[Helpers] Comedy of errors.

[Mystress Angelique Serpent]

   Wrote this on Monday...

At 05:00 AM 1/23/2006, Gustaf Grefberg wrote:
>Wow, that's a lot of fook!

   Yes, it was. (Big smile!) 7 hours of fooking, and swapping massages and 
energy work.  My wetware is defragged. My body is very fragged and this 
morning the physiotherapist told me to take it easy today. I seem to have 
displaced a hip! LOL!!

   I started responding to your tea room post about shadow... The past few 
months I have worked at re-awakening my sex drive. I succeeded 2 weeks ago 
and ye Gods I had forgotten how strong it is! Holy crap!!

   I keep thinking, how the hell am I going to feed this monster? Must be 
like a full time job! I surrender it...

   Then I laugh at myself and remember uh, yeah, it used to be...  kind 
of... a full time job...  :)  I am recalling why having a small army of sex 
slaves at my beck and call, was a good idea... more than a good idea, 
really quite necessary and healthy!!

     But WOW, it is good to be back! druid says I have regained my sparkle.

    I have been thanking Goddess for the car accident. The physiotherapy is 
mostly fascial tissue release, and 10 years of desk slouch is releasing, 
giving me back my perfect posture, balance and energy.  Body is craving 
exercise again, especially yoga, singing and dancing.. and... really 
athletic contortionist fooking!

   When I show people my home, I can always tell who is kinky because the 
English riding helmet on my headboard makes them giggle...

>Ya'd think that conversions between video formats is simple, but I've been
>through similar chaos just trying to convert a single mpeg file into a
>workable avi. It's resulted in a good dose of anger-management lol. Thanks
>for the humorous rant, it was indeed entertaining, and I so know the
>feeling. Especially with video conversion, it can be very fooked!

   The professional geek basically told me I need a new computer... Replace 
the chip (it is celeron not pentium) and you have to replace the mother 
board, power supply, hard drives, RAM... pretty much everything but the new 
DVD writer!

   I need a new laptop anyway, so I will be patient in shopping around for 
a smart one that can do the job.  In the meantime, I think I can do the 
job, it is just awful slow. I'll burn DVDs in my sleep..


> >    (Why does XP insist on writing a second copy of the data to a temp
> > folder on C-drive instead of just writing directly to CD-R from another
> > drive, like win98 used to? Whose dumb idea was that? Somebody smack 'em
> > upside the head for me.)
>
>I think you can set so that the CD burner program automatically removes the
>data it wrote to the harddrive after it's done burning the DVD/CD-R. It does
>it for two reasons, one is like you said that the computer may be too slow
>so it caches the file to the harddrive first. It's very good especially if
>you are making more than one copy!

    While making backups I discovered a folder called "Recycler" that had 
7.5 gigs worth of backups of old CDs I had burned.  No wonder c-drive was 
running out of space!

> >From my experience what it really comes down to is having the right
>software. The problem with only being able to playi the DVD on your DVD
>burner is most likely related to regions.

   I think it is related to this player being about 5 years old... they 
play OK downstairs on druid's newer one.  I'm recording them NTSC, I can 
make yours PAL if you want.

>You can set either US/Canada
>region (#1 I think), Europe (Might be Europe/Asia) And you can also set it
>to be region free, which can cause some players to get confused with it.
>Easiest is to make sure it's burned with US/Canada region. I can
>read/convert those DVDs without problems. That's the end format you'll want
>from me anyway since most customers are in US/Canada?  Though I can probably
>remaster them to Europe format too somewhat easily if you want to have two
>versions depending on where you send them later.

   Great!
   Students are from all over the world, though Americans are a slight 
majority.

   I am wondering whether to stick with realplayer for the web format? I am 
open to changing to another if it would be better and equally universal.

>Hmm.. There's also the possibility to convert the DV tapes to another format
>that has a similar rate of compression as the DVD, for example Xvid. Then
>you can simply put the files on DVD data discs, but they will take up much
>less space than a DV file, while still retaining almost all of the original
>quality.  I can look into Xvid conversion for you if you are interested!

   Give me a few days to give it another try... part of the problem was 
lack of hard drive space.  Making backups and deleting useless stuff has to 
come first.  Turning off all the anti-virus and other background junk 
helped too.  It is now burning data DVDs in about 20 minutes including 
verification.

   I'll get it to work, even if I do have to chop the 80 minute (15gig) 
tapes into 4.5g bits and send them as data DVD-r without conversion. I 
think I wouldn't mind having some like that as backups anyhow, for when the 
DVD conversion tech changes again. I've got about 60 blank 4.7g DVD-r 
discs,  so I'm set.