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Category Archives: Open Source
Java Media – It is sad but I don’t care anymore…
Rebooting Java Media, Part III: Conclusion – O’Reilly ONJava Blog Chris Adamson has put together a nice 3 part series of posts that explore the state of media support in Java. Long has this been a point of frustration for … Continue reading
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Academic Asterisk Adventures
In my continuing adventures as an adjunct professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, I taught a new course last semester entitled “Redial: Interactive Telephony“. The purpose of the course was to utilize emerging telephony technologies, concepts and services such as … Continue reading
Posted in ITP, Networking, Open Source, School, Streaming and Multi-Media, VoIP
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Asterisk 1.4 Coming Soon!
Digium – The Asterisk Telephony Company Ok, this is a big deal. The next version of Asterisk supports GoogleTalk! From the Press Release: Asterisk 1.4 is the first major release of Asterisk since the release of Asterisk 1.2 in November … Continue reading
Sony releasing a Linux based handheld
Linux powers Sony’s new Mylo WiFi handheld Would love to see a comparison between Nokia’s 770 and this.. From the article: “In September, Sony expects to ship a Linux- and Qtopia-based handheld device featuring WiFi connectivity, an Opera web browser, … 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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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..