Sunday 13 June 2010

For Mac Users (Unzipping Videos) - Update !! Please Read

A good friend tells me the Ez7z worked perfectly and easily with split & zipped video files on his Mac where as the 2nd link gave the similar problems
So if you use a Mac - Please use this: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19139/ez7z

There are 2 options here for Mac users to unzip & rejoin the video files on this site. Both of which I believe work.

Here is a link to 7-zip for Mac: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19139/ez7z


I hope with these we will solve any issues that Mac users have had. In general I do apologise to those who experience problems with un-zipping these zipped & split files. As yet its unclear as to why for some many problems occur where as for others it works perfectly and as such, if I can't clearly identify the problem there's nothing I can do to fix it! Sometimes during the download process files can corrupt and these videos are big files.
Its quite possible that in the future I will be re-encoding many of the Sigur ros / jonsi videos using the new MKV video format which literally makes files half the size of AVI's... but thats for the future :)

Suggestions for better methods are always welcomed

1 comment:

  1. Hi,
    I downloaded the Pukkelpop video and didn't have any luck with Ez7z - at least not at first. I had to first use a program called MacHacha to join the four zip files, so I was left with just one zip file. I then found that any unzipping program (ez7z, unzip, etc) worked to give me the final video.

    http://homepage.mac.com/julifos/soft/machacha/index.html

    By the way, your Victory Rose websites are awesome. Keep up the good work.

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