Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

This fight is for everything.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Books are my comfort food!

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Republicans don’t trust women.

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

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  4. 4.

    physics geek

    I was going to offer details, but I see that Perry Como has beaten me to it. FWIW, the DVD Decrypter burning software can also be used to rip the data from a previously recorded DVD. Once you’ve done that, you can use DVD Shrink to create and image ISO file that DVD Decrypter will burn for you.

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    ether

    Don’t bother trying to convert to DVD, it’ll take at least an hour to convert to svcd, Dealing with a dvd is kinda pointless and time consuming.

    Most DVD players play svcd and vcd.

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    Ian

    John,

    You won’t find a great program for free — but I would suggest getting a product called X Video Converter at http://www.aoamedia.com — for $30 you can convert video to DVD format and also to WMV and MPEG for future needs.

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    silky

    I have a related question if anyone can answer it. I recently downloaded WinAVIVideo and Super DVD Creator 8.5, and successfully converted divx files to a dvd that plays in my home player. Problem is, the movies look like crap. Anything to be done about this, or does it just go with the divx to dvd territory?

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    Perry Como

    Problem is, the movies look like crap. Anything to be done about this, or does it just go with the divx to dvd territory?

    It depends on the source material. There will be some amount of degradation between mpeg-4 and mpeg-2, but a well encoded divx or xvid should be fine. If you compressed your home movie to 700MB and expect those 2 hours to look good on DVD, it won’t.

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    quietpc

    Actually, the easiest thing is just to replace your DVD with one that play Divxs *and* Xvid. I just bought the LG LDA-511 at Best Buy for ~$100. On the box it says it’s compatible with Divx, but I discovered after reading the manual that it also plays Xvid.

    Furthermore, it also has a SD/Compact/MemoryStick slot, which can also be used to load play JPG slideshows OR MP3 music OR movies in MPG, , i.e. you can just copy the movie file to a 1GB flash card in seconds, instead of going through the ~20min hassle of burning it to a DVD. I played a XVID movie file on it and it worked perfectly.

    Very cool.

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    h0mi

    Quietpc’s got a good idea. I bought a liteon dvd recorder that also plays divx, and got a philips 642 for my aunt for Xmas. Unfortunately, many of my videos aren’t in divx or mpeg format, so I’d still be dealing with converting if I bothered to (try to) burn them to DVD. Converting video to dvd or even svcd/vcd is a bit of a PITA if the video isn’t already an mpeg/mpeg2 format. tmpegenc reliably converts the files for me but isn’t free and takes an hour. Then you have to author the dvd and burn it (or build the (s)vcd & burn that).

    I’d peruse dvdrhelp.com for more info.

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    Dudley

    I have found that DIVXtoDVD works best for me. I have used Nero and other programs; the problem was that the audio and video would get out of sync. The frame rate for a lot of divx and xvid posted on the web is 24 fps whereas your tv needs slightly more than 29 fps. This program handles the compensation and burns the dvd without any intervention. You can find out more about the program at http://www.vso-software.fr/. There is also a trial version.

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