Tag Archives: video

mkvmerge + mplayer Sadness Fix

May 22, 2011

I have been having some issues with newer versions of mkvmerge creating files that make mplayer cry. I finally messed around with the options enough to discover what (I think) was the problem. Header compression reduces filesizes of attachments significantly, but there are some compatibility problems with the files that have this option enabled. Here’s what I finally ended up with: mkvmerge -o video.mkv –default-language eng \ –compression -1:none –default-duration 0:41.708ms \ –nalu-size-length 0:4 -A video.264 –compression -1:none \ audio.dts [...]

Classical Rickrolling

September 9, 2008

Sometimes, I want to hear classical music, but it helps if I can relate to the music being played and really get into it (see: John Williams). Walt Ribeiro recently has awoken me to some awesome arrangements like Pork and Beans and The RickRoll Song that he has produced. You should buy them here if you like them, as I did. Here are some nice samples: Actually, truth be told, I bought Pork and Beans, and Walt was cool enough [...]

Sad display of humanity

June 7, 2008

It’s pretty sick when an old man is hit by a driver and they don’t even have the common courtesy to stop. Originally from here, but they took it down for some reason. It’s disturbing, but I see no reason to stop society from seeing itself.

Ubuntu on the Dell M1530

March 20, 2008

I got my new laptop today!! It’s awesome – I installed Ubuntu very easily on it, and Beryl using a second monitor on the HDMI port even works without much tweaking (just enabling TwinView with the restricted nVidia driver): I made an Ubuntu Wiki Page on the matter. All the information about what works and doesn’t is on there.

Officer Salvatore Rivieri hates skateboarders

February 13, 2008

“If you keep [skateboarding], someone’s going to kill you..”

Action Cats!

October 4, 2007

OMFG Action Cats!

Graduation Video

August 29, 2007

I found my graduation video while cleaning up today. You can download the 70MB MP4 copy as well.

Flash Video Player for Mephisto

August 13, 2007

So I made this awesome filter for Mephisto that allows you to easily embed flash videos in your post. May require tweaking if using a non-standard URL root. It’s as simple as this: <macro:flash>/assets/2007/8/13/party.flv</macro:flash> Or, you can make it complicated: <macro:flash width=”640″ height=”480″>/assets/2007/8/13/party.flv</macro:flash> Which ends up like this: Installation Install it from your mephisto directory: ./script/plugin install -x https://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/repos/hank/code/rails/mephisto/filtered_column_flash_video Voila! Firebreathing!

Eins, zwei, drei, vier!

April 21, 2007

Kittens on a mission!