November 30, 2006
Retired
sLop (the blog you are reading) is retiring..
The archives should stay up indefinitely though so feel free to continue linking in if you like..
In the coming weeks, I should have something new up. Please stay tuned.
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September 12, 2006
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 2005. With over 20 new functionality additions including IPFAX compatibility, unified messaging capabilities and Jabber/Jingle/GoogleTalk protocol compatibilities, Asterisk 1.4 features overall quality and performance improvements, as well as increased scalability and interoperability.
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August 14, 2006
ITJ Project Beta Released
Interactive Tele-Journalism
So.. I have finally released ITJ on SourceForge.net.
With support from Konscious and Manhattan Neighborhood Network we have packaged and uploaded the latest version and it can be downloaded at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/itv-ism/.
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August 10, 2006
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, and a variety of text- and voice-messaging clients and media players. The Mylo -- short for "My Life Online" -- will be available in black or white, priced at $350.
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July 20, 2006
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 1 -f mjpeg -s 320x240 outputfile.jpg
This creates a QT Movie that I am using as a reference movie (just one frame of video):
ffmpeg -i inputfile -t 0.001 -ss 1 -vframes 1 -vcodec mpeg4 -an outputfile.mov
I got this working with lots of help from the following pages:
Converting Video Formats with FFmpeg
Extracting JPG Frames Using FFmpeg and mjpeg Parameter
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July 15, 2006
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 environment variable), understanding Ruby enough to get FLVTool2 installed and working (another environment variable issue) and building a fancy Flash video player..
I think it was worthwhile in the end..
A Sample: I love NY (click on the Flash Version link).
Next will be making thumbnails with FFMPEG so that I don't use the silly "Click Here" graphic anymore.. I suppose I should still say, "click here" as for some strange reason I can not get the mouse pointer to change over top of the QuickTime plugin. That is a story for another day but the gist is, use JavaScript instead of reference movies. The added benefit is that IE users don't have the extra alert.
Thanks to Cat and the FreeFormed.org crew for the impetus.
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July 14, 2006
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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June 30, 2006
Updated QuickTime Embedding Plugin
Due to overwhelming demand (1 person), I updated my QuickTime Embedding Plugin for WordPress to support Auto Play and Hiding the movie controller.
Just thought you might like to know.. ;-)
Oh yeah, John has been very hard at work on the next version of our Video Commenting Plugin. Prepare to be impressed (I am). It should be released over the weekend.
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June 24, 2006
Video Comments, Video Comments, Video Comments
mobvcasting >> Blog Archive >> Interactive Video Blogging Session at Vloggercon
At this session at Vloggercon 2006, I presented the video comments plugin which this video is using.. Check it out. Click on "Watch Video" after the jump. (Warning, the video is long and big)
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June 15, 2006
The Good and The Bad regarding the new 770 firmware
Nokia 770 Linux tablet firmware update beta draws praise, fire
I am particularly impressed by the "Good" list:
VoIP capabilities
IM and Google Talk messaging client
Integrated addressbook with presence information
Better performance, as well as a control-panel option for setting up a swap partition on the rs-mmc card
Better memory recovery when applications are closed
Google search bar available in home screen
Browser URL input field has partial matching
Home screen items now can be rearranged
Thumb keyboard is "input method of choice"
Package manager handles package feeds, and allows custom menu placement
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June 14, 2006
dsj - DirectShow <> Java wrapper
DirectShow Java Wrapper: humatic - dsj
Very Nice..
From the site:
Need to play Windows Media files and streams, DivX video or DVDs in java? Access WDM capture devices? Control a firewire DVCam? Then maybe this can help you. dsj is an ongoing project to provide a java wrapper around Microsoft's DirectShow API. It offers a set of high level classes that give java easy access to functionality widely missed by java programmers and also lets you dive deeper into the interiors of Windows' core api for 2D media. On the java side dsj tries to keep things open as possible - you may use it standalone or let it feed data into JMF or other APIs.
