How to convert a DVD to quicktime.

Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago at 3:52 pm. 3 comments

Here’s how to copy a DVD to your harddrive and convert it to a movie that will play on your iphone, ipod or in quicktime on your computer. Continue Reading…

How to save a youtube video

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago at 5:58 pm. 1 comment

1. Go to youtube and start watching the video in your SAFARI browser.

2. Open the “Activity” window (via the Window menu or by pressing option-Command-A).

3. One of the items in the list will be much larger than the rest, and growing as you watch. This is the video file. Double click on this item and Safari will automatically download it for you to your desktop, it will be called get_video.
4. Click ONCE on the get_video file to select it, press enter (not return, enter is the shortcut to rename a file), and add .flv to the end of the filename.

5. You now have it saved on your desktop.

6. Go to http://perian.org, download and install perian 1.0 and you will be able to watch the flv flash files in quicktime player.

How to make a Video CD

Posted 10 months, 4 weeks ago at 9:43 pm. 0 comments


I have a lot of .mov files. Each file is about 1 hour of movie footage but compressed to only 200-300MB. When I import them into iMovie it tries to convert them to dv files. Do you know a way to burn a collection of .mov files to a dvd so that they can be read with a normal dvd player?

Good question, let me explain a little bit about what you can and can’t do with CDs and DVDs.
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How to put a DVD movie onto your ipod

Posted 11 months ago at 8:21 pm. 1 comment

It’s a two step process..

Firstly you rip the file from the DVD player and convert it to a small MP4 movie.

Then you copy the movie into itunes. Here’s how to do it step by step. Continue Reading…

The best settings for movies for phones

Posted 1 year ago at 5:27 pm. 2 comments

Well, I’m on a bit of a run here with my new samsung D900 mobile phone, the latest being what are the best settings to compress a movie to watch on my phone. The phones resolution is 320×240, which I think is similar to an ipod. I use Handbrake to encode DVD’s, you can also use these settings to export from Quicktime pro, but Handbrake is free. Continue Reading…

How to Play a windows AVI movie smoothly

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 3:07 pm. 0 comments

To quote from the DivX website:

Due to limitations in the QuickTime Architecture, AVI video files containing MP3, WMA or AC3 audio tracks will not play directly in QuickTime based applications. You may experience stuttering, loss of sound, no sound or an error message.

We have written a useful application called “DivX Doctor II” which can fix these problems, and other issues QuickTime has with AVI files. You can download DivX Doctor II from http://doctor.3ivx.com/.
Here is the direct link to the file:

http://www.3ivx.com/codec/DivXDoctorII2.2.sit

How to backup a DVD

Posted 2 years, 3 months ago at 4:56 pm. 16 comments

If you’ve tried watching DVD’s on your laptop (eg on a plane or in the car) you’ll notice the batteries wear down pretty quickly. Here’s how to copy your DVD onto your laptop, which you can do at home, so when you take your laptop on the road you don’t need to take the original disk, and the batteries on your laptop last longer. Continue Reading…

How to skip straight to the feature on a DVD

Posted 2 years, 3 months ago at 4:41 pm. 1 comment

When you’re watching a DVD do you get annoyed that there are those compulsory credits at the start, and copyright warnings, and you can’t skip them. Well, you can skip them with this simple program that modifies your apple DVD player so that it ignores the directions on the DVD about which bits are compulsory viewing. Continue Reading…