:( HD crash. lost month of work. will be away for a while.

[avih]

hey.

unfortunately, i've lost my maxtor hd last night. i have good back up of apps, but my xvid postprocessing build was only backed up about a month ago.

i lost my noise generator code (optimized), warp sharp code (unoptimized) and optimized brightness/contrast/saturation.

so i'll have to reinstall the os (i'll move from 98se to xp now).
and then rewrite my code.

it might take a while till i'm fully active again.
sorry for the lost work :(

cheers
avi.

[trbarry]

Ouch! :(

[Koepi]

Damnit, sorry for your loss!

Well, next time you'd just zip up your sources on a daily basis and upload them somewhere to an FTP account... most free space providers make backups and thus your sources should be a little more safe.

*knock on wood* I hope that I'll someday start to use my knowledge and make backups too. My last HD crash is >2 years ago and you get lazy too fast again...

If you need some helping hand, just ask. Maybe I or someone else still has some sources which help you getting up to par again.

Best regards,
Koepi

[avih]

:) thx koepi...
anyway, using winxp for the 1st time now (=newbie xp user).

installation was a breeze, using windows update now for drivers and security issues (SHOULD I use windows update??? i hate the idea of an M$ update tool, auto-update turned off anyway, anyone else know security issues with WU?, or is not using it for some reason??) i've been told by a trusted friend that it's safe according to the user/security license, which i haven't read myself.

thx for your offer, however, i didn't publish my new sources yet, so i'll have to rewrite them, cleaner this time :) and straight to a dshow filter this time (i did back up a month ago, so the cd contains a working+src version of everything i've published so far) (maybe the conclusion is to publish every new build i have?? :) ) i'm sorry for my assembler macros which i've lost, which were quite cool and usefull for an asm newbie like me :)

haven't installed any video stuff yet.
gonna install:

-capture card drivers from my supplier (windows didn't recognize fastcom TV card - bt878). should i install the generic ones? i heard they're good.
-vdub 1.49
-xvid codec
-mp3 codec
-mp1L2 codec
installed gknot, divx4.11 and 3.11 shows on control panel and play files ok (including filter settings), but doesn't show in vdub:video:compression :(, no sound from my tv card, except for dscaler, which uses it's own drivers :( . mp3 codec working
any knows issues with these on winxp?
xp can install only wdm drivers (audio/video?) right?, but has a vfw wrapper for capture?

i'll test the system for few days before i install m$vc6+sp5+pp(sp5).

and regarding the backup :) lol, there is a saying in hebrew "the shoemaker is walking barefoot" :) i always preach other ppl to back up, i help them etc, but i didn't back up my f***en 1.5M of my work. i did back up all my multimedia/cdr/development applications/drivers during the last month, but since "i don't mix applications with source files", i posponed the sources back up till it was too late :( ;)

oh well, life's a bitch, and then u die :)

thx anyway, at least gave me the oppertunity to move to xp :)

gonna reset the computer now because the update has installed. wish me luck ;)

avi.

[trbarry]

(maybe the conclusion is to publish every new build i have?? )

I force everyone to get a FREE copy of the source every time they download anything of mine, bugs, blemishes, and all.

It pretty much guarantees me wide area distributed backup. ;)

- Tom

[MaTTeR]

Sorry to hear about the disaster avih.

On the bright side it's good you will be going straight to a DSF:)

BTW- I was thinking 4.12 was the last version of Divx:confused: Not sure, been away from the codec along time I suppose. Good luck!

[avih]

matter, u're sort of right, latest version is 5.01 according to doom9's latest codec comparision ;) but yes, 4.12 was the last version ov 4.xx, (anyway, 4.11 was more stable on my win98SE on duron 800)

but that's what's installed with gknot 0.21b, which i what i had in my backup.

and it's not REALLY a disaster.. only a hd crash afterall ;), none died... just an oppurtunity for a fresh start.

avi

[Lord Sandwich]

Originally posted by avih
-capture card drivers from my supplier (windows didn't recognize fastcom TV card - bt878). should i install the generic ones? i heard they're good.


Hi avih, I'd recommend Ivan Uskov's tweaked WDM drivers at http://www.iulab.com. They work with his iuVCR capture program, which IMO is superior to VDub's capture under Win2K/XP.

[Koepi]

Mr. Sandwich,
well, i must disagree.
iuLab soft sucks.

The driver is shit and the "VCR" is way to cpu intensive.

I recommand the latest btwincap drivers (http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/ ) in combination with virtualdub_sync. Captured Star Wars 5 with that setup on my duron700 yesterday, 3 dropped frames over 2h45min because some neighbours switched on high frequency generating things which were disturbing reception for those frames that hard that they couldn't be encoded in time.

Show me something like that with iuLab. I tried it. It sucks. It is commercial. And doesn't even work half as good as our freeware.

*SIGH*

Avih, find virtualdyb sync in the FAQ of Ookami in the video capture forum - there you'll see that iuLab isn't really an alternative as well ;)

Best regards,
Koepi

[BlackSun]

OMG, this bad news... I agree with Koepi we're getting lazy too fast, same for me...

I made backups but not enough... Good luck avih and thanks for you contribution :)

[Lord Sandwich]

@Koepi

"Mr. Sandwich." I like that. :devil:

Never heard of BtWinCap--I'll give it a spin ASAP. :)

[chemmajik]

I make backups weekly(not everything, just what has changed), 4 times of loosing in the past was enough for me to learn. Sometimes even waiting a month is dangerous.

[trbarry]

I occasionally make more elaborate backups but often I just zip a copy of an important directory over to a different drive or machine.

I even got a DVD burner recently, but have not started taking advantage of it for backups yet. But Avih's plight has made me consider it more.

- Tom

[Charlieds]

This is my actual configuration:

4 Disks ATA100
2x40GB RAID1 (Mirroring with Hot Swap), 2 partition, C: for OS (WinXP Pro), D: for my archive, software, drivers etc.
Every week Drive Image C: in D:
In case of HD crash i can replace it & rebuild the array without powerdown.
In case of Windows failure i restore the image.

2x40GB RAID0 *FAST* single partition 80GB - Video capture, ripping encoding etc.
In case of HD crash, well it's all lost, but it's not a big problem, after all.

[avih]

so this turned to be a back up thread? :)

yes, i do back up, but according to murphy's law, u never do them right...

i have 2 partitions, and each backed the important files of the other, + occasional cd burnes (when i do programming, i back up nearly every build to the other partition), so the occasional burn of my dev was a month ago, last burn of my apps about a week ago, and i blew it, both partitions lost :) u can never be too carefull, but i don't burn cd every day, even not with direct cd.

i should have just uploaded the rared/zipped sources to some web storage system more often....

anyway, did another xp clean installation, the divx not showing on vdub (or any other INSTALLED unsigned codecs for that reason) shows ok now (maybe one of those windows updates caused unsigned codecs to be invisible???? i wouldn't be suprised if m$ did something like that...)

still strugling to get sound from my capture card (not recognized by btwincap, manual selection with no full success yet). tried btwincap, iulab, 2 versions of supplier wdm drivers. had only success once (on yesterday's=previous xp install), but when i uninstalled everything so i can do it cleanly, i couldn't (still can't) bring the sound back. it'll work, hopefully sooner than better.

arghhhh... computers r fun
especially when everything is working as it should ;)

avi