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4 June2011

Topics for 4th June 2011 at HursleyLabs

Please list the topic of a talk you are prepared to give, the approximate length, and your name. Talks can be anything from a 5 minute demo or walkthrough, to 30-45 minutes of slides

Mac Mini

Installing Linux & OSX on a MAC Mini System by Stephen Davies

This article is a result of my experiences and nothing else. There are probably better ways to do some things but I didn’t find them or failed to get them to work.

The task was to install both OSX & Linux on a Mac Mini system.

The Mini came with OSX 10.3 already installed as it was one I won on an Ebay auction. So, my first exercise was to remove the existing OSX installation and look at how [continued…]

DVD Authoring

The Topfield ‘Toppy’ TF5800PVRA is a freeview HD recorder with a USB interface. You can download the recordings (.rec files) to a PC and then burn them to a DVD after a bit of juggling. Here is a four step working solution after many false starts:

A) Translate the .rec file to something usable:

Use !ProjectX

  • Set the cut points to skip ads etc (CutControl tab)
  • Demux (click prepare button, tick demux box, press play button)
  • B) Re-multiplex in a way that dvdauthor can read

    Use mplex:

    • mplex -f8 -o tvprog.mpg tvprog.m2v tvprog.mp2

    C) Create menus [continued…]