Wednesday, April 16, 2008

OS X man pages GUI

Found a useful man page user interface for OS X called ManOpen - you find it here:  http://www.clindberg.org/projects/ManOpen.html

Monday, April 7, 2008

How to get a WMV video on to a DVD on the Mac

This was really giving me problems at first. I installed Flip4Mac (free edition) to be able to play WMV files using the QuickTime Player that came with Leopard - and it worked just fine. Trying to import the WMW file into iDVD however caused iDVD to hang (perpetual multicoloured rotating ball).  I then upgraded my QuickTime to a QuickTimePro to enable being able to convert the video to QuickTime mov format. This worked as a charm, and it was possible to use this file in the iDVD project.  Only flaw is that there is big letters telling everyone that the video was converted with the free edition of Flip4Mac.  sigh So, I spent an additional 29 USD to get rid of it, and I could now create the iDVD project. I am sure there is some free version somewhere, but I was in a hurry. If anyone has any info about free versions to perform the same conversion I would be glad to hear from you.