Re: UKHA 2003 - Video shootout

["mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxx>]

Graham,

We had agreed that Ian, as a leading proponent of the DIVX format
would do the encoding using his experience of tweaking the settings
to get the best result.

Ian is either going to bring along the encoded DIVX on the day, or,
ideally, ship it to you in advance so you can test it works.

The DD amp will switch S-Video as well as composite... so no problem
there.

Ian / Graham - I'll contact you off-list to arrange film clips...

Regards,

Mark


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Graham Howe" <graham@s...> wrote:
> We did say that we would have a video shoot out at the meet
comparing
> DVD with DVD ripped to HD with Divx. I finished building my HCPC
> yesterday which I will bring along to the meet. All we need to
decide
> is what film(s) we want to do the test with (and probably will end
up
> watching in the evening). Playback (from the HCPC) will be via VGA
> connection to a projector with SPDIF connection to DD5.1 amp. I
could
> bring a cheap standalone player too, but that would use an s-video
> connection to the projector.
>
> If it is a film that I have then that would make it easier as I
could
> bring the DVD and rip it to disk before the event! However I have
> never created a Divx before, so it would be good if someone else
> could do that bit (and explain in idiot terms with ULR's exactly
what
> I need to install on my HCPC to play it back).
>
> So first off what film recommendations do we have? I've got a lot
of
> the 'blokey' stuff like Terminator 1+2, Alien Legacy, James Bond
set,
> Independence Day, LOTR etc etc and I'm quite happy to buy a disk
if
> there is something more recent that I don't have.