#dvd rw

[44nifty]

images of weird al from the late 90's source: "Weird Al" Yankovic - Live! DVD

[gogetyours]

ORICO External CD/DVD Drive Review - Still Good In 2023?

For the past week we have been testing out the ORICO U3-02 external optical drive. Yes i know RW drives might be really dated these days and in 2023 its very hard to find a Laptop that has one built in but if you have those old family videos fading away on DVD/RW disc then this drive might be the best option to choose.

First of all, with the Orico drive, its plug and play so you don't have to worry about adding any type of software. The U3-02 disc drive is compatible with both CD and DVD formats, as-well as you being able to slot in a classic massive SD card or even a micro SD card. The drive will rip CD'S and DVD's in under 6 Minutes with burning to disc being more swifter, burning films to disc in just a few minutes. 

The RW drive, runs silent, never getting too hot when watching movies on a PC, but the only thing we did notice is that the drive is not as durable as others on the market, so you will indeed need to place the optical drive into the box, if example, you are wanting to take it around with you while on the go. For more info, check out our YouTube video out on our channel

[blankmedia]

Maxell - DVD-RW - 8cm Rewritable Standard - 30 Minutes - 1.4GB

Made in Taiwan

Image -- (2500 x 2100)

[emblazonet]

I’m so confused about the Spotify Wrapped craze. Do people exclusively listen to music on the one website??? What do the statistics tell you that you don’t already know??

I listen to Bandcamp - streaming and downloading music I purchase from the creators, and use YouTube for bg Nintendo music, and have a huge collection of downloaded/ripped music I started when I was 13 that I still play in Winamp with skins I downloaded from DeviantArt a couple (!) years ago. I listen to Radiooo sometimes (not often.) Then there’s mynoise.net for not music but ambient tones.  And sometimes I listen to actual CDs! (Although I’m likely to rip them.)

[shopping490490]

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[vintage-tech]

useful information: How to get a USB Blu-Ray player to work on your computer

Not a post about vintage technology, just an explanation of what you think might be simple to do but isn't: There are Blu-Ray players that plug into your computer by USB, and you discover that just plugging it in doesn't make it work* in the same manner that CD-RWs or DVD-RWs are automatically recognised and function. You will see "BR Drive" in My Computer and the name of whatever movie you have inserted, but that's as far as you're able to go.

*There is software you can buy to make a Blu-Ray (internal or external) function, sure, and if an internal came with your computer it's likely already installed -- but if you're like me you don't have that software, you're cheap and won't pay for software, and you want to use what you have installed already or find free solutions.

Looking in the Blu-Ray drive's package, there's not a lot of info about what you're supposed to do. The above no-name Blu-Ray player cost $40 from a popular website; name-brand ones can set you back $120 or so. Looking around online for those instructions, I never saw the whole set of directions in one place, I had to cobble them together from 2 or 3 sites. And so here I share that list. To keep out of trouble, I'm not linking any files -- Google will help you.

Get VLC, the free video player available for pretty much any operating system. Thing is, it doesn't come with the internals to make it work with Blu-Ray even if when you go to the Play Media menu there is a radio button for selecting Blu-Ray.

Get MakeMKV, a decoder for reading Blu-Ray disks. This had been totally free during the beta testing period but it's come out and has a month or two trial period you can work in.

Get Java if you don't already have it. Reason for this is, the menu systems on Blu-Ray disks uses this... technically it's not required, however it does mean you don't have options such as special features, language and sound changes, or scene selection if you don't have Java installed; insert a disk, it can only play the movie.

Get the file libaacs.dll online so you have AACS decoding. I am told it hasn't been updated in awhile so there may be disks produced after 2013 that won't work right, but you won't know until you try.

There's a set of keys you will also want to have so that the player knows how to work with specific disks, and so do a search online for the "FindVUK Online Database". There will be a regularly-updated keydb.cfg archive file on that page to pick up.

Got those three programs installed and the other two files obtained? Okay, here are your instructions for assembly...

In VLC: go to Tools, Prefs, click "show all"… under the Input/Codecs heading is Access Modules then Blu-Ray: Select your region, A through C. You can change this if you need to for foreign disks. Next related action: go to My Computer and C:, click into Program Files and VLC, and this is where you copy the libaacs.dll file to.

In MakeMKV: click View, then Preferences, and under Integration - add VLC.

