A burning question or two...

I am PC user and am not very familiar with Apple Products, including iTunes. I would like to buy the movie "Spud" from iTunes. Is it possible to play the movie in Windows Media Player? If so, will it have to be converted first, and how is this done? Will I be able to write it to a DVD (for backup purposes and for my personal use only)?

1. No. iTunes Store movies contain digital rights management.
2. Not applicable.
3. Only to a data DVD. This is done by burning the movie file like you would any other file of that size.
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An Un-noted Bug, And A Question Or Two

Hello.
I heard about Adobe Digital Editions for the first time yesterday, downloaded it immediately, and spent the next 20 straight hours (yes, that's 20 as in two-oh) creating PDFs (using Office Word 2007's PDF-creating SAVE function), and trying them out on ADE. ADE is really quite superb in concept, and the user interface is simply beautiful.
I've found one bug not noted by Adobe, and that is that when the FIND function is used with the two-page display option, more times than not, FIND doesn't highlight the searched-for term. With the single-page display, FIND works as it should, and highlights the searched-for term in every instance.
Now for the question or two.
1: What is available for creating PDFs so that if one publishes an eBook optimized for ADE, the PDF file immediately loads into ADE on clicking on the file's link, and if ADE is not on the machine, automatically downloads ADE, and then uploads the file to display (IOW, just as in your ADE digital library)? (I know about your InDesign CS3 export function, but that application is way out of the ballpark price-wise for little guys like me who have no other use for it.)
2: In creating PDFs for use in ADE, how can the metadata for the ID be incorporated, again, without having to resort to apps such as InDesign CS3?
Many TIA for your attention to this.
ACD

The find on two page layout is a known bug which we will fix in a coming release.
Posting files so they get automatically downloaded is actually rather complicated under the covers. We have two solutions, one is
ADEPT. We are also working on a lightweight solution for non DRM-protected books. We will post info in our blog about this when we have something to show.

A few burning questions?

I have a few questions that might seem a bit silly.
I am a JAVA novice and need a bit of help.
* How do i go about successfully deploying a JAVA2 application
on a windows OS-> as windows does not have the latest JRE.
In other words how do i go about writing a patch in my application
that successfully detects this and fixes the problem! :)
* In a particular dialog box(in the abovementioned application) I would
like to have a clickable piece of text(my e-mail addy) that starts
up the users e-mail. Do i create a URL object? Is there a platform
independant way to do this?
* Also in my help menu for the application how do i make my event
handler
open up a .htm file in the users browser with my help topics?
Do i use the exec process methods? Is there a platform independant
way to do this?
* The real burning question I have(comming from an elec engineering
background :) ) how do i communicate between my app and the serial
and parallel ports?
Since i would like my application to switch a microchip(flag bits on
the ports)
to do something useful like switch on or off my geyser via the
internet! :)
AT

* How do i go about successfully deploying a JAVA2
application
on a windows OS-> as windows does not have the
e latest JRE.
In other words how do i go about writing a patch in
n my application
that successfully detects this and fixes the
e problem! :)If you are a Java novice then you are not likely to encounter this problem for quite a while. However the professional way to do it is to use an installer (just like almost every other software package you've ever installed). There are several available that specialize in Java installations, even some free ones.
* In a particular dialog box(in the abovementioned
application) I would
like to have a clickable piece of text(my e-mail
l addy) that starts
up the users e-mail. Do i create a URL object? Is
s there a platform
independant way to do this?No. There is not even a way that works on a single platform. For example my e-mail is one of those Internet services (not Hotmail or Yahoo) but exactly where is nowhere to be found on my computer, so there's no way to start up the browser and enter my user ID and password.
* Also in my help menu for the application how do i
make my event
handler
open up a .htm file in the users browser with my
y help topics?
Do i use the exec process methods? Is there a
a platform independant
way to do this?No, but it's asked often enough on this forum that you should be able to use the search feature to find the answer.
* The real burning question I have(comming from an
elec engineering
background :) ) how do i communicate between my app
p and the serial
and parallel ports?
Since i would like my application to switch a
a microchip(flag bits on
the ports)
to do something useful like switch on or off my
y geyser via the
internet! :)That's the Java Communications API. It's not a standard part of Java, it's an add-on, and you can get it here:
http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/

Burning Question (unreliable Toast)

