starting to get really vexed with these tutorials !

Me too, and when I did it there were not that many guides out there, but at least when I got mine they started including the Rockas installer which makes setting up much easier. You just have to read on what it states at setup, and know what/which version you have of CCE/ProCoder. Make sure you install your AVISynth and CCE/ProCoder prior to RB installation. Once you get it setup the battle is over everything is easy.

 

Some of the guides here are a little dated, but I prefer it that way sometimes. Here's my reason. Lets say you read a guide and you follow everything verbatim. It works out fine and dandy, but all of a sudden X program has changed a feature. The step(s) in the guide may no longer apply or work since the program has changed a bit. Now to get to the point. When you read something you may not always understand what X feature does in the first place and you think to yourself, okay what the heck am I suppose to do since this feature doesn't work. Their's always trial and error. That's right trial and error. Some of you may not like doing that, but hey, it's the best way because you may actually learn something as oppose to reading what someone told you to do. This opens up the door to new learning opportunities that you would've never learned from reading a guide. A guide is their to help inexperience people out and is a great thing but it will not always be 100% depending on certain circumstances. Thus trial and error is the best way to go for certain things or in general.

I have so much thoughts popping in my head that this post would turn out to be a fricken novel if I continue to write. So I might add on other thoughts at a later time. Sorry for the long read.

 

Blink....... you have some valid points. why don't you do a guide...... DVD-RB is soooooooo advanced......don't know where to begin!

 

L8ter is working on a guide and from what I've seen it's excellent.

 

Is it me, or did this thread title change

 

Hi Guys,

Well, I had started this thread by using the word 'pissed', but someone has altered it to 'vexed'. Anyway, I do feel 'vexed' is much better than 'pissed', as it communicates the same meaning in a more organised manner. Thanks for that!

And secondly, I do agree that trial and error method is useful as someone mentioned in this post, but for that, one has to spend enough time to get to know a lot of software terms, functions and its uses, if one has to go about tweaking. That would be a bit of problem for those who would be able to spare only a bit of time. That is where a guide becomes useful. Well, one can say, "hey, you want the quality then better spend the time". Fair enough, but, that would in a way be like reinventing the wheel. Not all newbies might be as quick to getting themselves accustomed with involved softwares, especially when time for back up itself takes 3 to 4 hrs. At the end, if the result turns out bad, that would be pretty irritating for newbies.

My point is, use trial and method, but for starters let newbies get a taste of the softwares amazing capabilities. May be someone could post some screen shots of the before and after with using DVD RB. If that gets accomplished, say by a way of a guide being available or updated, then that excitement would automatically result in self exploration or trial and error method.

Thanks.

Shawn769
P.S. I am still in the process of trying the software under trial and error method!

 

That's understandable. Hell even I look at guides at times to help further my knowledge in certain areas. It's when a guide(s) can no longer help me out because they're not up to date or current is when I go by trial and error.

 

Here is a thread that show some screen shots comparing the encoders that was graciously done by member ebega.

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/343299

 

@herbsman

If I gave offense I apologize, I just wanted to know I was not crazy when it came up, when you get older you really worry about senility, lol.