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28-Dec-17 1:57

Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote:
We can't bat for shite

Smith and Marsh are doing alright in previous tests

I think its time to play the ashes at a neutral venue - its getting boring thrashing each other in our own countries.

Michael Martin28-Dec-17 4:15

Michael Martin

28-Dec-17 4:15

This match, they and Paine chopped on. Rarely see that once a series.

Faarrrkkkk neutral venues. Doctor the pitchea your way and make the visitors adapt.

I'm sick of the drop in pitches over here making things dead and keeping the Winters sports wankers happy. Faarrrkkkk them with a pineapple.

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Abhinav S28-Dec-17 4:48

Abhinav S

28-Dec-17 4:48

Pom Pey wrote:
at a neutral venue

That's more or less the case for all cricket now.

Aus come to India, India beat them.
India go to Australia and loose badly.

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Re: FFS Cook!!!!!!!!!(ps this is a cricket thread - if you don't follow just scroll on)

The pompey29-Dec-17 12:48

Re: FFS Cook!!!!!!!!!(ps this is a cricket thread - if you don't follow just scroll on)

29-Dec-17 12:48

Abhinav S wrote:
That's more or less the case for all cricket now.

That's so true - you come here this summer, England will win yet it doesnt mean we're the better team - it just means Anderson and Broad are unplayable on English pitches

The pompey28-Dec-17 1:52

Re: FFS Cook!!!!!!!!!(ps this is a cricket thread - if you don't follow just scroll on)

28-Dec-17 1:52

Abhinav S wrote:
Broad surviving a tough time.

What do you mean? The cricket is on satellite tv here (and during the night) so i dont get to watch it.

The pompey28-Dec-17 2:00

Re: FFS Cook!!!!!!!!!(ps this is a cricket thread - if you don't follow just scroll on)

28-Dec-17 2:00

Just seen he scored a 50!
Reminds me of the Fantasy League days when he was listed as an all-rounder Laugh | :laugh:

lopatir28-Dec-17 2:51

lopatir

28-Dec-17 2:51

Sadly being in a country that sucks at sport, and the only thing some people watch here is the F1 (the race here) and English soccer (no idea why - many despise their "colonial" past, particularly as the poms let the Japs literally walk in during WW-II) there's not much sport that I can follow.

There is cricket on TV here, for an extra fee (the Indians love it, but more for the IPL)

the closest cricket I saw here was Kevin Pietersen on The Grand Tour week before last. From what he said seems cricket players are all still piss heads, even while every other sport has gone all namby pamby about what their players do when not working
(which really is just Elephant | [mastadon]

ing sad in my mind, ordinary blokes can still have a pint in the weekend, rugby players for example have to act like total prima-donna princesses 24/7, on and off season except when on the field - even then they're not supposed to swear, spit or gesture rudely or even tease any more. FFS, if I wanted knitting lessons I'd watch the knotting channel, not rugby.)

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Michael Martin28-Dec-17 5:36

Michael Martin

28-Dec-17 5:36

Last I was in Singapore I walked around an awesome cricket ground I would have loved to play on. Any idea if it gets used much?

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lopatir29-Dec-17 0:52

lopatir

29-Dec-17 0:52

Ah, the cricket ground at the Padang (near by the old parliament).
In 18 years I seen it used for cricket once, although I believe on a few occasions teams passing through (i.e. Aus/NZ <-> UK) may have an open day (no full games - few of the names show up and sign bats for the kids and maybe a bit of bowling/batting in the nets).

The ground is occasionally used for a variety of non cricket (often non-sport) activities - far more then the seldom (hardly ever) use for cricket.

There is also an official Singapore Cricket Club, the activities they list as "sports" is mainly watching [sports on] TV.

There are a lot of Indian/Bangla manual workers here, weekends they will often be seen playing cricket - but not at that ground though, no, no, no - more often some disused [rough/barren] fields further away from the city centre - it really is like a religion for some of them.

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Vikram A Punathambekar29-Dec-17 5:39

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29-Dec-17 5:39

Super analogy!

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Converting DVDs/BDs to MPEG4 - WITH subtitles

kalberts27-Dec-17 23:10

27-Dec-17 23:10

I often visit a friend to watch (mostly my own) DVD/BD movies - he has a huge TV set. He has no Bluray player, and his only DVD player is in his full-size tower PC, so I bring my settop player for plugging into his TV set. That is somewhat cumbersome; on my last visit I happened to leave the remote at home, and the player doesn't have the buttons (except On/off and Eject).

His TV set has a USB socket, and can play MPEG4 videos stored on a memory stick. If I could copy the DVD/BD to a file on the stick, I wouldn't have to carry the player back and forth every time. I've got the software for extracting the sound and video from both DVDs and BDs to an MPEG4 file. But NOT the subtitle tracks.