They also point to a bunch of Open Source projects that are of interest:
Related projects (dsj does not use OpenSource, GPL or LGPL licensed code, but - as you are here - these projects may be of interest, too) :
JMDS - DirectShow Capture api Java wrapper: jmds.dev.java.net - fobs4jmf - ffmpeg c++ & java bindings: http://fobs.sourceforge.net
java VLC - VideoLan java bindings: http://jvlc.ihack.it - DXInput - DirectInput Java wrapper: www.hardcode.de
jARToolkit - ARToolkit java bindings: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jartoolkit/ - jFFmpeg - JMF codec pack: http://jffmpeg.sourceforge.net/
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Remixing Fashion
Takes concepts of software development, deconstruction and open source and creates a playground for remixing fashion. Awesome!
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VLC to Darwin
Archive de streaming
How to stream a file from VLC to Darwin/QuickTime Streaming Server. Don't know why I couldn't find this information in the past:
vlc my_movie.mp4 --sout '#rtp{dst=127.0.0.1,port=1234,sdp=file:///path/to/DSS/movies/my_sdp.sdp}'
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June 11, 2006
Video Comments, WordPress Plugin
ITP Research >> Video Comments, a WordPress Plugin
Keeping the conversation alive in media blogs
Video Blogging, Vlogging or what ever you want to call it was born into a tradition of self publishing on the internet and benefits greatly from the infrastructure developed for blogging. The tools to create media and now to distribute media online are accessible and affordable. Furthermore, video blogging is often considered participatory and socially interactive. Much of this is due to what blogs have done, enabled true two-way conversation through comments and loose networking through trackbacks.
Unfortunately, while video blogging benefits from these, it doesn't really do much to improve or enhance this capability with video.
At ITP Research, myself and a couple of others have been working to change this or at least push commenting and trackbacks a bit further. We have created a Video Commenting plugin for WordPress that allows people to leave comments in-time with a video. This, we believe is one of the first steps to allowing conversation to happen around video and furthermore enable richer conversation with video.
Check it out, download it, modify it, use it... Video Comments, WordPress Plugin
From the site:
It’s really exciting to see the number of blogs that exist today, thousands of voices are talking about every possible topic. Blog syndication and commenting allows readers to subscribe, discuss and carry the conversation further, however, with the different forms of media becoming a normal part of many blogs there’s a need to keep this open communication open. Audio and video blogs are forming communities and to encourage conversation the viewers must be able to respond, so we developed a plug-in for WordPress called Video Comments.
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May 28, 2006
Yippee!
FMJ - Freedom for Media in Java
From the site:
FMJ is an open-source project with the goal of providing a replacement/alternative to Java Media Framework (JMF).
JMF is still dead in the water, despite some folks from Sun making a little bit of noise a couple of months back. Let's hope this effort keeps it going.
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May 23, 2006
P2P on Mobile Phones
Symella, a Gnutella client for Symbian Smartphones
Listening to a presentation about this now. Pretty interesting but will have to wait to get back to NYC before I can try it (data isn't working in Europe for me).
From the site:
Symella is a Gnutella client for Symbian smartphones. Gnutella is a Peer-to-Peer file sharing network system with many clients (and servers) available on various desktop operating systems (for desktop Gnutella clients check out this site).
It is used for exchanging files, especially music, MP3 files. Because mobile phones have limited bandwidth and small memory cards, this client focuses only for downloading, not sharing. It is available on Series 60 and Series 80.
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May 21, 2006
ion - and iondb - v. nice!
People With Ideas ion 1.0 RC3 and iondb.com
Just had a short opportunity to try out the new ion and iondb. Haven't had a chance to get some heavy usage but right off the bat the webstart is great! The db is fantastic as well, sharing what you are watching with others is one of the first steps to making video on the internet more social and community orientated. Keep going!
One of these days I will contribute a bit back to this project.
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May 19, 2006
QuickTime Movie Export for Processing
Daniel Shiffman >> MovieMaker Processing Library
Dan put up a movie export library for Processing.. Cool!
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May 02, 2006
RXTX - Java on the Mac Serial - Install Issues
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April 27, 2006
Online video via RSS comes to Linux
Democracy: Internet TV
Now supports Linux..!
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April 19, 2006
ITP End of Year Events - Thesis Presentations and End of Semester Show
ITP Spring Show 2006
A two day exhibition of interactive sight, sound and physical objects from the student artists of ITP.
This event is free and open to the public. No need to RSVP.
