Recent content by asinclair

BruceeL, I thought this was a Mac-specific forum...

Everything is really really up-to-date :) Your earlier advice helped, by the way. I moved all the plugins out of /Library/Quicktime and iTunes now works normally again. But obviously, I no longer have divx or wmv support in quicktime... How would you recommend proceeding to restore my...

forgot to mention (it might be relevant) intel core 2 duo macbook (black) 1gb RAM, OSx 10.4.10, with all available apple updates. (I think I downloaded a quicktime update a week or two before I noticed this problem)

I've had Perian installed for months, and the problem only started recently, so I doubt that's it... I'm checking on another idea I had... it seems that all the videos I have in the podcasts section use the H264 codec, whereas everything I have in movies and tv shows, which I transcoded myself...

Hi have several trailers downloaded from apple.com, as well as several video podcasts (bacbreak video, david pogue NYT) in my podcasts section of my iTunes library. Up to a few days ago, no problem. But recently, when I play them, the audio plays fine, but the video window only shows black...

I'm not sure it will fix things, but you may try to hold down the option key when opening iPhoto. If you do that, iPhoto will give you the choice of creating a new library or opening an existing one. If you point it to where your pictures are now, it should manage to figure everything out by...

I highly recommend visualhub: http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/ It's not free, but cheap at less than US$ 24. And it is blazingly fast. I mean it in the "it beats the crap out of any other software I have ever used for video conversion" sense. Converting a 42-minute divx tv show to...

For one, I agree that the Finder is overdue for an overhaul, and I would be interested in seeing a file system that's entirely search-based, although the implications would be quite severe... On the other side, I get the feeling that touch screen technology might be getting quite mature...

Thanks for all your replies. I guess I just have to hope that the router will be able to figure things out. Honestly, my girlfriend has not yet expressed any interest in iChat, and she is not in the least an IM user of any protocol. She used to have AIM on her PC, which she'd set up at her...

My girlfriend and I each have a mac in our home LAN. I would like to enable iChat to work seamlessly on both our computers. Obviously, however, NAT port mapping can only redirect certain ports to one computer at a time. Is there a way to set iChat to use different non-default ports on one...

I have this great, great 80G iPod, that I use extensively for music and videos. So far, I have been "managing" it from the iTunes on my XP machine. The sync setup I have is that music and videos are managed manually, and contacts are sync'ed with outlook. Now, I recently purchased a...

I saw on the Apple web site's software pages that there are a quite a few choices when it comes to DJ software for OS X. For my needs (I am a salsa DJ) I actually do not really need mixing software. What I would prefer is a sequential playlist player which would allow precueing and minor...

I had an odd experience with iTunes on OS X yesterday. I imported some mp3 files from my PC into my iMac's iTunes, then made some changes to the tags, updating track and artist information. However, whenever I played any of the mp3s in iTunes, the tags would revert to what they were on...

I have just become the proud owner of a brand new black powerbook. After installing the necessary plugins, I happily proceeded to burn my first few dvds, and was surprised to notice that transcoding speeds were to say the least disappointing. on my 1-y-old compaq laptop, which has neither...