Simple message for all Newbies..

[ZippyP.]

I'm starting a thread where people can give advice to new users in one sentence. And please...be kind. My first one is:

Use Vdub and scan the video stream for errors first.

[crazeplaya]

Number two:

Search the forum for advice. Most questions have been asked and answered before

[marvel2020]

Number 3

I'll repeat Number 2


Search the forum for advice. Most questions have been asked and answered before


SO USE THE GODDAM SEARCH FIRST BEFORE ASKING

[ZippyP.]

Was that being kind?

[marvel2020]

Cruel to be Kind m8,

If they would take 5 mins or so and search the forum they just might find out what they're looking for.

Then if they don't, then ask the question.

[Marco33]

I can see where they are coming from.

You just spend $400 on disks, a burner and time and you want to get some disks going before you deside to chuck it all and return the damn thing.

That said... I would recommend dvd2one. Then when you feel you have accomplished something, start doing it the long way around and make menus and so forth.

DVD2DVDR is a good place to start. I like it cause it fixes the sound sync issues.

[macleod]

First recommendation-fill out your profile/computer details

Second recommendation-Have your subject line make sense. "Help" or other clever subject lines will result in you being flamed......hard!

Third recommendation-Realize that people from ALL over the world visit this forum. We are not there with you next to your computer. We cannot read your minds. You need to be succinct, hwoever, provide the necessary information. Do not write some clever little subject line and then write, "how do I rip a DVD". You will be flamed.

Fourth recommendation-Use the search button. Read the newbie guides. People have worked very hard to create them. Use them!!!! Do these things before you post your question.

fifth recommendation-Do not put "I checked everywhere, how do I rip the main movie to my hard drive?" (BTW, this was an actual post that I responded to a few days ago). The people on this site are not stupid, we know if you have looked for the information.

sixth recommendation- This is not instant chat, even if you do include the necessary information, do not expect an answer in 2 minutes.

seventh recommendation-DO NOT ask for serial numbers, cracks to software. If you, by chance have downloaded the newest movie, DO NOT state it blatently in the forum. Say that you have a movie with a .avi or a .mpg extension and you are having an issue with....., Not I just downloaded Daredevil and I cant get the audio to work right.

eighth recommendation-The potty mouth might impress your friends, people here don't want to "hear" it.

ninth recommendation-Realize that there are no easy answers and it WILL take time to figure out what you are trying to do. Use the guides (or heaven forbid the newbie section on the left and the glossary), the search function and ask questions when you get stuck.

And if you think it never happens, see this post:Case in point: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=147421


1. subject line= "help"
2. question could easily have been answered by reviewing information already out in the guies, the newbie, etc.
3. just became a member

[Conquest10]

you should also do your homework BEFORE doing or buying anything. i can't stress that enough. before i started making vcds, i read every tutorial on here. so that when i started, i already knew what to do and if something went wrong, i already knew what the common problems were and how i could fix them. i did the same thing before i started ripping dvds. ditto for when i got my capture card. its not that hard to learn the stuff on here. and when you DO have a legitimate problem, thats what these forums are for. remember: patience is a virtue.

[SVCDummy]

So much for the one sentence idea...

[flac]

ok simple replies to noobs, like me. Im a noob, i have spent my last 5days trying to repair a freaking avi film, checking al soo called guides and posts at this webpage about my problem...can i find a straight answer to it? NO!
You think we "noobs" just want quick responce on our actions, but what your not thinking of is that all dont have english as motherlaungage and its easy for you all "knowers" who knows all the shortcutwords of diffrent filters, codexes and encoders etc.
And the guides aint THAT GREAT, for example...why dont add common problems to all the guides?
And if all you can do is complain on all lame noobs who dont try to figure it out them self´s...why then have a tread in this forum who turn´s to ous nobbs of havig the chans to ask questions about problems we encounter?
Why dont you just erase this forum for noobs then
getting pretty angry here...

[energy80s]

It can be confusing for newbees, but a lot of questions end up being inadvertantly answered in other peoples topics! Although a forum search is advisable, it's unlikely that it will give you the exact information you're after. So don't be afraid, ask away, we won't bite .... well, I might .... but not where it will show!!

[Marco33]

First thing you notice is those "Guides" are out of date. Your using Xsoftware 1.7 and the guide is showing you how to do it using 1.3. But, 1.7 has a whole new interface.

That's what agrivated me the most.

