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dolariAnother weekend burned through...as usual, not looking forward to work,b ut when has that ever changed? But, despite missing out on my bloodletting (awwww, what a shame) and still really not getting enough sleep, it's been a good productive day.
I was pretty much woken up over and over again after finally getting to bed about 11AM. I woke up at 1PM to the UPS guy ringing our doorbell. The replacement TV card was here, as well as this cool package for Dean. He had ordered a calendar, and where ever he got it, someone hand drew this guy with our address in his cap.
anyways, I trundled back to bed, slept through all my alarms and woke up about ten minutes after the blood place closed. Considering I'd just fasted 12 hours, and I was starving, I decided to just pig out on Mongolian Beef. :9
So, back to this TV Card. My ATI card was just showing wierd colors, and many channels were much too bright and stuck that way. So I did some research, and picked up a Hauppauge WinTV Radio. Plugged it right in, and watched it do absolutely nothing. :)
So, once I managed to get it all reinstalled, the WinTV program it came with finally kicked in, it worked GREAT. Comes with this little FM Radio program, too (I'm listening to Evanescence on 103.5 right now). So, after getting the main program to run, I tried it on DScaler. Oy.... Dscaler dun took down my system. Again and again and again. Seems they don't support the CX880 chips yet. Well, I can wait. The WinTV program isn't killing anything AND it uses some of the DSCaler routines to make a nice picture.
Powered on PowerVCR and it worked nicely, all the channels were there, they were crisp and clear, and a test run of encoding ATHF at "archive" quality came out GREAT (10 minutes@75MB and it's STILL gorgeous quality!).
Well, as Katrus said, ATHF is animated, so that compresses nice and thin. And it's barely animated on top of that, so it's gonna compress REALLY tiny. So, I decided to test out the compression with my copy of The King's Demons.
It's a short 45 minute Dr. Who episode. Has 30fps video on it, and 25fps film, rather animated. Let's encode that.
And then the night began. :)
The new card has one S-Video port. And to plug in the VCR plugs, you have to add this little adapter to it. Well, the native program knew that's what it was, but Power VCR didn't, and thinking it was really an SVideo image, it just mangled the picture quality. I spent most of the night figuring out how to get the darned program to think there was a VCR plug in the card. And in the end, I glitched it out to get it to work. :)
But it did. 3500MB for a 50 Minute show. But that's jus thet capture file, we'll see the fina compressed tally tomorrow.
Dean and I had some nice time tonight. When we BOTH have time, it's time well spent. Right now he's asleep on my bed, there's music playing, and I'm waiting for bed myself on the computer. It's like old times, again.
And now for something COMPLETELY different.
I'm a big fan of scrunch boots and have been for years. But, being 15 or 16, I never was really allowed to wear my sisters, and I didn't even know what size I was back then. While doing some research on the latest CS, I came across a pic of 80s Scrunch Boots, and started looking around again.
Turns out they still make them and with a 21st century sensibility. :)
They're in my size, and while they're a bit pricey, not out of my range. I kinda want to pick up a pair. But now I have ANOTHER set of inhibitions. What the hell do I have to WEAR with these suckers. I know the white ones would be nice for a Hanna Cosplay (If you look at Panel 4 of AWFW, you'll see Abaddon and Hanna wear these boots, just without the heel), and the brown MIIIIIIIIIGHT go with some of my more fall outfits. That black goes with anything, but do I really need anyMORE black shoes?
To be honest, I really need to buy clothes. Maybe I can justify these boots with an outfit to go with them? :)
Anyways, if I remember them next week when I get my paycheck, then maybe it was meant to be. :)
I was pretty much woken up over and over again after finally getting to bed about 11AM. I woke up at 1PM to the UPS guy ringing our doorbell. The replacement TV card was here, as well as this cool package for Dean. He had ordered a calendar, and where ever he got it, someone hand drew this guy with our address in his cap.
anyways, I trundled back to bed, slept through all my alarms and woke up about ten minutes after the blood place closed. Considering I'd just fasted 12 hours, and I was starving, I decided to just pig out on Mongolian Beef. :9
So, back to this TV Card. My ATI card was just showing wierd colors, and many channels were much too bright and stuck that way. So I did some research, and picked up a Hauppauge WinTV Radio. Plugged it right in, and watched it do absolutely nothing. :)
So, once I managed to get it all reinstalled, the WinTV program it came with finally kicked in, it worked GREAT. Comes with this little FM Radio program, too (I'm listening to Evanescence on 103.5 right now). So, after getting the main program to run, I tried it on DScaler. Oy.... Dscaler dun took down my system. Again and again and again. Seems they don't support the CX880 chips yet. Well, I can wait. The WinTV program isn't killing anything AND it uses some of the DSCaler routines to make a nice picture.
Powered on PowerVCR and it worked nicely, all the channels were there, they were crisp and clear, and a test run of encoding ATHF at "archive" quality came out GREAT (10 minutes@75MB and it's STILL gorgeous quality!).
Well, as Katrus said, ATHF is animated, so that compresses nice and thin. And it's barely animated on top of that, so it's gonna compress REALLY tiny. So, I decided to test out the compression with my copy of The King's Demons.
It's a short 45 minute Dr. Who episode. Has 30fps video on it, and 25fps film, rather animated. Let's encode that.
And then the night began. :)
The new card has one S-Video port. And to plug in the VCR plugs, you have to add this little adapter to it. Well, the native program knew that's what it was, but Power VCR didn't, and thinking it was really an SVideo image, it just mangled the picture quality. I spent most of the night figuring out how to get the darned program to think there was a VCR plug in the card. And in the end, I glitched it out to get it to work. :)
But it did. 3500MB for a 50 Minute show. But that's jus thet capture file, we'll see the fina compressed tally tomorrow.
Dean and I had some nice time tonight. When we BOTH have time, it's time well spent. Right now he's asleep on my bed, there's music playing, and I'm waiting for bed myself on the computer. It's like old times, again.
And now for something COMPLETELY different.
I'm a big fan of scrunch boots and have been for years. But, being 15 or 16, I never was really allowed to wear my sisters, and I didn't even know what size I was back then. While doing some research on the latest CS, I came across a pic of 80s Scrunch Boots, and started looking around again.
Turns out they still make them and with a 21st century sensibility. :)
They're in my size, and while they're a bit pricey, not out of my range. I kinda want to pick up a pair. But now I have ANOTHER set of inhibitions. What the hell do I have to WEAR with these suckers. I know the white ones would be nice for a Hanna Cosplay (If you look at Panel 4 of AWFW, you'll see Abaddon and Hanna wear these boots, just without the heel), and the brown MIIIIIIIIIGHT go with some of my more fall outfits. That black goes with anything, but do I really need anyMORE black shoes?
To be honest, I really need to buy clothes. Maybe I can justify these boots with an outfit to go with them? :)
Anyways, if I remember them next week when I get my paycheck, then maybe it was meant to be. :)
