c in the land of dvds
So, I started learning C lately, and my life satisfaction has gone way up. In retrospect, I started thinking about all the things within the past three years that I’ve… Read more »
Category: Multimedia
reading, ejecting, ripping and polling dvd devices in linux; also, notes on my dvd library
It has been a looong time since I both posted in my blog and worked on my custom DVD ripper scripts. Apparently the last time I worked on the code… Read more »
rebooting my mini-itx
It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on much anything computer-related as a hobby. Things have changed quite a lot in the past year. I moved to a much… Read more »
multimedia reference guide: x264
It seems a little weird to me to post something on my blog that I already posted on our blog at work, but whatever. I figured it’d get more visibility… Read more »
uphpu presentation: ripping dvds
I gave a short presentation last night at uphpu on ripping and encoding DVDs under Linux. I wanted to type up a few notes on some stuff I mentioned during… Read more »
wrapper script for disc_id
I wrote a little wrapper script for disc_id tonight, available here. disc_id is a little binary that ships with libdvdread, or at least, it used to in older versions. I… Read more »
web media frontend
I have always wanted to tweak my HTPC frontend quite a lot to add extra functionality, but the entry barrier to learning a GUI language has been way too high… Read more »
handbrake ebuild
My life has been uncharacteristically busy lately, which is a really new experience for me, because I usually have so much free time that I don’t know what to do… Read more »
mplayer + libbluray support
MPlayer just very recently got support for playback of unencrypted Blu-Ray discs using libbluray. (Thanks to all the devs and testers! 🙂 ) Apparently development for the library is being… Read more »
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… Read more »