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Hi, I have a Canon XL2 which has a problem in that the 'DV out' does not work. Alll other outputs work fine. I have sought a quote from Jessops to repair the camera. They have quoted £407 and the repair description is 'Parts - 1 Main BD ASSY'. Can anyone assist in relation to the neature of the repair suggested and the cost?

Ouch. 8-year-old Sony trv240 now has no firewire interface (a known problem with badly designed connectors, iirc??). Anyway, a quick phone call to Sony quotes me a fixed price of over £170 to repair, which is ludicrous. So, time for new camcorder I think. Trouble is, I'm way out of touch with developments. Is something like the Canon fs306 a reasonable replacement, without spending the...

That every time I switch the video recorder on I get a messaged saying 'a new DVB service has been found? I let it run once a week, but as soon as I have let the thing run through the process of locating new programmes, the next day I get the same message, surely they cannot be introducing new stations every day? Alan

I'm posting this on behalf of my friend, who is about to buy a laptop. She has a DV camera that's from back when they cost a bit, and a new Flip HD. She still very satisfactorily uses the DV camera with her 2004 Mac, which is a 1 ghz machine, possibly 1.3, with 1 gb of RAM. Her pc is older still, a 1 ghz machine with 512 mb of RAM. Obviously these are long in the tooth now, and we've been...

I have many old overseas movies which come with subtitles in files, or selectable subtitles from the menu in the player software such as "VLC" media player. I can get these to play OK on the computer, though it is hard to burn them to DVD/XVid with the subtitles of my choice imbedded in the image. Therefore I ask:

I have recorded a program from the TV onto a DVD-RW disc. I would like to keep the program but edit out thwe adverts. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how I could achieve this please ?

Does anyone know how to capture a video clip from the BBC's web site for saving to a PC? Thanks - CJB

I want to edit a quick video on my laptop. At home I have pinnacle studio on the main computer but only have laptop with me so I tried editing it in Windows Live Movie Maker. It seemed to work surprisingly well but when I try to save it as a movie file instead of a project I get the error message "The system cannot find the path specified". Same message no matter how I try to save it and...

Here's the scenario. I muiss a programme on TV I download a TV program from uknova I urn it onto a DVD RW so that I can take it downstairs and put it on the Master DVD Trouble is, the DVD player that I use to transfer it to the Master DVD is

Hi, In the next few days I intend to purchase the Panasonic HDC-TM10 Hi-Def camcorder. A review say " Plug the HDC-TM10 into a PC using the mini-USB cable and you can obviously copy your photos and video off directly. Video footage is encoded in the AVCHD format as .MTS files. Panasonic supplies its fiddly HD Writer software for content management, plus basic editing and conversion."

"NERO 9" video example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avLPdgEvybU Essential if You have got a SD-HC memory hidef. Video cam. Greets jens

Hi I am trying to record audio tracks *directly* into my laptop (because my camcorder doesnt produce good enough quality sound using it's internal microphone). What would be the best tie-clip microphone for me to buy? How's about the "Olympus ME-15 Tie Clip Microphone" I have a laptop which is a Thinkpad T60 (UK model 2007-F4G) (about 2+

From my research TestFreaks.co.uk looks quite useful for aggregating reviews from elsewhere. From what I can see the Panasonic SDR-S26 looks quite promising (about £181) but no sign of an external microphone hole. ?? Camcorders - SD Camcorders - SDR-S26 - Specification - UK & Ireland The Samsung VP-MX20 also looks quite promising (£132) but again no sign of any way of connecting an external...

Hi Any advice on roughly how much money we'd need to spend to get "good quality" video results that we could post on the web? (Sorry I am a total newbie at video...) £100? £200? We would be hosting it either on YouTube or similar albeit in the best resolution that they can deliver, so there is obviously no need for

Hi I have acquired a Samsung Sports Camcorder (model: VP-X220L) and need to attach an external microphone to it. Unfortunately it is a model which is 2 or 3 years old now but it was 'top-of-the-range' at the time - (it even has 2GB of internal memory!) Samsung's website don't mention any accessories at all for it now.

Lots of choices out their but are they the right one? Making sure you choose the right one can save you the time and effort , and money it takes to upgrade later. Much like any technology http://www.tardis-db.co.uk/index.html digital cameras are rapidly changing and vary from point and shoot to more professional Digital SLRS. In order to better educate the consumer on whats right for him or...

Lots of choices out their but are they the right one? Making sure you choose the right one can save you the time and effort , and money it takes to upgrade later. Much like any technology http://www.tardis-db.co.uk/index.html digital cameras are rapidly changing and vary from point and shoot to more professional Digital SLRS. In order to better educate the consumer on whats right for him or...

All, I would like to make my own "Real Life Videos" for Tacx indoor cycling trainers (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmQ3NXw9-BE). This involves filming the road ahead from a car (or motorcycle) as you drive (usually up a big mountain:). The requirements are- High Quality Good Stabilizer (I assume)

All, Any positive feedback after using Canon VIXIA HF S100 Flash Memory High Definition Camcorder or how it is called in Europe? Its price is getting down, it's around $900 now, I just made one company drop $200 from the price because of the competitors. But I'm still not sure if it makes sense to buy it. On one hand - it's the very best in this class, it's HD, it's using SDHC and a 32GB...

