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I’ve seen a lot of regarding both FFmpeg and libx264 and want to share something in regards to what does and does not work. Streaming media, at it’s core, requires three basic things;1) Constant frame rate.2) An even keyframe interval3) A bitrate based encode. Things that are really nice to have;4) Finding a better bitrate… Continue Reading FFmpeg and Libx264 – wrong ways to approach it

March 13, 2016 We went to see Bruce Springsteen last night, and what a show that was! I did not expect it to rock the house as hard as it did. Being married to a woman from New Jersey clearly influenced my casual like-that-song approach to ‘the Boss’ into becoming a more erudite appreciation of… Continue Reading Bruce Springsteen @ Oakland Coliseum

Centos 7 is nifty and keen, it’s likely going to be the go-to for future projects at $employer. Some odd stuff here boyo, changes in how some things are setup. When you first create a new server, there are a few configuration steps that you should take early on as part of the basic setup.… Continue Reading centos7 ssh server setup

Let’s talk about codecs, which is key in compressing audio AND video files. First, bear in mind that compression can be either lossless or lossy. The quality between the two can be seen if you know what to look for, and in some more lossy scenarios visuals become grainy, with flat or muffled sound and… Continue Reading Video Compression: Formats, Codecs, and Containers

This essay by Chuck Palahniuk is truly one of the greatest pieces of advice I have ever come across in story telling: https://litreactor.com/essays/chuck-palahniuk/nuts-and-bolts-%E2%80%9Cthought%E2%80%9D-verbs I’ve tried the challenge of eliminating thought verbs and what a difference it made. I’ll post a sample here as soon as can get over the risking public exposure hump. There’s a… Continue Reading Thought Verb Freedom == Why I like Chuck

Ed Rosenthal did an AMA (ask me anything) on reddit today, what fun to have a word the HT Ganja Guru! I had met him back in the Van Nuys Hemp office in 1994 when he had come to visit Jack. It was an interesting time to be a ‘fly on the wall’. So, on… Continue Reading Ed Rosenthal did an AMA today – still pushing corn for biomass.

Some social media foo going around that I rather enjoyed: The rules: Don’t take too long to think about it -choose fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me, because I’m interested in seeing what… Continue Reading 15 Seminal Albums