I See that the search box is there, but what I was missing was the spell check and auto fill, especially the spell check. But I just discovered that I didn't have the toolbar selected.
So, never mind.
I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.
Oz ,'Him'
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askye - Sep 20, 2005 12:42:40 pm PDT #4595 of 10003
Thrive to spite them
dcp - Sep 20, 2005 1:25:39 pm PDT #4596 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
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Jessica - Sep 20, 2005 2:23:40 pm PDT #4597 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Mac users who transfer torrents to DVD and have the Philips DVP642 -- is there an easy way to make shows broadcast in HD appear letterboxed on my TV? They're widescreen when I watch them on the computer, but anamorphically squished on the television -- everything's long & tall. I've tried every aspect ratio listed on the DVD player's menu, so I'm hoping there's a setting in iDVD somewhere to say "Yo, letterbox this." Or a setting on the player that I've missed. (Otherwise, I can probably re-encode everything in Final Cut, but that sounds like a fairly time-consuming PITA.)
Rob - Sep 20, 2005 4:03:43 pm PDT #4598 of 10003
Mac users who transfer torrents to DVD and have the Philips DVP642 -- is there an easy way to make shows broadcast in HD appear letterboxed on my TV?
Instead of using iDVD, try using the Finder to burn the CD. Just take the file from the torrent and drop it on the disk then burn. The DVP642 will play any media files it finds, and I suspect there's a better chance of the aspect ratio being preserved.
I've never tried this with a DVD, but it works with .avi files on a CD.
Tom Scola - Sep 20, 2005 4:45:50 pm PDT #4599 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I just burned a DVD with one of my torrents, and it did the same thing.
Googling "iDVD" and "Anamorphic" yields some not entirely satisfactory solutions to the problem. Basically, you have to save your DVD as a disk image, go in and fiddle with some binary files in the disk image, and then burn it.
Jon B. - Sep 20, 2005 5:02:44 pm PDT #4600 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
My iTunes has decided that it doesn't know where a bunch of the songs in my iTunes directory live. It knows where most of them are, but there are several hundred that have the ! next to the track name. What's the easiest way to make iTunes locate them? Going through each track individually is not an option.
Kate P. - Sep 20, 2005 5:21:19 pm PDT #4601 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Jon, sorry I can't help. I have another iTunes question, though:
How do I get iTunes to show me the exact total length of the accumulated songs in a playlist? It says "16 songs, 1.3 hours, 108.6 MB" but I just need to know how long the playlist is, to know if it will fit on an 80-minute disc or not.
Kristen - Sep 20, 2005 5:29:20 pm PDT #4602 of 10003
Kate, if you're on a Mac, just move your mouse cursor over ther 1.3 hours and do an option+click. It will change 1.3 hours to 1:17 or whatever. (If you're on a PC, maybe it's ALT+click?)
Jon, this is why I ended up consolidating my library. It was easier to let iTunes search my hard drive and copy everything to the iTunes folder rather than manually remind it where every MP3 was.
Kate P. - Sep 20, 2005 5:35:59 pm PDT #4603 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Kristen--perfect! Thanks. I just had to click.
Jessica - Sep 20, 2005 6:27:10 pm PDT #4604 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Basically, you have to save your DVD as a disk image, go in and fiddle with some binary files in the disk image, and then burn it.
Huh. I think if Rob's solution doesn't work, I'll end up just watching them on the computer. The monitor's almost as big as the TV anyway.