'DVD Jon' frees your media with DoubleTwist
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Norwegian hacker's DoubleTwist Ventures unveils its first product, a desktop client for sharing any kind of video, photo, or music file on a variety of personal gadgets.
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Rui Capela's software has appeared in this column many times. I've written about it directly (see At the Sounding Edge: Using QSynth and QJackCtl and HDRs and DAWs For Linux: The New Breed) and it shows up in almost every article I write. I'm not exaggerating when I state that Rui's programs have become indispensable components here at Studio Dave, so naturally I'm interested in the mind behind it all. In this entry I'll recap the nature and state of Rui's software, after which we'll meet the man himself in another lively interview here at the sounding edge.
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The TurboLinux Wizpy, a multimedia media player that contains a PC-bootable version of the Linux operating system, will go on sale worldwide in June.
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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I will turn down free beer software in favor of freedom software when both exist. If you don't know the difference, that's OK. You cannot see the source code for the video drivers from ATI, for example. You can get them for free but they are not freed. The same with Adobe Acrobat Reader and plugins for the Firefox web browser.
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Want to impress your Windows-using friends and colleagues? Start a QuickTime movie, play a DVD, click on the visualizer in iTunes while it plays a song. Then press F9 and watch what happens.  [Dec 15]
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HD DRM: RIP A lone hacker has unlocked the master key preventing the copying of high-definition DVDs in a development that is sure to get the entertainment industry's knickers wrapped tighter than a magnet's coil. What's more, the individual was able to defeat the technology with no cracking tools or reverse engineering, despite the millions of dollars and many years engineers put into developing the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) for locking down high-definition video.â¦
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DVD-Audio, Super Audio CD, DVD Plus and the imminent DualDisc are among the cutting-edge music delivery formats. But just as these carriers deliver high-resolution audio, so does another medium making inroads in the audio production and consumer communities: high-definition broadcast.
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Tussle over next-generation DVD format could alienate consumers.
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RealNetworks rolls out a media player with clip downloading functionality.
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Integrated video engine to offer DVD quality on a handheld
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An open-source application for Mac OS X encodes music using just about any audio file format imaginable. In Monkey Bites.
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Will the competing next-generation optical disc standards ever meet in the same device? Not for now, it seems.
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Can the movie studios kill the most promising new DVD format?
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Q What is the "variable bit rate encoding" option in my music software good for?
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Noted DRM hacker Jon Johansen, known more commonly by the nickname "DVD Jon," has now figured out a way to reverse engineer Apple's FairPlay digital rights management technology, and plans to license it to other companies.
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Device can be connected to a camcorder or VCR for transferring taped footage directly to a DVD, without using a computer.