What is a Streaming Audio Server
Its an application that will allow you to “stream” or send a continuous block of data to a client. In a few words, it will allow you to put your own radio station online, where it will be feed by sound files lying around your hardrive, and then clients will connect to the server, and will have the chance to listen whats being playing, just like a plain old school radio station, only that this one is digital, thus allowing better quality, and management is really simple after you follow some simple steps in the initial configuration.

For this tutorial, we’ll use two available solutions, both are very good in the sense they do their job well, so its up to you to decide which one to pick up in the end

1.1 Winamp
Required by the broadcasting client to send the music files straight to the server.

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1.2 SHOUTcast Server 1.9.5
This one directly from Nullsoft, the creators of winamp.

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Installation
This is very simple. All you have to do is follow the "advanced" windows approach, aka "next->next->next"
Once you're done, you'll have a folder C:\Program Files\SHOUTcast which is the default, and the one Ill be refering to in the rest of this tutorial.

Configuration
Now we're off to configure the server to make it run smoothly. Follow the newly created shortcuts in the start menu (folder SHOUTcast DNAS), and run the server configuration utility SHOUTcast DNAS (GUI)
You should get an image like this one

Ok, now you we're off to explain the menues

Kill Server: Self-explanatory . It kills the serve, and all active client connections. So use it when you just want to shut it down for a while. Notice also that when you run the application, a little icon is displayed in the system tray.

Hide Monitor: Will basically minimize the window. The only way to get it back is via the aforementioned icon in the system tray. You can also access this function from the "X" button of the window.
Edit Log: Will simply give you access to the log file of the server, where useful information such as startup time, clients connection and so on are displayed. You can save the file to your hardrive, for historical purposes or whatever suits your needs.
Edit Config: This is the most important part, and the one Ill focus here, since it gives you access to all the configuration parameters of the server.

As you can see, you need to restart the server if any changes were made in order to the server to reload the new values. Notice if it opens notepad by default, probably the end-line characters wont be parsed correctly, which in plain english means you'll see sort of gibberish. So, close the server, and go straight to C:\Program Files\SHOUTcast and open the file sc_serv.ini with another text editor, such as wordpad, which recognizes unix end-line characters correctly.

Now I'll explain the most important options, change them accordingly to suit your needs, or leave the default if you're still confused about any. Notice the developers of this great application made a good job, and they explained the options very well in the ini file, however, if you still are a little lost, follow my prior advice.

• MaxUser : This is the maximum allowed number of simultaneous listeners. This is, the max number of users that can be connected at the same time to your server. This one is a little tricky as it depends on your connection speed, so you might want to customize this to suit your needs.
  In the docs, there is a function to calculate this:

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  MaxUser = [Upstream speed of your connection] * 0.9 / [Desired bitrate]

  So lets suppose your upstream connection (the speed you can upload at) is 350, and the bitrate you want to serve your mp3's at is 32 kbps:

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  350 * 0.9 / 32 ~= 10 users

  But be aware you can play around with this number, and you can even try to set it higher, but then you'll need a bunch of beta testers that might want to connect to your server and then report you how well it did, if they had connection problems, if the sound had glitches, etc...
  So if you're not sure, set it to the number of users given by the above function (or even less).

• Password : This is the admin/broadcast password, that you will use to administer the server via a web-interface (more of this later) and to send the broadcast via the DSP plugin (next section..).As usual, enter a hard to break password, likely containing letters, numbers, punctuation characters and caps.
  Notice there is an option to use this password as the one for broadcasters, and use another one for administration (separately that is), but for the sake of ease, lets just use this one for both functions.

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  Default: Password=changeme Example: Password=YoU.W0nt.Bre4k.ME.587

• Portbase : Simply the port where your server will listen for client requests, aka the little door in your PC that clients will try to connect to (or open). Default value is recomended.
• AutoDumpUsers : Simply put, if you shut down the server, why dont you disconnect the clients too?
  