ITP Thesis Presentations 2006
ITP's graduating students will be presenting a wide variety of highly creative and interactive projects that they have constructed over the course of their final project seminars.
Students have been encouraged to undertake projects that bring together the conceptual and design issues that they have engaged in during their two years of study at ITP.
Projects will include installation based work, digital video and audio pieces, interactive 3D, games and educational applications, to name only a few.
ITP will be providing a live webcast of all the thesis presentations.
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March 24, 2006
I/ON TV
People With Ideas - Blog Archive - 10-foot “Potato” UI fun
The guys at Open Network Television are hard at work on more great features for their video aggregator I/ON. This time it is a television interface for those of us with Mini's or Windows Media Center's. I can't wait to try it out on my Mini as STB and hope to have some time at some time in the future to start hacking around with the source.
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March 11, 2006
New WordPress Plugin for Embedding QuickTime movies
QuickTime Embedding WordPress Plugin
I got tired of my XML-RPC posts with QuickTime movies messing up the design of my blog. WordPress automatically would add end param tags and paragraph breaks and all of that inside my Embed and Object tags.
Check it out
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February 28, 2006
Cat is using my mobvcasting software
Cat's Mobile Vlog
Set up your own mobile video blog: ParseVideo
Mine is: MobVCasting. There is also a public one at: Open Vlog
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Northwestern University's Project Pad
Project Pad - Home Page
A series of tools for media annotation for use in education...
Part of a larger project called Sakai (which has a good tag line but I don't know much about.)
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February 24, 2006
Case Study: Live Streaming to Flash Player (via FFMPEG)
_Live_Flash_Stream_via_FFMPEG
Drazen writes up the procedure he uses to do live streaming to an embedded SWF.
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February 21, 2006
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
WikiHome - codebook - JotSpot
I haven't read the book (yet) but this collaborative effort to keep it up to date is fantastic and looks to be very well organized.
From the site:
Lawrence Lessig first published Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace in 1999. After five years in print and five years of changes in law, technology, and the context in which they reside, Code needs an update. But rather than do this alone, Professor Lessig is using this wiki to open the editing process to all, to draw upon the creativity and knowledge of the community. This is an online, collaborative book update
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February 15, 2006
Myth(TV)ology
Fedora Myth(TV)ology :: Welcome
Everything MythTV and Fedora
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February 07, 2006
Our Media's List of Open Media Projects
Open media projects | Ourmedia
From the site:
Ourmedia.org, a nonprofit open media project, supports the following kindred efforts that are helping to enable the grassroots media revolution (also called citizens media, participatory media, personal media, We Media and open-source media). We hope to work with many of them in the months ahead on a planned network of open media sites as a way to cultivate an independent commons of information and creativity.
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February 05, 2006
Almost a dream machine
Dream-Multimedia
Open Linux based Set-Top-Boxes! Unfortunately, DVB only, no ATSC. Us poor poor North American iTV developers are left behind yet again..
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January 30, 2006
Fabio Sonnati's Flash Video Blog
Fabio Sonnati's Flash Video Blog
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Flash Ant: Flash and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Blog . :: Echo, echo, echo... I think I hear Open Source Flash Communication Server! more at osflash.org/red5
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Gnash - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) From the site:
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Wireless Networking in the Developing World From the site:
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Nokia 770 as mobile innovation platform
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GBN: The Future of Independent Media Andrew Blau writes a great essay contemplating Independent Media in the face of the quickly changing technological landscape. A very good read: From the text:
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Google Jabbers And Jingles In any case, a quicky on Google's use of Jabber and their extensions (Jingle). A little tidbit about Asterisk support forthcoming near the end.
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Rich Hauck’s Blog Yippee.. Maybe if I could get it all to work. Soon..
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pcHDTV
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CodeTree: Watch Your Code Branch Out and Grow.
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Asterisk Documentation Project - Project Information A good book for anyone doing anything with Asterisk!
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Cover Pages: XMLTV From the site:
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TorrentSniffer - TorrentSniffer
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OpenSource.Nokia.com - Projects
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Emmy Advanced Media - Television Business News: The WiMax Price Club A nice idea... From the site:
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Radio Regen, Community FM Toolkit for Community Radio From the site:
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TECTONIC: How will you consume your open media?
