So the other day, I had a client with an HP Desktop computer that was the victim of a harsh malware attack. So harsh in fact that it had to be reinstalled. So I installed from the recovery partition, and then went to update to SP3. Upon reboot, it bluescreen’d and then would just keep bluescreening. Soooo, thinking that the SP3 install bombed, i re-installed from the recovery AGAIN, and then tried SP3 again… And it bombed again! Wow, so I’m thinking now its no longer a SP3 fail. I did some research and found this site. (Click here to see it.)
Turns out if you have one of these HP desktop machines with a AMD processor you need to follow the steps mentioned in this page above BEFORE installing SP3. Its specifically a registry edit that has to be made so the SP3 doesn’t trigger installing an Intel file, thus causing the bombfest after the SP3 install.
You still learn new things all the time doing this stuff. Jeesh…
A very special thanks to Craig Seeman from Wirecast and Stephen Heywood from TheTechBuzz.net (@wirecast and #thetechbuzz) today for the live wirecast giveaway on th tec buzz.net, of which I was lucky enough to be picked as the winner. I just wanted to take a second and make sure I gave the proper amount of gratitude for this. Wirecast is (IMHO) the best webcasting software available, and I encourage everyone to go to www.telestream.net and download the demo to give it a try. It takes a little bit to really get into it, but its layout is easy to get quick, and you can start doing some really cool things pretty fast. Thanks again guys! Now we can start getting into some real webcasts around here!
I have just finished reading some great reviews on this software and thought I would post about it. Some really amazing features and its open source! http://www.truecrypt.org/
So i just got a call from a client who said they can’t hear audio when they are playing a movie. The first question i asked was “Are you playing a DVD or a video that you downloaded from the internet?”. Mostly because I thought he probibly downloaded some movie from somewhere in divx format.
I highly suggest if you are using windows media player to watch video or other media, do yourself a favor and stop. There are so many other far better media players than WMP. One that I highly recommend is VLC. You can find it here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC will normally be able to play pretty much anything you throw at it. ANYTHING….
But…
Some people encode movies or other shows into divx but use whats called AC3 for the audio. You might need to also download and install the latest AC3 filter software to your machine before the audio will work. You can find the download here : http://ac3filter.net/
Been smokin busy around here just setting up the website and figuring out how to use the video cast software and how it all works with the webcams and various video inputs etc. Still lots more to come.
Be sure to add us to your twitter. We are “mikesmegabits” there. You can also add our skype name of “mikesmegabits” as well. When we get the show up and going live, you will be able to call in to ask questions or just BS with us live on the show!
Marcel, Jessie, Vin, and myself are all looking forward to going live and having a chance to talk tech and fun stuff with you all!
