Messages posted by rolldog

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I believe those well-known TV manufacturers have more business power and are much bigger than a PC software player company.

A TV, which supports Dolby Vision, is much more expensive than a non-HDR TV or a software player license (e.g. powerdvd), and i think a DolbyVision TV is more expensive than a HDR10 TV if they are at similar price level.

HDR10 is still not that popular in home electronics, and DolbyVision is less than HDR10. So as 4K blu-ray.
(Who watch high quality movies by disc today/everyday?)
And, for those HDR TV owners, how many users will choose PC as their first option to play HDR movie content on TV?

However, what I said is just a reasonable assumption.
Perhaps, you can conduct a questionaire on the street to widely investigate the HDR usage without movie fans bias.

I have no idea if Dolby is willing to license it to any specific companies commercially, but the cost/money matters everything.
Last but not the least, there are development efforts and hazards for the participants which want to support the feature.

By the way, I work in IT industry, love those PC stuffs and host them myself.

I don't think it will ever happen. I, for one, watch HDR content every day and every TV in my house supports 4K60 HDR and most include DV as well. As for being probably one of the very few people who watch HDR content on a regular basis, I also don't have a HTPC or watch content from a PC on any of my TVs unless you count my Sony A1E, which I use as a computer monitor. I don't even watch HDR content on it either. I think the market for DV content processing in a software package is non-existent and definitely won't justify the licensing fee. Most people use these software packages to store, edit, view content at a desk and aren't likely to sit there for 2 hours to watch a movie. My camera can shoot videos in 4K60 with HLG HDR, but when it comes down to watching the content, it's done from the comfort of my sofa. More than likely, if software did exist for the consumer market to handle dynamic metadata, you probably wouldn't be able to afford the hardware to process it. Using camera similar to the Red Dragon that can record video in 8K resolution with 16 bit color produce videos that are roughly 200GB for each second of content.

The features of this version shows AAC, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS, WAVE, MPEG-1 Layer III, FLAC, ALAC. Is there any support for Dobly Atmos? I think it would be really cool to be able to encode an Atmos soundtrack into my video.

Quote Hi I have PowerDVD Live / 17 and it created a subfolder in My Documents folder:

C:\Users\%username%\OneDrive\Documents\CyberLink\PowerDVD16

How can I move this folder to another location?

Thanks and see you soon,

David

This depends, if you want to move the entire Documents folder from OnDrive to a local folder on your hard drive, you would right click on the Documents folder, click on location, then enter the location of where you would rather have it. Usually, moving your Documents, Pictures, Download, etc folders is best to do after a fresh install of Windows because any program that has files in that directory will have trouble finding them once you move it. If you moved it after a fresh Windows install, then whenever you install a new application, you can change the default location to the new location. From then on, the application will know where all the files are located.

Since Cyberlink is already installed, I agree with Cyberlink-Hicham. A new Cyberlink install would be best and specify the folder where you want it installed when it asks you where you want it installed. Right now, it's automatically being synced with OneDrive. If you install it elsewhere, it won't sync with OneDrive anymore, but it will probably run much faster too.

Quote Hello rolldog,

That's a complex set of circumstances you have there, and I'm not entirely sure that PhD (alone) can help you resolve all of them.

It appears you've made the right choices with "Exclude possible duplicates" & "Make extra copy" to get your photos organised.

When you imported your folder with the 4,631 sub-folders, which option did you select for organising photos?

Single folder?

By original folder structure?

By capture date?

Clearly, what you're doing isn't getting you closer to your goal yet. Any further information you can provide will help clarify the steps you're taking.

PIX

Sorry, I haven't checked back on this forum in a while, plus, I've been in Bora Bora the last 2 weeks.

What I'm doing is importing the photos from different directories where they are saved, including subfolders, excluding possible duplicates, make and extra copy in and set the destination (I'm doing this so I can have all my photos in one location instead of scattered around), and then I organize them by capture date so Photodirector will create multiple folders and separate all of them by the date they were all taken. It's taking a little bit of time, but eventually, I should have everything in much better order.

One more thing I'm hoping you can answer for me. I switched to Photodirector from Adobe Photoshop Elements, and one feature that was available in Photoshop Elements is it would import both photos and videos. Is there any way to set Photodirector to import videos as well? I don't intend to try playing the videos using Photodirector, but it makes it easier to import everything from a camera. After importing everything at once, I could move the video files into another directory under Videos. I noticed the Video-to-Photo button, but I figured it might be a way to capture a frame from a video. I haven't tried it yet.

Thanks!

I've been taking pictures and keeping photo albums since 2001, but I learned many years ago, whenever my network drive crashed, that I need to keep a much better backup system, which I do now. My problem is this, whenever my network drive crashed, I was able to salvage some pictures from the drive, some pictures I found on CDs (when those were used for backups), and then Seagate took apart my drive in a clean room and salvaged approx 99% of my photos and videos.

My problem is, since I tried salvaging as much as possible back then, I currently have about 300,000 photographs, and about 25% of them I may have 2, 3, or even 4 copies of the same photo. Organizing this manually has been very unproductive. Today, I was reading about importing photos into Photodirector and realized it has an option which could make this easier. When I want to import a folder, I'll select it and subfolders, which I want to import into my library, select Exclude Possible Duplicates, then select Make extra copy into a new directory. I was hoping this would help resolve my problem with all the junk files.

I tried it on a folder that only has 193,969 Files and 4,631 Folders, which in total is 365GB. After it ran, the new folder had 20,760 Files, 916 Folders and is 73GB, so obviously this isn't working how I anticipated. I know a lot of the folders are accurate because I've setup directories for every year, a directory for each month inside of each of those, then folders from specific days that month which have all the pictures in them. I know I have some duplicates, but I don't think it's this many, just from the small portion I chose.