Confirm that Java is set up to work with VLC by going to the computer's Control Panel, going to System Properties, and into Environment Variables. Click System Variables, and click New to create this key if it doesn't already exist: … Name: Java … Value: [the location of the Java 'jre#.##' folder... use Browse to find it in C:\Program Files\Java]

Let's go back into My Computer and C:, this time go to Program Data, and then do a right-click in the window and select New and Folder. Rename this folder "aacs" (without the quotes), and then you click into it and copy the keydb.cfg file here.

REBOOT.

And now you should be able to recognise Blu-Ray disks in your player and play them. Three troubleshooting notes to offer in VLC:

"Disk corrupt" -- this means MakeMKV has not decoded and parsed the disk yet, or that you don't have the libaacs.dll in place so that it can decode the disk. ...After checking the VLC folder for the DLL to make sure, launch MakeMKV, then go to File, Play Disk, and select the Blu-Ray drive. Now it will grind a bit and figure out the disk's contents.

A note appears when a movie starts saying there will be no menus, but the movie plays fine -- Java isn't running. ...Invoke Java by going to the Java Settings in Start: Programs. You don't have to change anything here, so Exit, then eject the disk and put it back in to see if the movie's menu now appears.

Buffering between chapters, making the movie pause for a few seconds? There is a setting for this but I need to find that info page again for where that is. (If you find it, tell me where it is!)

I don't claim to know a lot but if you have any questions I might have some answers or suggestions. So far I've watched "Office Space" and Disney's "Coco" without any issues beside occasional buffering.

[roadworxx]

i've been meaning to post this for a while now, so here it is

The Gateway GP6-400

this is my retro pc setup - a modified gateway gp6-400 from 1999. this model in particular really appealed to me; it's powerful enough to run most games up to around 1998 or so, but it still has fairly realistic performance for a typical gaming pc of that era. i still went ahead and swapped out some parts as well as added some new ones in order to get exactly what i want out of it, however.

here's the specs:

- Pentium II 400mhz

- 128mb RAM

- 250gb HDD (win98 partition only uses 6.4gb for accuracy

- Voodoo3 AGP graphics card

- Integrated Ensoniq AudioPCI audio

- ES1868F ISA audio card for DOS gaming

- DVD-RW drive

- 3.5" floppy drive

- 250mb ZIP drive

on the pc there exist two operating systems: windows 98 second edition and ms-dos 6.2 with windows 3.1. now, you likely find this odd considering that ms-dos 7.1 is already accessible from windows 98, but i reeeally wanted a true early 90s dos experience. so, i have a full installation of dos 6.2 on a separate 425mb partition (the size of a decent hdd from 1994 or so) that i access via boot disk.

as you can also see from the pictures, there's a crt monitor as well: the 17" princeton eo710. it was expensive - well-kept crt monitors tend to be that way unfortunately - but it works wonderfully and the display is gorgeous. i try to keep it at around half brightness and contrast, which can make seeing things in games hard at times, but i really would rather not risk wearing it down lol.

overall, it works splendidly. i'm able to run any games made up to around 2001 or so fairly well, and while there's been issues dealing with stupid win98 bullshit, it hasn't been too bad to work on. it's been a dream of mine to own a computer like this for ages, and now that i finally have one...i'm really happy :)

here's some more pics

the windows 98 desktop:

running dos:

@esselfortium 's KDIKDIZD looking amazing on the crt (it looks so much better in person):

and finally, some half-life along with a better view of the front of the pc:

[peteargriffin69420]

restoring late 90s computers, The Hobby

Recently I got interested in restoring computers from the 90s and older (probably will do Windows XP machines too). So I am going to start to restore them and possibly resell them for those who want to enjoy a nice retro game. I pick these machines up a lot and stuff. Last weekend I picked up one that I will keep for personal uses, because it is a classic eMachine with it's fancy sticker. While it no longer as the infamous "Never Obsolete" sticker, it's still a pretty machine.

Weirdly, besides having to clean it up and wipe the hard drive, it didn't really need much done to it except for that the system is fully maxed out and overheats, so I am going to do some work on it to get it running and not overheating.

I've been scouring yard/garage/estate sales for other machines I can either harvest for parts or otherwise.

Current Specs: 256 MB SDRAM ATI Radeon 7200 120 GB HDD Celeron Processor Windows 98 SE Also features: DVD Player RW, CD-Rom Drive (40x), Floppy Drive It does want a new sound card but I have to find one. Whatever it has is inside its motherboard (Crystal something). I'm adding in a PCI Exaust Fan in hopes I can pump the rest of the heat out. Yes, it can run DOOM, please stop asking me that whenever I post a computer anywhere. Anyways, just a ramble.

