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SUCKER4NICETITS
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Posted - Aug 14 2011 : 11:08AM
I just joined Payones. I am able to download a lot of great stuff, but cannot get it to CDs or DVDs or USB sticks.I prefer to watch on the much larger screen of my TV. When I send the scene to my CDs or USB, it is not playable on either my DVD player or my TV which has a USB port. The CDs I am using are CD-R format, which I have downloaded to previously. My Blu-Ray DVD player is also less than a year old. Can anyone help? (Payones refuses to provide support).
Thanks in advance.
Edited by - SUCKER4NICETITS on Aug 14 2011
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Posted - Aug 14 2011 : 1:19PM
I'm going to guess that the downloaded content is not in a standard video format, but in something that has to 'phone home' to verify that you're a legit customer. Ergo, if you try to use it on a device that isn't connected to the internet it isn't going to work.
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Posted - Aug 14 2011 : 2:08PM
Maybe it's a file format the DVD/TV won't play? What is it? MP4? AVI? MKV? Something else?
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Posted - Aug 14 2011 : 4:45PM
Go download the free version of Any Video Converter, and use it to convert your video files to something your equipment can read.
Almost any equipment can read MPEG/MPEG-II, for example.
Also, you likely need something that will read individual files (like one of the many media players do):
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After connecting a media player to your TV, all you would do is plug-in a USB flash drive and/or USB cable from an external hard-drive and watch your files.
Absolutely no need to create and burn CDs and DVDs!
SUCKER4NICETITS
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Posted - Aug 14 2011 : 6:24PM
Thanks for the info so far, everyone. I'm a novice at this. This is what Payones wrote:
"You can burn the videos from our site onto a DVD to play on your TV because we don’t have any DRM on our content, but we don't offer support for the DVD burning process. Programs like Nero can help you burn your downloaded videos to a DVD. Please visit All Streaming Media or CNet for lists of additional programs."

Does the fact that they mention All Steaming Media mean I need something to record streaming videos? What would that be?
 
