Hey, as it says in the title afterdawn was mentioned in a pc mag. I got home from school and seen that the pc mag i have subscribed to was on my bed, in the book they put in a section on ps2 and xbox modding (now its legal in australia) and they mentiond afterdawn in there, saying, to avoid fakes by buying from www.blahblahblah.com and www.blahblah.com.au, or other resellers reccomended by users on forums www.afterdawn.com I thought it was really cool to see that my fav forum site is in my fav pc mag They also reccomended to search here for tips on what to get
wow great i gonna check up the AU pcmag, it's sure great that Ad was even recommend by pcmag just too great to be real.
Yeah.... PC User is a cool mag Has free software, games, tutorials, tips, Reviews, upgrades, sometimes free stuff... in this issue i got free premium glossy photo paper
nvm the AU pcmag is same as the American pcmag well i found the article it's only part of it Copy Your DVDs Burning CDs To burn DVDs to CD-R, you will invest more time for a generally less favorable result. First, if your goal is to play the discs on a DVD player, you must encode the content in either Video CD (VCD) or Super Video CD (SVCD) format. This entails decrypting the DVD movie, storing it on your hard drive, and reencoding it in either MPEG-1 (VCD) or MPEG-2 (SVCD) format. This is very time-consuming. Both specifications have exacting data rate requirements. VCD uses an MPEG-1 audio/video stream encoded at 1,374 Kbps, which translates to about 68 minutes of video on a 700MB CD-R, so we needed two discs for our 100-minute video. SVCD requires a stream of 2,600 Kbps, which delivers better quality but limits content to about 35 minutes per 700MB CD-R; we needed three discs for the SVCD project. Support for both formats among DVD players is iffy, so the resulting discs may not play on your DVD player. Also, neither VCD nor SVCD supports DVD's menu structure, so you can't easily access other content from the original. Given these limitations, the dropping prices of DVD recorders, and the legal issues involved, it's not surprising that no company has invested the effort to provide a seamless DVD–to–CD-R solution. During our tests, we acquired three products that claim to automate the process: CopyDVDz's Copy DVDs, 321 Studios' DVD Copy Plus, and Rdestiny's Replicant. Though it's not obvious from the respective Web sites, all of these programs use shareware programs for all or most critical production elements, like ripping, encoding, and burning to CD-R. 321 Studios adds the most value, providing all the shareware programs, a shell with a tutorial, detailed instructions, and telephone tech support. Users who need hand-holding should invest the $49.99 for DVD Copy Plus. If you're the intrepid type, however, try [bold]afterdawn.com[/bold]'s SmartRipper or DVD Decrypter for copying your DVDs to your hard drive. Then you can use DVDx (www.labdv.com/dvdx) or FlasKMPEG (www.flaskmpeg.net) to encode the footage to VCD or SVCD format, or to other formats such as DivX, which can be read only by PCs, not DVD players. (For more on ripping and encoding, visit www.pcmag.com/dvdcreation.) Most CD-recording software can convert the resulting video files to VCD or SVCD files, which you can then burn to CD. If your software doesn't, try VCDEasy (www.vcdeasy.org), a shareware program that creates disc images from MPEG files. Figure 4 For our VCD and SVCD tests, we used DVD Decrypter for ripping, then encoded with DVDx. The default settings generally worked well, but we had to experiment with the zoom setting to produce the desired aspect ratio ( Figure 4 ). Because movie encoding times can easily exceed 1 hour, we tested with movie trailers from the test DVD, viewed the results in Windows Media Player, and then encoded the whole movie after finding the optimal settings. We processed the resulting files into SVCD format using VCDEasy and burned three discs using Nero Burning ROM. Total processing time was just a little less than 5 hours. Though the MPEG-2 files looked good on our PC, neither of our DVD players was SVCD-compatible, so we produced a VCD version using the same programs. The video quality on the VCD was clearly degraded, especially around edges and text, and the sound synchronization was poor. The latter problem is probably fixable, but poor video quality is not. VCD is a poor option for most purposes. Overall, both DVD X Copy and InstantCopy produce superb results and are well within the capabilities of even computer novices. Copying DVDs to CD-R is both more complicated and less satisfying, but with a well-documented, well-supported bundle like DVD Copy Plus, it's accessible. DVD-copying software is very useful for making backups, but its potential for misuse is of serious concern. If the entertainment conglomerates have their way, all forms of DVD copying will be illegal. PC Magazine will provide continuing coverage as the case unfolds.
yeah thats cool and all but iam not sure dRD wants anymore attention drawn to this site because of whats going on with it
