AVI is a Microsoft format that Mac OS X doesn’t read, so how do you make it work: Watching AVI Movies in Mac OS X – Mac Guides VLC Player is a cross platform application with a mac version available for download from the VLC website. [I’ve found that mplayer is there, but seems to […]
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DVD Backup
Well the world is moving on to Blu-ray and I’ll have to get one of these bad boys at some point (and replace my whole television too, the lovely 250kg monster that it is). In the meantime, backing up DVDs and so forth goes on. Here’s the workflow I use. Its a little old these […]
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Intel Nehalem 20-50% faster due in 2009
Early Version of Intel’s Nehalem Benchmarked, Much Faster than Penryn – Mac Rumors Anandtech had access to a 2.66GHz Nehalem processor which they pitted against a 2.66GHz Penryn processor. Performance improvements ranged from 20-50% faster for the Nehalem chip. h.264 video encoding was tested and saw a 44% speed boost on Nehalem vs Penryn on […]
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PC Video Encoding
I blew up my main video machine. Too much crud on it. So here is the fresh installation: # Sony Vegas Platinum. I only have v6, but it is up to v8. While Adobe Premier might work for the real afictionados it is too complicated for me. The tricky part is making anamorphic standard definition […]
