It's plugged in, and it charges fine when it is off, but when it's on it starts to lose power even though it is still plugged in.
It's possible that he's in the land of perpetual Wednesday, or the crazy melty land, or you know, the world without shrimp.
Anya ,'Showtime'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
Got a question about technology? Ask it here. Discussion of hardware, software, TiVos, multi-region DVDs, Windows, Macs, LINUX, hand-helds, iPods, anything tech related. Better than any helpdesk!
sj - Nov 27, 2009 3:43:37 pm PST #11837 of 25501
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Deena - Nov 27, 2009 3:55:09 pm PST #11838 of 25501
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
A quick search tells me that it could be a faulty AC adapter; or it could be that the pin holding the plug into the laptop has loosened from the motherboard. A couple of people describe this kind of fix, but this one actually has a picture: [link]
sj - Nov 27, 2009 4:00:06 pm PST #11839 of 25501
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Thanks, Deena! I'll look at that when I am no longer posting from the crackberry.
Polter-Cow - Nov 27, 2009 6:13:17 pm PST #11840 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Steph, I'd love an invite as well.
With Mininova gone, my primary site shifts to Isohunt, which is also good for comics, but it's not as easy to use and navigate. The search function isn't great. Going directly to EZTV is good too.
amych - Nov 27, 2009 6:26:57 pm PST #11841 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, most of my stuff comes via feeds from EZTV, but I hate losing both mini and pb so quickly for the stuff I actually go searching for individually.
Vortex - Nov 27, 2009 7:06:53 pm PST #11842 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
dumb question: if I'm converting a tivo file to a format to be burned to a DVD, what file extension do I choose? .avi, .mpeg? something else?
§ ita § - Nov 27, 2009 7:10:41 pm PST #11843 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do you want to play it in a conventional DVD player? Then you have to burn it as such--it's not just a file format, it's a whole disc concern. There should be a separate option in the software.
My cheapo DVD player will play AVIs or MPEGs stored as data files, though. So it depends on the destination.
Vortex - Nov 27, 2009 7:22:00 pm PST #11844 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I'm converting tivo files on my computer into a format to be burned to a DVD, just not sure what format to pick.
§ ita § - Nov 27, 2009 7:29:25 pm PST #11845 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What do you want to play the DVD with? A normal DVD player? What software are you burning with? Does it have a DVD image option? I think that's the most general term for what a standard player will play, but it depends on the machine. Hell, my $50 player accepts flash drives.
Jessica - Nov 28, 2009 3:52:29 am PST #11846 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Doesn't Tivo have DVD burning software that will make all those decisions for you?
For a playable DVD, you need an m2v video file and a separate audio track (which can be a few different formats), but the usual way to do that is to import the media (in whatever format it originates) into your DVD burning software and say "Make this a DVD". That way the computer makes the decision about compression rates etc, which it can do better than you.
I'm pretty sure that imported Tivo files are MPEG-2 already, which means you shouldn't have to do any transcoding, just drag it into the DVD burning software and hit go.