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What does the sample rate and sample size of audio means?
In a MP3 audio file, I know theres a bitrate of audio which tells the number of bits in seconds are being used by the player, in other words a measure of quality of audio.
But I'm confused with the ...
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Reducing image size on Windows XP
I have a scanned JPG file and due to high quality scanning, the file size is large. What I would like to do is reduce the image size of the file, keeping the jpg format, but losing Quality obviously.
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Is there any video player sofware on PC has quality as good as Sony TV? [closed]
I am using Media Player Classic and K-code Lite for video on PC. Comparing to video play on Sony TV, I must say Sony has a far better quality. So I wonder if there is any video player software on PC ...
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Youtube video download: FLV or MP4? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What do the numbers 240 and 360 mean when downloading video? How can I tell which video is more compressed?
Since youtube videos can be downloaded as an FLV or MP4. At ...
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Is there any quality difference between PNG vs BMP image formats?
I have just learned that PNG is a lossless image format while BMP can be both uncompressed or lossless format. Should there be a quality difference between these two? If not, does it mean that other ...
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Bad DVDRip quality with AMD Radeon HD
I just bought a HP Pavilion laptop with a Core i7 + AMD Radeon HD 6770M 2GB.
Here's my thing – I'm running under 1920 x 1080 (recommended resolution) on Windows 7 Ultimate.
I tried to run a DVDRip ...
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.vob to h.264 MP4 Files - Worth The Effort?
When I was doing the converting to digital format a while back I chose .VOB due to no quality loss. However recently I have been informed of this h.264 compression method.
Time is not an issue here, ...
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Using convert to covert multiple jpg files to pdf - pdf quality
I used the command
convert *.jpg out.pdf
to convert multiple jpg files to pdf. But the quality of the output pdf is very low. Is there a way I can increase the quality?
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Lossless rotation of photos using Windows Photo Viewer? (XP vs Win7)
If I wanted to rotate photos in XP using Windows Photo Viewer I was told, that it wasn't lossless rotation (so, worse quality in the rotated photo).
What about Win7 and Windows Photo Viewer? Is it ...
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How to start with the SQL queries in the QC 10.0?
I understood that for generating reports and troubleshooting in QC we can use SQL queries from backend of the QC 10.0.
Please guide me through any any tutorial websites,cookbook's or workbook's ...
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Image quality low on pictures imported into Mac PowerPoint 2011
Running Lion and Office:Mac 2011. Searched everywhere. No matter what I do images (pictures) that I import into slides immediately go to a very low resolution and quality.
How do I prevent this drop ...
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How to install and use Quality Center 10.0?
Please let me know where can I download HP Quality Center 10.0.
I want to install HP Quality Center 10.0 on my local laptop and want to have hands on practice on the tool.
Please also let me know ...
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Realtek HD Audio, low bass quality
My sound device card is a Realtek HD Audio. I got the latest drivers from Realtek's official website - I'm using Windows 7.
The problem is that when I listen to the music on my headphones ...
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Audio quality via S/PDIF
Are there sound quality differences in adapters that provide an S/PDIF interface?
Assuming the digital audio signal is converted by the attached amplifier and not by the soundcard, so only the used ...
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How Can I Assess The Quality Of a Graphics Card?
When finding a new graphics card, what figures or features do I look at when comparing two graphics cards? Dual cores? Clock speed? etc
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At medium bitrates, does 1080p video look better or worse than 720p? [closed]
Let's say I want to download video at a bitrate of 4-5 mbps (that's bits, not bytes). Will I get a better quality video if I choose 720p or 1080p? Assume I use a good codec like H.264, VC1, webm, etc.
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Is it possible to determine if a 256kbps mp3 is just an mp3 with a lower bit-rate that was converted up to 256kbps?
Every place I look that discusses digital audio quality seems to talk about almost nothing but bit-rate. However, it seems to me that the bit-rate only indicates the number of kbps, and not the actual ...
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What is the best audio format in terms of quality? [closed]
I understand that lossless quality is the best format but upon searching there seems to be a variety of lossless quality format available.
What is the best among them?
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Re-saved images have noticeably lower quality in any format
It doesn't seem to matter what program I re-save an image with or in what format, it always comes out with a lower quality/contrast/brightness version. I really can't figure out why.
Original sample:
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Bad sound quality of 3.5mm headphone with mic on laptop
I have a set of headphones that have a built-in mic for hands-free calling.
They just work great on my Sony Ericsson Cedar cellphone.
The problem is that when I connect headphone to my Dell N5010 ...
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“transparency” against the light is signal of bad quality dvd media?
If you put the media against a (monitor's) light and see the other side, does that means that it's a bad quality dvd media?
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lousy audio quality suddenly happening
alright, so I was doing what I normally do on a computer when I wanted to watch a youtube video, I went on youtube to find it, I load it, and the audio quality is terrible, absolutely terrible, so I ...
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What software takes high resolution WebCam photos?
Why is good webcam recording software so hard to find?
I need a program that will take high quality photos with my webcam.
Most webcam software I found is ridiculously cheap/old and ugly to interact ...
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Website downloads IE components again after changing IP address
We are running HP Quality Center 10.
This can only be run in Internet Explorer as it relies on ActiveX.
When logging into this web based app for the first time, various components download and ...
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Objective measures of computer and manufacture quality
What checkable attributes of computers models or manufactures have historically and should continue to correlated with with the reliability (low tendency to require maintenance work relating to ...
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Use ImageMagick to convert TIFF to PNGs, how to improve the speed?
