Computer/Technical Help

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Originally posted by Krang quote: Originally posted by DominusofDeath It is a Sound Blaster Live! 24bit. Old but I don't have moeny to toss around. And I went through all options and everything is set and it still deosn't work. First, double check all the connections and make sure all the speakers are connected properly and are receiving power. If that doesn't help, it is most likely a software problem. Try http://us.creative.com/,case=5035,Question3109=obj(3016):obj(2397)]this troubleshooter[/url] to diagnose the problem (or http://us.creative.com/,case=18596,Question3109=obj(3016):obj(2397)]this one[/url] if the first one doesn't help). quote: Now my Mic is constantly broadcasting. Go to Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices, and on the Volume tab, click Advanced. From the new window that pops up, go to Options > Properties and make sure that each of the boxes are checked. Now, check the Mute box underneath Microphone and see if it helps. If not, try muting other devices one at a time until it takes care of the problem.

Turns out it was the soundcard. So I'm going back to the old built in one

Alright, I've got a plight.

I recently downloaded a video file. Its at like 640x288 resolution. I converted it into an mp4 and was irritated to find the video squished together.

Any way to edit the video to fill up the remaining 102 pixels with black bars so this doesn't happen?

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Originally posted by Mr. D Alright, I've got a plight. I recently downloaded a video file. Its at like 640x288 resolution. I converted it into an mp4 and was irritated to find the video squished together. Any way to edit the video to fill up the remaining 102 pixels with black bars so this doesn't happen?

Was the original video file by any chance Matroska or OGM? Those files probably had the "16:9" flag enabled so that media players will automatically detect the aspect ratio and provide the black bars. You should be able to find a MP4 program that will allow you to make the file with the aspect ratio flag in.

However, if that's too hard, good thing those video editing programs allow you to encode black bar into the video file itself. I don't usually do that when encoding, but like this image here, it's possible.



I use Avidemux to do this, but VirtualDub works too, and it's a Windows program. Open your video file, and then go to Video --> Filters. Click on "Add...", and look for "Resize".



When you resize the video, leave the pixels on the top the same. Check the "Expand frame and letterbox frame" box. Now enter in the rest of the pixels (in this case 640x480 pixels or whatever). You should now have black bars when viewing the video. You'll have to reencode the video again, though.

I hope that helps.

It is an .AVI file and it gives me this goofy error saying something about the VBR audio when I open it up...

But I am ignoring it like homework

Thanks much.

EDIT: a friend in class helped me w/some of this so i removed what i learned from this question.

i actually have yet to do anything about those icons and stuff, haven't had time.

i have a Java project in my Linear Data Structures course, i was wondering if anyone here would have a clue on some stuff i'm having a hard time w/(i'm new to coding stuff that isn't BASIC).

we have to make an mp3 playing program. we were given the code to use for Java Media Framework to play files, that's all good, but we need to have a GUI and that's where most of my troubles lie.

in terms of the JMF, i haven't figured out how to make the control panel appear in my GUI. In regards to Actionlistener, i was thinking to have JTextAreas; i need to display info about the mp3s that can be modified, so i thought to have the info be displayed in a TextArea and then a person can modify the text there and then choose to save it, i'm not sure how to go about it.

i have 'song' as an Object with artist, album, and other things as variables within it. i have an array of songs, 1000 elements large. i know how to take what a person inputs into the computer and make it into the Object song within the array, but i do NOT know how to get the individual variables such as 'artist' and 'album' OUT of song to display in the TextAreas.

i also need to write data to a file and read it upon open the program again. that shouldn't be too bad but i wouldn't mind help there as well.

anyone got a clue on code i can use? i've been looking around online and tutorials and info seem to be for people who already know more about object-oriented programming that me.

the stuff that we also had to do that i've basically got down is adding songs, removing them, scrolling through them one at a time... we had to make a contact database last semester and that wasn't that bad, i took a lot of code from that to make the skeleton for this project.

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Originally posted by NVWC2006 in terms of the JMF, i haven't figured out how to make the control panel appear in my GUI. In regards to Actionlistener, i was thinking to have JTextAreas; i need to display info about the mp3s that can be modified, so i thought to have the info be displayed in a TextArea and then a person can modify the text there and then choose to save it, i'm not sure how to go about it.

Sure, JTextAreas should work fine for that. You can read the info from the file into a string, then use object.setText(string) to display it in the text area. To save the info, use object.getText() to read it from the text area into a string, then write the string back to the file.

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i have 'song' as an Object with artist, album, and other things as variables within it. i have an array of songs, 1000 elements large. i know how to take what a person inputs into the computer and make it into the Object song within the array, but i do NOT know how to get the individual variables such as 'artist' and 'album' OUT of song to display in the TextAreas.

