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Dvdfab media player 2 featured banner1/15/2023 These can be sometimes encrypted and hence don’t always play on all media players in the market. VOB files are present in the DVD VIDEO_TS folder. These files are quite common and are a container for video files, audio files, subtitles and menu of a DVD. VOB file extension stands for Video Object file. (Also I happen to remember that there was something off about the enchanted Christmas disk when it came out years and years ago- if I remember it wouldn't play in certain dvd players - so is it just this is the 1:1,000,000 bad disk?)Part 1: How to Play VOB Files on Windows 10? So is streamclip better than VRD for this? Or will it also work on most things but then choke on a few so that I have to have both VRS and streamclip in my "arsenal"? I also noticed that streamclip seems like it can reencode in MP4 in case I want to shrink any files up and make them into protable files for kids nano's or my cell phone? So then I download streamclip as suggested at the pytivo forums and that worked perfectly and gave me the correct ~1:10 that the movie really is. But even then when I told it to do it's thing it still came up with the same 4 minute file of opening screen and then credits. So I did that and added all 4 and it thought it wzas going to make a ~1:05 minute file out of that (some how it decided that it didn't like 6 minutes- laughing). Then instead of "open dvd" I tried VRD's feature to add vob after vob manually. But when I try to get VRD to takes those 4 vobs and output a single mpg it insisted on making a single ~4 minute file that was basically the opening screen and then the closing credits. Plays fine in the dvd player software on my pc. Got the 4 vobs that made the whole ~1:10 movie. Then I used DVDFab to rip "beauty and the beast enchanted Christmas" to my PC. But it's still not simple yet- I hate this whole nonsense of copy protection (unfortunately I totally understand why the content owners need to use it…. So dvdfab to VRD seems to work most of the time. How can I tell which VTS/PGC thingies it is that I want? Any suggestions about my missing audio?Ĭlick to expand.Thanks- actually someone else pm'd me about using dvdfab instead of anydvd and I played around with that some and it seems to work fine on all my discs so far (although some of the more complicated disks it seems to "chew" on for some time before it is ready. So is this still a nightmare and requires piles of effort and i should wait anothre 3 years and try again? Or is there some simple way to get TV episodes and movies off a DVD? Videoredo either crashed, locked up, or more oddly it frequently said it processed ~58 frames and decided it was done and left me a file ~1026k. I tried some other longer time files and got similar results. I tried the item that videoredo thought was "the main title" but it choked. If I added up all the minutes it said than it was a magic DVD that held scores of hours of video. There were literally scores of vts/pgc thingies to pick from and there were only 4 episodes. Second I tried to use it on a Disc that had multiple episodes of a tv series- WOW- that's a mess. I would have just tried to playback the file on a computer to make sure the audio was in the file but videoredo then decided to lockup my pc (see below) and i got annoyed and moved on to something else. And then I went to transfer to my S3- video was perfect but there was no sound? I'm using tivo publisher on a Windows Home Server so it could be that, so maybe i'll go figure out pytivo and see if it can get the audio to transfer. Video redo seemed to work just fine to do a movie DVD- chewed it right up and spit it out where i told it to. I have no interest in the time and effort to reencode for the time being. So I went out and picked up a 2TB drive and got myself a videoredo trial and started playing. Also I do not tag episodic shows as that is too time consuming and I know I will watch them in order anyhow nad file name deals with that aspect It is automated in getting the text via searching netflix or TMDB but it is a one at a time process. I use meta-generator for TiVo and it finds all the movies I want complete info on for family. If I was archiving the movies to a more permanent movie server I would look into MP4 for file size. This 2 step (rip to drive then use VRD to change VOB to MPG) works for me since I do maybe 4 or 5 DVDs a week and do not archive the movies but watch and delete. Then I paid for VideoRedo because it is rock solid on mpeg2 for TiVo - have never had a transfer/viewing issue and all files transfer at least 2x real time with pyTiVo. IF I have an issuereading encryption or file structure then I switch to DVD fab free version and with some updates it has read every single disk I throw at it except for "Leatherheads" though I have not retried that one in a while. I use DVD shrink 3.2 (freeware) for a lot of DVDs since it makes the one.