Hi.
A problem and some questions.
My Toast (6.1.1) keeps freezing and Force Quit doesn't work.
I have deleted pref files (found two), reinstalled, cretaed new user, to no avail.
That's the problem. Now the Q's:
1
I prefer Toast over DVDSP as you can control burning speed. But having said this, I did burn today from DVDSP (I have the bundled version that comes with FC Studio 5) and it plays well on two stand alone DVD players I tried. I used Verbatim X16 media. Is burning speed still an issue?
2
If I go buy Toast 7 will it stop hanging on me?
3
Any ideas as to how I can fix my Toast?
(First thing this morning I was able to use Toast, the computer had been off all night... does that make a difference?)
Thanks a mill,
D
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) FCP 5.1.1
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) FCP 5.1.1

1 I prefer Toast over DVDSP as you can control burning speed. But having said this, I did burn today from DVDSP (I have the bundled version that comes with FC Studio 5) and it plays well on two stand alone DVD players I tried. I used Verbatim X16 media. Is burning speed still an issue?
I prefer Toast also. As to the speed issue, it may be a non issue if they are playing okay. Where are the DVDs going? Clients? Friends & family? Youself? If clients then you need to be absolutely sure (different story if replicating discs and this is just samples, you can explain the issue of whaat cause playback problems from time to time), the later, you can always fix it.
If I go buy Toast 7 will it stop hanging on me?
Not sure
Any ideas as to how I can fix my Toast? (First thing this morning I was able to use Toast, the computer had been off all night... does that make a difference?)
Sounds like you did some of the troubleshooting, have you tried also repairing permissions or run diskwarrior? Sounds like if shutting it off then starting it up cured the problem, the boot up clean up repairs may have helped. Are you using an external Burner? Do you have any FW peripherals attached? Sometimes I have had hangs like that from bad cables or power supply coming slightly off, look liked power but not really getting to the device. After the reinstall to you go back to 6.1.1 (or is that your install?) I had an earlier version of 6 that I had to upgrade to 6.1.1.
Has the sytem changed recently? (It sounds like Toast had been okay until now?)

CD burner question

Hello,
My Pioneer 107D burner no longer recognizes CD's and I've tried just about everything to fix it. Two questions:
- Where can I find the latest firmware update for Mac? (the French site mentioned in other posts no longer exists)
- Would it be better to replace the internal drive with a new 110D or to get an external drive? What externals would you recommend?
I'm a digital photographer and have a growing list of clients who need CDs of shoots from me and I'm getting a little desperate....ack!

yeah, i've been going nuts because every article about firmware links to some part of the rpc1.org site and it seems to be down.
but i guess firmware won't help me. question: if the drive is broken does it seem odd that it still shows up in the "about this mac" info?
also - i'm a little intimidated of installing a new drive - don't really know how to get the original one out of there...do you know any articles that might walk me thru it?
thanks!!

ITunes only burns the first two discs of audible book over and over

I have purchased, downloaded, and burned many Audible books in iTunes successfully . . . until now.
NOW I cannot get my current purchased book to burn correctly.
What I do...
I create a playlist for the audiobook.
I drag the audiobook into the playlist.
I right click on the playlist and ask it to burn to disc.
I am told the book will have to be spread across multiple discs.
I click "ok".
The playlist begins to burn to disc.
I am prompted to insert another disc.
I do so.
This goes on and on for what seems like too many discs (normally, an unabridged audio takes about 8-12 discs depending on the length.)
I check the discs in a portable player and discover that the first two discs are fine, but that the third and fourth discs are just repeats of the first two discs.
I check the rest of the discs I have burned (18 at this point) and find that the first two discs are repeated over and over and over again!
What I did to try and resolve the issue:
I checked to see if I had the latest iTunes downloaded. I do.
I emailed Audible and they had me delete all occurences of the audiobook from my system and then re-download a fresh copy. I did.
Tried to reburn the new playlist with the new downloaded audio book.
The same issue occurrs and I waste another 18 discs.
It should be noted that the only reason I only wasted these 18 discs each time and not more is because I finally cancelled the burn.
iTunes was still asking for more discs on disc 18 (and the audio book was only about 10 hours long).
Any help resolving this would be appreciated.
Thanks.

THIS... is precisely why I use Toast.
I know that doesn't help a lot, but I have NEVER been fond of iTunes for burning.

External cd burner questions...

