The process of letterboxing consists of taking a movie frame (as shot by the camera of the camera guy on a Hollywood movie set), resize it so that it fits on a 4:3 screen without stretching, then add black bars on top and bottom to [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Pan & Scan
June 28, 2010 – 8:15 pm
Pan and scan is a method of adjusting widescreen film images so that they can be shown within the proportions of a standard definition 4:3 aspect ratio television screen, often cropping off the sides of the original widescreen image to focus on the composition’s most important aspects.
As you know from going to the movie [...]
An introduction of VCD
June 27, 2010 – 8:05 pm
VCD (Video Compact Disc) is a CD that contains moving pictures and sound. VCD share many similarities with regular audio/music CDs. A VCD can hold up to 74/80 minutes on 650MB/700MB CDs respectively of full-motion video along with quality stereo sound. VCDs use a compression standard called MPEG to store the video and audio. A [...]
What is DTS and its relationship with Dolby Digital?
June 24, 2010 – 9:44 pm
DTS is s product of DTS, Inc., it stands for Digital Theater Systems Digital Sound. DTS is a multichannel audio compression format similar to Dolby Digital used in DVD-video discs, DVD-audio, 5.1 channel audio CDs, and some movie theaters.
DTS differs from Dolby Digital in that it generally uses higher data [...]
The difference between DVD+R and DVD+RW
June 24, 2010 – 2:09 am
What is the difference between DVD+R and DVD+RW? There are three key points:
DVD+R is a non-rewritable format and it is compatible with about 89% of all DVD Players and most DVD-ROMs.
DVD+RW is a rewritable format and is compatible with about 79% of all DVD Players and most DVD-ROMs.
How to make my DVD-ROM / DVD Writer and Software DVD Player Region Free?
June 22, 2010 – 11:57 pm
How do I make my DVD drive region free (remove region codes/country codes/zone locks)?
Use DVD Ghost to make your region locked DVD drive and your software player region free. You can also “patch” your DVD drives firmware, you find patched DVD drives firmwareshere (freeware but it may be a bit tricky and [...]
What is 1080i and 1080p?
June 22, 2010 – 1:38 am
1080i and 1080p are the shorthand name for two category of video modes. The number 1080 stands for 1080 lines of vertical resolution, while the letter i stands for interlaced or non-progressive scan, the letter p stands for progressive scan or non-interlaced.
1080i is considered to be an HDTV video mode. The term usually assumes a [...]
What is MP3 ID3 Tag and ID3?
June 21, 2010 – 3:20 am
We all know MP3, but not everyone konws MP3 ID3 Tag, or ID3, here is an explanation:
An MP3 ID3 Tag is information stored at the end of an MP3 file. The tag can contain information about the Title/Songname, Artist, Album, Year, Comment, and Genre in version 1 and also Track in version 1.1. [...]
20% Discount – Now is the right time to act
June 18, 2010 – 9:32 pm
Although many of our customer like DVD X Player, the may hesitate considering our price, so many of them asked will there be a free version of this region free DVD player software. I have to tell you that, even if we issue a free version of DVD X player, some of the function or [...]
Converting VCD to DVD
June 18, 2010 – 3:11 am
Because VCD files use an MPEG-1 format very similar to the MPEG-1 allowed by DVD, most times it’s a simple matter of extracting the MPEG-1 files and using them in a DVD authoring program.
However, please note this simple method requires cooperation with your DVD player as the sequence headers and GOP lengths of VCD are [...]
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