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Most embarrassing moments at school1/15/2023 One afternoon, my entire group was crowded around my computer, and the rest of the class was working quietly when I opened the screen up. In the last semester of my senior year, I volunteered to keep all the necessary documents for a group project on my computer. All my classmates knew that and judged me for it. I was a bit aloof and was enrolled at a very conservative Catholic school, even though I wasn't very religious. My friend never mentioned the episode again. No idea what became of that hallway tampon. I kicked it against the wall and ran to the bathroom and cried and cried until someone heard me and got a teacher, who brought me to the nurse's office, who sent me home. My friend looked at the tampon, then looked at me, and then just kind of shuffled away, mortified. My pants were pretty baggy, and as I started turning away to make a beeline for the bathroom, the bloody tampon/applicator combo dropped out of the flare and onto the floor beside my foot. I'm rambling on with this ridiculous story involving borrowed pants and a bunch of other obviously false intricate details when I felt the plastic applicator fall out, and start sliding down my leg. A friend pointed this out to me very quietly when we got into the hallway, and being both a frantic 13-year-old who'd just gotten her first period and the kind of person who would come up with a fantastical lie to avoid being embarrassed, I made up a story trying to explain it away. The plastic applicator was not very absorbent, and I got a stain on my ass during my first class.
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Gloomhaven rules pdf1/15/2023 If their spawn hex is not empty, they will spawn in the nearest empty hex to it, regardless of if it’s adjacent. While when monsters spawn, they must also spawn in an empty hex. If there are no adjacent empty hexes, there will be no summon. Key difference 2: When a monster summons another monster, it must be brought in an adjacent empty hex, as close as possible to a character. Monsters that are spawned in the middle of the turn act just like monsters who are revealed when a door is opened in the middle of a turn. Key difference 1: Summoned monsters never act in the turn that they are summoned. I would like to provide some brief differentiation for fellow readers as it also helped us. That was somehow tricky form the start and even today we scratch our heads to make sure we play the summons and spawns correctly. But if you got x2 and rolling poison – despite this being at disadvantage – you get double damage! Advantage / disadvantaged – unused blesses / curses On the other hand, having a disadvantage and drawing a rolling modifier results in cancelling the latter. Well, Null was not a rare occurrence there unfortunately. I felt it very painfully with my small Scoundrel deck (14 cards) when I added rolling poisons there. That seems counter-intuitive but as designer explained, playing with thin attack deck and making it more powerful by rolling modifiers brings possibility of failure. But when you got rolling POISON and “Null” – although it is advantage – you score 0 damage (but poison effect works). So, when you draw a rolling POISON and “2x” symbol – wow – you not only inflicted double losses but also a poison with advantage. If two rolling modifier cards were drawn, continue to draw cards until a rolling modifier is not drawn and then add together all drawn effects. If one rolling modifier card was drawn, its effect is added to the other card played. The rulebook says: An attacker with Advantage will draw two modifier cards from their deck and use whichever one is better. One of the most troublesome things for us to grasp were correct application of advantage / disadvantage and rolling modifiers.
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Pogo trivial pursuit1/15/2023 In fiscal 2011, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.6 billion. EA has more than 100 million registered players and operates in 75 countries. The Company's game franchises are offered as both packaged goods products and online services delivered through Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets. Pogo is available worldwide with local sites and communities in the UK (.uk) and Germany ().Įlectronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. Boasting a wide variety of more than 100 free online games including puzzle, word, and classic card and board games, is also the official home to Hasbro online games like Scrabble, Boggle, Yahtzee and Trivial Pursuit. leader in time spent among non-aggregated online games sites. Pogo continues to be one of the most popular casual gaming destinations in the world, with more than 12 million unique monthly visitors*, and is the worldwide and U.S. Known throughout the industry as a pioneer in casual gaming, Pogo has been entertaining audiences for over 10 years. To find out what airlines will offer access to Pogo through Gogo's in-air multimedia platform, visit Gogo's Facebook page here. "By working with, we are excited to offer another exciting entertainment option at 30,000 feet." "Our new platform represents the convergence of in-flight connectivity and in-flight entertainment and we're helping our airline partners enable a richer, more compelling in-flight experience," said Ash ElDifrawi, Gogo's chief marketing officer. Our games are easy enough to pick up and play and entertaining enough to keep you seated for an entire cross-country flight." "Sometimes you just need five minutes of fun to improve your mood on a long flight. "Pogo games offer the perfect distraction for the plane," says Beatrice Spaine, Vice President, Publishing Pogo at Electronic Arts. Now millions of new customers will be able to discover the fun of Pogo games, and loyal Pogo players won't have to miss a moment of their Pogo playing time when they travel. Passengers can purchase a segment pass to access the Internet through Gogo for anywhere between $1.95 and $14.95 depending on the length of the flight. Passengers who want to play more games on can access the site through Gogo's in-air Internet service, and log-in using their Pogo account. Pogo is the first game provider to provide free entertainment on Gogo's in-air multimedia platform.