Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD
Hi I have decided to sell my Mac computer as I'm totally skint, being a student. But, I would like to preserve the Music and Videos I've got on it -- mainly from iTunes -- and transfer them to my OpenBSD system so I can play them. Is it simply a case of creating a tar file of the music files and copying them over? Will the encoding (mostly mp4, mp4 and mp4a) be ok to use as-is or will I need to do some extra processing on them using some tool or other? I've got mplayer and vlc player installed which I hope I can use to play them, etc. Has anyone had experience with this type of thing and able to offer some info about the steps, if any, I need to take? Thanks in advance for any help offered. Best wishes, James. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38
Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:54 PM, James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net wrote: Hi I have decided to sell my Mac computer as I'm totally skint, being a student. But, I would like to preserve the Music and Videos I've got on it -- mainly from iTunes -- and transfer them to my OpenBSD system so I can play them. Is it simply a case of creating a tar file of the music files and copying them over? Will the encoding (mostly mp4, mp4 and mp4a) be ok to use as-is or will I need to do some extra processing on them using some tool or other? I've got mplayer and vlc player installed which I hope I can use to play them, etc. Has anyone had experience with this type of thing and able to offer some info about the steps, if any, I need to take? Thanks in advance for any help offered. Best wishes, James. I would say VLC can play almost anything. One problem would be DRM though, if you bought stuff from iTunes that has DRM, those files are locked to your iTunes/Mac/Apple ID (not sure which one it is) Just go ahead and copy the files before you sell it and test it out on OpenBSD. There are ways around DRM, for example in iTunes burn the songs to a CD and then rip them, DRM free.
Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD
[- Wed 13.Mar'13 at 14:10:30 +0100 Roger Wiklund :-] On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:54 PM, James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net wrote: Hi I have decided to sell my Mac computer as I'm totally skint, being a student. But, I would like to preserve the Music and Videos I've got on it -- mainly from iTunes -- and transfer them to my OpenBSD system so I can play them. Is it simply a case of creating a tar file of the music files and copying them over? Will the encoding (mostly mp4, mp4 and mp4a) be ok to use as-is or will I need to do some extra processing on them using some tool or other? I've got mplayer and vlc player installed which I hope I can use to play them, etc. Has anyone had experience with this type of thing and able to offer some info about the steps, if any, I need to take? Thanks in advance for any help offered. Best wishes, James. I would say VLC can play almost anything. One problem would be DRM though, if you bought stuff from iTunes that has DRM, those files are locked to your iTunes/Mac/Apple ID (not sure which one it is) Just go ahead and copy the files before you sell it and test it out on OpenBSD. There are ways around DRM, for example in iTunes burn the songs to a CD and then rip them, DRM free. Thanks, I just tar'red up the files and transferred them over. Just playing Eurythmics in VLC now - it works great. I haven't tried the stuff I purchased using iTunes yet. -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38
Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD
2013/3/13 James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net Is it simply a case of creating a tar file of the music files and copying them over? Will the encoding (mostly mp4, mp4 and mp4a) be ok to use as-is or will I need to do some extra processing on them using some tool or other? I've got mplayer and vlc player installed which I hope I can use to play them, etc. check out cmus from ports, NOT packages. http://cmus.sourceforge.net/ Look at the Makefile and add your wishes. Build and install it. Supports nearly everything where it can find the libs for. Ok, cover art is a MINUS, i mean non-existent. André
Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD
yeah just tried some of my iTunes purchases and it works perfectly. Sorry for asking what seems now to have been a pointless question. I just didn't want to go to the trouble of transferring 80+GB of data if it was going to be in vain. James -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38
Re: Transferring Multimedia Files from Mac OS X to OpenBSD
[- Wed 13.Mar'13 at 14:21:31 +0100 K.André Braselmann :-] check out cmus from ports, NOT packages. http://cmus.sourceforge.net/ Look at the Makefile and add your wishes. Build and install it. Supports nearly everything where it can find the libs for. Ok, cover art is a MINUS, i mean non-existent. I'll check it out - thanks mate -- James Griffin: jmz at kontrol.kode5.net jmzgriffin at gmail.com A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38
