During the holiday I was going through some of my parents video collection. Found a couple I was meaning to watch namely; Horton Hears a Who and Kung Fu Panda. Hey I like cartoons… anyway. I don’t get up to my parents that much so I didn’t really want to take the DVDs with me. I figured this would be a great opportunity to try HandBrake. If you have never heard of HandBrake you are definitely missing out. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. It will basically take any video, DVD etc and convert it to iPod AppleTV or any other Mac or PC video format you may want. The best part is the easy of use.
Step 1. Insert DVD (Apple DVD player may start quit it)
Step 2. Start-up HandBrake (as soon as you start it up it will ask to find source)
Step 3. At this point you want to choose the DVD you have inserted and click open (don’t select the folder inside the DVD)
HandBrake will now scan and figure out the video and audio.
Step 4. On the right side of the HandBrake window select “Apple TV”
Step 5. Click Start (That’s it when it’s done you will see a .m4v file on your desktop)
Step 6. Drop this in to iTunes
Step 7. On the Apple TV make sure you are sharing content from your computer and you should now see the Movie in the Apple TV’s My Movie section.
If you have any question feel free to post them here.
This year’s MacWorld Expo will be my last Macworld. Why do you ask? Well, Apple is pulling out after this year. Their reason states, “Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The increasing popularity of Apple’s Retail Stores, which more than 3.5 million people visit every week, and the Apple.com website enable Apple to directly reach more than a hundred million customers around the world in innovative new ways.” With the way today’s economy is I believe this is a good move. There has also been a lot of talk about Steve Jobs not being the keynote speaker this year. The move is also an interesting move in Apple growth. For years it’s always been Steve Jobs is Apple, I feel it’s time to change the thinking. Apple is a well oiled machine that runs very well thanks to the drive and motivation of Steve. I think Apple should of had Steve announce this as Apple’s last year and maybe make some kind of exiting speech, but having Philip Schiller give the keynote is an interesting move. Never the less, I was there when Steve came back and I will be at the last keynote as well. I look very forward in seeing everyone there and hope everyone has a great conference.
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