Does anyone have any suggestions or can let me know if I'm doing this right and if this will actually work? The bad thing is, when my network drive crashed, a lot of the metadata for a lot of pictures was lost. Most of the pictures still have a "date taken" listed. Will this idea I have work and actually help me filter through some of these pictures that are doing nothing but taking up extra space? I would love to get some input about this and if this is the best way to sort through these old pictures. Anyone have any suggestions? Please?

This sucks, so since I'm using an Asus MB with an X99 chipset and a dedicated graphics card, instead of having Intel integrated graphics, and after buying the software, my PC is not even compatible to run HDR video? This sucks. In Nvidia's control panel, it lists my GPUs as being HDCP 2.2 compliant, so I figured it would work. This is similar to using the Windows Hello feature in Windows 10, which requires a camera that specifically uses Intel's Realsense Technology, but it's only compatible with certain MBs too.

Yes, Google's YouTube VP9 format is open source and requires no royalties for people to use while H.264 vs H.265, the royalties to use H.265 have increased 5 fold to a max of $25 million a year. This is exactly why we're all stuck in this media codec/non-standard format war, which only huts us. Sucks, people don't like change. any UHD 4K video viewed on YouTube is using VP9, and I don't think it's bad at all. Saving $25 million is just icing on the cake.

Are you looking to convert to "true 4K" video or "4K UHD" video, which is totally different. Every consumer device on the market today labeled 4K actually means "4K UHD", or 3840x2160 resolution, but everything is marketed as being 4K, but it's not true 4K. If you're trying to convert anything to run on a consumer based TV/UHD player/video file to run through an Nvidia Android TV or a new Chromecast or Roku, it's actually referring to a 3840x2160 file, not a 4096x2160 file. There's a big difference between the two, so I was just making sure you were referring to the correct format.

I will have to agree that Mediainfo is a small program, which you can install and not have to worry about Malware, Viruses, etc, and it allows you to view very detailed information about the files that you won't be able to find instantly. Once it's installed, right clicking on the file itself and then selecting Mediainfo is all that us required.

Now, I'm sure there are many sites out there where you can download and install the file, which are sketchy, but if you're willing to go here, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediainfo, you'll learn more about Mediainfo, what it can do, how helpful it can be, and if you decide to take a chance to install it, Wikipedia has a direct link to their website along with a list of other 3rd party sites where you can get it.

It's a shame we now live in a world where everyone must be proactive to prevent downloading some kind of awareness, trojans, viruses, etc, just to be able to access a utility that is very helpful when it comes to looking at the details of any type of media file. I'm sure the creators of this software never had these intentions, but leave it to the "bad" people who capitalize on popular, helpful, harmless software just because of the popularity of the software itself.

You could just copy the files to your Android TV or put them on a flash drive and play the files off of it.

I have some movies, some videos, etc that are quite old and poor picture quality, some videos recorded on my Samsung NX1 in UHD but with a stereo soundtrack, along with everything in between. I've been using just about every Cyberlink product for years, but it's always been for small things, like converting a video into a smaller size so the kids can watch something on their iPad while traveling.

After updating to the latest version of everything, it looks like all the software can be converted into a 4K UHD file. Obviously, if the native video was shot in 640x480, and I ran the video through PowerDirector with default settings, the output quality probably won't even be close to native UHD video. With all the new features I've seen being added over the last few updates, is it possible to convert a lower resolution video to something closer to a 4K UHD video using some of your proprietary enhancements, like TrueTheater HD video enhancements and some of the other tools found in the Fix/Enhance section of PowerDirector, or using PowerDirector along with AudioDirector and ColorDirector?

Also, same scenario, is it possible for me to take one of my UHD videos that I've recorded with a stereo soundtrack, and run it through AudioDirector increasing the number of audio channels in the video? I have a Dolby Atmos 7.2.4 system, and I was curious to know if a video, recorded with 2 channels, could be converted into a video with more channels? I realize whenever it's time convert your video, it gives you the option for audio channels, but I'm not exactly sure if, or how, that works. Can a 2 channel stereo soundtrack in a movie be converted to a multichannel audio soundtrack or even be converted into an object based audio format, maybe with a plug-in or something?

If any of these are possible, to increase the video and/or audio quality of a video, is it something that can be done automatically using a wizard or would someone need to make these changes manually, especially with the object based audio formats?

I have a 4K UHD HDR TV in addition to my Atmos/DTS:X setup, so I'm just trying to figure out if there's an easy way to increase the quality of videos to take advantage of the higher quality video/audio? Thanks!

I haven't been using Photodirector and all the other Cyberlink applications for very long, I was using Adobe previously. I guess I'm asking if one of the features of Adobe is available for your software as well, and that's setting where the cache files will be stored. If I have 20,000 photographs on one of my data drives, Photodirector doesn't have the option to store the cache files for all the photographs in a different location than where the photographs are located or where Photodirector is installed?

And one more question. When using the browser to view all the thumbnails of my media, is there a way for Photodirector to automatically use a thumbnail for the video files so I can tell which videos they are without having to open them up and watch them?

I was curious to know if there is a way for me to move the directory Photodirector uses for its cache file? I have a couple of SSDs, and I would rather have Photodirector, along with a couple other Cyberlink products, to utilize my SSD for generating cache files and storing higher quality thumbnails. Is there a way this can be done? I've looked everywhere and can't seem to find a way to change it. Thanks!

I searched through the forum looking for an answer to my question, and I came across this thread. Hopefully, you might know the answer to my question. Regarding the cache files generated by Photodirector, is there a way I can specify a different location for these cache files to be kept? I have a couple of SSDs and would rather utilize this to hold all the cache files. Thanks!