Now it happens that we frequently watch foreign movies - and, as we are not native English speakers, some English dialects fall into the same group as Finish or Italian Smile | :)

. So for a lot of the movies, we need the subtitles. Actually, for some disks with multiple soundtracks, my ripping software also picks the 'wrong' one, so even though the movie is English, the MPEG4 file has the French or Italian dubbed sound track.

Is there any software out there that allows me to rip the movie to MPEG4, with the subtitle track of my choice, and preferably the sound track of my choice? Ideally, it should also be capable of reading an .srt file (instead of the graphical subtitle images on the DVD/BD), with selectable text rendering.

It doesn't have to be freeeware, but I'm not going to pay thousands of dollars.

Before you give me that ugly look: In my country (Norway), the law explicitly states that you may produce copies for private, non-commercial purposes as long as it is limited to private, non-commercial purposes (the statue actually repeates this restriction!), so I am NOT breaking the law as long as I use it only for watching the movies on my friend's TV set.

A_Griffin27-Dec-17 23:30

27-Dec-17 23:30

Why not just buy a DVD player? They're cheap enough anyway, and between the two of you even more so.

kalberts28-Dec-17 0:37

28-Dec-17 0:37

I already got one Smile | :)

, it would have to be my friend buying one, and it would have to be a BD player. But he is short on money, and will not be spending what he can spare on a BD player, no matter how cheap.

Especially not nowadays. Most of my friends/colleagues rejects discs of all kinds nowadays. If I reocmmend some movie or music that happens not to be available through the streaming services, and I say: "You can borrow my CD / DVD / BD", the common response is "Naaah, forget it! I don't use that stuff any more; I haven't got any player for it." It is like offering them music on a 78rpm record.

Even to my friends with enough money to buy a player, they would rather buy a case of beer for a movie streaming night than buying a player for 78rpm records. Or DVDs/BDs, which are in roughly the same class, in their eyes.

A_Griffin28-Dec-17 0:45

28-Dec-17 0:45

OK - but you said you're willing to pay for ripping software, and I suspect you can get a DVD/Bluray player for less.
Having said that - have you tried Freemake[^]? (That or one of their other products). It can do a lot, but you will need to buy a premium licence to make it useable. They have a sale on right now....

kalberts28-Dec-17 0:54

28-Dec-17 0:54

I was not aware of Freemake. It seems to be exactly what I need. Thanks for the suggestion.

Their website uses the "free" at least one hundred and fifty times; I haven't yet found the price of the premium lisence you mention. (I suppose it is like drug dealers - the first shot is free...) Maybe the free version will cover all my needs; I'll try that one first.

A_Griffin28-Dec-17 1:06

28-Dec-17 1:06

Without the premium packs it can take bloody ages to do anything - they speed it up. It may also add a watermark to the videos. Be careful too when installing - use the "custom" option to avoid unwanted extra installs. BUt test it out first before buying to be sure it does all you want.

kalberts28-Dec-17 0:57

28-Dec-17 0:57

There I found the sale price of the Premium pack.

I know that DVD/BD players are cheap nowadays, but can you really get one for $19 where you live?

Jrvansant29-Dec-17 1:38

Jrvansant

29-Dec-17 1:38

Member 7989122 wrote:
I know that DVD/BD players are cheap nowadays, but can you really get one for $19 where you live?

$19, no, but $39 for refurbished on Amazon, yes . . . and for that small expenditure you eliminate having to spend your time ripping the discs.

OriginalGriff28-Dec-17 4:06

OriginalGriff

28-Dec-17 4:06

Freemake used to be damn good - but suddenly they got greedy, and want you to pay for the "speed up option" (which means it uses your GPU, like the previous version did for free), and then again for that option, the other option, ... total ripoff.

I'm using WinX HD and Avidemux instead these days.

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A_Griffin28-Dec-17 5:27

28-Dec-17 5:27

True - though in fairness their pricess are not outrageous, and they're still the best (I've found) for downloading videos off the Internet (YouTube et al)

OriginalGriff28-Dec-17 5:51

OriginalGriff

28-Dec-17 5:51

I think what really p*ss*d me off was forcing an update on me without telling me it would degrade the product (unless I started stumping up money - which I was about to pay until I found it doesn't give you everything I had before without another payment, and another...)

So I decided "sod you" and looked for something else.

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milo-xml29-Dec-17 4:59

milo-xml

29-Dec-17 4:59

There are like half a dozen youtube download plugins for Firefox that work great. Smile | :)

dandy7228-Dec-17 4:55

dandy72

28-Dec-17 4:55

I already got one , it would have to be my friend buying one, and it would have to be a BD player

So...is the price of a Blu-ray player worth the hassle of taking yours with you every time you go visit your friend to watch something? If it was me, I'd just buy a cheap player and leave it at my friend's place. Electronics like these, especially those with moving parts, don't particularly like being moved around all the time and could die a premature death. Or a connector might break before that happens.