There is also Apollo Dimonds which are real diamonds grown in a lab. I think the Apollo Diamonds offer the best alternative to mined diamonds, to be honest. I've really learned a…

Quote: Originally Posted by Jellytussle You: not married. You're not married yet when you give the ring. Plenty of time to empty out the bank accounts before she gets her c…

Quote: Originally Posted by Cody Dawg I guess the best diamond substitute is the Diamond Nexus gemstone according to this Link. Diamond Nexus Site. Notice how all of the co…

Quote: Diamond prices are ... not a fair reflection of diamond scarcity. WTF?! Is the price of any product sold in the US solely a reflection of the scarcity o…

Quote: Originally Posted by Troll Notice how all of the companies listed in that article are American. What's really going on here? Yeah it's a conspiracy! BTW, does this …

Quote: Trollbait The sense of entitlement to other people's resources is so damn ingrained in the psyche that Cody Dawg feels some kind of entitlement to diamonds at cos…

Yes, Troll has a bad habit of confusing his belief or projections to be absolute fact.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kevin Yes, Troll has a bad habit of confusing his belief or projections to be absolute fact.

Quote: Originally Posted by Cody Dawg I just thought it was a great article since I live in an area where flaunting wealth vis-a-vis jewelry is de rigeur. That's a complete …

i've downloaded various movies and things from various share and pay forums and for some reason toast hates 'em toast usually won't even recognize it as a file to burn and on th…

oh, btw, they're always either avi's or mpgs, etc., in case that wasn't clear any help greatly appreciated! i would love to put 500 short avi's (totally only 2-3 gig) onto a 4.3 …

Are you burning DVD Data or DVD Video? You need to convert all the clips to MPEG2 (which will make them larger or lower quality) and burn a DVD Video if you want it to work in set-…

i download movies from limewire as well as pay sites i belong to, and they DL as avi's or mpgs or mov's. so it's video (they're movies - - not data), rt? are you saying i need to…

You are not understanding. If you want these to work in a DVD player, then they will have to be converted to "video DVD", and one of the things along that process is converting th…

you sound very very knowledgeable ok, so i have this FFmpegX converter thingy can i put these avi's in a format playable by a dvd player by selecting, what?, "DVD mpeg2enc"? or …

btw, i'm experimenting converting an ".avi" to dvd mpeg 2 enc, and just so you know, it is VERY slow going. it's a 700 MB file, and it will prob take hours. it's at 3% done after…

lastly, this 700 MB file i'm converting to dvd mpeg2enc looks like it's gonna be about 8 gig when the conversion is done? is this to be expected? that would be a roughly 10 to 1 …

With FFMpegX, you can change how bit the MPEG-2 file is going to end up by clicking on the "Video" tab and using the bitrate calculator to change the VIdeo Bitrate to fit on 1 DVD.

ok, i'll try that, thanks will it affect how long it'll take. my 700 MB conversion has taken 3 hrs and is 38% done? thanks again

fyi, i have strung a lot of avi's together so that it's 10 hrs worth in 1 avi. but it says it' s only 700 MB i did that video tab / bitrate calculator thing and it says "170 mins…

Conversion to MPEG2 can take a while, espically on a pokey machine. To get 10 hours of video on a DVD you need to encode them all at about 1002kbps (in MPEG2, of course). Currentl…

thanks for the info, i'll experiment. btw, i have a G5, twin 2.5 mhz when i took a quick look at how it was doing (after about 5 hrs, about halfway done), there was no sound. i …

ok it finally finished converting. the final file was 10 gig so, it wouldn't fit to one disc. i'll have to try changing that bit rate as mduell suggests BUT, when i popped the …

ok, i did the whole thing again and again it's asking where the audio component is (and it's not accepting as a 'valid' audio file the similarly named file w/.wav at the end, which…

Quote: Originally Posted by smileLP fyi, i have strung a lot of avi's together so that it's 10 hrs worth in 1 avi. but it says it' s only 700 MB) That's WAY too much to fit…