Re: Avi's, Mp4v's and subtitling...
Ronni, Thanks for that - it worked a treat ! Regards Mark On 13/03/2009, at 9:30 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Mark, To convert the files to mp4v then combine the mp4v's into one movie. If you have Quicktime Pro, use it to convert the avi's to mpeg4 and then use Quicktime Pro to combine the converted mp4v's. Oops, I was presuming these are unprotected video files, I might be wrong in my assumption Cheers, Ronni On 13/03/2009, at 9:16 AM, Mark Heeler wrote: I have a couple of files I wish to prepare to play on a (unhacked) AppleTV so they need to be in mp4v format. I usually use MPEGStreamclip to convert avis's - works fine. But these (Russian) video files have subtitles (that reside in a separate file that Quicktime player and VLC use when playing back) but I am trying to combine the files and create a subtitled mp4v. I did try a few times to export from VLC but it kept crashing. Any ideas ? -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Apple's currency converter widget playing up
Anyone noticed dodgy currency calculations when using Dashboard's standard conversion widget? I'm using latest Leopard OS, the 'Last Updated' details are fine, but, for example, I get USD $1 equals AUD $0.042, or four Australian cents. Clearly not right. No such problem at Yahoo!, which according to the reverse side of the conversion widget is the source of the rates. If I visit ... http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter;_ylt=AoL37jMXKySmMHnIFopXQctO7sMF#from =USD;to=AUD;amt=1 ... the exchange rates seem correct. Any ideas on what might be the problem? Can someone confirm they get the same error? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Apple's currency converter widget playing up
Yes Steven, I've been having the same problem with the currency conversion widget for the past couple of days. Glad to hear it's not just me! Jane On 14/03/2009, at 10:54 PM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: Anyone noticed dodgy currency calculations when using Dashboard's standard conversion widget? I'm using latest Leopard OS, the 'Last Updated' details are fine, but, for example, I get USD $1 equals AUD $0.042, or four Australian cents. Clearly not right. No such problem at Yahoo!, which according to the reverse side of the conversion widget is the source of the rates. If I visit ... http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter;_ylt=AoL37jMXKySmMHnIFopXQctO7sMF#from=USD;to=AUD;amt=1 ... the exchange rates seem correct. Any ideas on what might be the problem? Can someone confirm they get the same error? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Apple's currency converter widget playing up
Ah, good, so not just me doing something stupid. Same thing happened to me a few days back, not sure precisely when, a week or two maybe, but then things came good, now they've gone ugly again. I guess if it WAS me doing something stupid, the fix would be easier. Sounds like the fix might be to just wait for the fix - I assume any email I send to Apple or Yahoo! would fall squarely on deaf ears or a bottomless inbox. Cheers, Steven On 14/03/2009, at 6:05 PM, Jane Griffiths wrote: Yes Steven, I've been having the same problem with the currency conversion widget for the past couple of days. Glad to hear it's not just me! Jane On 14/03/2009, at 10:54 PM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: Anyone noticed dodgy currency calculations when using Dashboard's standard conversion widget? I'm using latest Leopard OS, the 'Last Updated' details are fine, but, for example, I get USD $1 equals AUD $0.042, or four Australian cents. Clearly not right. No such problem at Yahoo!, which according to the reverse side of the conversion widget is the source of the rates. If I visit ... http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter;_ylt=AoL37jMXKySmMHnIFopXQctO7sMF#from =USD;to=AUD;amt=1 ... the exchange rates seem correct. Any ideas on what might be the problem? Can someone confirm they get the same error? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Apple's currency converter widget playing up
Mine is playing up too, across a range of currencies. Wendy On 14/03/2009, at 6:54 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Anyone noticed dodgy currency calculations when using Dashboard's standard conversion widget? -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Apple's currency converter widget playing up
Mine too, we need to report to Apple. On 15/03/2009, at 1:04 AM, Wendy S. Austin wrote: Mine is playing up too, across a range of currencies. Wendy On 14/03/2009, at 6:54 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Anyone noticed dodgy currency calculations when using Dashboard's standard conversion widget? -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Apple's currency converter widget playing up
If you go the other way AU$1 = US$1 and if you put US$ on both sides $1 = $0.028 Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 15/03/2009, at 1:04 AM, Wendy S. Austin wrote: Mine is playing up too, across a range of currencies. Wendy On 14/03/2009, at 6:54 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Anyone noticed dodgy currency calculations when using Dashboard's standard conversion widget? -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Apple's currency converter widget playing up