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  Default: AutoDumpUsers=0 Recomended AutoDumpUsers=1

We're done with the configuration. Piece of cake, eh . Save the changes and close the file.

1.3 SHOUTcast DSP 1.8.2
This one directly also from Nullsoft. This is a Winamp Plugin that will allow you to send the real broadcast to the server you just configured, aka it will stream the mp3 so that it can be listened to.

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Installation
Close Winamp if its opened. Then, again, follow the "next->next->next" approach...

Once you're done, you'll want to check out if the plugin was installed correctly, and get ready for the next step.
Simply open Winamp, then hit Ctrl+P to open the preferences window:

Now close the preferences window, and the DSP dialog should be shown by now (and everytime you start Winamp).
At this point we have to configure the DSP plugin to start the broadcast.

Configuration
Now we'll take a look at the different tabs, and what we should fill in the different fields of these

• Main Tab: Its the worthless of them all. Basically it will show you the status of the different Outputs and the DeciBels.

  

• Output Tab: This is the most important of them all. Screw something here and you wont have your server streaming any sound

  

  Lets go easy on this one.
  The output part will show you which one of the 5 outputs are you configuring. What this means is that you can have your DSP plugin stream sounds to 5 different servers, thats all. For ease purposes, lets just leave it selected in the output #1 and forget about the others.
  The status part will show more or less the same stuff that in the Main Tab. But whats important is the button connect. You are supossed to push it once all this configuration is done, to start broadcasting the sound right to your server. (Final step).

  Now lets head over the Output Configuration part.
  In the address field just write the IP or domain name for your server (the server you will be broadcasting to, that is). Notice that if your server is at the same computer where you will be using the winamp+DSP plugin, then you can just put localhost and thats it.
  In the port field, put the Portbase value you configured for your server above, in the former section...
  In the password field, put the Password value you configured for your server above, in the former section...
  From the encoder list, just pick up 1, since basically you will be able to make 5 different configurations for 5 different outputs (remember?), so, since we'll be using just output, then we just configure 1 encoder, and this is the one we select here (more on encoders later)
  Push the checkbox Enable Reconnection on Reconnection Failure, that means if there is a problem with your server, then the DSP plugin will try infinitely to reconnect until its up again

  Now lets head over the Yellow Pages Configuration part.
  The checkbox Make this server public (Recommended) basically will allow your server to be listed in www.shoutcast.com listings. Wheter you want to do this or not (you want to keep this private) its your call. Two things you need to have in account. First, your shoucast server needs to have a domain; if it has an IP, then you wont be listed there. And second, from the instant you begin the broadcast by pressing the button mentioned above, it will take from 10 to 15 minutes for your server to be listed there. Once its listed, it will look like this (I made a search for Billy Boy and thus I got my server among the results)

  

  So as you can see, anyone going to www.shoutcast.com could find out about my server, and tune it. If you want to keep it private, then just dont click the checkbox, thats all.
  In the Description field... well, just put your server description, to be shown in shoutcast listing as shown above, and this is also what your listeners will see in the music player playlist.
  The URL field is usually an address where people who got to your server through the shoutcast listings, can find more information. This should be sort of your website or the radio's website. You get the picture. But please notice this URL has nothing to do with the Address field we went through before, they can be the same, but dont have to...
  Now the Genre field is self-explanatory...
  And finally the fields AIM, ICQ and IRC are just contact addresses, pretty much like URL so you know what to (or what not to) put in here...

• Encoder Tab: This one is simple. As explained before, choose the Encoder 1 item in the list, and select the appropiate Encoder Settings, aka the bitrate we even made a math formula above, remember?
  In the Encoder Type field just leave the default value...

  

• Input Tab: This part will tell your Winamp what to broadcast, your MP3s (Winamp (Recommended)) that winamp is playing right now or...
  

