If you have a single (or some more) question regarding any of the tech topics of this board and feel that it wouldn't justify creating an own thread just for that, feel free to post it in here.
If you know the answer to any of the questions in this thread, please help us out here! I am sure it's going to be appreciated.
I am creating this thread since there's ben popping up too many threads lately with single questions asking for help that aren't really set out to create too much interest.
Now, for my own question:
I want to take screenshots of videos with softsubs but cannot figure out how to do that. The subtitles just won't show up.
I've tried with VLC and MPC but with no success.
With BSPlayer, I have found some sort of workaround, because for some reason, hitting Print and then copypasting that into some image in an image editing program will work. However, that's not really convenient, I'd like to be able to take proper screenshots in one single step and just using the normal BSPlayer screenshot function ("p") won't work.
Please help me out here!
PS: Using XP Pro.
>>2
The only immediate answer I can think of is to use Virtualdub. Soft-Subs are rendered to a bitmap and sent directly to hardware to view, which means you can't "screencap" them. When they're inside virtualdub it draws them ontop of the video layers it uses, and at that point you can either PrntScr or you can Use Ctrl+1 to copy the image to clipboard.
>>3
Hm, thanks for that. It's still difficult, though, since the subtitler plugin for VirtualDub needs .ssa subtitle files and all I have is .srt.
I'll look for a converter later on. Thank you for helping!
Wait. This kind of works, but it's still a matter of pasting the clipboard content into an image I have to create in an image editor, seperately.
That's pretty much what I already managed to do with BSPlayer... orz
If worse comes to worse, you might just consider taking the un-subbed screenshot into an image editor and using its type tool to type in the subtitles manually. This would be a pain for more than one shot at a time, though...
>>8
Yeah, that's a pretty ... useless sugesstion, but thanks for trying.
I'll go second! On a college network, is there any chance of using BitTorrent at all?
It depends on the network. What ports can you access outside?
If you don't need a proxy to access web pages, chances are you'll be able to use torrents too. I don't know of many places restricting bandwidth based on layer 7 (although admittedly the last place I worked specialized in this...).
However, it's becoming increasingly easy to do. Take this, for example: http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/
I don't think I need a proxy. Downloads haven't been successful, though. Healthily seeded torrents refuse to download with Azureus, despite toying with the incoming TCP listen port. I probably have no idea what I'm doing.
Yo peepz.
I´m searching for this tool that checks if you got any pictures twice in a folder (despite different size and name), but I forgot the name. Does anyone know this ap?
>>14
hello dear ghetto poster,
there are several of such programs, but i myself use dupdetector:
http://www.prismaticsoftware.com/Utility/Utility.html
many thnx from teh ghetto
There's also Unique Filer: http://www.uniquefiler.com/
It has a better interface than DupDetector, particularly since you can do an unscaled side-to-side comparison, but it's also nagware.
Hi. I'm on a college residence connection and I can't get BitTorrent to work. It was fine a few weeks ago, but recently they were upgrading the line to fiber optics and now it's slow and unreliable. Does anyone have any tips to get BT working again? (Hopefully, the line will be back to 'normal' if they ever get finished... But I'm not hoping for much.)
>>18
Short Answer: University networks hate students using p2p and they'll do anything necessary to stop it, including packet shaping, closing ports etc.
So you wanna download filez and stuff and not worry about all that shit? Find a good usenet server.
bump for the heck of it
One cool feature of XBMC on the XBOX is that when you hit the screenshot button, it screenshots exactly what you see. So if the subtitle is displaying, it will include it. However, subtitles get in the way of a screenshot anyway.
>>19
Usenet is piracy love. I don't bother with p2p unless I have no choice whatsoever.
> Usenet is piracy love.
I'm loving it!
I find it's funny that about every new P2P network gets targeted by the authorities and Usenet hasn't yet. I guess it's due to the fact that you won't get good access for free anymore these days...
No, supplying "everything" of usenet makes you a common carrier, and thus can not be prosecuted for harbouring warez monkeys. However if the said provider were to restrict certain groups, then they would loose their common carrier status and be open to prosecution.
Nearly every news server restricts which boards it carries, and always have.
"unspecified" question
Today I look at one of my (Windows XP) folders and there is an underlined "unspecified" there.
http://kao.wakachan.net/r/res/1538.html
It only appears if I put one icon or more in it.
All other windows don't have this, even newly created one.
Googling for "unspecified" doesn't help.
Anyone knows?
>>29 Huh? That's just the name of the folder. Like "StartUp" or "Accessories".
It's smart to catagorize the internets.
Right click, "Arrange Icons By", "Show In Groups."
If you display the folder by details, it will organize by the header you click on. Like if you click on "Name" it will organize by name.
If you're grouping by something that it doesn't have, it will probably display "unspecified"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306554&sd=tech
Alright, I've decided to post my question here, since I can't find any other appropriate thread for such a question.