O.K. folks, my lame questions of the day.
I have a G3 iBook (specs below) with cd read only. I have a Sony CRX 1600L firewire cd burner that I would like to use to back up my iTunes purchases.
I used this a few months ago and somehow, (gulp) fried my HD. I think that what I did wrong was disconnecting the burner from the iBook without ejecting properly. That, I believe is why i'm the proud owner of a new 60 GB hd. I'm a little gun shy now, can you blame me? Problem is is that my iTunes purchases are g-r-o-w-i-n-g! (Backed up on my iPod).
So here the questions, when connecting the burner to the Mac are both off then power them up? Should one or the other be powered before the other?
I really don't want to buy another HD again, so if their is a logical, sequential order of using/ connecting external firewire devices I'd love to be educated. (Both the iBook and Sony cd burner were a packaged deal from ebay, so no manuals).
Also is their a way to export music from an iPod to another authorized Mac?
Thank you in advance,
Lee

Since you don't have the discs, you may want to be a little more conscientious about maintenance:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/performance.html
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=971817&#971817
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607640&#607640
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/21/maintenance.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintainingmacosx.html
You can use Safe Mode any time that Repair Disk from the OS X 10.3 Install CD is recommended. However, if things have gone downhill badly, sometimes you can start up from the CD (you don't have) when you can't start up at all from the hard drive (including starting up in Safe Mode).
If you don't leave the iBook on 24/7 (as I do mine; I just sleep the display), you will want to use some utility or run the maintenance routines through Terminal. I leave mine on all the time so they run automatically overnight.
I'd be looking for those discs, Lee, before you need them.

External DVD Burner Questions

I am looking into purchasing an external firewire/USB 2.0 DVD burner with Lightscribe for my PowerMac G5. I have 2 questions: 1) Do Apple stores (at the mall) sell DVD burners? I cannot remember if I seen one there or not. 2) What burner would you recommend? I need one with Lightscribe and would like to have firewire. The USB 2.0 is not necessary. I want an external drive if possible as well. Thank you for your help and advice!

Be aware that lightscribe technology is still quite in its infancy and others have had trouble with it. In addition, any attempt to label disks often yields in unstable shorter-lived disks than leaving the existing label side empty. I use jewelcase inserts to keep track of my disks.
If you must get lightscribe, some Apple Stores do sell LaCie Lightscribe drives occasionally. I've not always seen it there, and it really depends on the stock. You can look up places like http://www.macconnection.com/ http://www.maczone.com/ http://www.cdw.com/ and http://www.macsales.com/ for possible compatible drives. In addition, http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ has a good drive database to search from compatible drives.

Quick cd burning question

i have just recently switched from a mac to a pc running arch. So far i love arch and how customizable the package selection is. I just have a question as to burning cd's. I have a few .dmg files that are for a mac. My friend is needing a copy these files but i dont want him to have them. Since my mac is no longer of use i got rid of it. Is there any application for arch that will allow me to burn a dmg file. I have ran both gnomebaker and k3b and both programs do not see a dmg file as a valid iso file. PLEASE HELP

I've not tested it, but maybe dmg2iso.pl works.

Double Sided DVD format burning question

Hi,
I have the latest version of DVDSP and wish to know if it is possible to burn a each side of double sided DVD in different formatts. Specifically, I wish to make one side a DVD disc, and the other side a DVD ROM disc that will contain AIFF or MP3 files to be imported into iTunes or simply played, by double clicking on the files, from the DVD disc itself. I would assume to burn the DVD ROM side, I would use the finder, or Toast, correct?
thanks in advance.

Ari,
There are a number of places you can get double sided media, here's an example:
http://www.meritline.com/meritline/dvd-r-blank-media-94.html
You can indeed have dvd video on one side, and dvd rom material on the other. I would make a couple of cautionary notes however. One, unless there is great disparity between the size of the content on one side or the other (the larger the content in size, the larger the 'burn' ring on that particular side), then it will be hard to tell which side you have in before playing. There are small, inner ring labels that you can apply, but I'm personally not a big fan of sticky labels. Two, it's easy for the user to damage one side or the other since there is no 'label side' to use when handling the disc. It doesn't take very much in terms of a finger smudge or scratch to make a disc perform poorly on some computers or set top players.
Alternatives would obviously be to have two separate, single sided discs. If the total content (your dvd video and separate audio files) is less than a single sided disc, then you could put them all on a single sided disc and burn it through DVDSP with the added ROM content folder with your audio files. It should play the video content just fine, and the user can just open the folder on the disc and import/use the audio files. If the content would exceed a single layer, single sided disc; then a dual layer, single sided disc would be another option.
Jim

DVD Burn Question

This question could very easily have a common sense answer that I am overlooking at the moment...
I made a copy of a DVD that contained a show. It burned successfully and will play if you manually open it from the DVD player. My questions is, how do I get it to play automatically when the disc is inserted into the computer? Does it need to be burned from a different program other than the finder or a burn folder?
PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

See...the problem is...the people viewing this DVD will more than likely be on a PC. I took it to one of my co-workers to see if they could view it. The computer wouldn't even recognize that there was a disc in the drive. Something is screwy here and I am wondering if there is some kind of copyright issue. It was a DVD of a show sent to my boss that deals with the nature of the business, but they only sent one copy and my boss requested another copy... the only solution at this point may be to just request additional copies...

