Windows 10 to feature native support for FLAC and MKV

On 03/12/2014 2:51 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 03/12/2014 18:15, Slimer wrote:
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Thumbdrives allow you to store a crapload of MP3 and M4A files, but CDs
contain AIFF files which have an excellent, uncompressed quality. We're
comparing apples to oranges here.

Pardon?
CDs contain raw uncompressed PCM, as do AIFF files but there are no AIFF
headers or tail ends on a CD.

Thumb drives can also contain files of raw PCM, or say FLAC which is a
bit smaller but has the same quality. Or you can compress using your
favourite audio codec at whatever bit-rate it takes to sound good to you.

Basically thumb drives are flexible and can hold telephone quality audio
files up to beyond CD quality.

Ah, my apologies. I forgot what the format of the uncompressed audio
was. Thanks for the correction.

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On 03/12/2014 10:52, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or
block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying to rescue the
good parts first in case of read errors.

Ddrescuelog is a tool that manipulates ddrescue logfiles, shows logfile
contents, converts logfiles to/from other formats, compares logfiles,
tests rescue status, and can delete a logfile if the rescue is done.
Ddrescuelog operations can be restricted to one or several parts of the
logfile if the domain setting options are used.

The basic operation of ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don't
have to wait for an error, stop the program, read the log, restart it
from a new position, etc.

No guarantees, of course.

Won't help you recover from an optical disc if the drive says "No Disc
present" will it, which in my experience can even be the first sign of
trouble.

I agree with the first part; haven't experienced the second part.

Eject, and reinsert.

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On 03/12/2014 20:32, Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:03:35 +0000, Brian Gregory
wrote:

On 03/12/2014 03:30, Char Jackson wrote:

Has that actually ever happened, or is it something you read about? I'd be
surprised to learn that it's a real concern. Again, I think we're talking
about pressed CDs and DVDs, not the stuff that someone recorded at home.

Yes. I bought a set of six audio CDs from Amazon. I couldn't get one of
the set to play at all, had to send them back to be replaced. Another
set arrived with a different disc unplayable. Sent back for a refund.
Bought a set in a local shop and finally got a usable set.

Was the playback hardware a factor? Were the CDs issued by a major label?
Were they pressed or recorded?

My niece bought a movie soundtrack CD a few years ago and I was surprised to
see that it wasn't pressed; it had clearly started its life as a writeable
blank. Fortunately, it played just fine in her home and car.



They were pressed CDs.

Hardware may have been a factor. It was quite a while ago and I think I
only had access to my PC and a portable CD player and I wouldn't have
even tried in the portable because I needed to rip them to MP3.

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On 02/12/2014 00:43, Brian Gregory wrote:
The only problem I can remember with the current VLC 2.1.5 was that I
found a video file where seeking back and forth in it totally failed
taking me to somewhere totally different from where I wanted. Media
Player Classic Home Cinema played it perfectly.

Not so long ago I remember many versions of VLC on Windows couldn't even
play an audio CD without crashing. It was like the developers weren't
talking to each other, it would get fixed for one version and the next
version it'd be broken again. I think it was the 2.0.x versions.


I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

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On 2014-12-06 8:50 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 02/12/2014 00:43, Brian Gregory wrote:
The only problem I can remember with the current VLC 2.1.5 was that I
found a video file where seeking back and forth in it totally failed
taking me to somewhere totally different from where I wanted. Media
Player Classic Home Cinema played it perfectly.

Not so long ago I remember many versions of VLC on Windows couldn't even
play an audio CD without crashing. It was like the developers weren't
talking to each other, it would get fixed for one version and the next
version it'd be broken again. I think it was the 2.0.x versions.


I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

You're missing the libdvdcss or libdvdcss2 package, VLC itself plays
DVDs fine as long as you have the necessary package. It might also be
called libdvdread4.

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Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.

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Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.


Well, windows will probably never "be there" with 64 bits. Way too much
software exists only in 32bit versions. He is even running Mozilla in the
32bit version on his 64bit wintendo. Lame. Extremely lame. MS lame

Windows also has nothing like the x32-ABI provided by linux (OSX also
doesn't have it), where you run aplications in a mode where registers and
FP-Registers are used in 64bit mode, and floating point is using SSE, but
pointers are 32 bits wide and memory per process is limited to 4 GBytes.
This allows for applications which have all the advantages of 64bits, but
not the disadvantage (eventually slightly higher memory footprint when using
lots of pointers) when the application has no need for huge amounts of
memory

"Peter Köhlmann" wrote in message ...
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit.

64-bits is fine on Windows.

Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.

Yet it'll create 64 bit apps just fine. Who the hell cares if the editor is
32 or 64 bits. Are there people out there editing source files that are more
than 4 gigs in size?



Well, windows will probably never "be there" with 64 bits. Way too much
software exists only in 32bit versions. He is even running Mozilla in the

32bit version on his 64bit wintendo. Lame. Extremely lame. MS lame

Windows also has nothing like the x32-ABI provided by linux (OSX also
doesn't have it), where you run aplications in a mode where registers and

FP-Registers are used in 64bit mode, and floating point is using SSE, but

pointers are 32 bits wide and memory per process is limited to 4 GBytes.


