Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD

2013-03-13 Thread James Griffin
Hi I have decided to sell my Mac computer as I'm totally skint, being a student. But, I would like to preserve the Music and Videos I've got on it -- mainly from iTunes -- and transfer them to my OpenBSD system so I can play them. Is it simply a case of creating a tar file of the music files and

Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD

2013-03-13 Thread Roger Wiklund
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:54 PM, James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net wrote: Hi I have decided to sell my Mac computer as I'm totally skint, being a student. But, I would like to preserve the Music and Videos I've got on it -- mainly from iTunes -- and transfer them to my OpenBSD system so I

Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD

2013-03-13 Thread James Griffin
[- Wed 13.Mar'13 at 14:10:30 +0100 Roger Wiklund :-] On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:54 PM, James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net wrote: Hi I have decided to sell my Mac computer as I'm totally skint, being a student. But, I would like to preserve the Music and Videos I've got

Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD

2013-03-13 Thread K . André Braselmann
2013/3/13 James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net Is it simply a case of creating a tar file of the music files and copying them over? Will the encoding (mostly mp4, mp4 and mp4a) be ok to use as-is or will I need to do some extra processing on them using some tool or other? I've got mplayer

Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD

2013-03-13 Thread James Griffin
yeah just tried some of my iTunes purchases and it works perfectly. Sorry for asking what seems now to have been a pointless question. I just didn't want to go to the trouble of transferring 80+GB of data if it was going to be in vain. James -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net

Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD

2013-03-13 Thread James Griffin
[- Wed 13.Mar'13 at 14:21:31 +0100 K.André Braselmann :-] check out cmus from ports, NOT packages. http://cmus.sourceforge.net/ Look at the Makefile and add your wishes. Build and install it. Supports nearly everything where it can find the libs for. Ok, cover art is a