April | 2012 | Thomas' Work Space

How to use Sony PMB software and a Rosewill memory card reader to read your Sony MS-PRO (and bring Windows-XP to its knees)

2012/04/11 plagwitz Leave a comment

The Rosewill rcr-ic001 card reader seems temperamental – you need to try several times to insert the card for the reader light to reliably flash.
It seems you need the Sony-provided software installed to have Windows recognize the drive: .
And offer an import:
However, the import of videos fails for me (only images get imported).
But at least I can access the videos through Windows, from here (for non-HD):
Until things go bad (computer slows to a crawl, then explorer crashes):

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2012/04/06 plagwitz Leave a comment

You do not have them if your control panel / regional and language options looks unchecked like this:
you need your Windows XP install disk
The installer is not smart enough to find the i386 folder, nor to find all files around it.
Just point the installer to the directory manually where you located the file in question.
The initial directory it is lookiong for is /i386/lang. The 2nd directory it is looking for is /i386.
Additional complication: files in the install source are compressed, and their filename is altered (e.g. “.ex_” instead of “.exe”). So it is “Go figure”.
Hm, I could have sworn this was the first thing I did here. Are downgrades being slipstreamed? I hope I did this now for the last time. Update: No, I did not…

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Having problems with (source – target) end-user video compatibility issues? If you just need to “git r done”, the following software has helped us for years nip those in the bud and overcome the limited built-in support for video display and troubleshooting on the MS-Windows and Mac OS X platform:
1. VideoLan, an open-source project that amounts to much more than a player which out of the box understands most codecs, going strongly into version 2 recently. Download for Windows or Mac OS X.
2. Still won’t play? Diagnose codec and other information from video files, so that you do not need to set your hopes into the download of dubious codec packs.

Categories: software Tags: codecs, gspot, video, vlc-player

2012/04/04 plagwitz Leave a comment

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. A librarian’s write-up that can also be very useful for Learning Centers that handle learning material media (but would it be possible to run this through MS-Word to “down-design” and add a table of contents instead?).
Notable:

“It is fair use to make digital copies of collection items that are likely to deteriorate, or that exist only in difficult-to-access formats, for purposes of preservation, and to make those copies available as surrogates for fragile or otherwise inaccessible materials. LIMITATIONS: Preservation copies should not be made when a fully equivalent digital copy is commercially available at a reasonable cost. Libraries should not provide access to or circulate original and preservation copies simultaneously”.

2012/04/04 plagwitz 2 comments

Support for more languages is planned (Chinese, Japanese):
The interesting approach based on parallel corpora provides a wealth of empirical data, albeit a bit raw and of varying quality, e.g.: