Author Topic: Tech-related problems (Read 593110 times)

~Dan~ · « **Reply #700 on:** January 29, 2007, 05:02:12 PM »

As far as I know there are no viruses that disable exe's completely. There are some which attach themselves to exe's, so whenever you run the exe, it accesses the virus before allowing the exe to run. The exe files will continue to work (accessing the virus each time they're started), and the virus must be removed in the correct way. I've known people just go and delete the virus file, so when the exe tries to access the virus before it can run, it finds the virus file suddenly not there and the exe won't work. So never try and delete a virus manually unless you know what you're doing!

Triber5566, if you had a virus and tried removing it and created the problem then it's still fixable, but you'd need to know what type of virus it was, otherwise if you didn't delete anything I'd say that's not the problem.

I'm still thinking it's something to do with installer files and not being logged in as administrator though.

Rick-e · « **Reply #701 on:** January 29, 2007, 05:09:24 PM »

tried using virtualdub and installed the subtitle plugin. it works! now one more question, anyone knows how to make the video file smaller? i ended up with 1gb+ avi file after encoding... I tried tinkering with the settings but no luck :p

I can't use mkv because i want to transfer this video to my psp >_<
thanks a lot for the help!

~Dan~ · « **Reply #702 on:** January 29, 2007, 07:33:30 PM »

Quote from: Rick-e;296549

i ended up with 1gb+ avi file after encoding...

In the video menu select 'full processing mode', then again in the video menu select 'compression', choose your encoding method (probably divx or xvid), click 'configure' and choose a bitrate. As a rough guide, a minute of video is around 10mb at 1200 bitrate, 20mb at 2400, etc...
In the audio menu select direct stream copy, unless it's an mpg in which case you'll have to re-encode the audio (audio-full processing mode, compression-lame mp3(install lame if you don't have it), select a bitrate).

momo23 · « **Reply #703 on:** January 29, 2007, 07:46:49 PM »

Quote from: arian;296383

Thanks guys! But for Firefox, does anyone know where they're stored?

Also, sometimes that automatic thing pops up like when you're typing something to search on Google and words starting with that letter 'Z', for example, you typed in the past start popping up, is there anyway to remove that automatic thing?

to get to firefox cache:

it's C:\Documents and Settings\your_name\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\cache

to disable autocomplete for firefox

tools > options

click the privacy tab

uncheck "Remember what I enter in forms and the search bar"

ferrar1 · « **Reply #704 on:** January 30, 2007, 05:37:00 AM »

Quick question

Does Initial seeding (on utorrent) = super seed ?

If not how do i set to super seed on utorrent?

Fracture · « **Reply #705 on:** January 30, 2007, 07:24:59 AM »

Quote from: ferrar1;297063

Quick question

Does Initial seeding (on utorrent) = super seed ?

If not how do i set to super seed on utorrent?

Yup, 'initial seed' is the utorrent equivalent of super-seed mode.

Rick-e · « **Reply #706 on:** January 30, 2007, 12:33:21 PM »

Quote from: ~Dan~;296654

In the video menu select 'full processing mode', then again in the video menu select 'compression', choose your encoding method (probably divx or xvid), click 'configure' and choose a bitrate. As a rough guide, a minute of video is around 10mb at 1200 bitrate, 20mb at 2400, etc...
In the audio menu select direct stream copy, unless it's an mpg in which case you'll have to re-encode the audio (audio-full processing mode, compression-lame mp3(install lame if you don't have it), select a bitrate).

turns out i didn't have divx codec installed yet :p it works perfectly now. thanks!

ziggurat · « **Reply #707 on:** January 31, 2007, 07:08:58 PM »

I got three files with jpeg/xxx extension from a japanese uploader.Last time daigong has sent me a software to use to combine this type of files together. My problem is I got error while trying to assemble the files.

Can anybody point out the problem? Do I need to rename the files?

~Dan~ · « **Reply #708 on:** February 01, 2007, 05:30:01 AM »

Quote from: ziggurat;298147

I got three files with jpeg/xxx extension from a japanese uploader.Last time daigong has sent me a software to use to combine this type of files together. My problem is I got error while trying to assemble the files.

Can anybody point out the problem? Do I need to rename the files?

