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Interesting Article on http://www.pacificdisc.com.

Simplicity Comes to Blu-ray Audio Disc Navigation with “Pure Audio” Standard from msm-studios

Posted December 18th, 2009 by Brandon DuHamel on Blu-ray Definition.com

After a clean install of OSX Snow Leopard and Adobe CS3 Design Suite the Updater crashed whenever an Adobe Tool was started.

Seems to be a permission problem so I tried:

$ sudo /Applications/Utilities/Adobe\ Utilities.localized/Adobe\ Updater5/Adobe\ Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Updater

Updater is running now...

Receiving attachments sent from Outlook ist not that easy with Mac Mail. Sometimes all you get is a winmail.dat file.

Here's a tool to unpack that file and save the attachments: TNEF's Enough

http://www.joshjacob.com/

Very nice...

Some experiments with BD Network support.

SoX is a free command line tool that enables you to convert audio files. This can be helpful many times - here are some examples.

First get SoX at http://sox.sourceforge.net

Here's a short description on how to resize your Video. I have tested this on several MHP Set-top Boxes as well as on BD Players.

Again there are two ways: via HVideoDevice and AWTVideoSizeControl.

There are two ways (I've used) getting chapter information in BD-J. One is waiting for Events that are thrown when a new chapter ist reached, the other one is reading the actual chapter via PSR Values.

Moving websites to a different server can be very annoying. Here an especially nice error concerning the PHP graphics Library and the function imagefill.

high definition audio – surround and stereo – as simple as a CD – on every Blu-ray player.