Burning VIDEO_TS on OSX

 Posted on July 1, 2012  (Last modified on May 8, 2026)  |  1 minutes  |  99 words  |  Ton Kersten

I was trying to burn a folder with a VIDEO_TS directory onto a DVD. But in a way that it will start in a normal DVD player as well as starting automagically. And this all had to be done on Apple’s OSX.

I googled a little and tried some things and this is what I can up with:

hdiutil makehybrid -udf         \
    -udf-volume-name DVD_NAME   \
    -o MY_DVD.iso               \
    /path/to/VIDEO_TS/parent/folder
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Mac OS X 

pdfPres package created

 Posted on February 4, 2012  (Last modified on August 22, 2024)  |  1 minutes  |  54 words  |  Ton Kersten

To present PDF slides on Linux I use pdfPres. But when I want to use this on OS X Lion, this doesn’t work. So I created an OS X Lion package for pdfPres.

This is only tested on OS X Lion and it does require XQuartz.

Please, download the pdfPres package and test it.

Mac OS X 

Update to OS X Lion

 Posted on July 24, 2011  (Last modified on August 22, 2024)  |  1 minutes  |  193 words  |  Ton Kersten

Last Friday I decided it was time to update my MacBook to OS X Lion. So I went to the app-store and donated my 23.99 euros to Apple.

The download was fast, very fast, if you consider how many people where downloading at that same moment.

After the download I first made a copy of the installer files, because I read that the installer throws these files away after installation. And, of course, I made a full backup with Time Machine.

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Mac OS X