VLC has the best UI. MPlayer plays sligher more WMV files, but has an odd UI.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
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Rob - May 24, 2005 6:02:30 am PDT #3095 of 10003
§ ita § - May 24, 2005 6:13:36 am PDT #3096 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If, then, I want to burn a DVD, do I need another (commercial) product? I mean, if I can't find the right code?
Rob - May 24, 2005 7:26:06 am PDT #3097 of 10003
ffmpegx is free software that converts video from one format to another. You should be able to use it to turn the AVI into MPEG2 suitable for burning to a DVD.
§ ita § - May 24, 2005 7:27:32 am PDT #3098 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sweet. Thanks. I'll still need to replace the burner on the PC, but of course the reason I discovered I couldn't work iDVD and that the burner was broken was because I had urgent burning needs.
Stephanie - May 24, 2005 12:24:54 pm PDT #3099 of 10003
Trust my rage
I have a large file on a DVD. I want to make a copy of it. I have done it before with Disk Utility (on my mac) but I can't remember how to start.
(I know I have to do something to the disk image before it will burn because "burn" is currently greyed out on the menu.) Anyone?
DCJensen - May 24, 2005 2:28:46 pm PDT #3100 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Maybe mount it, first?
Wolfram - May 24, 2005 3:20:59 pm PDT #3101 of 10003
Visilurking
Don't you think that's rather personal, DCJ?
Stephanie - May 24, 2005 4:32:45 pm PDT #3102 of 10003
Trust my rage
I figured it out. I needed to make a new disk image first.
No mounting required.
Tom Scola - May 25, 2005 4:34:20 am PDT #3103 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Rob - May 25, 2005 10:37:00 pm PDT #3104 of 10003
Does anyone have any recommendations?
I just bought a LaCie Slim DVD±RW and burned six DVD-Rs with it tonight with no problems. It's a NEC ND-6500A, according to Toast.