Category Archives: Transcode
mplayer and transcode fixes
Since things are finally starting to settle down (hey, I’ve had Internet for a week now, cool), I’ve started getting back to poking at stuff, slowly. Today I cleaned up some mplayer and transcode stuff in the portage tree, and … Continue reading
what i'm working on
Just another update on what I’ve been poking at lately. I’ve mostly been cleaning up really small stuff, small bugfixes that have been annoying me for a while. GPNL / Packages For the packages website, I finally fixed it so … Continue reading
transcode and dvd::rip
New versions of transcode and dvd::rip just went into the tree. Transcode saw its first stable bugfix release (1.0.3) for the first time in a year and a half. Woots! The 1.1.0 release of transcode is apparently just around the … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Multimedia, Transcode
transcode snapshots
I just put a new version of transcode in the tree, this time a CVS snapshot of upstream’s development branch (v1.1.0). It won’t work with dvd::rip, though, but that doesn’t mean you can’t play around with it. Besides, look at … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Multimedia, Transcode
multimedia bumpage
I don’t usually like talking about writing about stuff that I’m just bumping in the tree, but since there’s been a lot of it lately, I figure if I roll it all into one post it might be somewhat interesting. … Continue reading
gentoo, multimedia, and other shtuff
I think its always interesting how the more you get into a community project, it can take you in directions that you never anticipated going towards in the first place. For instance, I wanted to be a gentoo dev for … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Multimedia, Transcode
onto live-action next, baby!
My cartoons are almost done. I took a look at the queue last night, and there were 99 episodes left…. 97 of them all on one machine. I still haven’t coded it so that you can (easily) reassign the episodes … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, MPlayer, Multimedia, Transcode
absolute insanity
Uncle Scrooge always had a great saying that he said someone taught him — “Work smarter, not harder.” Gosh, I still remember that Duck Tales episode from fifteen years ago or so. Now that’s crazy. That’s what I’m doing though … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Computers, MPlayer, Multimedia, Transcode
rambling about encoding
Well, I’ve finally settled into an encoding configuration that is presentable enough to use on most everything. It’s not the best, but it’s acceptable, and looks good on my TV, and I’m tired of not doing any encoding lately … … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, MPlayer, Multimedia, Transcode
so, did I just waste another three weeks of research?
I’m still doing testing on what works best for what series so I can rip and encode them all (which, there is an awful lot), and tonight I started playing around with mencoder. The thought occurred to me … why … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, MPlayer, Multimedia, Transcode