February 2004
Intermediate to advanced
383 pages
11h 49m
English
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Chapter 6. Multimedia
Since its introduction, the Macintosh has earned a reputation as a strong computing platform for multimedia applications. With the maturation of Mac OS X and its support for open source applications, coupled with Apple’s Digital Hub strategy, the Macintosh has become an even better choice for multimedia applications.
This chapter highlights a few multimedia applications that may be especially interesting to those Mac OS X users who have used similar (and in some cases, the same) applications in Linux and/or various flavors of Unix. We begin with a brief discussion on how to burn CDs in Mac OS X, both using GUI and command-line tools. The chapter then moves on to discuss some familiar (to Linux/Unix users) open source and bundled applications for playing videos, image editing, and 3D modeling.
Burning CDs
There are several ways to burn CDs in Mac OS
X. Which method of CD-burning you should use depends largely on what
kind of data you are burning to the CD. Let’s
consider an example in which we’ll use a CD-R to
backup ~/Library/Mail, which is where your
mailboxes are stored if you use the Mac OS X Mail application. The
same procedure can be applied to other data. We’ll
discuss how to accomplish this task with the GUI-based
Disk Utility application located in
/Applications/Utilities and by using the command
line in Terminal. In either case, you should make a disk image before
burning your data to a CD-R.
To make a disk image of ~/Library/Mail using Disk Utility, ...
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