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  Mom, I wanna be a real DJ

  Ok, sometimes, you'll want to broadcast your ugly voice to your listeners (poor them)... How do you do that? Simple. You select Soundcard Input as your Input Device, change the Input Settings to what you consider and then pull out that dusty microphone and start speaking...
  One tip here, you can dynamically change between Winamp (Recommended) and Soundcard Input as much as you want, and play to be like a real DJ in a radio station. Notice that when you change from Soundcard Input to Winamp (Recommended), if you take, lets say 10 seconds to hit the play button in winamp (to start playing a song), these 10 secs wont be streamed to your listeners, so you have time to speak, something among the lines "Now enjoy SongX", change the Input Device to Winamp (Recommended), search for the song in the playlist (or load it), then hit the play button. Your listeners will only listen to the "Now enjoy SongX" and right away the song, no interruptions in the middle. Rather cool, eh?

Now you're done. Hit the connect button in the Output Tab and you'll be broadcasting to your shoutcast server right away.

Administration
You can now administer your shoutcast server from a web-based interface.
To access it, just go with your browser to

Where yourserver is the value configured in the field address of the Output Tab in the DSP plugin, and port is the Portbase value you configured for your server
In the example we have been following along, its would be

You'll be looking at something like this

• Status: The "welcome" screen you see in the image...
• Song History: Well... the list of streamed songs since the server was started
• Listen: Basically, the link you have to give your listeners so they will be able to connect to the server and start listening (doh!). If you are not very good with the html, copy & paste this code inside a HTML page (maybe the one pointed by URL in Yellow Pages? )
  

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  And replace the href tag to what the link in Listen points to.
  Here is the classic "tune in" image

  

• Stream URL: Basically, the URL in Yellow Pages (DSP configuration dialog if I lost you here)
• Admin Login: This is where you play to be an admin. I will only tell you, to login you need a login/password combo. The login is just admin, and the password is the Password variable in the shoutcast configuration file (sc_serv.ini).
  As I explained above, you could have a unique password for admin functions, if you fill in the field AdminPassword in the aforementioned ini file. (Just take away the ; (semicolon) and put the password you want.
  If you enter a password there (in AdminPassword), then this is the one you will use here, otherwise just use the mentioned one (Password). If you're lost here, then nevermind and just forget what I said in the last 2 paragraphs (including this one)
  Since I hate to be a party boomer, Ill let you enjoy the fun and test all of the options in the admin page by yourself.
  Consider this a teaser

  

Testing
Ok, so you have your server up and running, but now you need to somehow test it, to check out if everything is working as expected, right?
If you dont have two computers to test it, and knowing the fact that winamp wont allow two instances of itself to be running at the same time, what would you do?
So dont fear. There are a number of media players that support shoutcast streams, and we will look at one of them.
The name's XMPlay, and its a very lightweight media player, that can be freely downloaded from here

Now lets see what might be the URL your users will need in order to connect to your server. I explained in the subsection above how to get this URL by means of the admin panel, but if you want to know how do you get int manually, here it is

Where yourserver is the value configured in the field address of the Output Tab in the DSP plugin, and port is the Portbase value you configured for your server.
In our now old and rusty example, it is

Then fire up XMPlay, press the key O (keyboard shortcut to open files/URL) and fill the appropiate value

Now you shoould be listening to your radio server!

Just FYI, in Winamp you open an URL with Ctrl+L.

2.1 Winamp
Refer to Section 1.1

2.2 Icecast 2.2.0
This one directly from the creators of the ogg sound format, among other open source niceties.

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Installation
This is far easy. Just follow the "next, next, next" approach and you're done with it.

