I tried to delete some video files, but I kept receiving an error indicating the files were locked by the system. I opened Task Manager by right-clicking the Taskbar and clicking “Task Manager”. There were five instances of Windows Explorer open, so I right-clicked on […]
I recently had issues with the audio on my recordings. TV cable box to computer. I played around with the audio settings a bit to try to fix it. At one point, I lost the audio altogether. No Sound On Video Capture Using PotPlayer Luckily,
I tried to record a video from my TV box to my computer using PotPlayer. Download PotPlayer here. The video was recorded except for one issue. No sound. I opened PotPlayer. In the top-left corner, where you see the word “PotPlayer,” I clicked it. In
Way back in 1999, I decided to become an organ donor. I don’t know if you have to register anywhere officially. You can check with your state or provincial government website. In Canada, we have a program called “MCP – Medical Care Plan”, so we
You probably seen videos where the logos are displayed in a corner of the video. You can do this with your own videos using VLC, but unfortunately, it doesn’t work the way I thought it did. I’ll explain in the end. Open up your video
If you get bored watching your videos, why not turn them into puzzles? Go to “Tools -> Effects and Filters.” Click the “Video Effects” tab. Then “Geometry”. Down in the corner, you should see “Puzzle game”. Check it. You can change the “Rows” and “Columns”
If you ever find yourself in a situation where you want to crop or zoom in on a video, as I sometimes do, here is how to do it in OBS. There may be more than one way to do this, including using plugins, but
It’s the winter for power outages around here, with possible rotating outages due to damage at the power plant. These outages can also wreak havoc on our tech. Some minor, some major. One minor problem I had because of the last outage was that the
One of the first problems I had with my TiVo cable service was that the batteries in my remote seemed only to last a week. I got in touch with Tech Support, and they only sent me a new remote. When you move or shake
My movie collection file size ballooned from around 300GB to 1.2TB. I couldn’t understand why, since I only recorded a couple more movies from my cable box. I scanned through my videos only to find that the last movies copied over were 140Gb to 170GB
For personal reasons, I’m going to make a bootable USB from a Windows 7 CD that I have. I’m going to be using a program called ImgBurn to do this. Download ImgBurn. I know. It hasn’t been updated in a while, but it still works.
I woke up this morning to this error message blinking on my HP Printer (HP OfficeJet 3830). Error Code 0xB98088FC Luckily, the fix was simple. Turn it off and on again. I pressed the power button, but it didn’t go off. It did restart. Problem
I recently ran WinGet to update the apps on my computer. It ran OK with one small snag. WinGet Breaks 4K Downloader Plus I was made aware of a program called “Patch My PC”. Thanks, Mindblower. A search shows it’s been covered before in past
After a winter storm, we had a power outage that lasted almost 20 hours. Not good in an apartment with only electric heat. No lights, no heat, can’t go online to complain to anyone. 🙂 I previously wrote about someone’s computer not turning on after
