You might check in with Tom Adams of Reelife, Rikk Desgres of Pinehurst Pictures and Sound, or Steve Unkles of Audio-Visual Archives. Tom is on this list and I think Steve and Rikk might be as well. Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm) ________________________________________________ Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>** <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>* (move your mouse to "event videos") Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change Twitter: @shelhorowitz * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame http://goingbeyondsustainability.com mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388 Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) _________________________________________________ On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 2:23 PM The San via Hidden-discuss < hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote: > I hope I’ve reached the right people here; I send a copy of the following > from a friend and brother who greatly needs a solution; ANY solid reply > will be appreciated. Thanks! > > “Request for Assistance: > > I need help from a local to me (Northampton), to convert this DVD into a > format compliant for upload to my YouTube channel. > > Unfortunately my ultra modern HP Spectre doesn't have an optical drive, > which I've not needed in nearly 8 yrs. > > Our PS4 won't recognize the disc, because the writer used an ancient codec. > > My ancient Dell Inspiron 6000 does recognize the disc, but it runs WinXP > Pro (!) and I can't find a proper ancient software to decode/encode into a > YT compliant MOV file. > > I'm stuck among various degrees of technology without a solution. Other > than ordering an external optical drive. Which I do not want to do for this > once in a decade effort. > > I do have rights to the video so there is no impropriety issue there. > > It is the 2011 UMASS freshman orientation 'Welcome to UMass at Amherst' > community outreach video. I was approached by the administration and asked > to volunteer toward this per my then many community 'town & gown' Projects > that I developed and coordinated. > > If any of you can help please DM or text me direct. > > Thx!“ > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20191029/a506a99a/attachment.html>