[netscapenavigator-official]

I formatted a DVD+RW as FAT32 to see what would happen, and now I can drag and drop files into it like a flash drive. Did I just accidentally create a haphazard DVD-RAM disc or something??? What is going on? The DVD drive in 2011 MBPs isn’t even supposed to support DVD-RAMs discs. What have I done??

[skhardwarevers1]

Power Hour Project DVD demo

Live from the corner of my bedroom!

I found a better way to show of the DVDs that involves a lot of looking for DVD playing software that I can actually record so enjoy a short video of what has become of my terrible ideas

anyways yeah…that makes three items of CJ physical media I’ve made. If only I had blank cassettes….

For anyone curious on what I used:

making the DVD:

JDownloader 2 - downloading every power hour video in batch (I have a list of all the links used if anyone needs one)

DVD Styler - actually designing and putting together the DVD

playing the DVD:

Rioddas disc drive - actually reads the DVD and stuff…kinda important to have one if you wanna do any of this (also you know…BURNS IT….)

VLC media player - playing it so I could record it. It’s also free! So that’s neat

and if you really wanna get into specs the DVD in specific was a Memorex DVD+RW (4x, 4.7GB, 120min)

I just happened to have these lying around, but if you wanna get your own they do come in packs of 25 based on what I’ve looked up an briefly looked at…

happy burning/authoring !!!!

[lunatic-pudge]

Lost Running With Scissors Games

Hey, girlie, don't mind me sliding into your Tumblr. Just here to share some interesting lost media with you.

Now if you follow me or lurk around on my blog, the chances of you being a fellow Postal enjoyer are high. Can't blame you, it's a good games series that I'm most definitely normal about. Yup, very normal about this game. But I'm not here to talk about Postal (for once in my life). I'm actually here to share some lost Running With Scissors media with you.

Yep, RWS has some lost media. I was looking around the Lost Media Wiki to see if Postal had any lost media and found this. It's called Guardian and Flesh & Wire, cancelled shooters that were developed by Running with Scissors and would've been published by Ripcord Games. For those who may not know, Ripcord Games published the first Postal game.

(Here's the logo for Flesh & Wire. There hasn't been one found for Guardian at the moment)

Due to how controversial Postal was, Ripcord had told RWS that if they wanted to continue working together, they would need to ditch the idea of making a Postal sequel and make a new IP. Since Ripcord owned the license of Postal at the time, RWS weren't able to break off and make a sequel. There were two games proposed but got rejected

We're gonna follow the wiki and start with Guardian. I'm gonna put direct quotes for what the gameplay/story is about.

"The story would revolve around Rakk, a fighter who joins the Umbreks to stop the Nullids who are about to "have earthlings for breakfast." According to the lore, the Umbreks were oppressed by the technology advanced Nullids and killing and indigenous species became a real taboo for them. It's unknown if the developers planned to implement this in the game. If true, it's possible that, Unlike Postal, killing them would punish the player. You would've started off with a core set of moves including a traditional Umbrek weapon called an Arraka, As the game goes on, you acquire new skills through genetic assimilation, a process consisting of the ability for Umbreks to absorb the minds of the Nullids. The absorbed skills would simply disappear after a certain time. Excessive use could cause the protagonist's mind to change for the rest of the game."

Guardian was announced at E3 1998. It was meant to be RWS second title.

According to Vince Desi, the game was to use motion capture and was all about "flesh and wire". It was originally a third-person shooter that was to use 3D characters and real life background that were digitized, and multiple camera angles, dynamic lighting, and special effects. It was planned to be released on PC in 1999 and have a DVD version that would have better graphics.

Now for Flesh & Wire. Again, I'll be quoting the Lost Media Wiki for the gameplay/story.

"Unlike, Guardian, Flesh & Wire would've centered around a sleazy cop name Angus. One morning, he woke up to see his city being engulfed by a bio-ship named Nulloid. Not only that, but he also found a blob-like creature devouring his legs. Rather than calling a doctor, he came to the realization the he could control the blob and use it for good. From there on, you would've moved around levels, utilizing special abilities and solved puzzles, such as creating either a ladder to reach high places, a bungee to get down or even a shield to protect yourself from enemies. It bears many similarities to the 1989's A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, a game developed by Imagineering for the NES. Unlike that game however, Flesh & Wire was a far-less family friendly and featured grotesque monster designs. You could carry weapons such as a gatling cannon, an electric gun and poison gas, to which you could even combine to make even more powerful weapons. The game would also encourage players to collect as much material as possible to increase the amoeba's size and speed, and would even lose some of its mass the more the player moves."

