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MythTV DVB Setup Guide and Notes on Building a Linux Storage Server

Monday, December 10th, 2007
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!found the following series of tutorials via the myth tv site. there a few years old, but still have valuable information. MythTV DVB Setup Guide DVB is Digital Video Broadcasting, a set of digital television standards with a large amount of […]


GPUs & Beryl: What is Needed?

Monday, December 10th, 2007
phoronix has a very good overview of recent processors, how they perform with beryl, and the state of each video cards drivers. We thought it was already clear what graphics processors and drivers work and don’t work with Linux desktop eye candy such as Beryl and Compiz, but it seems based upon the number of e-mails […]


rants: coming soon to desk in front of me

Monday, November 19th, 2007
well its been awhile, ok years since I’ve built a system for myself. I’ve built, rebuilt, repaired alot of servers, desktops, and laptops since. But in the end theres nothing like making one for yourself. the last system i built was a dual xeon with a tripe wide rad, and two secondary 80mm rads for components. […]


from the trench: streaming a live event

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
I decided to document my last event. don’t know what this falls under, but hopefully it helps others. so lets get started the event I was contacted by the client to do a live webcast for a horse show. I would setup everything needed prior to the event, and also come to the event location for a day […]


how to: active video smoothing in an flvplayback component

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
I forgot how to active video smoothing in an flvplayback component, learned it again here Andrew Wason from Motionbox Inc. sent me the following workaround, which allows you to activate video smoothing for FLVPlayback components (in this case the instance FLVPlayer):  Empire Dev Blog - Julian Pscheid: FLVPlayback Video Smoothing Powered by ScribeFire.


off topic: adult swim - simpsons and family guy

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
awesome. I’m watching family guy on adult swim, and they showed marge near the bottom with a simpsons on fox sunday text over. out of nowhere glen taclkes her and starts trying to hump her while she fights him off. i thoguht that was funny, but then they come back on screen, and marge is […]


why good live event feeds go bad, before you make them good again

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
this seems to be a trend. events often fail to test live prior to the event. theres a bunch of reasons, video teams don’t setup till the day of event, video teams don’t show up till the day of event, video teams don’t show up till the day of event. another reason is that developers […]


how to: flash - create bitmaps / thumbnails from live streams

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
ok so after beating my head for a bit I figured out a work around for live stream bitmaps. If you attempt to create a bitmap from a live stream you’ll get an error. to get around this, dettach the stream prior to creating the bitmap, then reattach the stream after the data has been captured ex: function […]


How to programmatically control Flash Media Encoder

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I’m very satisfied with this great software. It garantees great performances, expecially at low and very low bitrate. The only defect I found is the lack of a command line mode. If you have to set up and launch the encoding on a remote computer or if you need to integrate FME in a […]


comparing flash to windows media streaming

Sunday, October 14th, 2007
I’ve recently had a client that swears by windows media for steaming, and wanted to create a youtubish site using it. I helped him understand that flash was the best option, but then decided to look deeper into the debate to see what other people consider the pro’s and cons. I now to most of us […]