was an extreme quality difference between the two. Roxio significantly lacked in encode quality. And yes, everything was set to HIGHEST quality. I am still playing with it though :)

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17. August 2009 @ 00:51

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Originally posted by omegaman7:
It hasn't interfered with other programs. However, MyDvd(DvdBuilder), is not nearly as quick as NeroVision. NeroVision utilizes more of my quad than Roxio does. I will continue to play with it though. And there was an extreme quality difference between the two. Roxio significantly lacked in encode quality. And yes, everything was set to HIGHEST quality. I am still playing with it though :)

A quick search will reveal that Roxio (*and NERO) do NOT re-encode a video.... they "transcode" a video like DVD Shrink does. :) NOT nearly the quality and NOT nearly the CPU needed for a "simple" transcode. :) A quad running at about 3.0GHz should "encode" a 7GB file in about 30-40 minutes or so... From my experience anyway. :)

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17. August 2009 @ 03:31

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Whoops! I am aware of Transcode/Encode definitions(I use both on a daily basis). I suppose it is considered a transcode operation. Even though, it should NOT cut the quality. Since its simply UPconverting! Darnit! I wish I could program. I really feel that there are ways that are being overlooked. One day, One day... :) Mark-My-Words :)

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17. August 2009 @ 04:25

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Originally posted by greensman:

Originally posted by omegaman7:
It hasn't interfered with other programs. However, MyDvd(DvdBuilder), is not nearly as quick as NeroVision. NeroVision utilizes more of my quad than Roxio does. I will continue to play with it though. And there was an extreme quality difference between the two. Roxio significantly lacked in encode quality. And yes, everything was set to HIGHEST quality. I am still playing with it though :)
A quick search will reveal that Roxio (*and NERO) do NOT re-encode a video.... they "transcode" a video like DVD Shrink does. :) NOT nearly the quality and NOT nearly the CPU needed for a "simple" transcode. :) A quad running at about 3.0GHz should "encode" a 7GB file in about 30-40 minutes or so... From my experience anyway. :)

sorry about the OT creaks... I'll give links next time. :)

GM,
My last two DVDRB/CCE encodes of 5.9GB and 6.2GB, 2 pass were in the 17 minute bracket, total! 13 minute Encodes! That being said, I love my new Wallpaper, compliments of Oman7!
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8140/dragonwafer25603.jpg
We both did some work on the Dragon, and Oman incorporated the AMD Logo on the "frisbee"! LOL!!

Russ

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17. August 2009 @ 09:46

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Originally posted by theonejrs:

GM,
My last two DVDRB/CCE encodes of 5.9GB and 6.2GB, 2 pass were in the 17 minute bracket, total! 13 minute Encodes! That being said, I love my new Wallpaper, compliments of Oman7!
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8140/dragonwafer25603.jpg
We both did some work on the Dragon, and Oman incorporated the AMD Logo on the "frisbee"! LOL!!

Russ

All looks good EXCEPT for the AMD in the middle of that pic. :P A little "the one" or something would have worked nicely!! hehehe. :)

I may be thinking of my DUO on encode times.... I know I remember something around 40 minutes with a 7-8 Gig movie at some time or another. :)

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17. August 2009 @ 09:53

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If you're ripping from DVD, a lot of this is going to be the disc loading time. Assuming a 16x drive (22.16MB/s) that's 4m30s just to read the disc, there might also be some spin up time in there too.

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17. August 2009 @ 15:10

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Ha ha! Are you hinting me at yet another revision :) Not too bad anyway ;) Let me know what you think :D

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17. August 2009 @ 15:43

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Or perhaps, give the entire picture a new appeal. I like a certain dark vivid look myself :)

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17. August 2009 @ 16:09

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Originally posted by greensman:

Originally posted by theonejrs:

GM,
My last two DVDRB/CCE encodes of 5.9GB and 6.2GB, 2 pass were in the 17 minute bracket, total! 13 minute Encodes! That being said, I love my new Wallpaper, compliments of Oman7!
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8140/dragonwafer25603.jpg
We both did some work on the Dragon, and Oman incorporated the AMD Logo on the "frisbee"! LOL!!