Hi Guys, I had this problem too and I believe it was related to the Safari 4 Beta or 10.5.6. There's a solution, but it's not pretty. The fix is listed on Mac OS X Hints here http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090225162441861 and they believe it's 10.5.6 that causes this. Here are their instructions, and all credit should go them: To fix this problem, make a copy of /Library/Widgets/Unit Converter.wdgt on your Desktop, Control-click on it and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu, then open the UnitConverter.js file in a text editor. Search for USD (with the quotes). There should be only one matching line: if (a.iso == USD) return -1; Delete this line. Then, delete the else at the start of the next line, i.e. change the line from this... else if (a.name b.name) return -1; ...to this... if (a.name b.name) return -1; Save the changes and close the document. I suggest keeping the original widget in /Library/Widgets, and installing the corrected version in ~/Library/Widgets, so that the system's version remains untouched. This fixed the AUD - USD problem - not sure about the others though Goodluck Chris. From: Adrian Skehan adrianske...@mac.com Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:15:07 +0900 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Apple's currency converter widget playing up If you go the other way AU$1 = US$1 and if you put US$ on both sides $1 = $0.028 Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 15/03/2009, at 1:04 AM, Wendy S. Austin wrote: Mine is playing up too, across a range of currencies. Wendy On 14/03/2009, at 6:54 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Anyone noticed dodgy currency calculations when using Dashboard's standard conversion widget? -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: MacPro Fans in Overdrive
Afternoon, Recommend completing all updates, firmware and resetting the PRAM and power management. See how you go from there. If it still occurs you'll need to lodge the warranty. Cheers - Original Message - From: chesn...@it.net.au To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, 11 March, 2009 11:22:54 AM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: MacPro Fans in Overdrive Hi List, I recently bought a refurbished 8 core MacPro from the Apple Online Shop. 2 gig of RAM, and running Sys 10.5.1. It is the model which has just been superceded. It was delivered about a week ago, but due to work commitments I only got to unpack it yesterday. It seemed to boot fine, and I loaded and set about running a memory test programme. All seemed well yesterday, with the whisper quiet operation of the fans which I had previously seen in the retail shops I had visited. It is temporarily set up in the middle of the floor in my office, with unrestricted airflow. This morning I woke it from sleep, and shortly afterwards the fans came to life both loud and strong. The air coming out seems barely warm, and the case is not in the least warm. Upon being made to go to sleep, the fans die, and on wakeup they kick in again. I have tried shutting down, leaving it for 15 minutes and rebooting, with only the Finder running. Same deal, really loud fans if the machine is awake, instant quiet if I put it to sleep. The machine is presently switched off. Does anybody have any ideas?? Thanks, Bill Chesnutt -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Search Window
Thx for your replies. I tried doing what Francine Schwieder suggests in System/KeyboardMouse/Keyboard Shortcuts but I don't have Find in the shortcuts list. and I can't add a shortcut because it's not a menu item (ie. command+shift+f). Anyone else able to do it? cheers Travis 2009/3/11 Mervyn Giuliana Bond m...@iinet.net.au: Travis If I enter a word in Spotlight it initially produces a list with the first item, Show All. When I click on Show All a dialogue box appears and in the headings are Contents and File Name. As you say, Contents is the default, but a click on File Name produces what you want. If in the Finder you go to File and Find you get the same window as clicking on Show All in Spotlight. Click on File Name. Seconds are precious but that is about all it takes. You can also use key board shortcuts to open these windows. See Spotlight preferences. Merv Hi all, There's something that's been bugging me since upgrading to Leopard. When I open a normal Finder window and type something in the search field in the top right corner, it searches the contents of the files on my mac because (of course) the Contents button is selected by default. Is there a way to have the File Name button selected by default when doing a search in this way? 99% of the time I only want to search the file names. Cheers Travis -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Itunes stops playing after one song
Hello WAMUGGERs, Itunes stops playing after one song, the cube next to the song has lost their ticks.I have looked at the Itunes help page but cant see any mentions. I'm sure its easy if you know how. Any advice appreciated, Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