Since song is an object, you can use song[i].artist and song[i].album to access that information (where i is the index of the song).

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i also need to write data to a file and read it upon open the program again. that shouldn't be too bad but i wouldn't mind help there as well.

It has been a while since I've worked with file I/O, but I think you would use an InputStream and an OutputStream to accomplish that.

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anyone got a clue on code i can use? i've been looking around online and tutorials and info seem to be for people who already know more about object-oriented programming that me.

I have some examples of Java programs that I've written for classes, so if there's anything specific that you would like an example of, let me know and I'd be glad to help.

I've gone about as far as I can.. I keep getting the error "Cannot get source" and "Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0"" when I try to save to the array and now even when I try to play an mp3 (which worked fine before).

I can't try file reading or writing until I can save to the array and scroll around with that.

My music player has a visible component that I'm not sure how to put in my GUI, i want it on the North side of a BorderLayout but so far i've not been successful.

i have been unable to figure out how to make a picture appear correctly in the center of the GUI...

i just decided to attach the files, that seems like the easiest thing to do right now.

• Attachment: JavaPod.zip

I have a simple question:

Is Vista worth it?

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Originally posted by Mike I have a simple question: Is Vista worth it?

if you're a developer, yes

if you're anyone else, then right now, no. everything Windows right now in this world is set to XP and that's what's still going to be used for some time. until people start hacking Vista and Security Updates start being set up, and more people have the hardware to support it, just stick w/XP, and get a WindowBlinds skin if you really want it to look like Vista.

all through i do know, if you choose to get it, newegg.com is selling OEM CDs of Vista Ultimate for 200 US bucks

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Originally posted by NVWC2006 I've gone about as far as I can.. I keep getting the error "Cannot get source" and "Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0"" when I try to save to the array and now even when I try to play an mp3 (which worked fine before). I can't try file reading or writing until I can save to the array and scroll around with that. My music player has a visible component that I'm not sure how to put in my GUI, i want it on the North side of a BorderLayout but so far i've not been successful. i have been unable to figure out how to make a picture appear correctly in the center of the GUI... i just decided to attach the files, that seems like the easiest thing to do right now.

Sorry for the late reply. Through some testing, I figured out that collection[scroll] is null when data is being saved to it, hence the NullPointerException. I don't think the line "private Song collection[] = new Song[999];" is sufficient to initialize all 999 Songs in the array, so you'll need to either initialize each one before it is used (i.e. with a "new Song" constructor) or add a for loop at the top that initializes them all (not the most efficient way, but it might help for debugging purposes). Remember, you can always use System.out.println to output a variable to the console to help you track down errors. If you need any further help, feel free to ask.

Ok I just got the Dell Dimension 1GB PC800 RDRAM 1024MB Rambus RIMM I won on eBay. Before I even started looking on eBay, I did research on the RAM for this computer, thought I knew what needed to be known.

Installed them, thought everything was going well...... then I started the computer back up and it tells me that the two are unsupported and to get the correct type.


My computer is a:
Dell 8200
Pentium 4
CPU 2.40GHz
2.39 GHz, 256 MB of RAM



What did I do wrong?

First, remove the new RAM and install the old RAM again (if you haven't already). Then, download CPU-Z and run it. On the Memory tab, what is listed under Frequency? If it's closer to 533MHz than 400MHz, you'll need PC1066 RDRAM instead of PC800. Otherwise, are you installing the new RAM at the same time as the old? If so, try removing the old RAM and leaving just the new 1GB, since the two sets may not be compatible with each other.

Every computer in my house gets an error on mypsace called.

Redirection Limit for this URL exceeded. All computers AND browsers. ANy ideas?

Ha, that project is already over, it was due last week. I had to turn it in incomplete. But i'll keep that in mind for further reference.

I tried working w/the registry edits that other site had mentioned and TweakUI, but in the end it changed nothing. TweakUI modified one value that the page said to do (the same mod it said to) so I did the rest but I still have the My Bluetooth Places icon and My Sharing Folders icon in My Computer.

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Originally posted by Krang First, remove the new RAM and install the old RAM again (if you haven't already). Then, download CPU-Z and run it. On the Memory tab, what is listed under Frequency? If it's closer to 533MHz than 400MHz, you'll need PC1066 RDRAM instead of PC800. Otherwise, are you installing the new RAM at the same time as the old? If so, try removing the old RAM and leaving just the new 1GB, since the two sets may not be compatible with each other.

Ah, alright thanks Krang (knew I could always count on a good answer here).

Currently for the 256mb it's listing the Frequency as 397.3MHz

Yeah, I'll try to install just the two 512MB's alone. Hopefully that will work.