The animation for Flesh & Wire would be done in rotoscoping live martial arts students. The movements would be recorded on synchronized digital cameras set at 90 degrees apart from each other. They were to be digitized and loaded onto Softimage 3D, an animation software, and to be used as reference for the animators to use. Randy Briley, the studio's art team leader, came up with the idea pf building the levels of the games using miniature layout, using scraps of PVC pipes, copper tubing, old VCRs, and other items that were glued and painted. This was done to save money and resources. The results were successful.

The game was announced in March 1999. It would've been RWS' first game released on console

That same year, Panasonic Interactive Media, Ripcord's parent company, announced their closure. The senior management team at Panasonic made a deal to acquire Ripcord and make it an independent company. RWS announced that they would still continue working on Flesh & Wire on their own and that they'd support Ripcord's new team. But then Ripcord drooped their support for Flesh & Wire. RWS had spent $1.5 million into Flesh & Wire and had planned to released it in the next year, but they were unable to find any publishers that would support the project which had ultimately led to the cancellation of Flesh & Wire.

Here's some of the concept art from the Wiki. Both these games would've been really cool to see. It's sad that they weren't able to come to fruition though. Hopefully, we can find more out about these games.

I'm sorry these pics are blurry, I took these all from the wiki and that's how they were. And to be honest, F&W concept art gives me big Postal vibes. I don't mind though. I enjoy it. And here's a link to the Lost Media Wiki article.

[techturd]

Looking sharp after a few upgrades:

Pentium II 450 -> Athlon 800 MHz

Asus P2B -> Gateway Select "Kadoka" (capacitor-less!) - not my first choice for a Slot A MoBo, but the cool guy I bought the CPU from threw it in for free! Main downside is I lost my ISA slots, so...

Soundblaster AWE 64 ISA -> Soundblaster Live! 5.1 PCI - fortunately found some great DOS drivers from Philscomputerlab and everything runs and sounds great

My beige Pioneer 16X Slot DVD-ROM bit the dust, so swapped out to an old Lite-On IDE black DVD-RW drive I had lying around in spare parts

Switched the 5.25" bay adapter and the floppy drive to black to match. Think I like this black + beige scheme vs. the mismatched various shades of beige I had with the previous components

Hope to get a VGA video capture device soon so I can start recording / posting some videos here...

[dullahandyke]

Found an old primary school graduation DVD and firstly this is an RW???? yoink I am so burning and reburning things onto this. Secondly I maintain that I do not look like my siblings but I've been waiting for a picture of me to show up (barely any bcos while my classmates were socialising and doing things I was pretending a basketball was my pet) and I got jumpscared so badly I genuinely thought my little sister had snuck into this group photo. Fuckinggg jumpscare

[ihavetoomanyhyperfixations]

Here's my haul from the UK trip mentioned in my previous post!

First off; The books.

On the Talyllyn, at Tywyn Wharf they have a little book stand with random books and dvds for free in return for small donations you feel are appropriate. I got myself the SECR book about country stations. I dunno why, I guess it was because it could hold some really good inspiration for the future of my own layout.

The other book I got there was the pictorial tribute to Crewe Works. Because big locomotive works across the UK are so fascinating. Ever seen Terrier55Stepney's video on Brighton Works and it's history? I found that fascinating so I thought it'd be neat to have. Also Henry got his rebuild at Crewe so that gave the book some bonus points.

I also got a DVD from that book stand but I am currently unsure where it went.

I also got a Guide Book for the Talyllyn Railway detailing it's history, stations, engines and significant people. My mom saw it and wanted it because it looked neat. It has some amazing pictures and genuinely interesting facts. Like, have any of you ever heard of a place called Tadpole Cutting on the Talyllyn? You have now! It's a little past Rhydyronen and known to flood after stormy weather.

Then of course, since I was already at the Talyllyn Railway, Railway Adventure was a must-have. I'd only heard small bits of what occurs in it via the Railway Series Book Club podcast (check them out BTW they're great) and thought it sounded fascinating.

