Re: Fw: new pc finally arrived and have to make decisions-help

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

--- Robert Holmgren  wrote:

> played with Spruce Maestro

IIRC, this was *not* an inexpensive program, in its
day. I think I've seen it on Ebay for much less, but
expect it must no longer be that up to date.

> else you need enormous patience [TMPGenc takes
> forever]

> The best video products are either free
> hacker tools (like IfoEdit,
> DVDDecrypter, VDub)

Yeah, that is mostly the lake I've been swimming in.

> To optimize
> this stuff under any OS, you
> need to kill services and boost the priority of
> these programs waaay above
> normal (do you know how to do that? it's
> important).

Probably not (other than killing services, and hoping
I don't zap any that are truly important), but I'm
hoping the tradeoff for this is only time. I'm
willing to have certain things take longer to do, up
to a point.

> but I've also had some
> great results, within the
> limits of digitized content. Video is tricky
> Personally, I think it
> should all go back to analog, which is the way we
> actually see and hear.
> Compare the audio of a DVD and a Laserdisc, and
> there's no comparison -- Laser
> is much more natural-sounding, much more expansive,
> because there's simply more
> information being conveyed, no compression, and no
> A-D D-A conversion.

Interesting, and not a total surprise -- this squares
with a number of other compelling arguments I've
heard. (For both audio and video.) I'm far from sold
on the all-digital wonderland in which we now find
ourselves, but at this point I'm afraid we have little
choice.

> I could be getting work done...

Anyway, thanks for your perspective on this.


Jordan