If nothing else I'll re-sell them back on eBay.


*update*

Crap, installing only the 512's didn't work. Still said "replace with RDRAM PC800-40ns or faster". In fact when I placed the CRIMM's in the first two slots, it said nothing was supported in either of the four slots. Have to have the CRIMM's in right? Can't seem to do much without them being in, aside from have a nice 'tune' of beeps...

Damn, I was really hoping that'd work.

Oh well on eBay I go....

Hm, speaking of eBay, someone care to point me in the right direction?

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Originally posted by DominusofDeath Every computer in my house gets an error on mypsace called. Redirection Limit for this URL exceeded. All computers AND browsers. ANy ideas?

Try checking your cookie settings to make sure you are not accidentally blocking them from MySpace.com. If everything is ok, open up a Command Prompt and type:

nslookup myspace.com

Post the addresses it lists here (just the first couple are fine).

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Originally posted by NVWC2006 I tried working w/the registry edits that other site had mentioned and TweakUI, but in the end it changed nothing. TweakUI modified one value that the page said to do (the same mod it said to) so I did the rest but I still have the My Bluetooth Places icon and My Sharing Folders icon in My Computer.

TweakUI should be able to remove it from both locations. Be sure to reboot the computer after changing the setting. Also, the option to remove it from My Computer may be in a different menu in TweakUI than the option to remove it from the Desktop.

For My Sharing Folders, try going to Start > Run and entering this command:

regsvr32 -u "C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\fsshext.8.0.0812.00.dll"

This is assuming you haven't upgraded MSN since last time you posted. If so, you'll need to change the numbers in the command to match the latest version of the DLL.

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Originally posted by R.Smith Ah, alright thanks Krang (knew I could always count on a good answer here). Currently for the 256mb it's listing the Frequency as 397.3MHz Yeah, I'll try to install just the two 512MB's alone. Hopefully that will work. If nothing else I'll re-sell them back on eBay. *update* Crap, installing only the 512's didn't work. Still said "replace with RDRAM PC800-40ns or faster". In fact when I placed the CRIMM's in the first two slots, it said nothing was supported in either of the four slots. Have to have the CRIMM's in right? Can't seem to do much without them being in, aside from have a nice 'tune' of beeps... Damn, I was really hoping that'd work. Oh well on eBay I go....

Hmm, it sounds like 400MHz was correct after all. However, I think I see the problem. The auction claims that the RAM is compatible with systems that use 45ns RDRAM. However, a lower number on the timing is faster, and your computer is expecting RAM at or faster than 40ns, so the RAM from the auction is not fast enough. You may be able to contact the seller and exchange it, but if not, you can sell it back and buy 40ns RDRAM.

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Originally posted by Krang TweakUI should be able to remove it from both locations. Be sure to reboot the computer after changing the setting. Also, the option to remove it from My Computer may be in a different menu in TweakUI than the option to remove it from the Desktop. For My Sharing Folders, try going to Start > Run and entering this command: regsvr32 -u "C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\fsshext.8.0.0812.00.dll" This is assuming you haven't upgraded MSN since last time you posted. If so, you'll need to change the numbers in the command to match the latest version of the DLL.

TweakUI had removed the Bleutooth icon from the Desktop and My Computer, but not the start menu My Computer. So I turned everything back on, followed the instructions from the site you posted earlier, that took care of the Desktop icon. so i looked in the registry, followed my suspicions and deleted one more key. viola! the my computer icon is gone from everywhere. and the tray still works.
i had windows live messenger, so i found the fsshext file again and followed that command, it's gone too!

whoooo!

now all that's left is that stupid lexmark all-in-one that's been trouble for the past half a year, when i refuse to reinstall windows or recovery console or anything similar. a friend mentioned to check it's IRQ in the Device Manager.. only problem, it doesn't list its IRQ ^^;;;;;;

ok so i gave in and reinstalled windows.

i'm going one piece of hardware at a time to see where problems lie..

but something odd is happening.

every folder i make defaults to Read Only. if you go to the Properties, the file or folder, every single one that i make, has the Read Only box shaded in. then when i change it and save it, it doesn't always stick. what's going on? some programs won't install because the directories i make for them get stuck as write protected!

See if this article helps. If not, try checking the hard drive for errors.

That article did not help. I'm trying a few other things and I'm also going to run checkdisk

i was unable to really use the microsoft office settings tools.. but i was able to save my entire user name file system from before i reinstalled. copying and pasting the stuff hasn't worked, or maybe i did w/the wrong files... is there a way, with Office XP, to take the old settings for how the applications work, the way my toolbars are set up and everything, and transfer them to the new installation of office xp?