SUCKER4NICETITS
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Posted - Aug 14 2011 : 6:55PM
Goldstein,
I used AVC to convert one to MPEG, and it worked, thanks to all, but I noticed it reduced the resolution. Can you suggest a format?
Thanks.
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Posted - Aug 14 2011 : 7:02PM
What your missing is that, "You can burn the videos from our site onto a DVD" means that you need to create and burn a DVD movie -- not merely copy the downloaded files onto a DVD.
Nero does do this beautifully.
Once you download the files to your hard-drive, the easiest way to create a playable DVD movie is to use "Nero Recode" (one of the Nero programs that comes with the Nero suite).
You would then import the files into Nero Recode in the order in which you want them to play.
You can trim the start and stop points to suit your personal needs.
If you want to create a fancier DVD movie, with menus, chapter-stops, space between scenes, etc., you would use "NeroVision Express" (again, one of the Nero programs that comes with the Nero suite).
If your downloading entire movies, not just individual scenes, the process still works substantially the same way.
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Posted - Aug 14 2011 : 7:10PM
You can specify the resolution you want.
What is the format you are downloading?
.avi, .mpg, .vob, etc.
And, what resolution are you downloading?
Also, what different resolutions and formats are they offering?
This really is easy to do, once we know what you're dealing with, and someone explains it to you :)
(Which I see as just fine, as PayOnes has informed you that you can do this and their downloads are DRM free.)
My original convert to MPEG/MPEG-II format suggestion was primarily made due to compatibility concerns.
SUCKER4NICETITS
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Posted - Aug 14 2011 : 7:20PM
I am downloading in the WMV DVD Format. Resolution is 640 x 480
They also offer WMV High (less resolution). Res. is 480 x 352.
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Posted - Aug 14 2011 : 7:43PM
64 hex 480 is the resolution of a standard DVD.
You should convert it to the MPEG-II format using AVC.
Be sure to specify the "frame size" as 64 hex 480 (or choose "original" of you are unsure).
When you import the original file into AVC, it will typically show you what the frame size/resolution is.
Trying to choose a larger size will not give you any better resolution.
SUCKER4NICETITS
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Posted - Aug 14 2011 : 8:23PM
Thanks so much for all your help. One last question. Is there any advantage to downloading onto a CD-R versus a DVD?
Thanks again.
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Posted - Aug 14 2011 : 9:28PM
No.
The blanks cost about the same nowadays.
Use DVD-R or DVD+R.
Also, burn your disks in one session.
If you burn multiple sessions, your computer will see each one as a separate disk (a pain in the ass), and your DVD player(s) may only be able to see one session (or nothing at all).
Maybe a CD-R if all you want is one or two scenes?
If I remember correctly, a video movie burned to a CD will have its resolution reduced.
I don't mean due to the smaller capacity of the CD (although that can be a factor also).
Rather, I think it's a formatting issue.
Now, if all your doing is copying the raw file (i.e. using the disks as storage, not as a disk formatted into video format), it doesn't matter what kind of media is used, as long as its capacity is large enough to hold the file(s).
You can burn 4.35 GB onto a DVD formatted to be a DVD video.
So, don't be in a rush to burn every single file onto a DVD until you have enough to fill it up.
Also, make a backup of your files before you remove them from your hard-drive.
I always burn at least two DVDs:
One as a simple archive of the original files.
The second formatted as the actual DVD video to watch.
If you're going to get serious about this, get yourself an external hard-drive (i.e. dedicated to your porn collection only) to store copies of the original files on, as well.
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Posted - Aug 15 2011 : 2:30AM
If you want to watch stuff on your TV, and neither your TV nor your DVD player can play .wmv files, then why download a bunch of .wmv files? Downloading files in a format you can't use, and having to convert them to something else, and then having to author a DVD, seems like a whole lot of hassle to go through just to watch porn.
I looked at the PayOnes site, and it says that you can download files in H.264format; have you tried to see if one of those will work?
Alternately, consider buying something like a [ invalid url ] (currently about $55 after a rebate) and using it to play the .wmv files.
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Posted - Aug 15 2011 : 10:32AM
I agree with you, Harry.
Media players are the way to go.
And, most of them will play almost every file type.
I watch almost nothing from the original DVDs anymore.
Instead, I "harvest" the scenes from the DVDs, copy them to my porn hard-drives and watch them on TV using my WD media player.
Although WMV files will play, they are kind of clunky.
I've found using Any Video Converter to convert them into MPEG-II makes them more compatible and they play easier.
Also, Nero has a lot of trouble with making DVD video movies from WMV files, so the conversion to MPEG-II makes it possible for me to create and burn DVD video movies when I want to.
Slightly OT...
Since I am a perv, I can get a bit of a thrill playing porn audio in my car.
I use AVC to extract the audio from video files as an MP3 file, then use Audacity (free) to edit the audio and save them as .wav files.
Then I use Nero to burn the audio CDs.
It's amazing how listening to just the porn audio can stimulate mental images of beloved scenes
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Posted - Aug 15 2011 : 1:24PM
The heart of the matter is mismatch between the Payones video file format, vs. your DVD player and TV video file format playing capabilities. For future reference you can look up the specifications of your equipments to learn which type of files they are capable of playing. I bought a (Patriot Box Office) media player because my DVD player could only play WMV1 and some AVI and some MPG, and no HD. Before buying the Patriot, I went through a phase of using Nero to author DVD's of everything, but that got real old real quick.
 
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Posted - Aug 17 2011 : 3:44PM
^Yep, you were first with the correct answer.
SUCKER4NICETITS
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Posted - Aug 18 2011 : 10:04AM
Thanks so much everyone. Like I said, I'm a novice at this and never heard of a media player until reading about it here. Love the simplicity of the idea. Have converted a few so far, and all are fine. Like the DVD idea also, as I can move them anywhere.



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