[bugster]

ok simple replies to noobs, like me. Im a noob, i have spent my last 5days trying to repair a freaking avi film, checking al soo called guides and posts at this webpage about my problem...can i find a straight answer to it? NO!
You think we "noobs" just want quick responce on our actions, but what your not thinking of is that all dont have english as motherlaungage and its easy for you all "knowers" who knows all the shortcutwords of diffrent filters, codexes and encoders etc.
And the guides aint THAT GREAT, for example...why dont add common problems to all the guides?
And if all you can do is complain on all lame noobs who dont try to figure it out them self´s...why then have a tread in this forum who turn´s to ous nobbs of havig the chans to ask questions about problems we encounter?
Why dont you just erase this forum for noobs then
getting pretty angry here...

Hey man calm down a bit. There is nothing that I can see that says this thread is directed at you personally! If you hang around these forums for a while you will realise there are plenty of 'noobs' who do not bother with any effort in trying to find there answers and want to be spoon fed. There are also plenty of other noobs (and I hate that term) that have read lots of guides, tried loads of stuff and come unstuck. However, if a question isn't carefully phrased its not always easy to tell the 2 types apart.

Regular users of the forum can and do get pissed off by new forum members asking the same question that has been answered many times in the last few days and understandably so. My approach here on most occasions is to point this person in the direction of an appropriate guide or two, suggest they try a few things and then come back to ask specific questions when they come unstuck. I must admit this isn't always the approach taken by others and I have myself responded in a less than diplomatic way on occasions but hey, we are only human after all.

Don't take any moans about newbies (or anything else) personally or you won't get what you came here for which is helpful advice.

Just one more point. On the whole I find the regular board users to be polite and VERY helpful but no-one HAS to help anyone here and if you come in with the wrong attitude you won't last long.

Just my $0.02 worth

[flac]

Well as you say i might not last long here, but as i see it, it wont be that hard to live with as i can get the same help from a brick of wall as i have gotten from here....no offence ment, as you say "no one have to help any1 here".
Well i just have to stop trying to learn something of how making more movies out there for free, soo people can download them for free ratter then go hire them for lots of money...wellwell.
back to only downloading svcd´s with sub´s.

[macleod]

well, apparently my statements caused some people get a little upset, most notable flac. I read over your comments and took a look out there to see the posts that you had made. This is the only post that I found that you have done:

Well i have this problem that have happend me more than once, i down load a avi file, checks it in virutaldub and repairs it. but still it frezzes at the end of the movie. do i repair it wrong? Have followed the steps in the guide "how to repair avi with virutaldub" but still it goes wrong somewhere.

Will be thankful for any advice on this matter
kind regards
flac

I'm a little confused as to why you would write:

ok simple replies to noobs, like me. Im a noob, i have spent my last 5days trying to repair a freaking avi film, checking al soo called guides and posts at this webpage about my problem...can i find a straight answer to it? NO!
You think we "noobs" just want quick responce on our actions, but what your not thinking of is that all dont have english as motherlaungage and its easy for you all "knowers" who knows all the shortcutwords of diffrent filters, codexes and encoders etc.
And the guides aint THAT GREAT, for example...why dont add common problems to all the guides?
And if all you can do is complain on all lame noobs who dont try to figure it out them self´s...why then have a tread in this forum who turn´s to ous nobbs of havig the chans to ask questions about problems we encounter?
Why dont you just erase this forum for noobs then
getting pretty angry here...

and

Well as you say i might not last long here, but as i see it, it wont be that hard to live with as i can get the same help from a brick of wall as i have gotten from here

This goes into exactly what I was referring to. I hate to pick you out, but you have posted ONE question. It did have a subject line that was NOT "HELP", but it said that you got an avi movie repaired it in vdub, but it freezes at the end. How could ANYONE answer that question without giving you generalities????? How about the specs of the file 352X240, 224kbit. I used these settings in vdub, etc.

NOw contrary to what I wrote originally, I am not flaming you, I just want to give you an example of what I am talking about.

[flac]

well, apparently my statements caused some people get a little upset, most notable flac. I read over your comments and took a look out there to see the posts that you had made. This is the only post that I found that you have done:

Quote:
Well i have this problem that have happend me more than once, i down load a avi file, checks it in virutaldub and repairs it. but still it frezzes at the end of the movie. do i repair it wrong? Have followed the steps in the guide "how to repair avi with virutaldub" but still it goes wrong somewhere.

Will be thankful for any advice on this matter
kind regards
flac

And?
didnt know i hade to make a sertant amount of post´s before i could get some help, well if soo, im sorry for having read and read on this page since i became a member instead of just trowing out questions here.


