Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.6.0: This is the first release in the 0.6.0 branch and brings an awesome new feature. It is now possible to compress a folder sorting its file content by File Path, File Name, or by Extension. PAQ is a compressor sensitive to the order of the files it compresses. This means that sometimes, you get the best compression ratio if similar files are placed together. This is what this new version attempts to…
Hi everyone, Today, I have released Google Drive Uploader & Explorer Tool v1.15.2: This version has the following changes: Changed “Uploads Finished” text to “Queue Items Processed!” as the queue can be either upload or download items. Updated Google APIs. You can download it on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 8
Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.5.18: This release adds the new compressor version paq8px v206. For the changes in this new paq8px version, click here. You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Happy New Year’s Eve! Post Views: 7
Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.5.17: This release adds the new compressor version paq8pxd v106. This compressor update provides the following change: You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 3
Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.5.16: This release adds the new compressor version paq8pxd v105. This compressor update provides the following change: You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 0
Hi everyone, Today, I have released CMIX GUI v1.9: This new version adds the cmix v19 compressor version released last month. cmix v19 brings the following improvement: For a benchmark and compression results on this new cmix version, check the cmix forum post at the encode.su forum here. You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 12
Hi everyone, Today, I’ll show you how to update the LiteOn DU-8A5LH firmware. This is important as firmware updates should improve the drive operation, including better reading and burning stability. Recently, I tried to burn a SmartBuy DVD+R DL disc but it failed at the beginning of the 2nd layer. The drive had an older firmware, so I updated it and we’ll see if this improves double layer burning at another post. For now, let’s see the steps to update…
Hi everyone, Today, we will see how well a SmartBuy DVD+R DL disc burns in the LiteOn DU-8A5LH drive: This unit supports burning these discs at a speed of 3x, 4x and 6x. This post will focus on a disc burned at 6x. Burning the disc seemed to have gone well until it switched to the 2nd disc layer: Unfortunately, the drive could not burn this disc successfully. I retried it and it seems this time it worked: This drive…
So, now that we have successfully downloaded the Windows UUP files, created the ISO image, and optionally patched the Windows 11 ISO, now it’s time to burn it to a DVD. While today most people prefer to make a bootable USB drive, burning the image to a DVD have the advantage of archiving it for later use, while a USB drive may be formatted later for additional use. I always prefer to burn the images to disc because they provide…
Hi everyone, Today, I’ll show you how to update the Pioneer DVR-XD09 firmware. This is important as firmware updates should improve the drive operation, including better reading and burning stability. This Pioneer DVR-XD09 drive came with the 1.02 firmware. The latest firmware available for this drive is 1.05. To download and update it, we first need to go to Pioneer’s optical drive firmware update download page. We will scroll down until we see the firmware file for our DVR-X09 drive….