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Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your Mac and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 not only ...

"VideoLAN members need to multicast video, but the Windows Media Player creates NSC files that contain encoded text," Hartman said. "You need that information in order to connect to the video stream." ...

In most cases, you’ll want to choose Queue and launch Adobe Media Encoder (AME), whether it’s to give you more oversight of the encoding process or to keep the encode from interrupting your editing ...

You might get a Microsoft Word 2007 email attachment from friends, co-workers or others - especially someone from another country - that can't be read. The text file may contain unusual strings of ...

I have a TV channel that runs at 720/60fps progressive. Much of the content is 24fps sourced, so I usually do an Inverse Telecine (IVTC) to get get back to 24 FPS, when I compress for storage. Just ...

I tried editing PDF files from a magazine I am subscribed to on my Mac in Preview and on my iPad in the Files app by deleting pages that I was not interested in. I would expect the file size to get ...