Does anyone know of a file and directory sorting program?
If there is one, can it do the following:
1: sort selected folders by size of total contents of a folder and sub folders.
2: de-compile (unstack) sub-folders and place them into a specified "Root" folder.
3: calculate folder sized to be placed in another folder based on a specified destinaion size criteria. EG max destination folder size (100MB, 700MB, 4.38 GB, 8.76GB, 40GB, etc.)
Overall desired function: Standard DVD-R(RW) holds 4.44 gigs, but you usually can only use 4.38 gigs of it. The idea is to have this program sort and arrange selected folders to best fit onto a DVD 'before' I would need to burn it. Sort of to pre-burn preparation, for muliple disks to que for burning later.
For example: I want to eventually burn my videos I download from my torrents, but only say I want it to sort my completed series(anime being the best example of this), leaving the files or folders that have incomplete(in progress) series alone until I've DLed the last episode of a perticular series. Then sort the directories so that they will best fit on a certain type of media(ZIP, CD-R, DVD-R, Tape, etc.), instead of having to manually do it through a burning, or other backup program....
I usually end up scrambling around my 5 drives [used to be 7, but one drive (parti into two) failed] (totaling about 120 to 160 gigs) just to search for other videos , images or other files to fill the remaining space. If I could sort my directories using a catagory system, like file types, folder names, size of folders(+ sub folders if not de-compiling directories), # of files within folder, etc. I could effectively backup my video AND my image archives with the least ammout of wasted space on my backup media. I don't like wasting space on a DVD-R if I don't have to.
My example of the manual method: Using Nero, I search though my drive(s) looking for stuff that fills a DVD as best as possible. Content to be written are anime videos DLed from the net. I get 5 folders of videos, and 2 extra videos that fill it with little space feft over. folder #1 is 815 MB, folder #2 is 464 MB, folder #3 is 1.74 Gig, folder #4 is 598 MB, folder #5 is 511 MB, and the 2 files(fillers) 175 MB + 132 MB all total 4.37 Gigs used on the DVD. Later burned to DVD-R.
It normally takes 20 minutes on average hunting these folders and files down and comparing them in combinations with other folders & files to make this nearly perfect DVD-R compilation.
Esentially, is there something to auomate that process?
Is there a simulare free service for web developers like GOOGLE MAPS that covers europe better? The city I need a map of is Stavanger, Norway.
is there any decent swf player that will work on freebsd 6.0 amd64?
http://gplflash.sourceforge.net might work... but I've had little success on Linux/x86 and practically none on Linux/MIPS.
Have you tried using Linux Binary emulation? You should be able to run a Linux/x86 version of Firefox, and use Macromedia's plugin inside that?
(I share your pain though... there are times when Flash is useful on a site, but it's totally useless without a working plugin.)
>>38
gplflash is slow and i'm not getting any sound...
i haven't been able to get linux/x86 anything to work...
Problem:
I have added a router (US Robotics) and since then, every time I power the computer, exactly 1 hour later I lose my net connection.
Weird thing is that the P2P stuff continues working, but browser/mail is gone until I do a "Repair TCP/IP". Then it's fine for the rest of the day.
Anyone?
>>40 Does ping work at all when the net connection stops functioning?
Have you tried running something like Ethereal[1] during the outage to see if any packets are getting back to your machine?
>>41 Yes, ping works. Tracert as well.
BitTorrent works.
Browsers don't work (Firefox, IE, Opera).
Usenet doesn't work ("cannot locate remote host").
Sounds a bit like it's just DNS that dies. Any connections that are already open will work, but no host name lookups will. Try connecting to a site by IP after the hour has passed and see if that works. (Try it before too just to make sure the site isn't virtual hosted.)
Bittorrent will continue to work most likely under those circumstances, because it will be relying on the IP addresses of hosts (as many of them are other users downloading files).
Perhaps if it turns out to be DNS, it's worth setting up your own caching nameserver? BIND9 I've found makes a reliable workhorse for this task.
>>43 Yeah it connects to the site by IP. Well, the two IP I tried worked, maybe I should have tried more.
Weird thing: I can still go to the pages I have visited before the hour is up, even using another browser.
Also, today I didn't visit 4-ch.net, and I could not ping 4-ch.net when the hour was up.
http://4-ch.net/ is strange. If I go to http://4-ch.net/ I get the portal. If I go to http://66.139.73.30/ I get a Japanese Apache page. I could browse 66.139.73.30/ after the hour was up but not 4-ch.net/ -- different sites I guess.
>http://4-ch.net/ is strange. If I go to http://4-ch.net/ I get the portal. If I go to http://66.139.73.30/ I get a Japanese Apache page. I could browse 66.139.73.30/ after the hour was up but not 4-ch.net/ -- different sites I guess.
that's virtual hosting.
>>46 I see. There seem to be a bunch of these around.
I have tried to ping a few sites and most of them don't have the same IP as their site address.