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ITunesDB - wikiPodLinux
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Cinelerra sites
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Free Neighborhood Wi-Fi - Popular Science
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Main Page - Wikibooks
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Welcome to maemo.org!
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Nokia to Launch Mobile Project With Eclipse
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SourceForge.net: launch4j 2.0.RC3 released
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Open Source Article Index
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IBM's Cloudscape Versus MySQL
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Processing 1.0 (BETA)
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Participatory Culture: News and Ideas Nice interface, easy to use.. Great stuff!
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ONTV: Ideas Through Digital Content From the site:
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The Hunting of the Snark Project - BitTorrent Application Suite
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Very nicely done..
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Linux frees iPod's inner recording studio
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Open source telephony app server evolves
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Welcome to iGoJava - iGoLogic JBOX Java J2SE Embedded Development Kit!
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Microsoft-Free Home Part 4: The Linux HTPC--ExtremeTech Build It
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As Dave points out in the comments to this post: sLop: Java wrapper for ffmpeg there is a new open source FFMPEG JNI JMF wrapper: Omnividea FOBS - FFMpeg C & JMF Bindings.. Gotta love those acronyms.. :-) Sorry.
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"Once you can surf by it, all your content kind of turns into television," says Halle, who once worked on interactive TV projects for a Public Broadcasting System station in Boston but became frustrated by the high cost of available gear. The Project for Open Source Media (POSM), as Halle calls it, is designed for the era when anyone with a $200 camcorder or a video cameraphone can become a broadcaster. The interactive TV box costs $500 plus a $100 TV turner card.
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cyberduck
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MediaWiki development
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http://www.drupal.org/ More about these later... I am evaluating..
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Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux | Linux Journal
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Linux.com - Framegrabbing Applications Also of note is the Apache plugin mod_video.
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Tryst: Home
Fabio offers some very nice and detailed knowledge regarding Flash Video. I am particularly impressed with the FFMPEG to FLV information.
Open Source Flash Communications Server in the works
Reblogged:
What is Red5, you ask? It's a project on OSFlash that aims to create an Open Source Flash Communication Server. The speed at which the project is progressing is quite astounding. An Open Source Flash Communication Server alternative appears to be mere months away
January 28, 2006
Open Source Flash Rendering
Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Till now it has been possible to play flash movies with proprietary software. While there are a few other free flash players, none supports anything higher than SWF v4 at best. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports many SWF v7 features.
Wireless Networking in the Developing World
Creative Commons Licensed book
The massive popularity of wireless networking has caused equipment costs to continually plummet, while equipment capabilities continue to increase. By applying this technology in areas that are badly in need of critical communications infrastructure, more people can be brought online than ever before, in less time, for very little cost. We hope to not only convince you that this is possible, but also show how we have made such networks work, and to give you the information and tools you need to start a network project in your local community.Nokia 770 - Looking for hackers to create a "killer app"
From the article:
The Nokia 770 web pad lacks a "killer app" to make it useful on a daily basis, writes blogger Russell Beattie. However, the device is much more open than previously available mobile devices, and as a result could serve as the development platform for mobile innovation, Beattie suggests. January 17, 2006
The Future of Independent Media
I thought I linked to this a while ago but I couldn't find it recently when recommending it to a student.
The technologies that enable us to make and consume motion media are becoming better, cheaper, and more widely available—and with blistering speed. As a consequence, patterns of media production and consumption are changing just as rapidly. The Internet continues to create new opportunities to connect with audiences. Video games are becoming a platform for critique and education. A new generation of media makers and viewers is emerging, which only increases the likelihood of profound change. Images, ideas, news, and points of view are traveling along countless new routes to an ever-growing number of places where they can be seen and absorbed. It is no understatement to say that the way we make and experience motion media will be transformed as thoroughly in the next decade as the world of print was reshaped in the last.January 16, 2006
Jabber, Jingle, Google and Asterisk
What a funny bunch of words..