I don't know what the message says, but check the size of the files to make sure they downloaded completely. The file extension is usually jpg but it shouldnt matter on the name, it should work as long as the 3 files are in the same folder together.

ziggurat · « **Reply #709 on:** February 02, 2007, 07:21:23 AM »

I've check the files size and they seem to be correctly downloaded. Hmm, can you teach me how can I extract it with hex editor? The full size is 258.38MB and it seem like a wmv.

~Dan~ · « **Reply #710 on:** February 02, 2007, 08:41:55 PM »

Quote from: ziggurat;299302

I've check the files size and they seem to be correctly downloaded. Hmm, can you teach me how can I extract it with hex editor? The full size is 258.38MB and it seem like a wmv.

The only problem I can think of is that the files haven't all downloaded, check the size against the info on the uploader, check the first 2 files are exactly the same size, only the last file will be smaller.

A problem I used to get on win98 was if the filename of the file it was trying to extract had a Japanese filename. Sometimes it gave me the chance to choose a new filename, sometimes it just refused. I assume nobody here would have that problem.

To extract them with a hex editor, all you need to know is the actual file data starts at 0F20, so delete everything before that from the start of each file (the first 3872 bytes) then join the files.

If it's an mpg then there'll probably be a slight glitch where the files are joined.
If it's an avi you need to run it through virtualdub/direct stream copy, then it'll play perfect with no glitches.
If it's wmv, hmm, I dunno, I've never had to do it for a wmv. It'll maybe play up until the join then stop. Wmv is quite a fussy filetype, you may need to repair the file with some prog afterwards (I recommend is Asftools or WM Recorder).

anythursday · « **Reply #711 on:** February 03, 2007, 04:28:42 AM »

I'm not sure if anyone here would know... but here goes: what's the program to use to make kareoke videos? you know the ones that JPHIP subs? and it has funky color coding for the romanizations? does anybody know what program does that?

thanks a lot!~

ziggurat · « **Reply #712 on:** February 03, 2007, 12:09:34 PM »

^ anythursday, use aegisub. The colour coding need much more explanation but you can get it from the help in aegisub. Good luck!

Quote from: ~Dan~;299703

To extract them with a hex editor, all you need to know is the actual file data starts at 0F20, so delete everything before that from the start of each file (the first 3872 bytes) then join the files.

If it's an mpg then there'll probably be a slight glitch where the files are joined.
If it's an avi you need to run it through virtualdub/direct stream copy, then it'll play perfect with no glitches.
If it's wmv, hmm, I dunno, I've never had to do it for a wmv. It'll maybe play up until the join then stop. Wmv is quite a fussy filetype, you may need to repair the file with some prog afterwards (I recommend is Asftools or WM Recorder).

Thank you Dan! I'm playing it right now and it stop after playing the first part.. I use asftools to recover the lost chunk and the result played to the end although after the first part, the sound going a little unsynchronized.. Thanks again!

anythursday · « **Reply #713 on:** February 03, 2007, 04:02:21 PM »

thanks so much ziggurat!~

Asmodai · « **Reply #714 on:** February 08, 2007, 05:40:22 AM »

Still no luck getting Firefox working.

I only found one site dealing with the problem http://www-new.experts-exchange.com/Other/Miscellaneous/Q_22071904.html?qid=22071904&qid=22071904 and I'm sure as hell not going to pay them $10 to tell me the fix.

Alternatively, anyone know how to export Firefox bookmarks in an IE readable format?

I I can't fix this soon, I'll just go back. IE seems to leave a much smaller memory footprint anyway.

JFC · « **Reply #715 on:** February 08, 2007, 05:47:20 AM »

In Firefox:

Bookmarks --> Organise Bookmarks.

Then File --> Export (it'll export them as an .htm file)

Then in IE, just import the .htm file and you should be set.

Asmodai · « **Reply #716 on:** February 08, 2007, 04:41:00 PM »

I've tried that, but IE only imports the first 3 bookmarks than crashes and dies a painful death.

~Dan~ · « **Reply #717 on:** February 08, 2007, 05:58:47 PM »

Quote from: Asmodai;303281

Still no luck getting Firefox working.

Have you tried Opera?

Asmodai · « **Reply #718 on:** February 08, 2007, 06:42:22 PM »

I tried it about 5 or 6 years ago, but it couldn't handle a lot of websites at the time. It's probably better now.

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #719 on:** February 08, 2007, 07:05:36 PM »

^ 5 or 6 years in internet terms is about 3 generations ago