Recent content by DanRoy

my bad, it's a .MOV file, quicktime, not real media. for some reason it just opened with realplayer. i've heard that the quicktime codec is pretty lame and outdated...too bulky anybody know of a preferably free program to convert .MOV to .GIF?

In my search for this program i found a page that says it's no longer free, it's part of an editing suite or something... any other ideas?

ok, I can extract the images as still frames... anybody know of a free .GIF maker where i can put them back together? there must be one out there

it's a pentax optio 30, great camera, and great for the money

my digital camera only takes movies as real media files. is there a free program to convert these into animated .GIF s? irfanview won't do it I don't think. also I'll take recommendations for payware thanks!

i defragged the drive and at 16x there was no difference in speed afterwards... i wonder, is all this 52x stuff just hype, because you can never in reality burn that fast?

burning an 80 minute disc from data, not audio disc copy, i max out at about 10x... at 8x there is a 10:43 write time (no background computer use in any of these trials), and at 12x it takes 9:08. (16x is even a bit slower, at 9:31) I'm using a recent version of Nero at 8x the buffer...

thanks all I figured it out. I had to browse to the 2k PC in windows explorer and enter my username and password. (previously I had been trying to add the pc or its shared folders as a network place) what's the current concensus on windows 2000 versus windows XP, should I upgrade?

qrilock, i have no problem connecting tot he 2k machine from the xp one. I just can't get it to work the other way around I have enabled filesharing in network connections on the 2k machine, and there is no non-windows firewall installed, still no dice. ideas?

i have set certain specific folders as "shared" but is this the same as enabling file sharing? how do I do that?

I can get to files on the xp machines from the 2000 professional machine, but cannot access files on the 2k machine from the xp machines. is there a way to do this? for the xp machines I had to disable the windows internet firewall, but could not figure out how to do this on the win2k...

well I seem to have lost multiple gigabytes worth of files, and I don't think I could trust a hard drive that does this to be reliable in the future. it's a western digital caviar special edition, with a 3 year warranty, so maybe they will replace it for me

maybe uninstall the prog, and reinstall looking for an option where you get to choose which file extensions are associated with the program, which it might have

what would have caused this corruption in the OS if not a virus or a physical failure in the disk? here are some more details: when chkdsk runs on startup, it reports "file record segment 17xxxx is unreadable" several dozen times, then goes into "chkdsk is verifying indexes", at which point...

so you think it's not a physical error in the hard drive? i could just fix it with a format?