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[goobimama]

MKV merge is the app you are looking for. There's a mac version as well. Load the MKV in. Then in the "Global" tab, check "Enable splitting". Give your size as something like 4300M and the start muxing. Make sure you give a different location for the "save to" field.

Here's the direct link from the website

You can also delete unused subtitles and audio tracks with this app.

 

[drgrudge]

^^
Thanks.

Did you take a look at Stumbi?

 

[goobimama]

iCal works beautifully for me , it reminds me everyday at 7:30 am to stop my Transmissions or pay huge bills !!!

Doesn't the Transmission scheduler work? Honest question. I wouldn't know cause I still don't have broadband at home (getting the wireless router today).

^^
Thanks.

Did you take a look at Stumbi?

Claude is using my mac right now. It's hard to make him let go...

 

[jamesbond007]

I'd love to work with Automator Workflow, but not getting head and tail of it.
Somebody post a nice little tut for creating Automator workflow, you can take the example of resizing images.....

 

[goobimama]

Automator is very easy actually. I'll see if I can fish out a step by step tutorial from somewhere. Otherwise you can just follow what other tutorials are doing to reverse engineer your own automator actions.

Check out Automator World for all your automatoristic needs. Scrips, hints, tutorials and whatnot.

TUAW has a post about some automator action packs.

 

[jamesbond007]

Doesn't the Transmission scheduler work? Honest question. I wouldn't know cause I still don't have broadband at home (getting the wireless router today).

Interesting question!! Transmissions scheduler and speed limit worked great with Tiger, but once I got over to Leopard only the scheduler works but not the speed limit. I've set the speed limit between 7:30 am to 2:30 am ( upload 1kbps and download 2kbps ), it worked on Tiger but doesn't work now in Leo!!
Strange isn't !!

 

[yash]

MKV merge is the app you are looking for. There's a mac version as well. Load the MKV in. Then in the "Global" tab, check "Enable splitting". Give your size as something like 4300M and the start muxing. Make sure you give a different location for the "save to" field.

Here's the direct link from the website

You can also delete unused subtitles and audio tracks with this app.

interesting. would you also know how to merge audio from a dvd to a mkv file?

in depth: I downloaded paprika High Def, which has japanese audio and english subtitles. My friend rented the dvd which has english audio as well. So I want to add the english audio to my high def video. are there any other tools I'd need?

I was looking around the internet for this and found the following page. *forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/617019 he's having problem playing a file he split with mkvmerge.

 

[goobimama]

So far I've had no problems with using MKVmerge. That problem on the site seems to be someone trying to make a DVD-video movie out of an HD video. I assume it's not something that you'd want to be doing.

As for muxing an english track to an MKV, I'm not exactly sure how to do it on a mac. You need to extract the Ac3 file and then mux it with the mkv. I'll see if there are any tools on the mac for extracting AC3 from a video. Quicktime might be able to help I guess. Can one play a DVD in quicktime? Cause if you can, then just hit the movie properties, select the audio track and hit "Extract".

A little googling brings me to:

mAC3dec

 

[yash]

I also found a page *homepage.mac.com/janlitzinger/CenterStage/mkv/index.html that suggests i can rip audio track from dvd using mactheripper. the app u suggested will convert the ac3 audio into an mp3 or aac/aiff file.

wait.. how big is the ac3 audio supposed to be? the file I extracted was only about 9/10 mb each. on closer examination, it turns out it was only a part of it.. like the first chapter audio... LOL

 

[goobimama]

Each DVD-movie ac3 track should be around 300MB-500MB.

 

[yash]

I just finished it. I now have a movie with the director's comentary and the english audio along with subtitles for both.

 

[jamesbond007]

Guys I am facing a very big problem for some time now. I use Transmissions for p2p. Every day between 3 am to 7:30 am I download about 3gb. The files that I download are around 4.5gb and its not possible to download them in one shot so I pause the download.
Today I paused a file of 4.41gb, 2.91gb was downloaded, now when I resume the download, Transmission starts to recover ( as if it does ) the downloaded file....... it recovers 198mb ( pathetic!! ) and starts the downloads!! Now how disgusting is that. I try every trick in the book to recover the downloaded file but for no use. This has happened to me over a dozen times now and I must tell you that it is really painful. I need to switch over to other client or need a solution for Transmission!!

 

[drgrudge]

^^
Boss, Transmission sucks. Didn't I say the very same point in my '13 reasons why Transmission sucks' post? Interestingly, the new version fixes this issue: 'Improvements and bugfixes to "Verify Local Data"'. When I download a large file or file with high peers, the redundant data is also high compared to other client.

Switch to Azureus or µTorrent. If you want to use Azureus, then check this: Which Version of Azureus to Use. Or if you're particular about µTorrent (isn't flawless but manageable) it's ok with Crossover.


Also why do you download from 3 to 7:30? Go for 2 to 8 man. Even if you lose abt 5 minutes, let it be. Additional data downloaded will be less than 15-20MB or so. You've 4 GB and easily you can manage.

 

[yash]

"Didn't we start with A for Apple ..."
Azeem, thats a nice sig. first time I noticed it.
what kind of connection do u have and how much can you download (with max speed) in the 6 hours from 2 to 8?

 

[gxsaurav]

Yahoo Messenger beta 3 for Mac is out.

 

[aryayush]

I'm in the process of reading all the stuff above that I missed. Till then, check out these links:

TMO Quick Tip - Safari 3.1: The Magical Develop Menu
TMO Quick Tip - Safari 3.1: Network Timeline

 

[legolas]

the magical develop menu is already there in Opera.
the network time line seems to be interesting.
however, am not trying safari owing to its huge memory consumption (windows, unfortunately!)

 

[ring_wraith]

I've been using Safari for a while now and it is really an awesome browser. I'm getting really warmed up to the whole UI and the speed isn't bad either.

 

[jamesbond007]

"Didn't we start with A for Apple ..."
Azeem, thats a nice sig. first time I noticed it.
what kind of connection do u have and how much can you download (with max speed) in the 6 hours from 2 to 8?

Thanks Yash :d Finally someone noticed and commented on my sig!!
I am on H500 plan from Bsnl, my average download speed is a mammoth 250kbps ( Well atleast for me coz i've switched from cable with 20kbps )
With such a huge speed, if I download between 2-8, 5gb is easily possible. Don't forget that I also seed a great deal.

Also why do you download from 3 to 7:30? Go for 2 to 8 man. Even if you loose abt 5 minutes, let it be. Additional data downloaded will be less than 15-20MB or so. You've 4 GB and easily you can manage.

The point here is i am taking into consideration the worst case!! And the worst case is my clock may not sync with the BSNL clock. And in that case, I ll end up paying huge bills!!

Transmissions thing that I mentioned is very painful, and if it happens over a dozen times, its a pain in your ass!! I'll try Azureus from today but other suggestions are welcome.

BTW dr , you had some probs with iCal, did you notice this : *www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/email_messaging/todo.html

 

[praka123]

deluge- is a very good BT client.it is now available for OS X Leo via macports.
*deluge-torrent.org/downloads.php
*www.macports.org/