Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

Unburden iTunes – Move Your Videos

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

After using iTunes for some years, my library has become too fat even for my ever-growing disk sizes. I decided to move my videos to another drive and found there is an incredibly easy way to achieve this: use the Finder to go to your iTunes library folder and move the “Movies” and “TV Shows” folders to the new drive – done.

iTunes automatically (!) found the new location without any manual re-indexing or re-importing or fiddling with the library preferences. (I have not tested network drives.)

There is a catch, though: downloading new videos – e.g. TV show subscriptions – will recreate the folders in your iTunes library. If you find that confusing, I suggest you only move complete seasons/subfolders.

How To Play DVDs From Harddisk With DVD Player

Monday, January 4th, 2010

There is a number of reasons why it can be useful to have a 1:1 copy of a DVD on your harddisk, e.g. because you want to avoid wasting battery life when travelling, or because you own a MacBook Air and do not want to carry around your external DVD drive. However, there is one problem: Apple’s DVD player and iTunes expect a DVD to be read from an optical drive rather than the file system. I recently discovered an easy solution. (more…)