[Brent Warwick]

[Peter Ralph] “3. If you copy a 3 year old disc any degradation on the original will be transferred to the copy – so you cannot avoid the problem by duplicating the disc every few months.”

Whoa, I’d like to know the reasoning and evidence behind that one. The whole idea of error handling mechanisms within the media is to eliminate the possibility of bits being misread. It shouldn’t matter if you have a disc that degrading or not. If the data can still be properly read by a good reader, then the intact data would be transferred to a new, clean, pristine disc and the degredation clock starts over at that point. I myself have made copies of two year old discs to new media and had no problems at all when playing back the new disc in a DVD player. But it sounds like you’re saying that my new disc might as well be two years old. Sorry, but I don’t agree. We’re not playing in the analog world (where I would indeed agree with you), this is different.

So obviously your finding disagree with me. Can you elaborate?

[Brent Warwick]

We’ve got the Teac P-55 and it works great. The thing it built like a tank. I’ve compared identical prints side-by-side with the Everest 2 and I like the Teac better. I think the resolution is a bit better and the color saturation is definitely more impressive. Only costs about $300-$400 more than the Everest 2 right now. I’ve been told by one sales rep (for the Everest of course) that the Everest is a “superior” machine, but couldn’t really say why.

[Brent Warwick]

Right on! Thanks so much Elvis for taking the time to do that. Looks great, and will incorporate into my project nicely!

Thanks again,

-Brent

[Brent Warwick]

The first–as seen from the earth on a sunny day. That would be ideal.

Thanks,

-Brent

[Brent Warwick]

You can use VobEdit to extract the audio stream from the VOB files, and then use HeadAC3he to convert the AC3 to PCM, and edit it with an audio editor like Sound Forge.

However, I don’t think getting it back into the stream (VOB files) is so easy. Perhaps someone with more ripping experience can chime in, but everytime I’ve had to do that I’ve just had to re-author.

-Brent

[Brent Warwick]

Works for me. Try Ctrl+Clicking on the icon of the layer, not the layer name.

-Brent