I am using "convert" from IM to get PNGs from multi-page TIFF files, everything is good except the speed. From "convert" documentation, I found:
For the MNG and PNG image formats, the quality ...
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Are there compact external USB audio interfaces which are better than a on-board sound?
I am asking this for a friend. He loves his voice recognition software and dictates a lot of text using a headset. Now he has a new laptop, which only has a combined mic/headphones output, and wanted ...
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Why is printing to OneNote not as high quality in 2010 as the 2007 version?
I have recently updated Microsoft Office to the 2010 version so that my "Print to OneNote" option will work with Windows 7. It seems that with the new 2010 version of OneNote, printouts are not as ...
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System speed throttled by low quality hardware?
I'm in the process of building a new system, but I'm concerned with my overall system speed being degraded by certain components. I'm curious to know of others' experience with such situations, and ...
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Need a cheap, slow, good quality laptop with NVIDIA GPU [closed]
I am seeking a cheap laptop computer for use as a part of a product, and wanted to know if you guys had any recommendations. The computer will run Linux and will for the most part not do any heavy ...
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Are USB headphones/headsets inferior to regular ones?
Some headsets use an USB connection instead of connecting to the motherboard's regular audio output jack. Does that make them inferior in any way to other headsets? What about USB 2.0?
I'm looking for ...
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Reducing the quality of incoming video in Skype?
Is it possible to reduce the quality of incoming video when making a video call in Skype? I want to be able to see the person I'm speaking with less clearly.
The reason I want it is because the other ...
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Dell v305w prints skewed lines via wifi, fine on cable
When I print via the USB cable on my Dell v305w (which is also a scanner), everything is perfectly fine.
However, when I print via WiFi, typically three lines on the page are skewed.
Note:
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Resizing/reprocessing videofiles to adjust total size being <= 4.7gb
How could I resize or reprocess bunch of videofiles (tv show series) to be able write it on DVD? Total size of all files should be less or equal to the max size of dvd - 4.7G. Is there any kind of ...
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Best way to upscale a video?
If I have a video file at 320x240 resolution which I want to re-encode (because I don't like the encoding it's in now) and I also want to play it at double size (640x480), will I get higher quality if ...
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Ripping CD Audio simultaneously from 2 drives on one PC via USB or PATA - rip accuracy preserved?
I'm considering ripping audio (reading audio) from CDs using 2 drives simultaneously to speed up the process of ripping the CDs - i.e. 2 at a time rather than 1. Are there any issues with achieving ...
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Quality gets worse using ffmpeg and Flash
I have bunch of flash videos and am adding my brand to all of them. The problem is quality gets worse. I am doing with this command: ffmpeg -i /input.flv -vhook "/usr/loca/vhook/drawtext.so -f ...
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How to increase video resolution
I have this 356MB .rmvb file that I converted to .avi and it became 2Gb.
But the size is still the same, and the quality still sucks. Is there any tool that could increase the resolution and quality ...
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Sound quality in bluetooth headphones doesn't change to high
My Bluetooth headset Philips SHB6610 has several profiles. It can work as low-quality sound headset (HFP) and high-quality sound headphones (A2DP). Typically whenever I start to play the music in my ...
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AAC Sample Rate and Bit Rate for High Quality Audio?
What are the AAC Sample Rate and Bit Rate settings to set in order to encode an audio track with a quality comparable to MP3 320kbps?
I need to backup a DVD movie, the default settings for AAC are
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(linux) tool to monitor “quality” of tcp connection?
I am looking for a tool to monitor the quality of a TCP connection. I am trying to describe what I mean:
It should be a tool with a client and a server part. The client sends, say, 1kB of data per ...
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Validating quality and sound of mp3 files
I want to check the quality and sound volume of all my mp3 files.
Are there any processes to validate them in bulk?
I don't want to open each file individually and play them to check their quality ...
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Why does toner always run out on the left side of the printed page first?
In every laser printer I have ever used, when toner is running out, it becomes evident on the left hand side of the page before it becomes evident on the right side of the page.
The printed matter ...
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Audio conversion quality
Folks,
If I'm looking to salvage as much audio quality as possible for music files while still reducing the overall file size and moderating the volume, is it better to appy gain reduction (eg: from ...
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Replace sound in another YouTube video
I have received permission from someone to translate the audio in their movies. The problem I am facing is that the video quality is quite poor and the author does not have the original videos any ...
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How to resize images without loss in quality?
I have a image JPEG with resolution is 2010 x 1080 (Pixels). And now, I want resize this image to 338 x 450 without losing image quality, how can I do ? (for ex: After I zoom in image, its quality ...
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Does MacBook Pro use quality parts? [closed]
I've heard rumors that the MacBook Pro uses higher quality parts than other manufacturers. Especially the motherboards which are supposed to be made in another part of the Foxconn factory than ...
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How to find the JPG quality?
When I save a JPG file with GIMP, I can adjust the quality I save it at, from 0-100 (I use 89). It seems like I've used an app to see what this number was on saved file but if I did I can't for the ...
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Copy MP3s to CD / USB key and reduce bitrate
I want a quick way to be able to select a bunch of MP3s and burn them to CD (as MP3s on a data disk) for playback in the car, or to a usb key. Lots of apps including iTunes & Windows Media Player ...
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What is the best way to reencode a video with Xvid?
What is the best way to reencode a video with Xvid? I used FFmpeg in the past (I havent tried using FFmpeg with Xvid however - does FFmpeg keep up with Xvid releases?).
With FFmpeg I either need to ...
