Steve Jobs passes away...

From Apple's site: Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

Flash videos in Lion...

I updated my OSX a while ago and ran into some problems.

One of them is that whenever I go to any video site to watch videos (youtube, vimeo etc.), flash always renders a few frames and then loops endlessly the rest. This is due to a change in hardware acceleration in OSX. So, until Adobe updates its flash player, just right click in the video and disable hardware acceleration.

Delta Goodrem - Lost Without You (US version)

I know it is not Unix stuff but I had to share with something that a friend shared a while ago... One of my favorites. Never knew she had done a different version for the US...


Original Video

Avisynth to select parts

Well this should do the magic when you want to see if what you are encoding has the right lines...

Trim(1000,168438)
SelectRangeEvery(4000,250)

Trim: The first value of Trim should be the starting Frame of the movie. I mean after showing the starting credits. Then second value is before the End Credits start. You can get these frame numbers by opening your script using AVsP and using the Bar to move your video from starting to end. Alternatively you can select a particular scene by using the starting and ending Frame number of that scene.

SelectRangeEvery: In this example, 250 frames will be encoded every 4000 frames. So frame 0-250, 4000-4250, 8000-8250, etc., would be encoded. You can adjust those values as you please to encode a larger or smaller portion of the video. Just change the two values so that you end up with a 5 minute sample. Change the numbers and use the bar to see how much video time have you selected.