A reader of this site was kind enough to point out that you can restart a DVD from where you left off by holding the play button the during power-up sequence. I guess I should’a read the manual a bit more closely. Thanks.
Having in previous postings expounded about the greatness of my Philips DVP3040 DVD player, I thought it a good idea to reveal some of the problems I have had with the player after a month or so of use. The main problem has been jittery or jerky video playback on various DivX or XviD files. Some files worked, others were unwatchable. Turns out the player does not like the encoding on specific files. The issue is video that uses a “packed bitstream.” There is, thankfully, an fairly easy solution. There is a small, free piece of software called MPEG4 Modifier that can analyze a video file, and re-save it with an “unpacked bitstream.” The re-saved files are actually a tad smaller than the packed ones and work perfectly in the DVD player. The application is tiny, does not require an install, and very easy to use.
My band, Nonagon, will be playing a live show on Saturday, August 5th at The Note in Chicago’s trendy Wicker Park neighborhood (1565 N. Milwaukee). The show starts around 9 o’clock PM and the line-up is as follows:
Please, please come to the show if you are in town on that weekend. It will be much better than the lame-o-rama Lollapalooza crapfest that will be going on at the same time. And our crapfest is much less expensive.
This book in the Aubry/Maturin series benefits from a clear plot line of espionage.
The first third is intriguing then it just jumps ship.
Pretty good mystery.
Listened to it as a book on tape. Good but lacked an over arching plot.
Great page turner.
More of a character study of a completely unappealing character than a plot-driven novel. Not my thing.
Loses steam about 150 pages into the book.