Configuration
So, we're all set to start configuring the server. Run it by using the shortcut in the desktop (Icecast2 Win32), and then you'll be introduced to the following screen

There is no much to explain about the GUI, so Ill just tell you the help is located in the About menu
Before I start spitting my gibberish here, lemme explain, that the configuration is done by changing/adding values to an XML file, namely icecast.xml in C:\Program Files\Icecast2 Win32 (if you installed icecast in the standard path). So, if you're familiar with XML, then you have a slight advantage on your side. However, if you dont know XML or dont even know what it is, no problem, the configuration procedure is still piece of cake (seems like everything in this tutorial is )
But I know there are some folks out there who like to learn something new, so the beginner point by excellence to learn XML is this one

Ok, now lets continue. Head over to the Configuration menu, and select the only available item in there (Edit Configuration). You should see the configuration file right now, opened in notepad.
BTW, while you're editing the file, you cant start the server, since the main window freezes. This is normal, and its made for security purposes (although you can simply go to the installation folder, and open the .xml file... )
Now you can safely select all the text (ctrl+a) and then delete it. Then just copy & paste all of the code below

The lines in bold are purely so for formatting purposes. They are XML comments that I made, in order to help you change whats required. This is pretty much straightforward, not a lot to explain here. If you need further help, go to About->Help menu in the icecast main window, for a more detailed explanation on every single variable available.

Now spank that Start Server button to run the server.

2.3 SHOUTcast DSP 1.8.2
Refer to Section 1.3 of this tutorial, for installation and configuration options, they are pretty much the same. Just a few things change.

Configuration
To make things short, here is a screenie showing what the Configuration tab should look, if we take in mind the example icecast.xml configuration above.

Notice the password in red is the value of the element .
The Yellow pages configuration is pretty much the same. Nothing changes.
So, if everything went ok, you can search for your server once its up and running and Shoutcast DSP broadcasting here

In our example, this is how it looks

Administration
You can now administer your icecast server from a web-based interface.
To access it, just go with your browser to

Where yourserver is the value configured in the element in the icecast.xml file; port is the

So i would to give u a little suggestion on how to install and use it. Believe me it worth the 10 minutes u need to configure:

1) Max Connection:

If u use windows xp get ride of the max connections limit. This is cuz m i c r o s o f t limited the max connection to 10. By using this patch, u can growing it up to 50. Get it here, run just one time, then u will not need it again:

2) Port fowarding

Fowarding the ports on ur router if u have one, otherwise got to point 3). Port fowarding is the most important part to get a clear and fast download. See why u need to open ur port here:_http://bt.degreez.net/firewalled.html
Bittorrent network use the following port: 6881 to 6889, recently was estended to 6999 (ALL TCP). How to do it depend on ur router. U will need the ip of ur local machine. U can get it easy:
Go to 'Start -> Run' and type in 'cmd' , this opens a black 'dos' screen, type ipconfig and hit ok, u should see something like this:

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Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

write down ur internal IP address u will need later to fowarding ur port.
Also see ur predefenite Gateway address, u can access ur router configuration simple put this address to ur browser. If u accessing ur router for the first time, user and psw should be by default admin/admin.
To get all the information on how portfowarding ur own router go here, its easy:

Remember you need to be sure you have it forward to YOUR INTERNAL IP ADDRESS. DO NOT! use the ip address (public) of your internet provider, your ip is the one assigned to you by the router, in this exemple 192.168.0.2.
If ur router doesn't allow a range of ports (from/to) u will need to open them singulary. It's easy and just 2 ports chosen from 6881 to 6999 are enough.
If you would like to check your firewall/NAT port forwarding configuration, try the Natcheck page. http://btfaq.com/natcheck.pl
U will need to enter the hash ID of the torrent. In bittornato while its running can be found on main screen under "deteils".

3) Firewall.

U don't need to configure it but just hit ALLOW (both server and internet access) everytime u start to run a download and it warning about ur torrent application is trying to connect. Everytime is better then forever, in this way u have a just a lit more control on these ports when ur not using them. That's all.
If ur using zonealarm left the trusted zone on med, as is by default. If using windows xp firewall, its suggest to deactive it right clicking on your network connection>properties>advanced and uncheck the box.

4) The client

In this exemple: bittornado. Bittornado have not a nice look, but its good, and many nice looking client are just using its engine add multiple downloads and nice button u dont need. It have all to take control on ur download in just an efficent way.
Download the stable version (0.3.7) here do not download latest experimental 0.3.12 cuz still have a bug, it crash on exit (at this time 05.17.05) .