Another DVD burn question with twist:PE7 vs PE11

After 2 hours with courteous Adobe chat session, studying the forum, FAq, burning lots of dvds, trying lots of settings, I shall throw out a last plea for insight.
If I make a dvd or dvd folder with premiere elements 11 and it has any high def video in the project; it comes out blurry. Strangely, any still photos in the project come out blurry too.
If I make the same dvd with the same high def files using premiere elements 7, it comes out great. (i.e. dvd quality; I'm not expecting high def). Also the still photos are much better!!
Incidentally, I opened the project settings tab on both programs simultaneously side by side, and they are exactly the same.
I do know by now that my "new" HP computer with 2.4GHz processor does not have quite the specs to burn blue ray disc, AVCHD file.
so my questions:
Main one: Any ideas how I can tweak my PE11 to make it output like PE7? (don't worry, I turned off screen saver, etc). Any insight into why the difference?
Trivial one: why would the still photos output differently.
thanks

>I do know by now that my "new" HP computer with 2.4GHz processor does not have quite the specs to burn blue ray disc, AVCHD file.
The only computer spec that matters when it comes to whether or not you can burn a BluRay disc is whether or not you have a BluRay disc burner. So I don't think that's the issue.
And I do assume you know that DVDs have only about one-sixth the resolution of high-def video -- so, particularly when you're looking at full-screen on your computer, DVDs are never going to look at clean or detailed as your original high-def.
But that said, you can try using Publish & Share/Computer/AVI to output an AVI of your AVCHD project, then start a new project, add your AVI to the timeline and output your DVD from that. That will likely give you much better results than outputting directly from AVCHD.

Burning question please help!

I am trying to burn a wedding DVD and have done this many times before without problem. Now, I continuously get a media error at stage 4. I switched media, (was using a cheaper, printable brand) to use an apple disk...which worked once. I am trying to burn additional copies on apple disk's and we are now back to the media error. I have a few questions...I have 26 GB of memory available. Is this enough? Is this why I am having the media problem that I have not had before? I am not sure why I don't have more space as I have always had about 36 GB's available. I am desperately trying to find files to delete to give me more space, but am having no luck...and don't want to delete the wrong files. Any ideas on how to find what is taking so much space that I can get rid of? Thanks in advance for any help.

I suggest you get the free download Mac Sweeper which you will find on http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/Mac-Sweeper.shtml
Also try using the Easter Egg workaround to burn a disc image which can then be burnt to a DVD-R using Disk Utility.
It is also called "Hurz and Pfurz", and is available as a free download from
http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/macsupport/mac_help/pages/0015-burn_idvdother.html
iDVD5 has this built in.
Now I would recommend the following steps but first make sure there is about 20GB free on the internal HD:
1) Shut down/Restart without any applications running.
2) Run Mac Sweeper carrying out all the optimize options including repair permissions and, under clean, empty caches.
3) Launch iDVD and the project
4) "Burn" a copy to disc to hard disc using the Easter Egg workaround.
5) Go to bed and have a good night's sleep.
6) When the run is finished (always for me 1 hour in less than 8 hours) examine the DVD image and play it using the DVD player in the applications folder
7) If and when satisfied and burn a copy using Disc Utility, full instructions on
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
but you just use the second half to burn the DVD.
This approach means you can readily produce multiple copies. I have taken to burning the DVD without any other applications running as I think too much going on may cause bad spots on the disc.

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I got two emails saying they posted answer.<br />
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In your profile, you can find links to your posts:
https://support.mozilla.org/user/1072048
Or you can use this link:
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DVD audio burning question

Hi. [Sorry, I'm new here incase it's in the wrong catagory]
I'm a switcher from PCs to a Mac.
I've got a question; I have some audio files that are in a 6 channel DTS audio format. Is there a way I can burn them on a DVD and preserve the DTS audio? I bought Final Cut Studio 2 with my Mac and it's saying that it doesn't recognize the files.
Any help I can get would be great.
Thanks a lot!

Hey Kevin
Toas should allow you to "copy" a DVD from one drive to another, so I'd put the master into your Mac, and the blank DVD into your new drive, open Toast, click the "Copy" tab, and you should be good to go.

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