Īs the first ever game content provider on Gogo's multimedia platform, Pogo will offer airline passengers three fun-filled games, including First Class Solitaire, MONOPOLY® and Mahjong Safari-for free. With just a few quick clicks, these games are now at passengers' fingertips-even when they're in the air. (Nasdaq: EA) today announced that Pogo™, its popular online gaming destination, will make three of its most popular games available for free on Gogo's new in-air multimedia platform, which is currently live on all Gogo equipped Alaska Airlines and select Delta Air Lines flights. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Fliers, fasten your seatbelts for some friendly competition. If you want to try another browser, Google Chrome is a good alternative browser to use and it can be downloaded for free from the official Google website.REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. That game is a Flash game and most browsers should load it. So, you might want to close any programs you that you don't need open.įinally, if these suggestions don't work, you might try using a different browser to see if Trivial Pursuit will work with it. If you have other programs or apps open and running in the background, they all take up memory which is needed to load games. Also there are a few other things to consider. Below is a link to a post I made that talks about the importance of clearing the cache of one's browser regularly with steps on how to do it for the major browsers.Ĭlearing your browser might do the job for you. If you have not recently cleared the cache of your browser or never have, then you might want to clear it now. You might see a black screen where the browser attempted to load the game and then stopped. When this happens, the browser stops trying to load the game. One frequent reason that a game may not load is because the cache (memory) of one's browser is full or nearly full and cannot store more new incoming information. So now the question is why is it not loading for you?
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Acorn 7 vs pixelmator pro1/15/2023 Photo posted pro is a free photo editing software that can be used by both the beginners as well as the experts. Its positive aspect is that it is completely free and an open source raster graphics editor which means you can not only edit but also contribute to its public git source code repository. This software is currently released under GPLv3+ licence and is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It has the similar functionality to Photoshop but has a different user interface. It can be used as a great alternative for Photoshop where you need free-form drawing, conversion between image formats, image retouching and editing. Gimp stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It can also be directly bought from the Mac App Store or the iOS store and Microsoft Store for Windows-based operating systems. You can download its free trial version from its website. The good thing about this software is that it is compatible with almost all the common file formats. You can also do image stitching, alpha compositing, black point compensation and optical aberration corrections. Using this software, you can edit Raw image format files, colour space options, have live previews as effects are applied. Best 10 Free Photoshop AlternativeĪffinity Photo is a proprietary raster graphics editor by Serif for macOS, iOS and Windows. Don’t worry, we are here to inform you about the 10 best Free Photoshop Alternative that you’ll ever encounter. Using Photoshop requires special skills and a decent software. It tends to remove all those slight defects from our picture in order to make them a better-looking version of what we have already taken. Whenever we take any picture there are chances that it may not be perfect, maybe because of the dim lights, blur effect, red-eye or anything.
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When did uno come out1/14/2023 The player who plays the Wild Shuffle Hands card collects all cards from their opponents' hands and redistributes one card at a time clockwise.
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Super eraser mac1/14/2023 The erased data can’t be recovered by any data recovery software or data recovery service,” says a spokesperson for DoYourData. “Once the data is erased by DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac, the data is gone forever. This allows experts to recover the formatted or deleted data using software and hardware tools. These features have been designed to take care of actual data that is left behind when the file system deletes files. Super Eraser for Mac offers three reliable modes for data erasure – Selectively erasing chosen files and folders, permanently wiping the entire hard drive, and wiping free disk space to ensure nothing has been left behind. The Mac data erasure software is the easiest way to permanently delete hard drive data with military grade standards: U.S. The Super Eraser for Mac is flexible, intuitive and works flawlessly to erase laptop data before giving the device for repairs, donation, lending to friends and others, or while discarding. The new Apple OS, macOS Ventura, is here, and DoYourData has released the new tool – DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac – to ensure users take complete control over their confidential information just like before. DoYourData, the leading expert in erasing Mac hard disk data, is pleased to introduce new cutting-edge tools that offer military-grade deletion of data, permanently and forever. Sensitive data stored on laptops, whether visible or invisible, can fall into the wrong hands.
