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Filename becomes gibberish
Using JDownloader to download some files makes the filename looks like ".æ·å²è¬åï¼çç 港ä¸é" on my file system. The original filename is in Chinese. Is this a encoding issue? (original encoding not ...
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How to decode email header content
When open up the header or read the raw source of an email, I see header-vales in, for example, X-Cm-Senderinfo or Thread-index to be strings of encoded text. I though they are base64 but I tried ...
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Coding the EPK files
I'm working on a application, which is loading EPK extension files (those files are archives, with another files...), my problem is that the people are extracting the files from those EPK files ...
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I'm trying to copy text from a PDF, but I get garbage
I'm trying to copy text from a PDF file, but I get garbage. I'm using Document Reader on Ubuntu to read the document. It's not like its not allowing me to copy, but just that the copied text looks ...
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Convert from MOV to MP4 Container format
I have a digital camera that records nice 1080p H.264 format but unfortunately it uses the MOV container format. Basically I have nothing but the camera and VLC that play this format natively.
Is ...
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sending data in a file.txt by oracle store procedure using utl_file package [migrated]
I want to send data in a file.txt to a table in databse by oracle store procedure using utl_file package,
the file.txt contain:
QRIFR6M Index,BID,0.7875, aaa
QRIFR9M Index,BID,0.8625, bbb
QRIFR1Y ...
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What does this decode to?
I found this, and want to know what it decodes to and what type of encoding it is:
ZGMzMGRjODlAc25hcGpveS5jb20=
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MS Office 2010 Word change character encoding
I have a document that is not written in English but in other European language and when I open it in MS Word 2010 there are several characters displayed not properly.
How can I change the encoding of ...
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Which resize algorithm to choose for videos?
I'm using VirtualDub for encoding with those settings.
However I record my stuff in 1920x1080 and resize it down to 1280x720. Now the question: which algorithm should I choose when making a balanced ...
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URL-encoded UTF-8 to non-English converter
I have some string like this %B8%96%E4%B0.... It's usually seen when using some file transferring tool to download and save non-Engilish filename on hard drive. The tool will convert the original ...
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Why some unicode characters are missing in charmap?
In Windows, Character Map doesn't seem to display all of the unicode characters, even if the selected font supports them, and "Character set" selector is "Unicode".
For example, the small envelope ...
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Vim: Can't open a file's directory if it contains special letters
In Vim I can open the directory of an active file using this command:
:silent ! start %:p:h
However, if the directory contains special characters (like Scandinavian letters), I'm getting an error. ...
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Email text encoded with ASCII+1 scheme?
Something extremely strange is happening to me. I receive an email newsletter (about film news) and recently most of its text has suddenly begun to look like gibberish.
The corresponding article, ...
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What video and audio codec settings should I use for maximum chance that Windows users can view a video? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I tell ffmpeg to transcode to a video codec supported by Windows Media player?
I am using Ubuntu to create videos to give to people who are using Windows. I need ...
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Non-unicode characters language in OS X
In Windows, whenever I am facing an incorrect display of non-unicode characters (for me usually Russian (Cyrillic) characters may get displayed as ancient runes =), I go to regional settings, set ...
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H.264 encoder with CLEAR options for specifying minimum & maximum video bitrate?
I almost never get stuck with things like this and kinda figure things out myself... but I'm at a complete loss here.
I've used Handbrake, X-Media Recode, and lots of other encoders and they're ...
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View Big5 File in Text Editor
I have a file encoded in Chinese Big5.
Is there a text editor that I can use to view the file in Chinese?
I'm on Windows. If I view the file in Notepad++ I see it decoded with my 8bit locale.
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Change excel encoding
Some ill-written program has exported an Excel file with the wrong Hebrew encoding, with cryptic strings like:
ãåç ì÷åçåú äåãòåú åéîé äåìãú
Using an encoding-solver site, I found out that the ...
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Windows 7 and UTF-8 saving and display in programs
I just got a new system, Windows 7 Home Premium, installed Notepad++ and used it for a few days. I wrote some html/php files in Chinese, saved as UTF-8 without BOM. Uploaded to server and tested, all ...
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Arabic subtitle files (srt) encoding is corrupted on windows 7
i copied some arabic subtitle files from a friend
and when trying to view them on windows 7 home premium with notepad
the texts appears as follows:
ÃíåÇ ÇáÓÇÏÉ ÃäÇ ÇáÂä Úáì æÔß ÅÑÓÇá ÅÔÇÑÉ
ãä åÐÇ ...
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Extracting and re-combining audio from a video
I'm fed up with Vegas, Premiere, Pinnacle, SoundForge and all of the other editors I've tried.
I'm trying to modify the audio of an AVI file, but all of the editors I've tried insist on re-encoding ...
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Media Encoder w\ Merge Files & SandyBridge Hardware Encoding Support
So i have a Z68 chipset that allows Quick Sync encoding on my i7 processor.
I want a media encoder that supports both Hardware encoding and allows me to "merge files".
My problem is Fraps breaks my ...
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Why do some PDF document appear garbled and unreabable in OS X Preview?
I occasionally come across some PDF documents which are unreadable on a Mac when using the standard OS X Preview. They work OK in Adobe Reader, but not in Preview.
Does anyone know what the cause of ...
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Decent profile for transcoding to webm and mp4 files with ffmpeg
I am in the process of converting large, high quality, mxf container files (using mpeg-1 video, PCM S16 LE audio) to both webm and mp4 format (for HTML 5). I will probably be using ffmpeg to convert ...
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Default outgoing email encoding for Thunderbird 7.x and later [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Change Thunderbird default encoding?
How can I force Thunderbird 7.x to use UTF-8 as the default encoding for outgoing emails?
Superuser has an answered question Change ...
