Re: DVD
-- Juliet, you will find this tip (recommended to me by another WAMUG member) very useful: -- After you have selected 'Video' in Toast, and dragged over one or more items to be burnt, click on 'Save As Disc Image' on the bottom right, and let the disc image (extension .toast) be written to your selected folder (mine is called Toast Images). -- Make sure you have an disc-image-reading app called VLC installed (free download). Open VLC and choose the .toast file, it should play the converted item. If there are any problems with the image file, work on the original recording with the EyeTV editor till it reads correctly (ads etc stripped out). -- When you are happy with the image file, open Toast again and choose Copy. Drag the image file over to the Toast panel, insert a blank DVD, and click on the red burn button on the bottom right. You may first need to close a menu panel which comes up showing the items to be burnt. -- With this approach, you will hardly ever burn a dud DVD. Also, with this setup, Toast will automatically compress movies etc, so you can get about 4 hours of play from multiple items on the DVD. When you have the image over in Toast Copy mode, you can click on 'Options' to check the quality after any compression. Hope this helps! David Noel 2011 Jul 24 On 23 July 2011 10:45, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 23/07/2011, at 10:26 AM, Juliet Kitson wrote: Hello all I am a recent convert to mac stil got my pc as I still have a few teething probs with my wife's Imac. My problem is I recorded with eyetv recorded to a dvd with toast 10 but the dvd will not play on the mac or the standard dvd player but will play dare I say it on my pc note book any suggestions. Bill Grey nomad at present in Wagin” Hi Bill Juliet, Welcome to the Mac world ;-) What version of OS are you running OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard or OS X 10.5.8 Leopard? Did you burn the DVD using the instructions below? Toast has a built in Media Browser. Select Media -EyeTV, and drag items from the listing of EyeTV recordings to Toast. To burn a disc from within EyeTV, using Toast: 1. Open the EyeTV Programs window, choose the Recordings section, and select the video recording you wish to archive by clicking on it once to highlight it. 2. Drag it from the Recordings section of the EyeTV Programs window, to Toast’s Video section. Then,select what format you want to use (VCD, SVCD,DVD) in Toast. You can also highlight the recording, and then press the Toast button at the top of the Programs window, or choose for Toast via the Export command. Also, did you BURN the DVD at a slow speed 4X ? Can you play other DVDs on the iMac? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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: Windows division of Microsoft down 2%
Hi Ronni, The admirable German culture provides a number of intriguing words that are needed in certain situations and that don't seem to have an equivalent in English. We may be witnessing the Götterdämmerung of Microsoft. (full disclosure -- I had to look up the spelling :-) Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-24, at 07:12, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Carlo, The German part of me agrees with your choice of word ;-) The company's results comes as a stark contrast to Apple's blowout performance in the June quarter. The Cupertino, Calif., company posted $28.57 billion in revenue and a 125 percent leap in profits to $7.31 billion, nearly 25 percent more than its rival's profits. It was just last quarterthat Apple beat Microsoft's profits for the first time in decades. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 24/07/2011, at 1:13 AM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wamuggers, While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the Windows division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's difficult not to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html Cheers, Carlo -- 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: problem with new mail in Lion
Everything is up to date still cannot run avi files in mail. I can see them but as soon as I try to play them nothing happens. tom On 23/07/2011, at 8:55 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tom, As Rod has mentioned, update to the latest versions of all your applications. I have been checking all my applications for updates compatible with Lion OS X 10.7 and installing them. It's time consuming, but pays in the end. There are updates being released for Lion everyday. Especially update to latest versions of VLC Perian for your issue. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 23/07/2011, at 8:23 PM, Rod Lavington rodl...@gmail.com wrote: You probably need an updated version of Perian, or something similar that has the plugins for other media types for Quicktime. Whether there is something 10.7 compatible though, is another story.Google or Mac forums might be your best bet for an answer (if there is none from here). Cheers Rod On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:50 AM, tom samson thefr...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have just been using the new mail program in Lion. I like but avi files from other people do mot load properly. I get sound only or I have to try and load them via quicktime and then sound only. Any ideas Tom Samson -- 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: Windows division of Microsoft down 2%
