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Reference: Burning Discs for DVP642

So you’ve managed to create an AVI file. Congratulations, now what are you going to do with it? While you could leave it on your hard drive and view it with VLC, the whole point of these exercises is to get your videos into the DVP642 and onto a television screen. And we do that [...]

24 August 2006 | Housekeeping | 1 Comment

Greetings and Welcome

For all the Mac’s sophistication at creating and editing videos (via iMovie, Final Cut Pro, etc), it is decidedly lacking in the “hobbyist tools” for video conversion department in comparison to Windows. In particular, tools for creating and editing videos (avi files) for Philips DVP642 have been notably limited.
Thus, on this site, I hope to [...]

12 August 2006 | Housekeeping | No Comments

The Setup

In order to guage which methods will work on various hardware configurations, each encoding workflow discussed on this site will be conducted on the Mac hardware at my disposal:

1.87GHz Intel CoreDuo iMac (stock hard drive, 1.5GB ram)
Dual 2.0GHz PowerMac G5 (stock hard drive, 2GB ram)
1.25GHz PowerBook G4 (stock drive, 512MB ram)

The source material used in [...]

12 August 2006 | Housekeeping | No Comments

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For all the Mac’s sophistication at creating and editing videos (via iMovie, Final Cut Pro, etc), it is decidedly lacking in the “hobbyist tools” for video conversion department in comparison to Windows. In particular, tools for creating and editing videos (avi files) for Philips DVP642 have been notably limited.
Thus, on this site, I hope to [...]

30 November 1999 | Housekeeping | No Comments