another newbie-questions thread

[nukiduz]

hi there. i'm enjoying my 3 days old intel imac now but i have some issues i'd like to solve and hope you could help me:
1. is there any video player with subtitle support?
2. where can i find an audio and video codec pack?
3. i want iphoto to import all my photobooth pics to a folder called Photobooth in iphoto automatically. how can i do it? does it mean i'm duplicating the pics and so i have them in two folders?
4. what's a good window's Pain-like drawing simple program?

i had more questions some time ago but i think these are the most important ones. thanks for the answers and for making MR this good

 

[skubish]

hi there. i'm enjoying my 3 days old intel imac now but i have some issues i'd like to solve and hope you could help me:
1. is there any video player with subtitle support?
2. where can i find an audio and video codec pack?
3. i want iphoto to import all my photobooth pics to a folder called Photobooth in iphoto automatically. how can i do it? does it mean i'm duplicating the pics and so i have them in two folders?
4. what's a good window's Pain-like drawing simple program?

i had more questions some time ago but i think these are the most important ones. thanks for the answers and for making MR this good

1. Get VLC it is a great video app for Mac.
2. I don't know what you mean by this? VLC, Quicktime, and Real will play most formats.
3. Probably can do this with a Smart Folder in iPhoto.

 

[mad jew]

Yeah, VLC is great and should play almost all the files you want. As for the Paint replacement, try our own robbieduncan's Poster Paint.

 

[robbieduncan]

As for the Paint replacement, try our own robbieduncan's Poster Paint.

And when you find that I've spent too long in the pub and not long enough on features grab a copy of Seashore.

 

[mad jew]

Ahh, such modesty

 

[DarkNetworks]

1. is there any video player with subtitle support?

VLC works great but I prefer MPlayer OS X....it supports subtitle as well...

 

[nukiduz]

thanks for all the repplies. those apps where exactly what i was looking for. however i still have the same problem with photobooth. i made a smart folder where all the pics named 'MyPicture-*' were going to be but when you make more than 10 pics with Photobooth, it starts calling the by Pic-*.

 

[funkychunkz]

VLC works great but I prefer MPlayer OS X....it supports subtitle as well...

Ugg, I hate VLC, it simply gives me an error for absolutky anything. Worked like garbage.

1. Sorry If I'm being a bit obvious, but DVD player and quicktime (when exporting) support subtitles.
2. A useful codec to have is Divx (a plugin availible on their site), and since MS no longer supports Windows media on mac you should go for Flip 4 Mac (but don't unless you need to, it's still buggy).