Hi Carlo, Ha ha … very good, the Götterdämmerung of Microsoft” … I like it ;-) The German word Götterdämmerung is a translation of the Old Norse Ragnarök which in Scandinavian mythology refers to the destruction of the gods in a battle with evil, resulting in the end of the world.” The end of Microsoft ??? ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 24/07/2011, at 5:55 PM, cm wrote: Hi Ronni, The admirable German culture provides a number of intriguing words that are needed in certain situations and that don't seem to have an equivalent in English. We may be witnessing the Götterdämmerung of Microsoft. (full disclosure -- I had to look up the spelling :-) Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-24, at 07:12, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Carlo, The German part of me agrees with your choice of word ;-) The company's results comes as a stark contrast to Apple's blowout performance in the June quarter. The Cupertino, Calif., company posted $28.57 billion in revenue and a 125 percent leap in profits to $7.31 billion, nearly 25 percent more than its rival's profits. It was just last quarterthat Apple beat Microsoft's profits for the first time in decades. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 24/07/2011, at 1:13 AM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wamuggers, While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the Windows division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's difficult not to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html Cheers, Carlo -- 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: problem with new mail in Lion
Hi Tom, If you have DivX installed, uninstall it and keep Perian. DivX isn't up-to-date with Lion and keeps avi files from playing. Use the uninstall tool that came with DivX. Then restart your computer. Then test a AVI file. If it still doesn’t play properly, uninstall Perian and then restart your computer, then reinstall Perian when it asks to replace the existing one in System Preferences, click ‘yes’ and restart your computer. Make sure you have the latest versions of Flip4Mac and Perian. Cheers, Ronni On 24/07/2011, at 6:16 PM, tom samson wrote: Everything is up to date still cannot run avi files in mail. I can see them but as soon as I try to play them nothing happens. tom On 23/07/2011, at 8:55 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tom, As Rod has mentioned, update to the latest versions of all your applications. I have been checking all my applications for updates compatible with Lion OS X 10.7 and installing them. It's time consuming, but pays in the end. There are updates being released for Lion everyday. Especially update to latest versions of VLC Perian for your issue. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 23/07/2011, at 8:23 PM, Rod Lavington rodl...@gmail.com wrote: You probably need an updated version of Perian, or something similar that has the plugins for other media types for Quicktime. Whether there is something 10.7 compatible though, is another story.Google or Mac forums might be your best bet for an answer (if there is none from here). Cheers Rod On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:50 AM, tom samson thefr...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have just been using the new mail program in Lion. I like but avi files from other people do mot load properly. I get sound only or I have to try and load them via quicktime and then sound only. Any ideas Tom Samson -- 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: Lion - step backwards?
On 22/07/2011, at 11:40 AM, Tim Law wrote: Do I assume that the swiping and dragging feature is only relevant to laptop users? And that desktop users don't get any benefit from this particular part of Lion? Tim Gestures are only part of the feature set. Of more importance IMHO are the big hitters such as Versions, Mission Control (wonderful once you get used to it), Autosave, Launchpad (which initially I could not see a use for on a non-iOS device) and lots and lots of small yet important improvements (folder merge, for just one example). Gestures can easily be emulated by judicial use of function keys and/or screen corners if you don't go go out and get a Magic Trackpad. They are by no means the only benefit of Lion. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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: Enquiry
On 24/07/2011, at 10:47 AM, Juliet Kitson wrote: Hell all Thanks for your help I have pretty well solved my eyetv and toast problems but I have another does anyone know how to extract single photos from a dvd movie made on the mac was made as a dvd project. Regards Bill You can use VLC to play the movie. Pause the movie at the critical point and use Mac OS X's normal screen capture commands to grab the still frames (DVD Player does not let you do this - unless things have changed in Lion). Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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: MacOS 10.7 (Lion) and colour calibration etc
