[Daniel_l]

It’s very unlikely that you’ll get anything back, such is the secure nature of UNIX, but you can try this:

https://www.binarybiz.com/vlab/

or Norton utilities

[Daniel_l]

Handbrake

https://handbrake.m0k.org/

[Daniel_l]

Google: (https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=making+OS+x+icons&meta=)

came up with this:

https://www.scene24.net/openweb/index.php?CreatingIcons

Hope it helps.

[Daniel_l]

but on my system and with my work, like i said, the difference is imperceptible.

Obviously this will depend on the source, the content and the encoding settings.

I.E. A shot of a black cat sleeping down a coal mine at midnight will look the same whatever codec you use 😉

[Daniel_l]

https://www.bitjazz.com/sheervideo/

[Daniel_l]

What debate are you referring to?

Take a look at these for examples of the difference between H.264 and Sorenson

H.264, choose 480p – https://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/king_kong/hd/

Sorenson – choose Large or fullscreen -https://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/king_kong/

[Daniel_l]

I’ve read great things about h.264, but also heard it’s primarily for web use

Nope.

It’s the next gen (HD) DVD codec.

Actually, i’ve done tests between h.264, mpeg-4 and sorenson 3 exported out of FCP…they all look the same…

I beg to differ, possible I guess but unlikely when you look closely. They are very different beasts aimed at very different delivery models.

Bottom line is, if you are making a DVD for a client to be played back ‘anywhere’, your only option is to encode to MPEG-2. No standard DVD player supports eith H.264, Sorenson 3 (a web codec) or MPEG-4 (pt-2 – another ideal-for-web codec)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorenson

If you can, get yourself on one of these:
https://www.digitalmediaacademy.org/courses_assets/compression.html

Orat least get’s Ben’s book, afdter reading the Compressor manual/help files.

Hope that helps.

DL

[Daniel_l]

WMV 9 on 10.4.3 is fine.

Try a re-install of the player after ditching everything WMP related.

It’s possible but unlikely that Popwire is causing the problem, if you had said you had Flip4mac installed that that would be a different story.

[Daniel_l]

Upgrade was by disc.

That’s funny 😉

[Daniel_l]

Don’t instructions come with the software, or are they just in Japanese?

http://www.junglejapan.com deal in it, they might be able to help.