Author Topic: Encoding Video for Zaurus... (Read 24704 times)

LilMikey · « **Reply #45 on:** May 21, 2004, 03:16:53 pm »

I was under the impression that most of the RIAA suits have been \'settled\' out of court for the 2-5k ballpark. CNet claimed in December: \"The campaign to date has yielded 382 lawsuits and 220 settlements averaging close to $3,000 apiece.\"

The notable throw-outs make the news: the Mac guy, the 12 year old girl, the 80 year old grandpa, but most people suck up their losses and throw some cash at it to avoid astronomical legal costs. That\'s been their strategy all along anyway. They have no desire for this to come to court. All they have are made up numbers about how eleventy-billion dollars are lost to music pirates every day even through sales numbers are actually down LESS than distribution numbers. The press will spew these numbers like the venom they are but should they actually have to back up their words with, you know, facts they\'d be in a pretty rough spot.

TonyOlsen · « **Reply #46 on:** May 21, 2004, 03:29:36 pm »

Is there a website that tracks all of these cases and posts statistics?

LilMikey · « **Reply #47 on:** May 21, 2004, 03:38:02 pm »

The closes I\'ve seen is slashdot

DrWowe · « **Reply #48 on:** May 21, 2004, 04:04:01 pm »

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Wow! I didn\'t know! In fact I hadn\'t heard anything about the results of these cases. Do you have a good place to find out more about this (favorite website about this)?

Digitalconsumer.org is a good one. Another good one is Larry Lessig\'s blog: http://www.lessig.org/blog/.

None have gone to court yet. Many people have settled by giving several thousand dollars to the RIAA. Those that haven\'t are still in the early stages (lawsuits are slow). One woman is countersuing the RIAA on racketeering charges. It isn\'t likely to work, but it\'s worth a shot.

ChrisZaurus · « **Reply #49 on:** May 21, 2004, 04:15:39 pm »

LOL speaking of counter suits...

The creators of KaZZa or some other file sharing program, have SUED the RIAA, because the RIAA was created illegal account names in KaZZa... pretty much the RIAA did not get proper authority from KaZZa to register accounts, and go after KaZZa users...
COULD IT GET ANY MORE IRONIC?

Here is a link to the article:
http://neowin.net/comments.php?id=13982&category=main
HAHAHAAHAH I love it.

As far as the cases being thrown out, let me correct myself, *some* of the cases have been thrown out, and most of the case were settled out of court in the 2-5k ballpark (as noted in LilMikey\'s post). And like he said, alot of those were settled out of court to avoid lawyer\'s fees... I guess I was stating my opinon from my point of view (duh?) and what I would do if I were caught by the RIAA (hah never!) But none-the-less, I think that any lawyer, or person acting as their own lawyer would be able to put up a good fight against the RIAA. Check out http://www.eff.org for more info on fighting the RIAA.

Another article on RIAA lawsuits:
http://news.com.com/2010-1069-5075853.html

LilMikey · « **Reply #50 on:** May 21, 2004, 06:18:25 pm »

As an aside (I know, I hate for this thread to move off-topic) a friend of mine got one of the \"DirectTV\" letters for purchasing a smartcard writer. They requested a few grand and confiscation of his writer and I believe on of his PCs (sorry for being vague, I only saw him briefly a few months ago). He spoke with a lawyer and his lawyer even advised him to take the settlement.

ChrisZaurus · « **Reply #51 on:** May 21, 2004, 06:21:33 pm »

Damn, that\'s crazy...
I wonder how they found out he was using a bootlegg card?
I\'m suprised the lawer said to take the settlement?

LilMikey · « **Reply #52 on:** May 21, 2004, 06:27:41 pm »

DirectTV got a list from the retailers of everyone that bought a smart card reader capable of writing to the cards used in their recievers and pretty much blanked all of them with a letter requesting the hardware. They nailed a lot of people who legitimately needed a smartcard writer. My friend was not one of them.

ChrisZaurus · « **Reply #53 on:** May 21, 2004, 06:40:23 pm »

In that case, I would tell DirecTV to shove it...
But I pretty sure they do have some backing behind them accusing all those people.. and how do they verify if the people use it for legit reasons?
I would tell them I use it for a hobby, of writing to smart cards.. how could someone get in trouble for this? You have links to any articles about this? I\'m interested

LilMikey · « **Reply #54 on:** May 21, 2004, 06:44:44 pm »

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/...=thread&tid=126
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/...&tid=188&tid=99

He probably wouldn\'t thought about fighting if he had the money to do so... and wasn\'t knee deep in illegal Hu cards.

ChrisZaurus · « **Reply #55 on:** May 21, 2004, 06:55:17 pm »

lol...

What is this world coming to? :?

DrWowe · « **Reply #56 on:** May 21, 2004, 09:21:26 pm »

It\'s sickeningly reassuring to know some places are even more f-ed than the US of A.

http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/11950

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The Italian cultural minister, Giuliano Urbani, has proposed a new law that has already been approved by the Italian parliament, and is waiting for Senate approval. The use of any means, including P2P networks, to exchange audiovisual material or software will become a felony punishable by up to 6 years in prison and the confiscation of all the hardware and media. This will be the most repressive law of its kind in the world, and is what happens when the Prime Miniter, Silvio Berlusconi, who controls practically all the media in the country, also has stakes in movie production (Medusa Film) and DVD rental outlets (Blockbuster Italia).

ppdes · « **Reply #57 on:** May 22, 2004, 11:59:42 am »

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audio only works with MP3. I have 4 encoders on my machine and I encode all the time. It isn\'t the a simple matter of encoding... it\'s getting the very picky combination of codecs, bitrate, and size. In fact, the ONLY version of MPEG 4 it supports is Microsoft\'s MPEG 4... BUT Microsoft doesn\'t let you use the MP3 codec when exporting, and Zaurus doesn\'t recognize Microsoft\'s audio codec...

Just for the record, besides MP3, certain settings of Microsoft\'s IMA ADPCM audio you can tweak Windows Media Encoder into outputting videos with work fine (and use less CPU ^^) on the built in player (on my 760 anyway). Also Sharp\'s G.726 ACM audio works, although I had to use Pixlab (the encoding app Sharp sells for making MPEG4 video for the Z) to make videos with that.

Re MP3, MS probably didn\'t have much choice about cutting out free official encoding in it from WME. Once MP3 became as popular as it did Fraunhofer started acting Draconian about using it/charging more/etc.

MoOsEb0y · « **Reply #58 on:** May 23, 2004, 01:25:01 am »

I use linux for my desktop OS, so I have all these neat vorbis tools. When my SL-5500 arrives next week, I\'ll mess around with video encoding and post a method for making optimal files based on arbitrary inputs (not just NTSC DVD files). (I\'ve spent a fair amount of time messing with video encoding starting from the days of the original DivX ;-), so I\'m fairly sure I\'ll be able to figure out what works )

MoOsEb0y · « **Reply #59 on:** May 23, 2004, 03:42:02 am »

Poking around google, I found quite a few helpful websites. And just after I\'d gotten done writing a howto, I found a site that wrote a script to do EVERYTHING for you and was even more optimized. That\'s just my luck for me http://cmisip.home.insightbb.com/zaurus.htm

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