Media

mplayer Video File Properties

I was looking for some native 1080/720p HD media files and also comparing some lower resolution files played back on a new HDTV. Many times you can get some quick info on media file properties with the ‘file’ utility: mshuler@gaea:~$ file Life.Of.Brian.1979.avi Life.Of.Brian.1979.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 640 x 336, 25.00 fps, video: XviD, audio: [...]

flickr!

I have grown tired of maintaining my gallery software locally (and lazy with uploading images..), so got myself a Pro Account and migrated all the existing images to the wonderful flickr. I will update the gallery link and tinker with blog integration – there are a few flickr widgets that might be just perfect http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbandjelly/

Valid XHTML YouTube Embedding

I was checking validation on my pages and found the only XHTML errors were from the suggested YouTube embedding code. A quick search revealed several XHTML valid code examples, and here is what I am using to center the frame under XHTML 1.0 Transitional (this fails 1.0 Strict validation – to make this validate under [...]

‘Kiwi!’ by Dony Permedi

Brilliant short film by Dony Permedi for his Master’s Thesis in Animation – more info and an online interview

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