January 12, 2006
Writing Actionscript with Eclipse (FAME)
Rich just let me know a little secret about:
Writing Actionscript with Eclipse (FAME)December 14, 2005
The perfect Linux HD capture card (it seems)
Makers of the Linux based (at least the drivers) HD-3000 HDTV card. Now if I can ever get around to building my myth box..Social Networking Site for Visual Programmers
From the site:
Welcome to CodeTree, a social networking community created to bring new media artists, programmers, and students using Macromedia Flash and Proce55ing together. Learn more about this site, start browsing the code, or join the community and start sharing your code today!December 10, 2005
Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
Book available online, Creative Commons licensed. Very nice..December 05, 2005
XMLTV
Continuing with my links to computer in living room technology.
XMLTV is a set of utilities to manage your TV viewing. They work with TV listings stored in the XMLTV format, which is based on XMLNovember 17, 2005
Java + Flash = Finally Something!
Java + BitTorrent Library
TorrentSniffer is a Java library for reading BitTorrent information. TorrentSniffer currently implements the following sections of the BitTorrent Protocol Specification 1.0: Metainfo File Structure, Bencoding and Tracker 'scrape' Convention. The primary purpose of this library is to retrieve the number of seeds and peers of a torrent. This is done by using the Tracker 'scrape' Convention.
November 13, 2005
Nokia's Open Source Projects
SIP, maemo (the OS for the 770) and Python are notable.Shelly's on to something here..
They’re popping up all over America -- in backyards everywhere -- it’s the latest do-it-yourself craze – the WiMax Price Club. Want free Internet access for life? No problem. Just go to http://www.WiMaxPriceClub.com and order your tower kit online. When it arrives, get your building permit (if required by local zoning laws) and erect your new 80’ antenna tower in your back yard or on your rooftop. Just plug in the included WiMax repeater and you’ll be online in a jiffy! Imagine over 70 megabits up and down, FREE for life! Nothing else to buyCommunity Radio Toolkit (book with discussion forum)
What you will find here by the end of 2005, is a complete web version of the 212 pages of the book, complete with active discussion forums for readers. We will also have staff deployed to follow up information requests and extract the usable information from these discussions. So there’ll be information digests and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) too.
In the meanwhile, following the enthusiastic response from delegates at our Community FM conference, we’re posting samples of the book and launching an experimental forum for you to discuss what you think of the book. If this resource is to become truly comprehensive, and stay up to date, we need you to join in with the discussion on the forum to tell us what you think of what you’ve read and to share your experiences.November 04, 2005
OMDS Article
Michael Sharon has written a nice article summarizing the Open Media Developers Summit.
From the article:
Two weeks ago, on a rainy Friday and Saturday in October, 65 programmers and developers debated these and many other questions at the first Open Media Developer's Summit held at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in down-town Manhattan. October 31, 2005
Understand the iPod iTunesDB
From the site:
This page details the format of the binary files used on the iPod to keep track of the music it contains as well as its play history. Collectively we refer to these files as the iTunesDB however there are in fact a number of files, each with their own format, that make up this database.October 30, 2005
Cinelerra.. Linux based Open Source Video Editing
Need to check this out sometime.
October 08, 2005
Neighbornode Article
Pop Sci publishes a nice write-up about John Geraci's Neighbornode project. I had my hands in this a bit early on, a great idea, hope it continues to catch on.
http://www.neighbornode.net/October 02, 2005
Open Source Textbooks
a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit.September 26, 2005
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Development Platform
From the site:
Maemo is a development platform to create applications for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet and other maemo compliant handheld devices. It is meant for developers with personal or commercial interests in developing software for handhelds like Internet Tablets. The software and developer community website is contributed to this audience and operated by Nokia. The platform is composed of popular open source software components, which are widely deployed in the leading Linux desktop distributions today.September 20, 2005
Nokia donating mobile development code to Eclipse
August 22, 2005
Launch those JARs
From the site:
Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping Java applications distributed as jars in lightweight Windows native executables. The executable can be configured to search for a certain JRE version or use a bundled one, and it's possible to set runtime options, like the initial/max heap size. The wrapper also provides better user experience through an application icon, a native pre-JRE splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot be found.Developer.com: Open Source Article Index
Looking for an article to help you get started with Ant or Subversion (or many other Open Source technologies), this is a good place to find them..August 20, 2005
IBM/ASF Cloudscape/Derby (in terms of MySQL)
I loathe articles that pit one piece of software vs. another but this one has a good explanation of Cloudscape/Derby (IBM's recently open sourced java embeded database). Sounds pretty nice.. Perhaps my next project will veer from my standard LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) environment and go the AJAX/Servlet/Derby route..August 11, 2005
Processing Moving into the Mobile world
From the site:
http://mobile.processing.org (coming soon)
Processing Mobile, a programming environment and library for writing software
for mobile phones.August 09, 2005
DTV for MacOS X released
From the site:
This is a big day for us we just released a Beta of DTV for Mac OS X.
