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SlySoft Forum – How to turn off subtitles or remove them?
I just started using PowerDVD Ultra to playback my HD-DVDs, and I’ve noticed that “Superman Returns” doesn’t have a menu (at least I cannot access it with PowerDVD nor the Xbox 360 player). PowerDVD Ultra turns on subtitles and there is not way to turn them off other than via the DVD menu. It only has an option to cycle though the various subtitle languages. Hopefully Cyberlink will fix this soon. Either that or if AnyDVD HD could provide an option to rip the movie without subtitles. In the meantime for disks like this (I’ve only noticed “Superman Returns” does this) you can simply remove the subtitle references in the .xpl file of the disk’s ADV_OBJ folder:
You need to open the ADV_OBJ folder, find the XPL file, open it with wordpad , find any thing that looks like this:
<SubtitleTrack track=”1″ langcode=”en:01″ description=”English SDH”/>
<SubtitleTrack track=”2″ langcode=”es:01″/>
<SubtitleTrack track=”3″ langcode=”fr:01″/>
<SubtitleTrack track=”4″ langcode=”es:01″ selectable=”true” />
<SubtitleTrack track=”5″ langcode=”fr:01″ selectable=”true” />and just delete it, and save. there should at least 3 areas that look like the above. I also suggest you make a back up of the original XPL file just in case something gets deleted that was not supposed to.
This worked for me, and I can enjoy “Superman Returns” on my HTPC, using PowerDVD Ultra without those annoying subtitles.
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Adding a “Rip DVD” menu item to Beyond Media – OTA HD DVR
I remember reading this awhile ago, but forgot to mention it here. This is great “how-to” to include a “Rip DVD” option in your Beyond Media menu. With it you can add a DVD movie to DVD Library in a few easy steps from the comfort of your couch.
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BrentEvans: Video Walkthrough of Placeshifting Beyond TV
Brent Evans has a nice write-up and screencast of how to stream video from a PC, running Beyond TV. It cannot stream Live TV yet, but it’s still a nice and very welcome feature for Beyond TV users.
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Help Build a Media Center Components Database – Chris Lanier’s Blog
I always thought sites like this would be very helpful to people looking to build a successful Home Theater PC (HTPC) as long as the site stays current. The biggest issue I see is maintaining a central database of components (hardware, software, drivers, versions, etc) from all different manufacturers. I don’t think you’d want to be dependent on free-form user input since that easily leads to duplication and unnecessary bloat.
It would be nice to see a more general site than ones dedicated to specific software. The site Chris Lanier mentions is specific to Windows Media Center, and this one is more focused on Linux-based solutions. Anyone interested? Sounds like a fun pet project. I’d be willing to help out, but really believe there is a need to find a source, or multiple sources, to populate the database of components.
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Vista CableCARD PC Roundup
With more “affordable” CableCARD Vista Media Center PCs coming out from the likes of HP and Dell the lucky folks over at Gizmodo and Engadget have been able to play with them, and are ready to share their experiences and thoughts with the rest of us.
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Hauppauge adds QAM support to the WinTV-HVR-1600 dual tuner card – Engadget HD
This is some pretty interesting news. Unfortunately, I doubt there will be the necessary drives needed to get QAM working with 3rd party PVR software like Beyond TV, Vista Media Center, Sage TV, GB-PVR, etc.
As with anything else there is a catch, the QAM support is only available on the retail version of the product
Good thing we still have the HDHomeRun dual tuner, networked device that supports QAM in all major PVR software.
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PhotoSync For Windows Home Server – Beta1- EdHolloway.com
Here’s a pretty snappy utility that can automatically upload your photos from Windows Home Server to your Flickr account. Hopefully, this can/will be extended to other services like Zooomr (my service of choice).
Some general features & notes:
- PhotoSync will monitor your WHS Photos folder (or any sub folder you select) and automatically upload the contents of that folder (and every sub folder) to your Flickr account.
- Since you get to select the ‘base folder’ you can, for example, create a /Photos/Private and a /Photos/Public (or /Photos/Flickr) folder in WHS and just point PhotoSync to the /Public folder – this makes sure your public photos go to Flicker and the private ones do not.
- PhotoSync can be configured to automatically upload new photos on any scheduled basis (the minimum right now is every 15 minutes)
- There is a WHS Console GUI Tab to configure everything, and check upload status information.
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Friday Tech Deals 5/18
Here’s some pretty good hard drive deals from Fry’s (at least in the San Francisco Bay Area):
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Alienware’s Hangar 18 HTPC to launch this month? – Engadget
This is one cool-looking HTPC. Of course since it’s from Alienware you can guarantee some sticker shock. Looks like Engadget got some specs on it back in January.
We snagged some of the deets on this puppy — it’ll be running on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor with up to 2GB memory, sport up to 1.5 terabytes to store your high-def content, up to four TV tuners (two analog and two digital), HDMI out, stereo receiver with built-in 1000W amp and subwoofer, slot-loading DVD/CD player/burner, Bluetooth, wireless 802.11a/g, and front inputs for a raft of memory standards: Compact Flash I and II, SD, Mini SD, MultiMedia Card, Memory Stick, and Smart Media.
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CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra Enriches the Quality of High-Definition Video Playback – Missing Remote
Cyberlink recently released a new patch for PowerDVD Ultra that enables the support of nvidia’s Purevideo HD technology on their 8500 and 8600 video cards. This means that H.264 encoded material (used in some HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks) can now be 100% decoded by a 8500 or 8600 card, dramatically reducing the load on your CPU. You can download the patch here. As noted be sure you’re upgrading from build 2605.
I recently upgraded to a 8600GTS. Yay for me right? Nope, because what they failed to mention in their press release is that Purevideo HD is only supported in Windows Vista right now, which leaves us XP folks out of luck for now. I was really excited to see that nvidia released a new version of their Forceware drivers for Windows XP (158.22) today, but was quickly disappointed to see that Purevideo HD was not enabled.
PureVideo™ HD support is currently only available on Microsoft® Windows™ Vista
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What I’m reading…- My world has changed (and I get to share with you)
- Microsoft MediaCenter CableCard Firmware Update Arrives – With Digital Cable Advisor
- At last, the CableCARD tuner has been liberated
- New CableCARD tools loosen the grip of DRM
- The Windows Media Center CableCARD Update
- Popular My Movies plugin comes to Windows 7 Media Center
- Introducing Cisco’s FlipShare TV
- Snapstream Emphasizes Enterprise Focus – BeyondTV Product “Mature”
- Programs to Customize and Improve Your Windows 7 Media Center
- Slacker Gives Up On Dedicated Hardware (G2)
- What I’m doing…
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