My burner won't be here for a week or so, but I can keep it on my hard drive until then if you can wait. I have enough bandwidth on a site for you to be able to download it from a website, but I can't even imagine the upload time.
I see that Best Buy is selling the Sony Dual Layer +R DVD burners for $199 this weekend. No word on how expensive the Dual Layer discs are. But yeah, I'm interested! Andy
That would be nice. I have a 2:30 game tape I've cut together that came out at about 5.8 gigs. I would need something like that. Sweeney just got pelted in the back on a throw back in from the outfield by Mienkiewicz and got called out. He just went down like a sack of bricks. It's the most BS rule...
I tend to record at a 4000Kbs Variable Bit Rate (VBR). It tends to record at about 4.2 billion bytes/hour. I can fit around 2:10-2:12 on on DVD. The Hauppage's "DVD Long Play" default is 4400Kbs and only nets about 1:50 on a DVD - which fits "most" MLS broadcasts - especially with no shootout or overtime. The ULead Movie Factory software that is bundled with the Hauppage card will re-process an MPEG-2, and it's 4000kbps setting will put close to 2:30 on a DVD, but it takes my 1.6GHz Pentium 3 about 8 hours to process that way. All three look great. I accidently recorded last Sunday's Chicago/Columbus game on the Hauppage's "VCD compliant" setting. The 2 hour game raw file was only 1.2GB. As a test, I went ahead and burned it to DVD, and it does look fine. A little washed out, and a some mpeg artifacts during heavy action, but it still looks a lot better than most of the VHS tapes that I've burned to DVD - and it only took up 1.6 billion bytes on the DVD, so one could get over 6 hours of watchable content on a DVD using mpeg-1 settings. Our previous tests using MPEG-2 in 4 hour mode resulted in unwatchable crap. Removing commercials, almost all MLS espn2 games end up around 1:45-1:47, HDNet games run around 1:55, and others broadcasts run in the 1:48-1:51 range.
FYI, Sweeney wasn't out because of being hit by the throw. He was called out on the infield fly rule after popping out to shallow right after a bleacher cut. Regardless, Sweeney has been mostly poor in bases loaded situations this entire year. Not that I've seen every one of them, but I only remember one successful bases loaded AB this whole season for him - KC did win the game partially due to his single, but in the game he had 2 chances with the bases loaded and hit into a DP in the first one. He was lucky to get another chance. To make things worse, Harvey is a better First Baseman defensively by a good stretch. That's your Captain. Not exactly everything you want from your "C"
56' - Damn Wolf just had a rocket and missed te inadvertant handball call. I'll agree with the no-call cause that ball was moving at about 100 mph bouncing around. Woulda been nice to see a PK though. I've done some stuff in the CIF format of MPEG1 @ 352x288 and 1500 Kbps. And it's watchable. While I wouldn't do it all the time, if I absolutely had to get 6 hours on a DVD, that's about the lowest you can go to author a DVD. Someone explain that infield fly rule to me again, because that hit wasn't in the infield. Speaking of a good stetch, how about Harvey's "hops" in the 8th inning, or somewhere around then? For a 240 lb guy, he can soar.
yeah I posted that during the confusion of the play. I thought the ball had traveled too far for the infield fly and they ruled that Sweeney interfered with the throw.
It burns at 2.4x, which would take nearly an hour for a full disc. Yikes. Plus Best Buy didn't actually have any DL blanks. Until the DL blanks are less than twice the price of the SL blanks, I'm not interested. I moved from CDs to DVDs once the DVD blanks dropped to about 5 times the cost of CD blanks. I still burn all of YCJ's archives to both CD and DVD (and two copies of each!). We're up to around 480 CDs of photos, which all fit on 53 single layer DVDs.
Yeah, now our "negative" style of play is being blamed for poor attendance around the league in the MLS attendance threads. I gave him some negative reputation to go along with it. I'm sure I'll get some in return. "How can you blame anyone for not wanting to pay to see KC. They bring out every bad stereotype of soccer. Its total negative play." I taped both on my DVR and through my computer. Im still working out the bugs with my settings on what I like. I also haven't been using the Ulead, but I think I'm going to have to for certain things. I have some software called Sony Screenblast 3.0 which was made by the Vegas studio people. I like its interface a lot better (and it has some more robust transition and graphics features) than the mark in mark out thing on the Ulead. However, I can't see any way to just change the variable data rate to make the file smaller. It seems to only be able to change formats i.e. mpeg2, mpeg1 and anything that I cut and render in there in MPEG2 only goes out at highest quality. Everythings way too big. I was thinking about changing the audio size to gain some room, but I think I'll just have to cut the commercials with the Ulead. It'll be a week and half or so before you'll get the DVD in the mail. I don't have my burner yet, but I'll pm you and get your address once I'm getting ready to send it. I had to do the ship back and exchange thing on the one I ordered so you know how long that can take. I have noticed that I can cut it in Screenblast and render it, and then take the file into Ulead and reduce the quality, but it's an extra step that takes forever.