A couple of important things missing: Comments and Permalinks to the vlog entries. Vlogs aren't vlogs without them.OnTV: Open Source Video Blogging and Streaming Subscription and Viewing
An alpha release with some nice features such as searching, marking as a favorite, sending to friends and so on. Includes the ability to view streams.. Very nice..
The Internet is filled with
innovations,
artistic expressions and independently created entertainment. Our goal
is to make that digital content easy to find, view, share and manage.
ONTV builds conduits between you and others, to enable the exchange of
thoughts, ideas, and emotions, embodied within digital content.
With the Beta Release of I/ON,
we hope to begin to make our vision a reality. I/ON is an Internet
Video Console that allows you to watch the web - accessing rich media
content directly, on-demand. Small, Java BitTorrent Suite
July 18, 2005
QuickTime Pro, redone in Java (Free and Open Source)
amateur: Home
From the site:
Amateur is a free clone of Apple's QuickTime Player implemented in Swing using QuickTime for Java. However it is uncrippled and does not require registration or a serial number to provide full functionality.July 08, 2005
Use Linux to turn your iPod into a recording device
July 01, 2005
Asterisk has some competition
Called Bayonne.. Interesting. I would like to see a comparison with Asterisk.JBox - Java and Linux in a nice little package
Perfect for many of my projects, fairly inexpensive, powered by a Via single board computer, runs Linux and pre-installed with J2SE. Very nice..!May 30, 2005
Build your own hardware MP3 Player
May 19, 2005
Build Your Own Linux Home Theater PC
April 28, 2005
Java, JMF and FFMPEG round 2
April 22, 2005
The crazy financial boom may be over but the ideas and tech just keep coming..
Yahoo! News - Plugged in - Next Big Tech Ideas May Be Small Ones
Nice article from Yahoo regarding a couple of interesting topics: POSM (Project for Open Source Media), Asterisk, Odeo, Blogger and more...April 20, 2005
Note to self: Try Ubuntu
Russell Beattie Notebook - Ubuntu is Amazing
Ubuntu, a new live cd based Linux distro that Russell definitely likes...March 31, 2005
SCP, SFTP and FTP for MacOS X
From the site:
Cyberduck is an open source SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) and FTP browser licenced under the GPL. It has been built from the ground up with usability in mind, having the same consistent graphical user interface for both SFTP and FTP browsing. Multiple connections are supported. Drag and drop is supported consequently for transferring files between server and client. A transfer queue keeps track of the pending file transfers and supports resuming of both downloads and uploads. Local files can be synchronized with files on the server. System technologies such as the Keychain, Rendezvous and AppleScript are supported. Cyberduck integrates seamlessly with external editors such as SubEthaEdit, BBEdit, TextMate and others. March 20, 2005
Wiki wiki wiki's everywhere
This is the open source Wiki group and software powering Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikiquote.Some Open Source Content Management Systems
http://www.phpbb.com/
http://plone.org/
http://phpnuke.org/
http://www.postnuke.com/index.php?module=Navigation
http://xoops.org/
http://civicspacelabs.org/home/March 08, 2005
Streaming MPEG-4 with Linux
Good article, all open source utilities for creating and streaming MPEG-4 on Linux.March 07, 2005
Video4Linux Framegrabbing
Hans and I were just IMing about webcams and Linux and I had to remember some of the apps that I have looked at and played with.. Well, here they are (this site has a good rundown so I don't have to write one).February 27, 2005
Movies were meant to be watched together.
WOW!!!
From the site:
Finally, high-quality streaming for the rest of us. Using Apple's revolutionary Rendezvous technology, you can make your movies available on the network for everyone to watch together, or even password protect them for private showings. Broadcast family movies, student films, or class lectures without ever having to worry about multicast addresses, SLP announces, or port numbers: Tryst puts all the power of streaming at the touch of a button.