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Photo glamour effect1/14/2023 “I will no longer stand for this bullshit,” she wrote.) That same month Kim Kardashian West was accused of photoshopping an image of her eight-month-old daughter Chicago to smooth out her forehead. (Zolciak-Biermann denied this on Twitter. In October 2018 Real Housewives alum Kim Zolciak-Biermann was accused of digitally altering an image of her four-year-old daughter Kaia on her Instagram stories, replacing an unretouched photo with a photoshopped one that made her legs and waist look smaller. Stateside, some brands have been swearing off the use of retouching, and celebrities like Jameela Jamil have refused to let their own images be manipulated.īut the antiphotoshopping movement hasn’t stopped countless women from taking a magic wand to their own selfies, or celebrities and bloggers from altering their (in some cases, extremely young) children’s photos. In France the law requires that brands disclose retouching and altering. Retouched and photoshopped images of young women in particular have become ubiquitous in celebrity culture, even though research has linked unrealistic depictions of the female body to an increased prevalence of eating disorders. “It sends a message you’re not good enough the way you are.” “Knowing that your mom made your belly look smaller because she didn’t like it for whatever reason, then what does it tell the kid about himself?” she says. Regardless, Weinstein believes the practice can be detrimental to children’s mental health, particularly if they have low self-esteem or are at risk of developing an eating disorder. "Sometimes it’s just like, ‘Hey, I want to look good if he looks at it many years from now.’ But sometimes it’s really pathological with the parent themselves.” She recalls one case in which a mother with an eating disorder asked her child’s school photographer to reduce the size of her 10-year-old son's stomach in photos. “There are usually two types of reasons for this" she says. She sees a difference between parents who opt to remove blemishes or scars for Picture Day and parents with more customized requests. (Lifetouch did not respond to Glamour’s requests for comment.)īut Weinstein notes that in her practice she has worked with many parents who have requested that school-photo companies slim down their child’s neck, arms, stomach, or even breasts. About 10 to 13 percent of parents of kindergartners through eighth-graders in northern California opt for the basic retouching package, and even fewer choose the premium tier service, according to a manager of Lifetouch who was interviewed by the Contra Costa Times. Not all parents, or even most, choose to get their children’s photos retouched. Finally, you can further optimize your personal style with the Fotor photo editor and designer! You can make a jazz club look like a Roarin’ Twenties good time or transform an ordinary picture of a farm into a sepia-saturated shot that reminds your grandfather of where he grew up.Such subtle tweaks are so in demand that companies now offer “retouching” packages national school photo service Lifetouch allows parents to opt for basic retouching (which will remove blemishes), premium retouching (to whiten teeth and eliminate flyaway hairs), or custom retouching, which lets parents write in a specific request, according to information that Lifetouch provided to one parent Glamour spoke to. On the contrary, you will fall in love with all of the filters we have and decide the proper intensity to make your work better. No one filter option will be the perfect choice for your photos. Stimulate your imagination and optimize your personal styleįotor’s retro photo editor can optimize your photos in a visually stylish way! These incredible vintage filters will inspire you while post-processing pictures. What’s more, Fotor’s vintage photo effects are totally free, regardless of your dearth of VIP status. After that, one click can apply that filter to an image. Instead, Fotor directly provides users with a variety of filter image samples, so that users can decide to apply one effect based on their preferences. Unlike Photoshop and other professional image processing tools, Fotor’s retro filter will never require you to adjust and set complex tones, light parameters, etc. In this way, you can maintain the most fundamental nature of the original picture on the premise of gaining a sense of fashion and art. And of course, you can adjust each filter’s intensity. Each of their retro effects will give your photo a brand-new visual impact. Fotor’s vintage photo editor has at least seven different themed filters, such as Alder, Alexandria, Autumn, Nashville.
