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How long until a federal judge asks Jeff Atwood to remove this post linking to Handbrake software?
We aren’t free. This isn’t a free nation.
I have the same problem as Brent (May 12). Whenever I attempt to encode to .avi, the final stage (whether it’s 1/1 or 2/2) freezes at 10.24%. This has occurred with two separate titles of exactly the same size, which leads me to guess that it’s not file specific but may be size or memory specific.
If you are interested in learning how to exploit multicore processors, like Quad core processors, to speed up image or video processing using, for example, open source AForge.Net, you will find a great example using AForge.Net and multithreading to improve the performance in working with images and with multicore CPUs, in the book C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming: Beginners Guide, by Gaston Hillar, Packt Publishing - www.packtpub.com
It includes many exercises related to image management with multicore support. Highly recommended if you want to improve performance and UI responsiveness.
You can download the code from Packt’s website. http://www.packtpub.com/beginners-guide-for-C-sharp-2008-and-2005-threaded-programming/book
There is also an article in Packt’s website: http://www.packtpub.com/article/simplifying-parallelism-complexity-c-sharp
I bought the book last week and it helped me a lot in my image processing needs. Now, I can split an image in many parts using the code from the book and I can make it exploit my Core 2 Quad. My boss is impressed!
You probably shouldn’t be putting information on how to violate the law (at least in the country you live in) on your blog.
CDs are digital too. On an audio CD data is stored as two-channel 16-bit PCM encoding at a 44.1 kHz sampling rate per channel. You can extract exactly this format and listen to it without any loss in quality on your PC.
Slightly off topic: I have developed a strong dislike for anything like DVDs or even all that HD stuff. As a consumer I would like to be able to watch the stuff I bought when and whereever I want, but without a licensed player you have to use illegal software to do so. And if you want to copy it to your harddisk for streaming or backup purposes there is no way to do so without breaking some “copy protection” (which makes it illegal again).
But then, I am not too much into movies anyway, so it doesn’t bother me much. And for music, I hope that the CD will stay around the primary medium for some time.
How is any of this violating the law? If it were illegal, vendors wouldn’t be allowed to distribute software like Handbrake in the first place.
There’s no click-through license agreement with a DVD. It’s a physical product that you own and have the right to do whatever you want with. Copyright laws only come into play when other parties are involved.
If you’re distributing copies of the re-encoded video, then yes, you’re breaking the law. But I didn’t see Jeff suggesting that.
I love how everybody points to the DMCA to say that it’s technically illegal, even though there’s no specific language in there that makes it so. There are a few parts that might be open to interpretation, but that’s about it.
Is there even a single case on the books where government lawyers have gone after a private citizen for transcoding? I’m not talking about the MPAA here, whose lawsuits generally don’t involve the DMCA at all, not to mention that they only ever go after mass distributors.
Seems that many people have a hard time understanding the difference between criminal law, which is a government matter, and copyright law, which is a civil matter.
Disks and DVDs will dissappear when bandwidth increases so that it only takes a few seconds to download a movie.
When we reach that point, you will still pay for the movie, but it will be encrypted with your digital signature when you download it. All devices that you own will have the same digital signature, your own. You give the movie to someone else, they can have the file, just not play it because the signature doesn’t match.
The problem with today’s media is it has no such signature and thus can be copied for legitimate or illegitimate means, thus the laws (just or unjust) to protect it.
SUPER is also linked with adware and spyware. I don’t even have to make the observation – the hard sell on the erightsoft website makes this abundantly clear to anyone.
Making DVD’s smaller? I’ve been going the opposite direction, up-scaling with FFDshow to make DVDs bigger in real-time.
I just wrote a quick intro over at:
http://blog.clinttorres.com/index.php/2008/05/03/re-encoding-dvds-for-the-home-theater/
The DMCA is too broadly written and will eventually be overturned when someone points out to the courts that under its provisos the entire internet is “illegal” in the U.S.
The content of this very site is copyrighted in human readable symbolic form but in order to get to each and every one of our computer screens it is “encrypted” into a binary “code” (ASCII is one example) which controls access to said copyrighted work and that upon arrival has to be “decoded” into human readable symbols on our screen.
Nowhere on this site are we expressly “authorized” to decrypt said binary transmision into human readable symbols by the author.
The internet violates the DMCA by its very existence.
But that’s just it MPAA, the DMCA is so broad it doesn’t care about “intent” or whether a mechanism is any good at encypherment.
The U.S. courts have shown no inclination to distinguish between weak, silly, trivial or strong encyphering when ruling on the copyright holder’s right to control under the DMCA.
Mathematically there is no distinction between the human readable symbols “encoded” in ASCII and a simple (binary) numeric substitution encyphering.
digital digital versatile discs?
Better to wait for 1080p (blu-ray) and 4k blu-ray! Who knows what will happen at 8k… there’s also resizing old videos and restoring them via AI interpolation:
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