Searching the web with twitter

I have been working hard behind the scenes on my new blog site and I’m a little rusty with web development.  I haven’t done any real programming in almost a year now.

Typically, when I get stuck, I’ll jump into Google and do a quick web search for a solution to my problem.  However getting useful [...]

Getting some new toys

Okay, so I’ve been whining to the wife for some time about needing to get some new equipment for my video business.  And we’ve finally worked things in the budget so that I can get a few things… but with a world of possibility, what do I buy?

First thing I need is a polorizing filter.  [...]

Useful FFMPEG command lines

These are some useful FFMPEG commands I use quite often:

Copy the H.264 stream from an MTS file into a MOV file and discard the audio:

ffmpeg -i myfile.mts -vcodec copy -an -y myfile.mov

Re-encode a clip into a Quicktime MOV file using the MotionJPEG codec and discard any audio:

ffmpeg -i myfile.avi -vcodec mjpeg -b 76k -an -y [...]

Get your name in space!

NASA is launching a “space ship” outside of our solar system to investigate what they hope is an “Earth Link” planet in our Galaxy.

Mounted on the space ship will be a data DVD which will have the names of over 1 million people and their 500 word or less individual messages.

Visit http://namesinspace.seti.org/ for more info!