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Archive for January, 2007

24 January 2007 @ 16:46Converting PAL to NTSC

If you want to watch a PAL movie in an NTSC DVD player, you are out of luck. There are DVD players out there that will play both PAL and NTSC discs, and, in fact, I have one of those. The problem with that solution is that see flickering lines and some jagged lines when [...]
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by Jon | Add a comment | Posted in NTSC, PAL, dvd, ffmpeg, transcode, video

19 January 2007 @ 12:40Rounding to the nearest even number

I was looking for a way to have an AppleScript round a number to the nearest even, whole number. I did some googling and found some examples of rounding with AppleScript, but I had to modify them to do exactly what I wanted. Here is what I came up with: property this_number : "" display dialog "Enter [...]
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17 January 2007 @ 10:44Twas an iPod Christmas

For Christmas, I was given a black 30GB iPod by my wonderful girlfriend. It is an awesome piece of hardware. I had used my friend’s 60GB 5G model, so I wasn’t unaccustomed to the operation. I promptly bought a Belkin case for it, as I’ve seen how easily iPods can become scratched.
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by Jon | 1 comment | Posted in aspect, ipod, mac, windows

16 January 2007 @ 19:53Do you have a license for that?

inboxIt’s when I see something like this, that I start to wonder, “Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad idea if people were required to take a test, before operating a computer or using email or the internet.” Seriously, shouldn’t everyone be informed that they should not actually “unsubscribe” to all the emails they receive? Shouldn’t they [...]
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by Jon | Add a comment | Posted in computers, email, internet, n00b

15 January 2007 @ 14:33Email that log to me

At one point I decided to have the web server email the day’s access_log to me. Instead of emailing the entire log, I grep’ed through the log to only get “today”, piped that to grep again to exclude entries that contained the IP address of the Intermapper server, and then piped that to mail. So, [...]
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by Jon | 1 comment | Posted in administration, logs, mail, shell script, webserver

15 January 2007 @ 13:12Month of Apple Bugs

MoAB Just a few thoughts on the Month of Apple Bugs (MoAB). Although I don’t agree with the method MoAB is using to get the bugs out to the public, I can also see the reason behind doing it this way. If these flaws weren’t publicized, they would be more likely to just be swept under the [...]
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by Jon | Add a comment | Posted in apple, bugs, canary trap, moab

12 January 2007 @ 16:59AppleScript and video transcoding

I know there are solutions out there for video transcoding such as the awesome ffmpegX, but I wanted to make my own solution. I drop my source video onto this droplet, and with just a few button clicks, I can convert almost any video to an mpeg2 that is DVD compliant. What I did here [...]
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by Jon | Add a comment | Tags: ,
Posted in applescript, ffmpeg, mac, mplex, pulldown, transcode, video

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