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Tf2 takes long to alttab1/14/2023 To fix this issue, you need to make sure that it satisfies all the requirements outlined in Making a Custom Component Focusable. A custom component is not getting the focus.Input verification is a solution to this problem. A component must to be prevented from losing focus, or you need to check a value in a component before it loses focus.For more details see Customizing Focus Traversal. To fix this issue, you can change the containment hierarchy, you can change the order that the components are added to their containers, or you can create a custom focus traversal policy. As shown in a code snippet in the preceding section, you can use the requestFocusInWindow method to set the focus on a component when the window becomes visible. The ordering is right but the first component with the focus is not set.In most cases it behaves in a reasonable manner, and if it does not you can tweak its behavior in various ways. The focus subsystem is designed to do the right thing as invisibly as possible. Tracking Focus Changes to Multiple Components.The rest of this section covers the following topics: This button will have the initial focus.įtVisible(true) //Display the window.Īlternatively, you can apply a custom FocusTraversalPolicy to the frame and call the getDefaultComponent method to determine which component will gain the focus. JButton button = new JButton("I am first") įrame.getContentPane().add(panel) //Add it to the panel Create the component that will have the initial focus. JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout()) This code snippet shows how to give a particular component the focus every time the window gains the focus: A component can also be given the focus programmatically, such as when its containing frame or dialog-box is made visible. However, on other operating systems, such as Solaris™ Operating System, the window manager may choose the focused window based on cursor position, and in these cases the behavior of the Window.toFront method is different.Ī component generally gains the focus when the user clicks it, or when the user tabs between components, or otherwise interacts with a component. Window.toFront method moves the window to the front, thereby giving it the focus. On some operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, the front window usually becomes the focused window. There is no foolproof way, across all platforms, to ensure that a window gains the focus. Only one component at a time in the window system can have the keyboard focus.Įxactly how a window gains the focus depends on the windowing system. These visual cues let the user know to which component any typing will relate. The window containing the component is also more prominent than other windows onscreen. For a key press to affect a component, the component must have the keyboard focus.įrom the user's point of view, the component with the keyboard focus is generally prominent with a dotted or black border, for example. If you have been experiencing the "invisible players" glitch, I am certain that Focus Assist is the cause of it.Many components even those primarily operated with the mouse, such as buttons can be operated with the keyboard. And this recently has caused a few issues with TF2 besides the slow alt-tabbing. And to enagage properly it takes 15-20 Seconds. Focus Assist would automatically engage when you're in a game. It brought a feature called "Focus Assist" that wouldn't let notifications interrupt your gaming experience. The cause of the slow Alt-Tabbing is the new Windows 10 Update. However, I think I found a solution for everyone with a similar issue. Now every time I alt tab and go back to TF2 it takes like 20 - 30 seconds to open which really frustrated me. It would pickup where I left off with no freezing or anything. I used to alt tab in TF2 all the time when that respawn screen comes up or I am trading and I would come back to the game no issues.
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Enable plex media server verbose logging1/14/2023 logVerbose (bool) Enable Plex Media Server verbose logging. A server restart is required for a change to take effect. Don’t share logs containing tokens publicly. Media server tokens can be used to gain access to library content. Type verbosestatus, and then press ENTER.ĭouble-click the new key that you created, type 1 in the Value data box, and then click OK. (default: True) logTokens (bool) Allow Plex Media Server tokens in logs. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Locate and then click the following registry key: In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK. You could enter your entire local network range or just specific devices separated by commas in the List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth box. To use enable verbose status messages by editing the registry, follow these steps: Fortunately, Plex has a setting to allow the network addresses you specify to access Plex without authorization on the Settings > Network page. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 322756 How to back up and restore the registry in Windows Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. Close Group Policy Object Editor, click OK, and then quit Active Directory Users and Computers. In the right pane, double-click Verbose vs normal status messages.Expand Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, and then click System.Click the new GPO that you created, and then click Edit.Click New, and then type a descriptive name for the new Group Policy object (GPO).Right-click the container for the domain or the organizational unit to which you want to apply the policy settings, and then click Properties.Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.If you're in a domain environment and you want to enable verbose status messages on a group of computers, follow these steps: To enable verbose status messages by using Group Policy Object Editor, use the method that is appropriate to your situation: In a domain environment Enable verbose status messages by using Group Policy Object Editor You can enable verbose status messages by using Group Policy Object Editor or by editing the Windows registry. Verbose status messages may be helpful when you're troubleshooting slow startup, shutdown, logon, or logoff behavior.Īpplies to: Windows Server 2003 Original KB number: 325376 How to enable verbose startup, shutdown, logon, and logoff status messages This article describes how to configure Windows so that you receive verbose startup, shutdown, logon, and logoff status messages. |