20 dvd titles on one cd-r

[ntserver545]

Man from Antwerp demonstrates code with unlimited possibilities

Twenty DVD-Movies on a single CD-ROM

His representative calls him MacGuyver and even compares him to the not-understood astronomer Galileo. Fact is that this inhabitant of Antwerp Guillaume Defosse developed a system -,, no, don't call it compression'' - which makes it possible for him to write 20 DVD-movies on a single CD-ROM to name one thing. All of this without loss of quality. ingenious! "first see, then believe", we thought.

By Marc Coppens - Antwerp

The name Defosse will probably not sound familiar to many people. Exceptions may be musiclovers, because Defosse composes Acid Techno music and his work is appreciated very
much in the DJ-world. The 47-year old man from Antwerp is auto-didactic (sp?) and has been fascinated by computers for already 20 years.
Four years ago he wanted to put all his CD's on ONE cd. This turned out to be the beginning of
DGS (Defosse Digital System). DGS is a digital language that makes it possible to process data,sound and video in such a way that it can be stored and send in a efficient way. Defosse showed us a few usages. We could not discover any fraud or attempts to deceive us by the demonstration of the following usages:

Unlimited Photo Zoom:

We start using a photograph of 3 by 3 centimeter. In a photocentrum (sp? /place specialized in working with photographs) it was impossible to zoom in 2000 times and maintaining an acceptable quality. Defosse however seems to be able to do this (without loss of quality!) Using his technique a A3-color-printer, a scissor and tape. He resised a photo that we did bring along a few thousand times in just a few minutes time. The file is just 19 MB and Defosse even dares to say he can bring that back to about 500 KB.

20 DVD's on 1 CD-R:

Twenty DVD's can fit on a single CD-ROM. On a single CD-ROM it's possible to store about 650 MB of information. In some cases it can be a little more. One DVD can store from 4,7 to 8,5 GB. Defosse shows us a DVD-movie he shrunk to an unbelievable 30 MB. A quick calculation tells us that you could easily store 20 DVD's on a single CD-R.

Video and Audio on a single floppy:

A single floppy has a capacity of 1,44 MB. Normally it's not really possible to store a movie on it.Defosse however managed to save a movie of about 8 minutes (a report of the WTC-disaster) on a floppy. The sound ik ok; the video via Windows Media Player is acceptable. "Using a specific
player (for my system) you'll get half an hour of TV full-screen on your floppy" he assures us.
According to his representative Jan Franck the interest in Defosse's invention has become very great. Audio- and movie-files of limited size offer enormous possibilities. "Especially regarding the transmission". Thanks to DGS it would become very easy to send video over UMTS (3rdgeneration mobile phones which become available in late 2002.

[DJ_Izumi]

Well. This is either a god send, or a complete lie.
I have the feeling it's the later of the two.

[Robbins1940]

I was always told that if something is too good to be true then it's probably not true.

David

[bilbogod]

Yeah - Lets be having a reference for where this article originated from...

[TheInformer]

If you pay them for this then welcome to lollypop land.

It sounds like DiVX to me....heh probably something like 120x100, low low bitrate, audio at 8 khz, etc etc
In other words, as low as you can go.

I have the entire first episode of Enterprise in DiVX format, and it took about 40 megs. Problem is that it was 160x120, horrible artifacting, etc blah blah.

[Clear_Signal]

Puttin' on my boots - it's gettin' deep in here!

[d4n13l]

So he shrunk a DVD film to 30MB - LOSSLESS, what was the film of? A flying pig by any chance?
Link please...

[adam]

Well this story actually did come from several reputable sources. The original story was printed in a major Belgium newspaper and there have also been several television reports about it, all in Belgium of course. Thats not to say that I believe it, because I don't but this isnt some stupid internet rumor. Whether its real or not it was at least convincing enough to fool a major newspaper and other members of the press, for whatever thats worth.

[Taxidermista]

Fool the press about tech news has no merit.

[Robbins1940]

Was that newspaper dated the 1st of April?

David

[KoalaBear]

Riiiiiiiiiight.

And for his next act, he'll attempt to patent the perpetual motion machine he's invented.

The holy grail of compression technology is fractal; how to exploit the self-similarity of patterns so that you can look at a scene from the molecular to the proscenium level according to how hard you press the "zoom" key. All you have to do is figure out how to store the pattern itself; magnification is just an instance of that pattern at a particular resolution.

In other words, the problem is as difficult as performing nuclear fusion in a test tube, or accelerating a material object faster than light, or murdering your grandmother to prevent yourself from being born. None of these things is physically impossible, but the probability of their occurence is somewhere close to the chance of every oxygen molecule in the room deciding to coalesce in one corner for the purpose of strangling you.

Finite, yet infinitesimal.

If I'm not mistaken, Dutch scientists (as opposed to Belgian) had announced this "breakthrough" before. Remember Fleischman and Pons: desire to cure the world's energy problems isn't enough. The solution has to actually work. Has either of these guys offered Titanic as a 50 Mb download from their web site?

I'll bet they never do, and not just because the studio wouldn't like it. Simply because it can't be done.

[bilbogod]

Now you are being silly - how can someone download an enormous cruise liner thats resting on the ocean bed?

[waldok]

And I DO believe this...because I already did it several times. Here is how to proceed :

1. Clean your desk from its usual mess so that there is some room on it.
2. PLace one regular 650MB CD-ROM on the desk, label up (very important).

3. Now take 20 of your favorite DVDs (no need to take them out of their box, this might be a risky and harmful operation).

4. Now carefully place your DVDs one by one on the CD-ROM you previously put on your desk.

5. Every 5 DVD or so, wipe the sweat from your hands and head

6. TAdaaaaa ! You have successfully succeeded in putting 20 DVDS on one single 650MB CD-ROM.

Life is wonderful and digital science is great

(This advanced algorithm also works with a floppy disk).
(The amount of DVDs you can put on a single CD is only limited by the height of your room, isn't that great ?)
(if you know some non-tech journalist (a belgian one would be better), you can also call him and make him witness the new prodigy.

GO ahead, try it home


...Those belgians...

Waldok

[waldok]

BY the way, Baldrick, Vitualis, do you think I need to setup a complete guide for newbies on this method of mine ?



Waldok.

[bilbogod]

[d4n13l]

ntserver545, it seems as though you are a "hit and run" poster. Still no link?
WTF are these Belgian/Dutch guys smoking? I would like to know where to get hold of some...
=]

[Branroyal]

http://users.pandora.be/mikeyboy/gazet.html (in dutch)

hey remember when making a phone call on a tiny plastic phone with no wires anywhere in the world cause the same reactions. im sure when someone said "hey, lets go to the moon" did too. just as many belive VCD and CDDA cant reside on the same CD in a consumer friendly manner. i would advise to keep a open mind about new inventions because as long as there is another day, we havent seen it all yet
Will Smash
CS2
Consumer Surround Sound inc
http://www.CS2.biz
The future of CD entertainment.

[thxkid]

Lets see what that 30 meg film looks on a 40 in screen and not a 15 inch monitor playing on media player at 6 inches.
Plus digital will always be compression, no such thing as a "no" compression digital medium out there, just depends how much you are willing to live with.

[91BRAVO]

I call it "The Alan Parson's Project" It will use what I call a "LASER" to emiit a beam of pure energy from an orbiting platform I call the "DEATH STAR" while pigs fly out of my butt!