video – Kasperian Moving Parts

I’m excited. I love learning stuff, I really do. I just did a 12-minute screencast for work, and I think I’ve finally figured out how to get everything to fit together nicely. I’d never done a screencast before–not on any platform–but being that I needed to showcase some development work that I’ve done for the next release of VMware Workstation/Player, and being that I’m working from home for the time being, I needed to get this all working in Linux, and as I said, I think I’ve finally figured it out, woot! For starters, I used qt-recordMyDesktop to capture the full-screen (1600×1200 resolution) video. I wanted to use it to also capture the audio portion of the screencast at the Read more…

Dear LazyWeb, I have ripped/encoded a bunch of (my own) movies previously in order to watch them on my PSP. The command I’ve been using is a variation of this: mencoder -sws 9 -af volume=10.1:0 \ -vf pullup,softskip,scale=320:240,harddup,unsharp=l3x3:0.7 \ -ofps 30000/1001 \ -oac faac -faacopts br=128:mpeg=4:object=2:raw -channels 2 -srate 48000 \ -ovc lavc -lavcopts aglobal=1:vglobal=1:vcodec=mpeg4:acodec=libfaac\ :abitrate=128:vbitrate=500 \ -of lavf -lavfopts format=psp \ -aid 128 dvd://1 -chapter 01-04 \ -o $HOME/Movies/Seinfeld/Seinfeld-Season5-11-TheConversion.mp4 … which plays fine on my PSP. Unfortunately, these mp4 movies do not play on my shiney new Nokia N810. I’ve tried using Canola, as well as the built-in media player application, and they both don’t recognize the data as something they can play. I tried installing MPlayer on the Read more…