a patch software for sony gigapocket to remove macrovison which is copy protected such as Disney's movies

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notwanted

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19. July 2004 @ 09:49

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Hi guys,
First of all if you have a computer and want to copy or backup your DVDs then use the free softwares such as DVD-Shrinks or Decriptor, they are so awsome. You don't have to spend a penny to buy any other hardware.
Video tapes are the problem ones.

My question is I have a Sony Giga Pocket Hareware and Software, the PC has inputs, I can copy from TVs and the likes, but cannot copy Copy-Protected-Movies such as Disney Video Tapes. So I am looking for a software patch for the Sony Giga Pocket Software to ignore the macrovision signal that comes from the video tapes. If any of you know or have a solution for me, please help me out. I would like to solve my problem digitally without buying any other hardware, I know that if I buy a digital stablizer it might help but which one, not all of them out there will do the work.

Thanks alot

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vurbal

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19. July 2004 @ 16:33

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I'm pretty sure there's no patch that will do what you want. You pretty much have to use a video stabilizer between the VCR and the Sony encoder board's input.

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hounds64

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25. July 2004 @ 14:19

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I was researching purchasing a VAIO in part for Giga Pocket...perhaps you can help me out on a couple questions. Can you use a dvd player with region and macrovision hacks applied (APEX 1000) as a copying source? can you record two tv programs that occur at the same time? how would you rate menu options?
thanks

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vurbal

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26. July 2004 @ 12:41

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@hounds64: If the video signal has had the macrovision removed, the Sony encoder board can certainly capture it, but keep in mind it's not like ripping a DVD. It's a digital to analog back to digital conversion. Also, you can't record more than one program at a time.

I'm not sure what you're talking about with menu options. If you mean DVD menus, it depends on what you use to author. Gigapocket will make DVD compliant MPEG files which you can author with many different pieces of software. I never used the authoring software that came with my Sony so I can't tell you much about it.

It's also worth mentioning that the way Gigapocket gives you good quality captures is to use a high (but still DVD compliant) bitrate. This means that a Gigapocket MPEG will be much bigger than if it were captured at the same quality and then converted with a good software MPEG encoder. When I did a lot of capturing I always re-encoded with CCE to get it down to a reasonable size. You could also author an oversize DVD and then use a DVD compression program to shrink it to a small enough size before burning.

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