What a bunch of useless junk. Such a hack that even MS and Apple have enough
sense not to copy that abomination. If you want 32-bit write 32-bit. If you
need 64-bits then write 64-bit apps.

This nasty hack sounds like something Linux would do. It's like putting the
head of a dog on a fish. What a useless freaking mess.

Something that every other OS on the planet it smart enough to avoid.

"Peter Köhlmann" wrote in message ...
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit.

64-bits is fine on Windows.

Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.

Yet it'll create 64 bit apps just fine. Who the hell cares if the editor is
32 or 64 bits. Are there people out there editing source files that are more
than 4 gigs in size?



Well, windows will probably never "be there" with 64 bits. Way too much
software exists only in 32bit versions. He is even running Mozilla in the

32bit version on his 64bit wintendo. Lame. Extremely lame. MS lame

Windows also has nothing like the x32-ABI provided by linux (OSX also
doesn't have it), where you run aplications in a mode where registers and

FP-Registers are used in 64bit mode, and floating point is using SSE, but

pointers are 32 bits wide and memory per process is limited to 4 GBytes.


What a bunch of useless junk. Such a hack that even MS and Apple have enough
sense not to copy that abomination. If you want 32-bit write 32-bit. If you
need 64-bits then write 64-bit apps.

This nasty hack sounds like something Linux would do. It's like putting the
head of a dog on a fish. What a useless freaking mess.

Something that every other OS on the planet it smart enough to avoid.

"Peter Köhlmann" wrote in message ...
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit.

64-bits is fine on Windows.

Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.

Yet it'll create 64 bit apps just fine. Who the hell cares if the editor is
32 or 64 bits. Are there people out there editing source files that are more
than 4 gigs in size?



Well, windows will probably never "be there" with 64 bits. Way too much
software exists only in 32bit versions. He is even running Mozilla in the

32bit version on his 64bit wintendo. Lame. Extremely lame. MS lame

Windows also has nothing like the x32-ABI provided by linux (OSX also
doesn't have it), where you run aplications in a mode where registers and

FP-Registers are used in 64bit mode, and floating point is using SSE, but

pointers are 32 bits wide and memory per process is limited to 4 GBytes.


What a bunch of useless junk. Such a hack that even MS and Apple have enough
sense not to copy that abomination. If you want 32-bit write 32-bit. If you
need 64-bits then write 64-bit apps.

This nasty hack sounds like something Linux would do. It's like putting the
head of a dog on a fish. What a useless freaking mess.

Something that every other OS on the planet it smart enough to avoid.

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"Peter Köhlmann" wrote in message ...
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit.

64-bits is fine on Windows.

Obviously not.

Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.

Yet it'll create 64 bit apps just fine. Who the hell cares if the editor is
32 or 64 bits. Are there people out there editing source files that are more
than 4 gigs in size?

So what? Why not support 64-bit and 32-bit code in the same code base?

The answer: Microsoft thinks it won't "sell any boxes".

snip

Something that every other OS on the planet it smart enough to avoid.

Sour grapes from a Microsoft fan.

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On 07/12/2014 11:40, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.


I just tried VLC 2.1.5 32 bit for Windows and it has exactly the same
problem.

Note that this the same whether or not the DVD is CSS protected.

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On 12/8/2014 10:13 AM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 07/12/2014 11:40, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.


I just tried VLC 2.1.5 32 bit for Windows and it has exactly the same
problem.

Note that this the same whether or not the DVD is CSS protected.

You probably need to change the VLC settings; probably something to do
with the video card.

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On 12/8/2014 10:13 AM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 07/12/2014 11:40, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.

I just tried VLC 2.1.5 32 bit for Windows and it has exactly the same
problem.

Note that this the same whether or not the DVD is CSS protected.

You probably need to change the VLC settings; probably something to do
with the video card.

Nah. It's Windows. :-D

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On 08/12/2014 5:52 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
BobbyM wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On 12/8/2014 10:13 AM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 07/12/2014 11:40, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Brian Gregory wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

I've just noticed VLC 2.1.5 64 bit can't play DVDs without nasty
corruption on the screen.

I guess it might be the particular Nvidia drivers I'm using at the
moment but other players play DVDs fine.

Anyway at present I'm becoming less and less impressed by VLC.

That's because you're using it on Windows. And Windows isn't quite there
yet with 64-bit. Microsoft doesn't even have a 64-bit version of Visual
Studio yet, as far as I know.

I just tried VLC 2.1.5 32 bit for Windows and it has exactly the same
problem.

Note that this the same whether or not the DVD is CSS protected.

You probably need to change the VLC settings; probably something to do
with the video card.

Nah. It's Windows. :-D

You're an idiot, Chris Ahlstrom. No wonder your wife gives you an
allowance, interrogates you on how you used it which has the result of
you offering to wipe men's "pee-pees" on USENET, probably for extra money.

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