Russ
All looks good EXCEPT for the AMD in the middle of that pic. :P A little "the one" or something would have worked nicely!! hehehe. :)

I may be thinking of my DUO on encode times.... I know I remember something around 40 minutes with a 7-8 Gig movie at some time or another. :)

GM,
As I said on the building thread, I have no idea what I did to the computer adjustments, but it's blurry fast, encoding! The only thing I've touched was the CPU multiplier, and I upped the HT link frequency and the NB VID frequency to 2000MHz. The rest stays as is, at least until I figure out why such a dramatic difference in encode speed. It's actually mesmerizing to watch, as the bars go so fast in the CCE window. Then again, I would expect that with the encode speed in the low 23s! I've seen 10s and once I saw a 12, but 23s? Never!

The computer itself is just a hair slower at 3.0GHz, than it was at 3.2GHz before I replaced the MB! Since it's being left to Russell, I'm going to leave it the way it is now. Russell wouldn't know what to do with it anyway, as he knows nothing about overclocking at all!

Russ

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17. August 2009 @ 16:20

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Russ,
I think you missed the above pics! :)

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17. August 2009 @ 17:52

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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Russ,
I think you missed the above pics! :)

Oman7,
No, I saw them. They are too dark for my tastes! I still like the one I have currently better! LOL!! It's got just about perfect balance the on my monitor screen! A real nice mix of light, dark, color intensity and depth. Perfectly positioned on the screen. When I got it back from you, I manually sized it to fit my screen. By manual I mean PhotoShop. I cut everything I wanted to get the positon and the width to try and maintain the aspect ratio. I opened the cut file in New and sized it to 1680x1050 and it's what you see. I'll take a shot of it and post it. Then you will see what I mean! Everyone comments the first time they see it. Usually they stop talking first and stand there a minute! AMD and all, GM! LOL!! I like my AMD! I can't wait to see how it runs with a x3 720BE in it (when I can afford one)! "Go Speed Racer"!

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17. August 2009 @ 18:59

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Huh. Well...to each his/her own I guess. Everybody has their own artistic design/expression. Thanks for the input :)

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18. August 2009 @ 01:22

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Originally posted by omegaman7:
Huh. Well...to each his/her own I guess. Everybody has their own artistic design/expression. Thanks for the input :)

Oman7,
Here's what it looks like with about 40 icons.
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3314/dragon3k.jpg

See what I mean in the look with the icons. It looks perfect to me!

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18. August 2009 @ 01:37

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It is hard to improve upon a masterpiece :) Myself, I like the gold ring/glow. It's like he's squeezing it, and its burning him. And he almost seems like he's reacting to it :)

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22. August 2009 @ 18:29

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Here's a little something just messin around(I may just upload this via interfacelift). I was going nuts in the custom shapes tab, trying to find the superman symbol. Apparently doesn't come with photoshop!!! I couldn't believe that! I did however find one via some searching :D

Smallville's right around the corner...

And a couple of filters and touchups...

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22. August 2009 @ 20:02

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I think I know why photoshop wouldn't implement the Superman symbol. Its owned by DC, or simply someone else, which means it would be infringing. At least I would imagine.

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22. August 2009 @ 21:21

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RIGHT click, SAVE as supermanlogo.imagethingy

THANKS mate. :D

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22. August 2009 @ 21:23

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GM,
I can send you the much higher quality version if you like. Whats your screen Resolution?

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22. August 2009 @ 21:28

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Originally posted by omegaman7:
GM,
I can send you the much higher quality version if you like. Whats your screen Resolution?

Lemme look. LOL.

add: 1280x1024

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22. August 2009 @ 21:45

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Here are some links. I cropped the original for the 1280 resolution. So its not quite the same, but doesn't look distorted in the resize. And there is also a link for the full on raw image. warning, 2560 is 1.5Mb

Your welcome :D

1280 Resolution
2560 Resolution

Ha ha! I submitted it to interfacelift. My first submission. First of many im sure :)

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22. August 2009 @ 22:13

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Oman7,
I did a little fiddling with "Superman" because I just installed Corel Paint Shop Pro Ultimate Photo X2. I raised it onto a button and then turned up the intensity of the Blue and Red, so it screws with your eyes more, messed with the various aspects of the sharpness I think I've given it a bit more of a 3D effect, than anything else!
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2098/supermanlogob.jpg

let me know what you think!

Warmest Regards,
Russ

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22. August 2009 @ 22:18

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russ the red seems a tad to "rough" IMO, i think the "fuzziness" of omegas gives it a niceer feel.