Mal's Gherkin Pram: (*) D'oh!

Well, my first attempt to copy and burn a DVD was a failure! I know I must be doing something painfully obviously wrong somewhere, but I don't know what it is. Not to worry. Tis all trial-and-error! I'll try again tonight with a variation of what I did last night... if that fails, I'll drop that drummer an email and just ask him what he does! heh heh

I managed to shrink-copy the files from the dvd, then they actually got burned onto a DVD, but the dvd player can't read it. It's a new DVD player too, which can read practically anything you throw at it, but alas it told me there was nothing on that disk! With a bit of fiddling I can play the files on the disk on my laptop, but they don't play automatically. Yeah, I must be missing some small simple step there somewhere. Try and try again :)

Hey! I mean, if someone like me can copy and burn music CD's, and even make a real webpage from scratch - I should be able to get my head around this, huh? [giggles] I'm still feeling rather upbeat about it all, which is wonderful for me. Normally when something supposedly simple like this doesn't work the way I think it should [...], there may be times when I throw a bit of a tantie, but not this time!

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My second attempt also failed! Thankfully my attitude is "Oh well, that's no big disaster!", rather than sulking or getting down about it or anything negative like that, which sometimes I can so easily do (as brainless and unreasonable as I know it is, but it still happens... just part of the depressed-side of my psyche). Anyways, I have most of the DVD's I really want to own anyway. I'd only be burning back-up copies of my own ones anyways. I'll still ask the drummer what he does/uses, and see if he's got any advice for a totaly DVD-creating noob! heh heh

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Strange days... although the wind has been howling from the west for the past 2 days or so (and quite the opposite direction from the sea), I couldn't help but smile to see two seagulls floating around the middle of town this arvo. The only problem is, I live about 200kms / 130 miles from the nearest ocean! Wow, those guys were sure lost!