Can we have a BE-ALL, END-ALL thread for your BEST Mac solutions for video?
Sorry if this already exists. But I am trying to find the sweet spot for encoding my videos (existing files, like AVI, not from DVD - I get Handbrake).
There are SO many programs and SO many options. But the discussions of these seem to be far-flung and unorganized.
So.
If you have spent hours experimenting, what have you found? I'm looking for the best Mac-based programs, and the best settings in those programs.
- I want videos that will look good on TV, but not have a crazy file size.
- I want it to be relatively fast (QuickTIme Pro is horribly slow).
- I want it to have a queue.
- I REALLY want it to be free of audio/video sync problems.
I want, I want, I want.
So far I have tried iSquint, Podner, QT Pro, FFMPEG, MPEG Streamclip...
All of them work, but they all have problems to some degree. However, one of them may be your favorite.
Have you found ONE program and ONE set of settings that you use all the time now? Share!
Justin,
I hate to stomp on your post, but unfortunately what you're asking here is against the Terms of Use for these discussions boards. Polls, petitions, surveys, etc... are not allowed.
If you have a specific question or problem regarding your iPod , you can feel free to ask it and someone here will try to help.
Otherwise, a forum such as those on iLounge might be a better place to post non-technical topics.
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I had the same problem too.
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Then put this new AppleID into the icloud account field.
After this action, you will not be seeing the same contacts and appointments.
But for the itunes store, you still can use the same AppleID so that you can share purchases.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3721087?start=0&tstart=0
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Dropbox is a free storage utility to check out.
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HD Space Checkers:
Disk Inventory X (FREE)
WhatSize (SHAREWARE)
OmniDiskSweeper (FREE)
GrandPerspective (FREE - donation)
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Can we have a filter to handle all the apps in a container?
Hi,
I have a simple (Stupid) question.
Can I configure a Servlet filter to intercept requests to all the applications (a.k.a all the ServletContexts)? All I know is we can configure a filter for each ServletContext (application), but I am wondering if there is any way.
The reason I am asking is because, if there is a way to do so, I can configure my filter to provide me the debug output (Such as CGI, session, request, and ServletContext variables) on all the applications on development servers and when I can get rid of debugging on production servers (by not deploying the filter).
Thanx in advance,
Thirupati PanyalaThanks for the reply Sudhir.
I tried it in Tomcat 4.x. It works for only the root resources even though I configured the filter for /* which is expected to include all the resources including root (for ex: /examples/...).
So, I understand, the web.xml under /conf will be overriden by that of the respective apps as you go further down the context paths (apps). That's why the container was not executing my filter when I went to the next level of the URI (http://localhost:8080/index.html WORKED, but NOT http://localhost:8080/examples/jsp/num/numguess.jsp).
If you want to try it for yourself, here is the piece of code I tried with (This is taken from Apache Tomcat source):
package filters;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.Locale;
import javax.servlet.Filter;
import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.Cookie;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
* Example filter that dumps interesting state information about a request
* to the associated servlet context log file, before allowing the servlet
* to process the request in the usual way. This can be installed as needed
* to assist in debugging problems.
* @author Craig McClanahan
* @version $Revision: 1.5 $ $Date: 2001/05/23 22:26:17 $
public final class RequestDumperFilter implements Filter {
// ----------------------------------------------------- Instance Variables
* The filter configuration object we are associated with. If this value
* is null, this filter instance is not currently configured.
private FilterConfig filterConfig = null;
// --------------------------------------------------------- Public Methods
* Take this filter out of service.
public void destroy() {
this.filterConfig = null;
* Time the processing that is performed by all subsequent filters in the
* current filter stack, including the ultimately invoked servlet.
* @param request The servlet request we are processing
* @param result The servlet response we are creating
* @param chain The filter chain we are processing
* @exception IOException if an input/output error occurs
* @exception ServletException if a servlet error occurs
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response,
FilterChain chain)
throws IOException, ServletException {
if (filterConfig == null)
return;
// Render the generic servlet request properties
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(sw);
writer.println("Request Received at " +
(new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis())));
writer.println(" characterEncoding=" + request.getCharacterEncoding());
writer.println(" contentLength=" + request.getContentLength());
writer.println(" contentType=" + request.getContentType());
writer.println(" locale=" + request.getLocale());
writer.print(" locales=");
Enumeration locales = request.getLocales();
boolean first = true;
while (locales.hasMoreElements()) {
Locale locale = (Locale) locales.nextElement();
if (first)
first = false;
else
writer.print(", ");
writer.print(locale.toString());
writer.println();
Enumeration names = request.getParameterNames();
while (names.hasMoreElements()) {
String name = (String) names.nextElement();
writer.print(" parameter=" + name + "=");
String values[] = request.getParameterValues(name);
for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
if (i > 0)
writer.print(", ");
writer.print(values);
writer.println();
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writer.println(" remoteAddr=" + request.getRemoteAddr());
writer.println(" remoteHost=" + request.getRemoteHost());
writer.println(" scheme=" + request.getScheme());
writer.println(" serverName=" + request.getServerName());
writer.println(" serverPort=" + request.getServerPort());
writer.println(" isSecure=" + request.isSecure());
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writer.println("---------------------------------------------");
HttpServletRequest hrequest = (HttpServletRequest) request;
writer.println(" contextPath=" + hrequest.getContextPath());
Cookie cookies[] = hrequest.getCookies();
if (cookies == null)
cookies = new Cookie[0];
for (int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
writer.println(" cookie=" + cookies[i].getName() +
"=" + cookies[i].getValue());
names = hrequest.getHeaderNames();
while (names.hasMoreElements()) {
String name = (String) names.nextElement();
String value = hrequest.getHeader(name);
writer.println(" header=" + name + "=" + value);
writer.println(" method=" + hrequest.getMethod());
writer.println(" pathInfo=" + hrequest.getPathInfo());
writer.println(" queryString=" + hrequest.getQueryString());
writer.println(" remoteUser=" + hrequest.getRemoteUser());
writer.println("requestedSessionId=" +
hrequest.getRequestedSessionId());
writer.println(" requestURI=" + hrequest.getRequestURI());
writer.println(" servletPath=" + hrequest.getServletPath());
writer.println("=============================================");
// Log the resulting string
writer.flush();
response.getWriter().print(sw.getBuffer().toString());
// Pass control on to the next filter
chain.doFilter(request, response);
* Place this filter into service.
* @param filterConfig The filter configuration object
public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException {
this.filterConfig = filterConfig;
* Return a String representation of this object.
public String toString() {
if (filterConfig == null)
return ("RequestDumperFilter()");
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("RequestDumperFilter(");
sb.append(filterConfig);
sb.append(")");
return (sb.toString());
And the config in web.xml is :
<filter>
<filter-name>Request Dumper Filter</filter-name>
<filter-class>filters.RequestDumperFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>Request Dumper Filter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
Thanx
Thirupati Panyala -
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