I'm a little confused as to why you would write:

Quote:
ok simple replies to noobs, like me. Im a noob, i have spent my last 5days trying to repair a freaking avi film, checking al soo called guides and posts at this webpage about my problem...can i find a straight answer to it? NO!
You think we "noobs" just want quick responce on our actions, but what your not thinking of is that all dont have english as motherlaungage and its easy for you all "knowers" who knows all the shortcutwords of diffrent filters, codexes and encoders etc.
And the guides aint THAT GREAT, for example...why dont add common problems to all the guides?
And if all you can do is complain on all lame noobs who dont try to figure it out them self´s...why then have a tread in this forum who turn´s to ous nobbs of havig the chans to ask questions about problems we encounter?
Why dont you just erase this forum for noobs then
getting pretty angry here...

Why i wrote that was because i got a bit upset on that "some" old members here was puting me in a kategori "of not trying self".



Quote:
Well as you say i might not last long here, but as i see it, it wont be that hard to live with as i can get the same help from a brick of wall as i have gotten from here

why didnt you add the following text? this is pointing me out to be only negative, as i also wrote "no1 have to help any1"

Quote:
This goes into exactly what I was referring to. I hate to pick you out, but you have posted ONE question. It did have a subject line that was NOT "HELP", but it said that you got an avi movie repaired it in vdub, but it freezes at the end. How could ANYONE answer that question without giving you generalities????? How about the specs of the file 352X240, 224kbit. I used these settings in vdub, etc.

Hmm ok i could have been more detailed about it, programs used and soo on, but how any1 can answer a question like that?...well if they have hade a similar problem..they could have gone "hey i remember when i hade that problem etc etc."...or a simple "hmm thats strange" would have done to. But well well
regards
flac

[mats.hogberg]

Mats Rule # 1
Never ever use Nero for encoding/conversion. Never. Ever.
It's a lousy encoder in the first place, and is not very god at telling you that's it is really reencoding. It has limited authoring capabilities. Use other applications (VCDEasy) to author and create your (S)VCD image, and just use Nero to burn the image.

/Mats

[tjdmobile]

My advice is to enjoy the hobby of Digital video, and don't let this thread get you down.
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That said, I have a few words for those who use the broken record "use the search feature". Please remember back to when you first started in Digital video. The terminology we all use is very familiar to us, because we have been using it for a long time. For someone who is new to this, they would not even know what to search for.

This is a forum for discussion. Remember, there are no "Stupid" questions here. Flaming Newbies only discourages people from participating in discussions.

TJD

[mats.hogberg]

Mats rule # 2
Garbage in, garbage out
If your source looks or sounds awful, it will just get worse after reencoding, even if you use 10 times the original bit rate and/or resolution.
Deficiencies can be masked/made less obvious by applying different filters, but that's about it.

/Mats

[ZippyP.]

Hey Mats, thanks for getting this thread back on track. I started this as an attempt to give inexperienced users a bit of a headstart, so that they can skip over some of the basic mistakes that we all have made.
To the others: Please don't make this a rant, we've all heard the complaints before. Post your useful tip and undoubtedly someone will read it and learn.

My next tip: Download and run Gspot from the Tools section, it will help diagnose the required codecs of your file.

[Don2050]

A time saving tip:

Download 'avipreview by AJ' to preview your downloads before they are finished downloading.

It is here in the 'tools' section under 'other useful tools'

or here >> http://www.avipreview.com/avipreview.htm

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Frustration tip:

You may be doing the procedures right....it may be your media or setop DVD player.

[Gritz]

OK, I've gotten some pretty good help here and it's time to give something back. If you're looking for VHS to DVD I've been able to get some very acceptable results on my TV & Big Screen, using the following four 1-liners. :P (simplified of course)
1: Capture with Virtualdub at 720x480 (Huffy Codex) with CD quality audio. Need lots of hard drive space. Make sure "Line In" stays checked.
2.Encode with TMPGEnc (If you capture too much you can encode just the area you want - I found this out the hard way) using 2 pass VRB and adjust the bit rate upward until it fills the DVD size.
3. Author with SpruceUp and complile to your hard drive (I can't burn to my Pioneer A05 with SpruceUp). Capture the frames you want for backgrounds and cd labels with Virtualdub, into Paint and resize accordingly.
4. Burn with the latest version of Nero with UDF/ISO, ISO Settings level1, ISO 9660 (Joliet is disabled) and all Relaced restrictions unchecked. UDF 1.02

All these settings came from different posts on this site and it took a couple of weeks of posts with help from the guys here before I came to a nice quality burn. These settings work on both my Apex 3201 & my Pioneer DV 250 players. Thanks guys ... I appreciate.

[baker]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/91686.php

Hows dat?

Baker

[hwoodwar]

Before you buy a new DVD Player or Capture Card check the guides (https://www.videohelp.com/capturecards and https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers) and make sure you read the user's comments and reports as these can provide additional insight.

[Cole]

Don't keep re-editing and re-saving your AVI as each new saved version will loose quality.