Category Archives: Multimedia
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
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
closed captioning on dvds (and ripping them)
In ripping my DVDs, I try to future-proof it as much as I can, by putting in as many elements as I *think* I might need or want someday down the road. One of those elements is subtitles. There are … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Gentoo, Multimedia
my blu-ray ripping trial run
Yesterday, I wanted to see if I could rip a Blu-Ray disc using my PS3. I really want to get a BD-ROM drive, but they are so expensive still, and since I can install Linux on my PS3, I figured … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Hardware, Multimedia
playing with x264
There’s a couple of reasons I don’t encode my video. One of them being that, everything I encode myself, I can just notice the drop in quality. However, with the right parameters and the right codec (x264) I can get … Continue reading
Filed under Multimedia
ripping vhs
I don’t think I’ve ever written about how to rip a VHS tape before, so I figured I’d write up a quick guide since it looks like that’s part of what I’m gonna be doing this weekend. Yet another item … Continue reading
Filed under Multimedia
netflix new stuff
I found this article on Wired about Netflix, and their plans for global domination, which is stuff I always love reading about. There’s two things about the future of television and movies I would totally love to see: First, for … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment, Multimedia
tromping around mythvideo code again
I’m still trying to decide where I wanna go with my media browser/frontend solution — if I’m going to write my own or keep hacking on MythVideo. I only have one really nagging issue left now, and that is that … Continue reading
letterbox movies with mplayer
Non-anamorphic widescreen movies can be a bit of a pain to watch on a widescreen monitor or TV these days. I don’t have very many of them myself, but one I do have is I accidentally bought the original Star … Continue reading
mplayer and matroska metadata, part two
Man, what a week it has been. I have been plugging away at a lot of stuff, and the bug to get my whole media setup tweaked even more has really bit me bad. I’ve been working on nothing but … Continue reading
