Monthly Archives: July 2006

[ffmpeg] View of /trunk/qt-faststart.c

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Popularity Dialer – Relaunch (and Dugg)

* popularity dialer Go Jenny and Cory, go! “Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just … Continue reading

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Verizon DSL constantly changing IP address

So, I haven’t called support and I know that is the first thing I should do when problems like this arise but it just seems too fishy. To make a long story short, I recently decided to switch from regular … Continue reading

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Lights and Sensors, Toys for Adults

iBar – intelligent surface system – interactive bar: Pictures I don’t think these types of things will ever get old..

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Dear telephone, meet the internet

Pheeder “Pheeder is a whole new way of using your cellphone: it lets you communicate with all of your friends simultaneously, with a single phone call. To use it, you just call Pheeder, leave a message and hang up. Seconds … Continue reading

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Flash, FFMPEG and now Thumbnails!

A couple of days ago I got FFMPEG working to automatically generate FLV video files for OpenVlog. Today I finally got thumbnails generating correctly. Here are the commands: This creates a JPEG: ffmpeg -i inputfile -t 0.001 -ss 1 -vframes … Continue reading

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Iranian Video Blogging

This Iranian American Life “This blog is for an experimental documentary that I am working on this year, where I will be shooting video of my experiences in Iran and creating shorts, interactive installations, and/or videoblogs using the footage from … Continue reading

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Flash, FFMPEG and more..

Over at OpenVlog I have just finished implementing an automatic Flash conversion for video that is sent in. It was quite a task from getting FFMPEG running on Dreamhost with LAME and AMR support (you need to change your LD_LIBRARY_PATH … Continue reading

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Lame and Sox for use with Asterisk

VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Soothing the Savages with Hold Music Some good little command line snippets for conversion to GSM..

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Increasing cooperation in the IM space..

Yahoo, Microsoft IM Beta Joined at The Hip Definitely a good thing. Perhaps a standard will emerge.. Nah.. That is just hopeful thinking. Besides, I would rather Jabber was the standard.

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