Maroon 5 - It Wont Be Soon Before Long

Maroon 5 – nobody cant forgot them by their top most played songs in the album Songs About Jane and their recent entry in the American idol with their stunning single “Makes Me Wonder”. After 5 years they are back with the album “It Wont Be Soon Before Long”. As usual computer geeks get this earlier before its release, me too one among them ;) Tried to get it in some shares and found after a long search which is now removed. So Don’t waste your time for rapidshare link for this album, 90% no chance. Go simply for torrent.

So how is the album. Almost all the songs doesn’t makes you dislike at first, then slowly u will the best ones though it is bit hard as almost all are good. The Singles “Makes Me Wonder” and “Wake Up Call” are clean hits. If I Never See Your Face Again, Won't Go Home Without You, Goodnight Goodnight, Kiwi, Nothing Lasts Forever all are good. One thing I notice is this has different style and different styles in each songs too not as the songs in “Songs About Jane” having some similar styled songs. Don’t know how music lovers response will be. I just added this splendid album in my itunes library immediately with good My User Ratings !! Check this out ASAP!!

Make Any Movie as Family Movie

So guys, after long time..so a BIG HI to everyone, fine straight to the topic: “Necessity is the Mother of invention”, in this case its Discovery. Yep here is my necessity:

A Software which should skip some selected "time span" from the movies while playing. I don’t want to edit or delete the scenes as it will take lot of time and will reduce the quality of the rip too. And it would be good, if i could just select the portion of the movie (as in adobe premiere ) and tell it to hide, like tat and i can save this settings for this movies as some file (as .srt or .sub file for subtitles) so that i can see the movie censored without affecting the quality of the movie rip.

Ok now the necessity of this necessity : most of the splendid non-indian movies has some pornographic content, mostly unnecessary examples : from godfather, schindler's list, last king of Scotland, the departed, Black book and the list goes on.. which we have to enjoy with our family..

So I posted in many forums to get a solution for this but in vein, and at last with some googling and lil bit of luck which I usually have ;) I got the solution. It is AviSynth. So those who have knowledge on this already with so much relax u can just skip this post, others continue..

I just did this few minutes before, so haven’t tested it extensively. But it seems working, so am just giving you hint:
Download the avisynth software from here.And just install as you like. Now just open a notepad and write this command:

AviSource("C:\Downloads\BBC Supernatural Science - Physical Feats.avi")
Trim(0,100-1) ++ Trim(200+1,0)
Trim(0,500-1) ++ Trim(800+1,0)
Trim(0,1000-1) ++ Trim(2000+1,0)

(OR)

DirectShowSource("C:\Downloads\BBC Supernatural Science - Physical Feats.avi ,fps=24,audio=true)
Trim(0,100-1) ++ Trim(200+1,0)
Trim(0,500-1) ++ Trim(800+1,0)
Trim(0,1000-1) ++ Trim(2000+1,0)

and just save the notepad file with .avs extension. Here the AviSource() or DirectShowSource() are used to open only avi and (avi and mpeg) movies respectively. The Trim command removes the frames provided. In the above example, I have trimmed three portions – frames from 100 to 200 ; 500 to 800 and 1000 to 2000. so this movie will be played without these clippings.

So to run the movies, you just have to open the .avs file in the media player and thats it. If you want to get the frame information, just use this light weight tool which is actually used for encoding purposes – VirtualDub. Just open the movie in this tool and it will display the frame numbers and the timings. So take this frame number and put it in the above code and Enjoy Movies With Your Family!!

Note: The above code trims off the unwanted scenes, you have to decide which one is unwanted ;) hope u understand!!

Be back with something else…Comments and rating always invited. ;)