My last upgrade of my media center included a blu-ray media player, it was a cheap LG player although wasn’t as cheap as they are today. This was bought a few years back when they first came out but didn’t install it for some time until now.
Well I thought Vista was bound to support blu-ray and didnt think anything of it until I started to buy loads of new dvd’s and found windows media center and windows media player couldnt play them. So what are the options, well currently they are
- Cyberlink PowerDVD (current version 9)
- Roxio CinePlayer DVD Decoder
- Arcsofts TotalMedia Theatre
Well my experience is this, Roxio forget it wouldnt even register properly and looking on the NET couldnt find one person that had installed it successfully on Vista so got a refund straight away. Arcsofts TotalMedia Theatre was the same installed but didnt play at all. Now the board I have in my media center has the INTEL Graphics G35 chip so could be because of that as its not really that good enough to play Blu-Ray discs.
So I know a lot of people dont like it but the PowerDVD was the only thing that played the blu-ray movies for me on Vista with a motherboard that uses the Intel G35 chip.
And that concludes my findings now to buy a micro ATX motherboard that uses the NVIDIA 9400 chipset.
14 - Jun - 2009
Posted by Paul Farrow - Under:
Apple,
Software
All of a sudden the places map isnt showing just a grey screen. Everything I tried just didnt get it to show any more. Eventually I found a solution that worked. I went to preferences -> advanced and set the dont look up places automatically to never. Quit Iphoto and restarted it. I then set it back to automatic and the places map shows straight away. Wierd but it now works.
14 - Jun - 2009
Posted by Paul Farrow - Under:
Apple,
Hardware,
Personal,
Software
Well got the GP1 gps unit for the Nikon and decided to take it out to boxhill where all the bikers meet. It was only Saturday so not that many about.
The GP1 unit is good but took a little while to get used to it. I also thought I would try Flickr which this picture has been uploaded from. So photo was taken with the Nikon D5000 and the GP1 unit so it has the geotagging info in it. Then I uploaded to IPhoto9 and then uploaded using that into Flickr. I then composed a blog entry with flickr so will be interesting to see how this comes out here on the blog.
13 - Jun - 2009
Posted by Paul Farrow - Under:
Apple,
Software
Just got the new Macbook Pro and after transferring from my old Macbook it seemed it couldnt actually set the time correctly was always an hour behind. The problem was actually the timezone as it just said GMT in the closest city. After a little bit of tickering I realised that that the localtime folder should be a symbolic link to /usr/share/timezone/<timezone> and instead a physical folder had been copied over during the transfer and was sitting in /etc.
The way to fix this is to open your finder window and click on go->go to folder and type in /etc then then delete the folder. Then you can set the time zone correctly.
24 - May - 2009
Posted by Paul Farrow - Under:
Apple,
Software
Ok go to your applications folder on your mac within the finder window. Right click the iphoto application icon and click show contents. Browse to the plugins folder and look for a folder named the same as the exporter your looking to remove.
Delete the folder that is the same name as the exporter your trying to delete and bobs your uncle – the exporter will be removed next time you start IPhoto.
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