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http://www.bittornado.com/download.html

Its not easy to find previos experimental version then 0.3.12. I any case i found the 0.3.10 here and it work good: _http://membres.lycos.fr/voceerf/ or here _http://www.planetspectre.com/bt/BitTornado-0.3.10-Py2.3-w32install.exe

Install it. U can't run it, u still just need a .torrent file, so choose a torrent from some latest recent post u like (not to old or there will not be seeder), doubleclick on this file u have downloaded and at this only point the client will come up asking where u want to store the file u are downloading.
When done the main program window come up, go to "Prefs"(see img.2) and put the same port u have fowarding on ur router under "port range". If u have fowarded just 2 port uncheck randomized (see img.1).
The first time, once time at all, close it and restart, cuz as shown (img.1) *These settings will not take effect until the next time you start Bit Torrent.

img.1 Preferences

If u did all correctly, u'll be reachable, i mean ur having a clear connection, the upper sphere on the main windows will be green (see img.2). You HAVE DONE! the green color mean u have portfowarded right ur router and ur firewall its doing want u ask to do: don't bother. Click on this sphere for more advice on the status. For others questions on bittornado visit its official forum _http://forums.degreez.net/

img.2 Main windows

Tips:

- Often connections through bit torrent take time (20-30mins) to get to full speed so be patient.
- If u will use Bit Tornado choose automatic on "setting for" in the main window when u start, then, after 5-10 minutes when upload and download is more or less balanced, adjust it to ur convenience, according on ur connection.
- Bittornado can open as many downloads as u whis, everyone with its separate windows. But i don't suggest. Concentrate it to just one file at time or two if ur connection is large enough (lowering the one u want less), multiple download means multiple connections and this can kill ur bandwidth and slowdown the whole work. For this reason, in my opinion, the nice looking client i say above, with multiple downloads and nice icons are just smoke on the eyes, useless.
- Use torrent link when the game its hot or u will lose ur chance. Seeder and peers will not stay forever.
- Don't lose ur faith on ur first try, just look well ur configuration again, the most important thing is to fowarding ur port correctly accordly with the client and viceversa. U will be glad when u will start downloading torrents fast enough.
- Give other people opportunity to get files by seeding a little more time when u finished a download, u need the same favor to get the job done.
- As every p2p or network user do not store sensibile data on ur pc.
- If u want to keep out some well known bad ips.., install PeerGuardian, its just a little more help on your security _http://www.methlabs.org/

Troubleshooting:

U have the light green but still low speed:
Most time the upload speed should be set to around 13-20Kbps. But if u experiencing very low speed you may be flooding your connection. Reduce your upload to 90% of your total upstream bandwidth.
If u experiencing a slower download that the upload, try adjust connections and upload it by time to time, or try just once to manual announce (see advance link on main bit tirnado windows to find out), or be patience or just abort and forget the tracker choosing another one torrent link if available.
Remember, sometimes there simply isn't a lot of upload bandwidth available on a torrent. This means that only a few people are participating or don't have a lot of bandwidth to spare. Your download speed will only ever be as fast as another persons upload speed, so look for torrents with the most seeds and peers.

isp is blocking p2p:
If ur isp is blocking p2p, or its using "packet shaping" technology to cripple your speed, i'm apologize, that just suck, i have not a suggestion other then change ur isp, or try using un-common ports, the acceptable range to choose a new port from is 49152 - 65535. Someone say to try port 443 too. Just try.

More links:

http://btfaq.com/
http://www.bittorrent.com/index.html
http://www.bittornado.com/faq.html
http://forums.degreez.net/
http://www.bittorrent.com/introduction.html
http://www.bamber.org/wiki/ow.asp?PortForwarding

Note:
- If no one upload no one download it is how torrent work. Torrents doesnt allow 100% leechers, so do not be disappointed if in some private site, u will be ip-banned if u have for long time a very low ratio.

