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| kode54 Member Level: 13      Posts: 1/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| Or, if you want a quick and dirty GUI, not just for performing simple non-linear edits, but also for queuing up multiple files for batch conversion, you could give Avidemux a try. Also, I tend to prefer the original FFMPEG to that bastard child of a fork, libav. FFMPEG also tends to see more frequent updates, including the occasional new thing from libav. On the reverse side, libav is rather lax when it comes to carrying over new features from FFMPEG. I think ffmpeg also supports both new and old command line syntax, while avconv warns that it will drop old things on a whim. It also wasn't very nice of them to bundle an "ffmpeg" tool that claims that ffmpeg is obsolete and will be dropped from the package any time in the future. Also not nice that the big Debian based Linux distributions decided to go with libav instead of ffmpeg. Boo, hiss. Back on topic, yeah, if you want to use a command line converter, FFMPEG is quite a powerful tool. And here is a site with information about running FFMPEG on Windows, with builds updated regularly, and old builds kept around in case you need to test some older build, perhaps to see if some bug you've encountered is actually a regression. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 2/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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I updated the photo of my desk space to include my current speaker set and desktop background. I also have a laptop, an Asus U52F-BBL5, which I keep in the living room and use from my easy chair on occasion, like most would use a tablet these days. Of course, it is capable of compiling most of my software as well, so it's more useful on trips than a tablet is. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 3/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| I am from the Internet. Or at least, on the Internet, I am approaching "somebody" status. Google said so! I really like crafting my own computer software, or contributing to other people's projects. Even way back when, I crafted and contributed to a handful of Winamp plug-ins. Then one of my fellow Winamp developers, Peter Pawlowski, told me about this little project he just started, called foobar2000. It was an audio player, unbound by the limitations that were placed upon him as a minor component developer at Winamp/AOL. He could direct development any way he wanted. I liked the way his project was going, and jumped on board when he launched his component SDK. I had to learn how to program in C++, something that was quite new to me. I did, however, fill a niche in the community by quickly picking up component ideas from users, often to my own benefit as well, and have garnered quite a following there. I've even had to rewrite my components a number of times as the SDK code base mutated over the years. I've even lived through a nightmare of Source Control systems. I started using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe as soon as I discovered what it was, and was keeping my entire source directory in a single repository. I didn't migrate over to Team Foundation Server until Visual Studio ceased supporting SourceSafe. Things started getting more complicated. I finally took the plunge and migrated my entire repository over to Git, and have since either started or split out individual components to their own repositories, which are smattered all over Github and now Bitbucket. Oh yeah, and I contributed a few things to ZSNES, an emulator that nobody should seriously be using these days. The features aren't anything to be proud of, either. Like, I added all of the shitty low-pass filter options, from before I understood how to implement sample interpolation, much less how it worked. The worst is the "dynamic" low-pass filter, which basically performs gradually heavier fixed width averaging low pass filters, depending on the note pitch relative to Nyquist. This plain sucks. Use Gaussian, disable low-pass, please. A proper filter would be something like the Lanczos windowed sinc resampler that CyberBotX implemented for his NCSF player, which I contributed to and fixed for downsampling. I later implemented my own C version for use with my module player library fork of DUMB, and several other things. It not only uses a fairly large window size for a synthesizer resampler, but it also supports limiting the scope of the sinc pulse used dynamically, to facilitate low pass filtering when downsampling high pitched samples. Wait, you wanted an introduction, not my life story. Sorry, my bad. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 4/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| May I suggest the StarTech PCI Express HD Video Capture Card? It says HD, but allegedly it's capable of capturing 240p signals without a scan line doubler, which few if any modern devices can claim to do. I haven't actually tested its capability to do that, but I may buy one soon and give it a spin. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 5/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| @kode54, but I almost never post or even RT anything. I also have another account, but it's mostly used for following questionable accounts. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 6/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| Disorganized schizophrenia, for which I have been taking antipsychotics for about seven years now. I still have quite a flat or often inappropriate emotional responses to various things, usually stronger with fiction than with reality. Although I still have the occasional vivid dream that I wake from, confused as to whether it was a forgotten memory, or reality itself. I did have some grand delusions around the time of my first break, and possibly confused hallucinations or dreams for reality. Even years before that, and to this day, I still weave elaborate delusions around myself, theorizing conversations I never intend to have, or imagining sequences of events I know will never occur. I'll often have odd mood swings in relation to real news, or fiction I've watched or rewatched, coming to illogical conclusions about what is right or wrong for the people involved. For instance, I have at least once decided that both suicide and euthanasia are bad, and that all people should want to stay alive as long as possible, regardless of the situation or consequences, or however terrible their quality of life may be. The desire to continue experiencing life and the fear of the unknown or the consequences of ending it all are at least some of the things which keep me going in my moments of darker thoughts. An unending series of distractions work the rest of the time. I keep telling myself this is why I shouldn't feel bad that I don't ever want to become romantically attached to anyone, or why I don't want to hold down a permanent job, or otherwise become totally financially independent. Not that I'm just one of the 80% of the global population that would just sit on their asses and do nothing at all if given the opportunity, or at least spend 80% of the time not doing anything productive. It's not that I have anything against being productive. I like getting something done on occasion. I'll regularly find inspiration to start something and work on it almost uninterrupted until it is completed, at least until I'm satisfied that I've done enough to call it a day. And I don't even expect to get paid for all that work. It's enough that I'm satisfied with my own work, that I may have brought something good into the world for others to enjoy. Oh well, I'm sure I can't be the worst story that found its way onto this forum. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 7/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| Yeah, I know! Just like I was forced to preorder my original 3DS for $250 and pick it up on launch day. For which I have been so excited that I have bought exactly two games, Shadow Wars on launch day and Ocarina of Time 3D when it launched. I haven't felt much like spending lods of emone on games for it, and as I hardly use it any more for more than collecting my monthly Streetpass, which I only use to collect puzzle pieces any more, it's kind of a waste. Although, if I ever do find myself in need of a lengthy distraction, it will last a lot longer for playing games than my Nexus 4 does. Although, in that case, I'd probably just bring my Nook Simple Touch (with GlowLight that I rarely use, but it's nice to have) and read instead. And that thing will last for weeks on a single charge. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 8/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| Technically, OEM should fit your needs perfectly fine, unless you don't like buying a new Windows license any time you buy a whole new machine. Then again, what do I know? I don't "upgrade" my hardware, I buy whole new machines and tend to keep the older machines running elsewhere in my house, serving some purpose or other. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 9/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| No composite or S-Video? Then what is the point of the 240p support? Most consoles that output component already produce a 480p or greater signal. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 10/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| Oh, nice. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 11/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| Unfortunately, it seems you would need something which can promote composite or S-Video to component without affecting the resolution if you want to capture conventional resolution analog output consoles. It does support DVI-I, though, so I guess a VGA upconverter works as well. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 12/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| My first cell phone was a Boost Mobile i425 thing, which was a slab dumbphone. I eventually switched to an AT&T slab dumbphone because they had better service coverage around my house. I bought my first smartphone, a Google/LG Nexus 4 16GB, around April, and signed up with T-Mobile, porting over my AT&T number. Great deal, too. Web only, new activations only, $30 every 30 days for 100 minutes of voice, unlimited text, and unlimited data (throttled after the first 5GB). I really like it, even if it does have its minor flaws. I've heard that Android prior to 4.x was way worse. I have no opinion of iDevices, as I have never used one. I wouldn't mind terribly using iTunes, even on Windows, as I use it to acquire TV show purchases. The only problem is if I have to use something newer than 10.7, as that's the last version supported by Requiem, the iTunes FairPlay DRM remover, which I use so I can play the videos with my preferred players, including non-iDevices. Fun fact. Some have gotten ahold of the release version of iOS 7 and installed it on their devices. Caveat: Your phone will refuse to sync with iTunes versions older than 11.1, and 11.1 won't be released until iOS 7 is officially released. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 13/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| My laptop desktop, posted from the Disney Grand Californian's lovely open WiFi, which is only slightly less flaky than the Ethernet they provide in the rooms. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 14/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| I should be grabbing a shower and some sleep by now. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 15/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| Too bad the 3DS music player isn't gapless. Nope, gap between every track. Also that useless Hit Parade playlist, which would show you all the tracks of the people you've encountered who also had the Music thing set to StreetPass, but only if you also have the same exact songs in your library. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 16/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| I once crashed my computer spectacularly by trying to use two VM products at the same time. Well, not actually run two things at once. I had Virtualbox running a VM, and I right clicked on a stopped Virtual PC VM to check its settings, and then instant BSOD. Last time I ever mixed and matched VM products on the same host operating system again. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 17/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| Chipping in another vote for Qt Creator, which is what I use on Linux, OS X, and sometimes on Windows for cross platform development. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 18/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| Qt Creator is also a great gdb frontend, for source level debugging. Of course, if you're using it on Mac OS X, you'll have to pull a gdb binary out of the last 4.5.x release of Xcode, as anything from 4.6.x will tend to lock up if you attempt to interrupt execution or if a breakpoint triggers. Although, debugging with Qt Creator on OS X tends to be rather painful anyway. For instance, if your program breaks at any point with a modal system dialog, such as a file browser, on the screen, that dialog will remain always-on-top, obscuring your view of the debugger, and yet non-responsive, since the debugger has halted execution. Yeuch. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 19/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| Posting a bit late, but I watched Riddick while I was in Anaheim from the 9th to the 14th. It starts a bit dry, but it really picks up. Not too shabby for an independent production. Funny story about that, too, since the studio that refused to fund it wanted to buy distribution rights for the US. |
| kode54 Member Level: 13 Posts: 20/55 EXP: 8287 For next: 1980 Since: 08-29-13 From: Riverside, CA, US Since last post: 302 days Last activity: 237 days |
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| Who knows, it could be really great. I don't see myself installing it on any of my desktop PCs for anything other than shits and giggles, though. |
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