Category Archives: Gentoo
gentoo + youtube – flash + mplayer
So, if you’re getting a little tired of Flash and it’s silly security hiccups, but still can’t live without the YouTubey goodness that is the awesome sauce of life, here’s a simple solution I stumbled onto: use mplayer to watch … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, MPlayer, Multimedia
blu-ray on gentoo
I’m pretty excited because I got my first BD-ROM drive last night from NewEgg, a LITE-ON iHOS104-06. That means I can do some real testing, ripping and playing around. Decrypting Blu-Ray discs is a really confusing process … I’m still … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Matroska, Multimedia
simple remote git repo howto
This tiny little howto has really helped me along many times. I’ve used SVN for a long time, so the idea of having a remote repo makes sense to me. I’ll put it up here as a small reference, but … Continue reading
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google vp8 fud
I don’t usually like chiming in on matters like this, but I’m going to say this time that I’m disappointed in Ars Technica’s recent FUD-provoking article on Google’s VP8 codec being open sourced. Specifically, and I’m not picking on Ars … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Multimedia
small multimedia fixes
I haven’t done much of anything lately, so it’s good to report that I actually helped fixed some breakages lately … yay. For one, LIRC should actually build again, both on 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 kernels (both gentoo- and zen- tested, … Continue reading
random dvd roundup
I’ve been shuffling stuff around lately with my DVD collection, and one thing I’ve been doing is cleaning up my DVD ripper and web frontend to catalogue my entire collection (todo: put in git, trac). I finally finished archiving this … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Matroska, MPlayer, Multimedia
using gentoo
There was an interesting thread I read in the forums this morning that was talking about the general process of stabling software, and while I found the original poster’s statement very interesting, I posted my own thoughts in response in … Continue reading
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ripping blu-ray discs on linux … and windows, and ps3
I’ve finally found a way to rip some of my Blu-Ray discs, kinda. I’ve had to manage a few workarounds because I’m missing a pretty common piece of hardware in the setup: a BD-ROM drive. I do have a PS3, … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment, Gentoo, Hardware, Multimedia
promises and deliverables
I was thinking about my earlier blog post about my ideas for the new packages site I’m still working on, and I realized that to a lot of people it must seem like I sure promise a lot of stuff, … Continue reading
some thoughts on php and oop
So, I was working on Znurt this morning (I woke up unusually early, and didn’t wanna go back to sleep). I’m getting close to opening the codebase, but before doing that, there’s some really obvious glaring deficiencies that I want … Continue reading
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