- If this tutorial helped u out let me know, or if u have other solution or just suggestions feel free to pm me

Once you download abyss you will need to register a domain name, (e.g. www.projectw.org). the places that you can register a domain name Is called a domain registar, there are quite a few of them, registerfly is a good one and they also offer web hosting, they can be found here.

Most domain names cost like $10 USD per year
After you register a domain name, you will need to point the domain name to your computer VIA your IP address. If you do not know your IP address or are using a router, you need to go to

to get your public IP address. Once you get your IP you need to go the my setting tab on your domain registrar’s website, and find DNS settings. Find the one that says www and put your IP address in the box that says address. Save the settings. Now to set up your computers end, install abyss, and make sure it has the web server as on. ****SETUP NOTES*** first part select run as service, this will start the web server as soon as your computer starts up, then it was say services and installation complete, click ok and it will take you to the config console. Make up a username and a password then click ok, then enter the username and password your just made. Everything should be good so click ok. Now navigate to C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs, in here you will put your website documents. A good html editor is FrontPage for beginners or macromedia dreamweaver for more advanced. Inside the htdocs folder open up the index.html file inside FrontPage or dreamweaver, and you can edit the words and add pictures and what have you. Now for the router config, only follow this if you are using a router. Go into your router config usually done by going into the web browser and enter 192.168.0.1 or whatever yours is. To find it go to start>run>cmd>ipconfig and hit enter (see pic below) type the default gateway address into your browser and hit enter, it should prompt you for username and a password, usually by default the username is either admin or administrator and there is usually no password. Navigate to virtual server or port fowarding and add a new rule, what this will do is when a connection comes in on port 80 it will send it to the computer you specify. You will need to know your mac address or network name, to get your mac address go back to start>run>cmd>ipconfig /all and hit enter. You can find your mac address under physical address. Go back to the router config and type in your mac address and add port 80 for start and port 80 for end. Please download your router manual for more info. Click save settings and your may have to restart your router. To check to see if everything works go enter your web address (eg.:mysite.com) and if you see something that say welcome to abyss web server then it is successful.
If any question or if i did not cover anything please pm me or post a comment.

First and foremost, go to

and go to their downloads section.
get the following files:
under Audio:
Besweet
Besweet GUI

Under Codecs:
DivX 5.2.1 Pro

Under Divx/Mpeg-4 encoders:
Nandub 1.0RC2

then get this:

alternatively, get any version of virtualdub that includes mp3 support.

these are all the required tools, there are ways with fewer items, but they produce very inferior outputs. Besides, after you get used to it, the whole process is really easy.

Okay, first and foremost, pull out Nandub. This is the step that takes the longest, as well as where you will make most of your decisions. I am going to assume that you are making a 1 cd rip. If you do what is in this faq, there won’t be much reason to do anything else. Twisted Evil

First of all, run Nandub . It will pop up a dialogue box, and want to know if you are making a new project or resuming an old. New, of course. Give it a name and tell fairuse where you want it to store its data. Fairuse is about to rip the entire movie to your harddrive(nice if you want to go rent a movie and return it the next day).

Then it will ask for your DVD drive with a dvd in it. give it. Then, select which video stream you want. This is usually pretty obvious as the movie stream is the one that is an hour or so long. If there are two of these, check out the other tags. which languages and so on. worst case senario is that you have to trial and error. but that is rare. choose the long stream and hit next.

This is where Nandub rips everything to your hard drive. depending on the speed of various components in your computer, and the length of the movie, this could take a while. let it finish. and then move on.

Once all that is done, the really important screen pops up. this is where you set resolutions and video length. first, cut off the ending credits with the slider, but DO NOT mess with the beginning, as the sound and video frames need to start at the same point for sync. Then hit auto set for the cropping region, this is usually just fine. Then decide whether or not you want subtitles, which would be the subpicture stream. When you’re done, hit next.

