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… Read more »
Category: Multimedia
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »