I rolled back to WordPress. Largely for the sake of prior post content and not needing to manually redesign the wheel from scratch.
Here’s hoping it can be viable without add-on plugins installed. I will back fill some forum posts of interest, since the host migration and rollback from this summer.
If you check the whois for the site, you may notice it has been around now for 15 years. If you have old links, they may and should very well still work.
Heart of the site is the forums but I still have content write ups buried away from clickable links. Most of those are ported PHPNuke or straight up html pages.
Happy 15th to the site! Thanks to old school visitors and new ones too.
Here are a few oldies.
ATI 9700 vs Nvidia 6800LE graphic card review.
Coldstone’s GTA Vice City Mod Pack.
t0ucan’s Cookies 4 CuBa story.
Ancient forum archive restored <-+ This is where most of the old reviews came from, when I launched the site on PHPNuke, having admin’d the House Of +PLuS+ running the same platform back in 2002-ish.
I have some info from an old Vidomi dvd encoder guide, but that is ancient and kind of useless, compared to using mencoder to convert ripped VOB files to AVI, then merging them. The Vidomi app was glitchy, at best.
Mencoder bash syntax below for conversation’s sake.
cd /media/user/SourceDisk/Vobs/Cosmos_Disc01/FullDisc/DVD_VIDEO/VIDEO_TS mencoder 'VTS_01_1.VOB' -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1800 -o 'Cosmos_Disc01 1 of 5.avi' -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=192 -sid 1000 mencoder 'VTS_01_2.VOB' -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1800 -o 'Cosmos_Disc01 2 of 5.avi' -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=192 -sid 1000 mencoder 'VTS_01_3.VOB' -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1800 -o 'Cosmos_Disc01 3 of 5.avi' -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=192 -sid 1000 mencoder 'VTS_01_4.VOB' -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1800 -o 'Cosmos_Disc01 4 of 5.avi' -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=192 -sid 1000 mencoder 'VTS_01_5.VOB' -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1800 -o 'Cosmos_Disc01 5 of 5.avi' -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=192 -sid 1000 mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy 'Cosmos_Disc01 1 of 5.avi' 'Cosmos_Disc01 2 of 5.avi' 'Cosmos_Disc01 3 of 5.avi' 'Cosmos_Disc01 4 of 5.avi' 'Cosmos_Disc01 5 of 5.avi' -o '/media/user/OutputDisk/Vobs/Cosmos_Disc01.avi'