Set the field mode to IVTC. This will give you better quality for size, as it runs at 24 frames instead of 30, due to the nature of divx, there won’t be any noticeable difference in quality, but 6 less frames to deal with each second(and to store data for) really add up. Besides this is the correct mode for all movies anyway. NExt.

This is where you set FINAL file size, including audio, for 1 cd rip, set to 690, for 2, set to double that. Then follow the directions they give you and choose a final resolution that has between a 120:1 and 150:1 (if possible, sometimes the movie is compression ratio. NEXT!

This screen is where you determine quality. The autoadd button is usefull, and will give you decent quality, with 4 encodings. What this does is encode the movie 4 times, and then mix the frames to creat the final encoding, with the most efficient possible encoding for each frame. which is how we get bad ass quality for a single cd. I usually go for 8 encodings, as on my athlon 1600+ this rarely takes more than 8 hours to do, so I just go to sleep, wake up, and its done.

Then add the audio encoding that you want.

Hit next.
And let the bastard fly. Depending on what you set, and your computer, this could take from a few hours to a few days. CPU’s of 1.2Ghz+ are nice right about here. You can do stuff while this is going on, but it makes things take much longer.

In the end you will have a bunch of encodings in the folder you specified at the beginning, the 4+ you chose and the final. You will also have an AC3 stream. Take the final AVI and toss it someplace to await the rest of the audio work you have to do, and you can erase the other encodings, freeing up a few gigs in the process of space.

NEXT: AUDIO

Ok, this is where Besweet comes in.

Extract BeSweet and the GUI into the same folder. Now Run the GUI.

At the top there are three fields. One for BeSweet which you should point at the besweet.exe that you should have unzipped to the same directory you are running the Gui from, A field for the AC3 stream, which is in the folder where you sent the encoded video from Fairuse, and an output mp3. The output mp3 has to be an existing file, so make a text file, rename it (yourmovie).mp3 and just say yeah, its cool to change the extension and make things weird. besweet will overwrite it so don’t worry. point the third field at that file. The default values for stuff should be fine. but to make sure go to Azid 1(on the left) and select stereo, and then go to Lame 2 and select constant bit rate, and 128(assuming that is what you want). then click on besweet again, and finally, click on AC3 to MP3.

Now. When its done you should have an mp3 that is the entire soundtrack for the movie. This is where virtualdub comes in. run the virtualdub mp3 version. go to File:open video file and select the final encoding that you had from way back. Then go to audio and select mp3 audio. it will ask you for the file, give it the mp3. Go to audio again and make sure direct stream copy is selected. Then go to video and make sure that direct stream copy is also selected. Finally go to file again and SAVE AVI. give it a file name and let the bastard fly. This final file is your movie. Beautiful and glorious. Congratulations, its a DivX rip. Aren’t you proud. burn to cd, and give copies to all your friends.

Zune the awaited Mp3 player from microsoft is expected to arrive in the market on Nov 14 th.

For more details log on to http://www.zunescene.com/

Features Of ZUNE

WMA, MP3, AAC, JPEG,WMV, MPEG-4, H.264 media playback
Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) connectivity
30 GB Hard Drive
3 inch video LCD 320×240
White, Black, and Brown Colors
FM Radio
TV output connectivity 640×480
Dedicated song download site (Zune Marketplace)
DJ Mode
Podcast playback
Updateable Firmware
Estimated 12 hr battery life for audio, 3.5 hr video
3 day playback of Wi-Fi transfered songs from friends
XBOX streaming
XBOX (Microsoft) points compatability
Preloaded music videos
Over a dozen accessories at launch
5.6 ounces in weight, 4.4 x 2.4 x 0.58 inches size
Metric: 158 g, 112 x 61 x 14.7 mm size
Custom background images
WiFi transfer of photographs
Tag based storage system (Will not appear as drive)
PC Compatability (no Mac client at launch)
Zune tag enabled
Horizontal and vertical video orientation

Apple has launched updates to itunes and also ipod firmware version 1.2. Itunes is available for free download from apple official site  site http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/