Curiouser and curiouser.
After the hour was up today, I couldn't ping named addresses.
Then I pinged an IP number, it worked, then I tried browsing the named address, and it worked too. Now everything works normally, and I didn't have to do a "Repair TCP/IP".
>>48 ah, scratch that. It locked up 1 hour later again and pinging a number now doesn't fix anything, I had to repair.
Summary:
Browsing by number/ip works.
Browsing by named address doesn't work.
So, what should I do?
Is that US Robotics router defective or what?
Your router is breaking DNS requests for some unfathomable reason. However, your OS caches DNS lookups, so addresses that were looked up before the router went crazy may still work, because they're in the cache.
What to do about this is a bit of a mystery, though. Does your router have some "Break DNS after one hour: YES/NO" feature?
What IP address is your desktop using? Is it pointed at the modem, or at your ISP's IP number?
If it's the former, try looking up what your ISP's official DNS servers are, and enter those in instead of relying on the ones supplied via DHCP.
Okay, I checked "Renew IP Forever Enable (Auto-reconnect)" and now it doesn't lock up anymore. Whee.
I hate how xterm scrolls half a page at a time when I press Shift+PgUp or Shift+PgDn, rather than a full page. It's so confusing and disorienting and stupid.
Is there a way to change this behavior and make it scroll a full page (or better yet, a full page less one line) at a time? I know there's a manpage, but it's tl;dr and I wasn't able to find anything relevant by searching it.
>>53
from the xterm manpage:
> It is possible to rebind keys (or sequences of keys) to arbitrary
> strings for input, by changing the translations resources for the vt100
> or tek4014 widgets. Changing the translations resource for events
> other than key and button events is not expected, and will cause unpre-
> dictable behavior. The following actions are provided for use within
> the vt100 or tek4014 translations resources:
...
> scroll-back(count [,units [,mouse] ])
> This action scrolls the text window backward so that text that
> had previously scrolled off the top of the screen is now visi-
> ble.
>
> The count argument indicates the number of units (which may be
> page, halfpage, pixel, or line) by which to scroll.
>
> An adjustment can be specified for these values by appending a
> "+" or "-" sign followed by a number, e.g., page-2 to specify 2
> lines less than a page.
>
> If the third parameter mouse is given, the action is ignored
> when mouse reporting is enabled.
>
> scroll-forw(count [,units [,mouse] ])
> This action is similar to scroll-back except that it scrolls in
> the other direction.
...
> The default bindings in the VT102 window are:
>
> Shift <KeyPress> Prior:scroll-back(1,halfpage) \n\
> Shift <KeyPress> Next:scroll-forw(1,halfpage) \n\
Problem: the Finder (10.4.4) and all Open dialogs no longer list my Desktop as a folder in my home directory. I can only access it from the Terminal and the Sidebar. No other accounts on this computer display this problem, and restarting / repairing permissions doesn't help. Ideas?
Nevermind, fixed. Had to delete the Desktop folder in the Terminal then log out & in. Weird.
>>54
So how exactly do I change these resources? I can't find any hints in the manpage about what file to write them in or anything...
>>57
from the "FILES" section of the manpage:
> /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
> the xterm default application resources.
>
> /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color
> the xterm color application resources. If your display supports
> color, use this
> *customization: -color
> in your .Xdefaults file to automatically turn on color in xterm
> and similar applications.
the files are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults on my system.
Changing system-wide defaults is an awfully ugly way to adjust programs to my personal settings. There must be a command-line option "read resources from this file instead" somewhere..
does anyone know how to set up wine on freebsd amd64?
i've heard it's possible (using a linux x86 binary package), but i haven't been able to get it working. i use other linux binaries, so i know linux compat is working...
i tried searching on google, but haven't found anything useful...
Cedega only recently started working in 64 bit native, and that is only their drivers iirc. Are you talking about a 32-bit linux chroot or not?
I needed to run Share, so I got a friend to send me a vmware image of Windows XP. One problem though, how do I install japanese language pack without the XP CD?
On a related note, why do I need a CD for that?
I got it by downloading "Office XP Tool: Japanese Language Pack" even though I don't have MS Office.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=24A66277-CD9F-4332-A6F1-52B85A6470BD&displayLang=en&oRef=http%3a%2f%2fwww.microsoft.com%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d803A623E-C311-4591-A593-B0E24A6F38E8%26displaylang%3den
i need to print 6 images on a page (2 columns 3 rows) such that when i cut the page into 6 and stack, the images overlap exactly. does anyone know an easy way to do this? i've tried doing it by calculating margins and manually plonking the images in word, but this seems somewhat imprecise. and i imagine doing a 6 slide per page thing isn't going to work cos you can't adjust the spacing between slides?
also, i'm trying to get away with using small margins (0.5cm sides 1.35cm top/bottom) but word says the images will go outside the printable area; will these margins work on another printer?