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Best Handbrake settings for encoding TV shows
Been using Handbrake since it's the fastest and easiest program for me to understand as I'm not a real A/V guy and I'm getting some under par results from it when it comes to TV shows.
I see episodes ...
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Compressing a bunch of HTMLs into one PDF
I have a lot of HTML files (webpages, saved with FireFox as one <filename>.html file and a <filename>_files directory with statics). How can i compress them into one large PDF file with ...
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What are the standard encodings in today's operating systems?
What are the standard encodings in Mac, Unix and others?
I know that if my friend who uses Windows sends me a file, it'll most probably be encoded in cp1251. So in emacs, I can do: ...
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“poor” video encoding performance of the i5 2500k under Linux
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty), with an i5 2500k (not overclocked) and a z68 board.
I'm trying to encode DVD quality VOB files to the iPhone preset in Handbrake, but in mkv format. I'm currently ...
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Naming confusion : Why it is not called Decoding but Encoding in every browers?
In every browsers, Firefox, Chrome, IE, there is an option called Encoding. It is used to decode the HTML documents into different languages.
as far as i know, say, if i choose, "Encoding (Unicode ...
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View properly file names inside a ZIP file in windows 1251(cyrillic) encoding
I have a zip file where directory and file names ( thousands of files ) are encoded in Windows 1251, according to its creator. I.e. the filenames contain Russian or Cyrillic letters. My Windows XP SP3 ...
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Transcoding digital camera generated MOVs to AVI to reduce file size without compromising the quality further
My older digital camera used to make low quality 100MB+ (for 5 - 6 mins of video) MOV files for videos I took
I have around 70GB of these videos and I would like to bring them into a managable size ...
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Why does encoding a video using the MJPEG codec take longer than MPEG-4?
I am testing the encoding performance (MPEG-4 and MJPEG) of a smart camera. I have written an application in OpenCV/FFMPEG for performing encoding, where the application captures images from the ...
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DVDfab encoding error
I'm trying to use the DVD ripper that comes with DVDfab 8.1 to encode .mp4 video with single pass. I selected the first chapter, which is about 2 minutes long.
When the conversion starts and gets ...
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How bitrate changes with screen size
I'm trying to DVDrip a 320x240 screen .m4v video. Is there some way to mathematically know the bitrate for the required screen size so that there will be no distortions and you can know the closest ...
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Video encoding for mobile: How do I choose FPS and bit rate?
I'm going to encode a video from DVD to mobile supported format (mp4, flv, H.263). For a 320x240 screen if I choose around 600 kb/s, how would I know FPS that I want? How is the bitrate is related to ...
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White Question Mark in Black Diamond
We are all familiar with the white question mark inside of a black diamond (�) when there is an encoding issue. Does this 'character' have an offical name? Or is it only referred to as the 'white ...
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Batch encode multiple webfont files into a CSS file?
I want to batch encode several .otf font files into a single CSS file. To my understanding, base64 embedded .otf fonts can be read by most browsers. Since Font-Squirrel's @font-face generator doesn't ...
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Terminal in OS X Lion: can't write åäö on remote machine
Can't type åäö on the command line when ssh'ing to a Debian machine. It works locally though.
Changing 'Declare terminal as' to 'xterm-color' doesn't seem to help, either.
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change mp4 `ftyp` from `isom` to `mp42`
Will I be able to change the ftyp of an mp4 file?
I have two mp4 files and placed it unto media info to see what is the difference. The other mp4 plays on my sansa fuze device while the other does ...
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Open source tool to merge videos (VCD CD, DVD chapters) without losing too much data prior to encoding
Is there an opensource tool to merge videos alongside with encoding. Merge in a sense to merge vcd cd1 and vcd cd2. or to merge different chapters of dvd. can handbrake do this?
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How to auto detect text file encoding?
There are many plain text files which were encoded in variant charsets.
I want to convert them all to UTF-8, but before running iconv, I need to know its original encoding. Most browsers have an ...
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Handbrake settings for Sony Network Media Player SMP-N100
Can anyone recommend settings or provide quality presets for Handbrake to encode video for the Sony Network Media Player SMP-N100. I realize that some formats work on DLNA and some only with USB. If ...
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Chinese Encoding of webpages not shown properly in Firefox
I am browsing some Chinese webpage, where all the encodings are shown correctly until when a small window (by javascript? I don't know) is open and inside it the Chinese characters are messed up. The ...
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Encode HD video to a good format for editing
I have a video that I would like to edit, but it's currently a mov (H.264) file, which makes frame by frame editing impossible. So, I'd like to re-encode it to a better format. I read that DV is a ...
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Change Thunderbird default encoding?
Whenever I compose a new email message in Thunderbird, it defaults to the Western (ISO-8859-1) encoding, and I have to manually change it to UTF-8 every time.
How do I change the default?
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FFMPEG Encode Speed
I am using ffmpeg to encode various video files to the WEBM format. I am doing a batch job on a small VPS (Windows Server 2003, 512MB RAM) to do this. The VPS takes about 20 minutes per file to encode ...
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Video encoding: How much does the video file size increase with fps?
Given that the next blockbusters of e.g. Peter Jackson (The Hobbit) and James Cameron (Avatar 2) are going to be shot with a frame rate of 48 fps (or even more) - i.e. more than the usual 24 fps - I ...
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Find all UTF-16 encoded files on Windows
Is there a tool available for Windows (command line, gui, script, etc.) that can recurse a directory and identify all files encoded as UTF-16?
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Windows commandline program to encode AVI to XVID
I'm looking commandline tool (preferably with no installation) which allows me to encode AVI to XVID (or MPEG4)
I know some solution at Linux but count find same on Windows (XP)
Can you advice ...