Morning, Spyder 2 is definitely PPC only requires Rosetta, so SL being last OS X. Spyder 3 is Intel based, reports suggest it works with Lion. When, and if. I upgrade a machine later in week, will confirm? Datacolor very fast at updating software if needs to be, I would suggest they have been testing with Lion, and have solution if needs to be?? Upgrading is relatively cheap as Spyder Pro 3 is around $200 AU or less if research. I bought Studio SR for less than $500, when upgraded last year. Datacolor have Spyder Gallery for iPad on Apps store for free. Just need the Spyder3 Calibrator. Cheers! `RobD... On 23Jul2011, at 11:58 pm, Ray Forma wrote: Three PPC-only apps that I was afraid of losing if I should upgrade to MacOS 10.7 (Lion) were OmniPage, an optical character reader program, Barcode Generator, a program that created barcodes when you typed in the barcode number, and Spyder 2, the app that drives my screen colour-calibrator. I have found that I can do without the first two, but Spyder 2 is still a problem. For OCR I will use VueScan 9.0.50, http://www.hamrick.com which I have used versions of for scanning since August 2003. This powerful program has suffered from a lack of a decent manual till last month, when 'The VueScan Bible' by Sascha Steinhoff finally became available. This book finally allowed me to work out how to get VueScan to do OCR, besides all of the high-level scanning that I had been using. I can now scan documents to PDF, and have editable text overlying the text in the scan, and I can get a Rich Text Format file of the text in any scanned document. VueScan will also extract editable text from existing images of documents. I am now using both features to do any OCR that I have to do. so far I am very happy with the results. The current version of VueScan is 64 as well as 32-bit Intel capable and the Pro version is probably the best value for money app that I have ever bought. For barcodes I have found several websites that will generate barcodes in editable vector format for me free of charge. That solves the barcode problem. The remaining problem is Spyder 2. Does anyone know if there is a Lion-compatible app that will allow me to continue using my Spyder 2 screen colour-calibrator? If not I will have to fork out for a new screen calibrator. Does anyone have any recommendations? Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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: Windows division of Microsoft down 2%
The various replies to Carlo's email are starting to sound too much like hubris to me. That's dangerous. My first Mac was a Mac 512, and I started with M$ Word V1 and PageMaker V1 on that $3600 machine (= to lots of hamburgers in those days). A few years later I started with PhotoShop V1. I have therefore been around the Mac world long enough to have lived through the dark years when Steve Jobs was ousted and Apple was in the hands of the Pepsi-Cola salesman John Sculley, followed by Michael Spindler, and then Gil Amelio, with Apple producing expensive and uninspiring product, and extremely low share prices. It was only the return of Jobs that led to the current renaissance. If his tumour stops Steve from contributing, will Apple remain what it is? Don't crow too much today or you may have to eat your words in a few years time. There are still many ex-Pepsi salesmen and their mates out there. On 24/07/2011, at 1:13 AM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wamuggers, While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the Windows division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's difficult not to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html Cheers, Carlo Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows division of Microsoft down 2%
Hi Ray, I agree completely with your comments below, and I apologise if my reply was taken as showing arrogance or excessive pride. I can remember the dark years of Apple when Steve Jobs was ousted. I’m very concerned as to how Apple will continue when Steve Jobs does not have the ‘Helm’. Cheers, Ronni On 25/07/2011, at 9:39 AM, Ray Forma wrote: The various replies to Carlo's email are starting to sound too much like hubris to me. That's dangerous. My first Mac was a Mac 512, and I started with M$ Word V1 and PageMaker V1 on that $3600 machine (= to lots of hamburgers in those days). A few years later I started with PhotoShop V1. I have therefore been around the Mac world long enough to have lived through the dark years when Steve Jobs was ousted and Apple was in the hands of the Pepsi-Cola salesman John Sculley, followed by Michael Spindler, and then Gil Amelio, with Apple producing expensive and uninspiring product, and extremely low share prices. It was only the return of Jobs that led to the current renaissance. If his tumour stops Steve from contributing, will Apple remain what it is? Don't crow too much today or you may have to eat your words in a few years time. There are still many ex-Pepsi salesmen and their mates out there. On 24/07/2011, at 1:13 AM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wamuggers, While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the Windows division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's difficult not to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html Cheers, Carlo Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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
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We are an educated lot at wamug :-) I believe the windoze lot will be put off or need to bring their dictionaries with them when they come to meetings or our email listings ! (hubris, Götterdämmerung,juggernaut. In our early wamug meetings there was a rather LARGE GENTLEMAN( and I use both terms advisedly) who was I think professor of English at UWA .He must now be using much faster computers in the sky but he was always very interesting to listen to. Does anyone remember his name? Mac Malcolm McCallum doc...@westnet.com.au Skype docmactor -- 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
