avi2mpeg
avi2mpeg:
mencoder -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video \
-oac copy media.avi -o output.mpg
avi2mpeg:
mencoder -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video \
-oac copy media.avi -o output.mpg
A few weeks before we left for Long Beach, I got the idea into my head that I wanted to hang a digital camera from a kite....The key to getting this project off the ground was to protect the camera from the environment. Shock, sand and mposture. I accomplished this by sealing the camera and remote in a ziplock bag, and protecting it with the foam that normally protects computer hard drives in boxes.
Fantastic trip, great friends, perfect weather. Our SandSations 2003 project was to make a Japanese Garden with a skinny zipper, based on the title we all liked: Zen Skinnydipping. Though we didn't win, it was definitely our best contribution ever. We had a great time.
Took massive amounts of photos at the Long Beach and Cape Disappointment. Jenn has all of the photos of the social events...
If there's one thing the redhat 9 upgrade was worth, it was the anti-aliased fonts. Soooo nice. I even found a copy of MozillaFirebird 0.6 with AA support, so I'm pretty happy. I'm debating if I should upgrade the desktop at the office because it has the LCD....
Finding Nemo (Theater). Took the kids to see Finding Nemo at the Grand Cinemas in Lynnwood. Very entertaining movie, Three stars. Click below to read my review...I guess its finally happened for me. I watch a CGI movie and I'm not distracted by the CGI but fully-engaged by the movie itself. Only at a few points was I paying closer attention to the CGI F/X than I was to the movie, and even then, there wasn't much plot development (intentional?).
The Rookie (DVD, Netflix). Typical Disney feel-good movie, I think its the first time we've rented a G movie that wasn't for the kids. Two and a half stars. Click below to read my review...The movie is well done, and amazingly true to the story. Its the story about a talented baseball player who missed his first chance and managed, by almost a miracle, to get a second change.
So I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to redhat 9 on my home workstation (from 7.0)... [click below for details]The installation was trivial, however it required that I free about 700megs from my
/usr
which was quite a challenge.
My G400 seems to be working in accelerated mode, though I did have to install Matrox's own mgadriver
to get the right DRI module for HW accel...
Took Cohen to see the McChord AFB air show on Sunday. A nice show with a lot more people than I expected. The weather was partly cloudy, though it did rain for one period that sent us scrambling for shelter under the belly of a KC-135 tanker.
With my dad's help we managed to pour the final morter that forms the drain slope of the shower, and put up some of the concrete board.
The Banger Sisters [DVD, Netflix]. Yet another suffer-through-through-it-in-the-name-of-couplehood movie. Only one character saved this movie from the doldrums. One and a half stars. Click below to read more. I prepared myself for the worst on this rebel-chick movie (akin to Selma and Louise, a movie I've, so far, been spared from).