All, Have you ever heard about some device that could be used to copy the DV tapes to the computer? I used Canon GL2 to create many tapes. Some of them are already permanently located on my RAID array, but this is a huge amount of data and I'd prefer to use a simle quick way of copying these tapes, but I don't want to use camcorder for this operation. So the question appeared - is it...

Hello all, I wondered if someone could help me. I have copied some video off my MiniDV camera onto my computer via an IEE1394 cable using Windows Movie Maker set to 25fps PAL. I edited the video and added captions etc. then saved the edited video as an AVI 25fps PAL. When I play this AVI video using GOM Player it looks great. Things start to go wrong though when I try to create a DVD...

All, Have you ever heard about possible firmware upgrades for Canon DV camcorders like GL2? There are couple very annoying things in this camcorder and I'm not sure if that already fixed or not. 1. This camcorder supports SDHC media cards, it's easy to find that on the Internet. But the trap is that these cards can only be used for the photos with the great fine resolution - 1.7 MPx. So you...

Any suggestions? kino does not seem to allow me to overlay audio over video. Looks like you can splice videos end to end and that's it. kdenlive seems good but is a little flakey, with transitions very flakey. cinelerra - I have no idea what is going on there. Thanks,

Can a BBC 1 program for example BBC 1 breakfast news be recorded to PC hard drive via a PC freesat decoder card and then edited directly by for example pinnacle video editing application. thanks Mike

Might be of interest to some : This landed in my mail from the NASA mailing list. I'm sure somebody will chip in to say it's already been done, but I thought it was a nice idea and the movie is available to the public internationally (that is, as long as you're in either the USA or Strasbourg, France !) Cheers - Neil

I have an issue with my Canon ZR MiniDV camcorder. I have one pixel fairly central in the middle of the screen that is burnt out. Unfortunately it is showing in all my footage. Is there any software that can get rid of this noise afterwards when I am transferring to my computer and editing? I also just wondered if anyone has a webspace explaining all the different consumer camcorder choices both...

I'm looking to replace an elderly VX1000 camera and the FX1000 looks tempting. I want to continue recording to DV tapes so the options in the consumer market are limited now. Has anyone in the group had experience of the FX1000, good or bad? Thanks for your input. Alan S.

I need to convert some .mov files to mpeg2 using Linux. I understand mencoder to be a useful utility and have tried this resulting in an mpeg4 output; I need mpeg2 to play on a specific device. I find the various codec references a wee bit confusing so would appreciate any hints if possible. Many thanks,

Hello, can anyone tell me of a multimedia HD with digital audio output optical or coax? if available also with HDMI output thanks Mario

Hi, I know that the HDC-SD1 is no longer in production so is not listed on the Panasonic web site but I have been offered one pre-owned for less than the cost of a new HDC-SD9. Is anyone familiar with these models? Are there any serious technical differences between the 2 cameras that anyone is aware of?

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Mr Fix It recently gave a very detailed description how to convert WinTV files using Vidomi to make them more compatible. Unfortunately the files still didn't play on my Iomega screenplay but if I use ProjectX and imago-mpeg to demux then remux to a VOB file then it plays perfectly. Has anyone any suggestions for alternative settings on Vidomi to do similar as at least it would be simpler...

I recently naively thought I could remove the HD from my Philips DVD Hard Drive recorder, copy the data over to my computer and then free up some space. On connecting it to my Linux machine the partition editor (gparted) showed it as an unformatted drive. Does anyone know if there is any way I can read this data and/or copy it over.

Vidomi was recently recommended to me to resolve some sound sync problems. Unless I am getting confused here it appears that there have been no updates since 2002. Is this the case or am I mistaken. Geoff Lane

Hi all I have a Sanyo Xacti camcorder which produces excellent looking video when connected to PC or HDTV but I have a problem when creating a DVD for UK PAL player. In any moving scene the video has a jerky effect as if 1 in every 6 frames has been removed, I'm wondering if in the transcoding that the frametrate has been dropped to 25fps to play on a UK system and if this is the case if there...

I've got AVS Video Remaker and it's great for top'n'tailing and removing commercials, and then creating a DVD. But it can't handle dvr-ms (Windows Media Center) files. Is there an equivalent program which will remake these files without recompressing the whole file and will then create a DVD. Unfortunately my Windows Vista PC almost always crashes ("Program X has stopped responding. It will be...

Has anyone had problems making Windows Media Center generate video DVDs? I've got Vista Home Premium SP1 which includes Media Center. I can record to dvr-ms format via my Pinnacle USB Freeview device. But when I try to write the files to video DVD, either using the built-in mechanism of Media Center or using the standalone DVD Maker app of Vista, it will get part of the way through the...

My daughter has a WinTV PVR900 device. She recently recorded 4 programs, each play fine in VLC but using Windows Media Player or an Iomega media player device (No computer needed) I get major sound video sync problems. What would be the reason for this. Geoff Lane

Bought one of these devices at Christmas, tried three different external HDs attached to the device and none worked; all reported the correct size but stated 'unknown partition'. All three HDs work fine connected to XP, Vista or Linux but not the ScreenPlay. Strangely two USB flash drives showed up fine. Anyone had similar problems.

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