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by kals » 1 year ago
Latest post of the previous page:
SB83 wrote: ↑1 year ago
kals wrote: ↑1 year ago
Can anyone recommend any alternatives to VLC media player please? @SB83 recommended a program a few years ago which supports more media file types than VLC, but I can't find it anywhere on the forum and it's not on my current PC.
It's the second program on the link Erwin posted (Pot player) but I had stopped using it as latter versions of the program started installing all sorts of dangerous garbage without your permission.
Ok thanks, good to know
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by Antonov » 10 months ago
is it really impossible to play .mp4 from an USB to iPad?
I enquired this in my nearest Apple store, and they claimed it is not possible - no such 'transformator' exists.
I'd love to watch some of my .mp4s on my iPad, and that seemed the easiest/ most convenient way.
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Michkov
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by Michkov » 10 months ago
Play or move? In the end it's a file so you should be able to move the file to the ipad, if an ipad can play mp4s is another question.
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Antonov
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by Antonov » 10 months ago
good point. how to move files from the pc to the ipad. I believe Apple has a VLC player app, which should give options.
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by erwin greven » 10 months ago
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by PTRACER » 5 months ago
I had a horrible moment yesterday.
My external hard drive containing ALL the videos I ever captured for this forum fell on the floor. The power and USB connectors were ripped off the SATA-to-USB circuit board. I thought I could take the board off and connect the drive to the PC without it, but it turns out a chip on this board encrypts all the data, so the entire drive and all its contents were completely inaccessible and seemingly not recoverable.
Luckily some incredibly super smart guy online has found that the encryption key is stored somewhere on the HDD and if you use Linux and a bunch of commands, then you can rip the key, decrypt the drive, mount it under Linux and copy the files to another place. Which is what I was doing now via a Virtual Machine.
I'm so, so relieved as I don't have another copy of these anywhere...
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by Cheeveer » 5 months ago
Shit, that is lucky/unlucky. Glad you could recover it.
Meanwhile, I have been busy building a new PC. Using some parts from my old one, it turned out like this:
MSI B450 Gaming Plus motherboard
Ryzen 5 2600 CPU
16GB RAM
500GB SSD harddrive
and with that my old nVidia GTX 760 GPU that I plan to upgrade soon.
should be alright for a while. And it all worked first time booting it! Really happy with that.
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by PTRACER » 5 months ago
Cheeveer wrote: ↑5 months ago
Shit, that is lucky/unlucky. Glad you could recover it.
Meanwhile, I have been busy building a new PC. Using some parts from my old one, it turned out like this:
MSI B450 Gaming Plus motherboard
Ryzen 5 2600 CPU
16GB RAM
500GB SSD harddrive
and with that my old nVidia GTX 760 GPU that I plan to upgrade soon.
should be alright for a while. And it all worked first time booting it! Really happy with that.
Sounds cool. What card you thinking of going for next?
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by Cheeveer » 5 months ago
Something like a GTX 1xxx with a lot of graphics memory. Don't need anything super-flash as I am only doing racing games pretty much. But it needs to load big fields in Automobilista or rFactor 2 cleanly.
https://www.netonnet.se/art/datorkompon ... 7428.8989/
https://www.netonnet.se/art/datorkompon ... 6820.8989/
Maybe?
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by kals » 3 months ago
Anyone have any VPN recommendations? Thinking of getting one but not sure which. Keep seeing special offers for NordVPN (3 years at just over $100), so thinking of going that direction.