Then, being a TTTE and RWS fan (shocker, I know) I also got myself four Railway Series books. I bought two at Tywyn and two at Abergynolwyn, one on each day at each station when I was there. I got Branchline Engines, Enterprising Engines, Mountain Engines and Duke the Lost Engine. I honestly regret not getting Stepney's book, but I wanted to have at least one book not illustrated by the Edwards, great as they may be.

Now let's move on to the models.

At Tywyn Wharf, in the shop, they sold some TTTE Bachmann models. After some conferring with online friends on what was appropriately priced, I settled on getting Toad because the UK version has printing on both sides. (Thanks for telling me that, Vivian.)

And then in the National Railway Museum, I was... not as money smart, to put it lightly. Without consulting people I know on the internet, I got Edward and Henrietta, both from Bachmann. Henrietta because she'll go along nicely with my Toby and Edward because he was at least 10 £ less than the Henry they were selling. I love my mom so much for getting me these because yowie those prices would have made me faint if I'd paid for them. They maybe were a bit overpriced but at least there was no shipping costs or agonizing wait for the package to arrive. I can just... take them home :>

Aaaand that's it! Haha I honestly loved being here. I got to see THE Talyllyn engines in real life, met Luke Ryan (he was lovely) and took some lovely pictures of the Welsh Countryside. The National Railway Museum, even if it wasn't completely opened due to them refurbishing the Station Hall, was mindblowing. I got to see the Stirling Single, an engine I love very dearly. Unfortunately neither Scotsman or Truro were there, but Boxhill was a pleasant sight. As I mentioned in my previous post, I used the NRM's railway book archive to read one of Chris' Awdry's RWS books. The only other one grey had was James' original book. And honestly it wasn't amazing but I think it could be worse, which is my opinion on a lot of things considered unpopular or bad.

Pictures I've taken are sure to follow, but only once I'm home!

[danepopfrippery]

After that cd post went viral where i said no thanks i decided to do a set on preserving/freeing your media because a lot of gen z and a dont even know what ripping a cd is. Im all for freeing your media and owning it even if the grid goes down. I still hate cds tho.

Cds/mp3s:

33 and 1/3rds, cassettes and 45rpm records:

78rpm records and anything older:

Freeing your ebooks/finding ebooks of books u already own:

Film/tv and family movies:

Streaming your now available films/shows/music

Preserving pics family and otherwise

All these can be mac or pc and most of them you’ll need itunes which is free, audacity (also free) and a cd/dvd drive for your computer:

Limited-time deal: Gotega External DVD Drive, USB 3.0 Portable +/-RW , DVD Player for CD ROM Burner Compatible with Laptop Desktop PC Windows Linux OS Apple Mac Black https://a.co/d/5d1a7tg

After that its more specific

[heavyelectricity]

I borrowed my mum's laptop so I could examine that pile of DVD+RW discs. One was fairly uninteresting (a Windows 7 installation disc), but the other ten are all recordings made with our Cello DR810 DVD recorder. Two discs contained footage of me playing games, and I uploaded the Sky Surfer (PS2) footage in 2012 - with over 5,900 views, it's the most popular video of that awful game on YouTube.

As for the other discs, you can read about those under the cut:

Two contain the TV adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, with both parts recorded from their original 2006 airings on Sky One. We'd have recorded these to watch as a family. Also on the disc containing part one, there is the Torchwood episode Out Of Time. I think I was the only one of us watching that.

One that's definitely mine contains three Dispatches episodes from early 2006: Spinning Terror, Stealing Your Freedom and The New Fundamentalists. I was gearing up to study politics at university at the time.

I'm not sure about the one that contains a Peter Cushing Doctor Who film, a fragment of Van Helsing and some amount of QI. I'd already seen Van Helsing and wouldn't have chosen to watch it again.

Another I'm unsure about contains Son of the Dragon in full, then a bunch of channel hopping that takes us through Law & Order, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and Frasier. I'm guessing mum had the remote.

The last one I'm not sure about seems to contain an Ice Age film, some other film I can't identify, an episode of Room 101 with Cilla Black as the guest and Have I Got News For You. It could be my sister's doing, as mum never much cared for Cilla Black.

There are a couple of discs that I'm pretty sure were recorded by my sister. One contains a documentary about Kim Peek, and another contains an episode of Smallville.

There are a lot of Christmas adverts and old continuity bits to be found on these discs, so I may upload those.