Steven Zakulec (MultimediaWiki user Dashcloud) has performed an amazing service and tested every single sample in the MPlayer repository against FFmpeg. Can you even imagine? He has provided a spreadsheet (~87 KB, OpenOffice Calc format) that details which samples work or not given a particular SVN revision of the FFmpeg repository. I think this information needs to get into a searchable & maintainable online database soon so it does not go stale.
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Fine Storage Box
Thanks to my multimedia collection hobby I have a ton of CD-ROMs that I need to store efficiently. I’m partial to storing the bare CDs in a very particular type of plastic & cloth CD envelope. But for storing large amounts of CDs, the best method I presently have is simply to stuff them alphabetically into sturdy shoe boxes.
While scavenging someone else’s trove of discarded computer miscellany, I happened upon a box that appears to have the absolute perfect form factor for storing 3.5″ floppy discs:
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Now if only I had something that perfect for the 120mm form factor.
Tarantula
Robert and Reynaldo are working on a multimedia investigation utility called Tarantula. The goal, as I understand it, is to be able to analyze frames from a video stream to determine more about their properties, e.g., RGB15 vs. RGB16, upside-down orientation, and other parameters. Sounds like the start of something useful.
The project made me realize that I would like a simple tool that could load a file and allow me to treat it as various different types of PCM. Actually, I can’t believe that there aren’t already a number of waveform editors out there, even for Linux, that can probably do just that. It might make some of my multimedia investigations simpler.