Jaseeq and or Maseequms is Down, but….

But only because Seeqpod is down.  I think they are in some trouble, hopefully they will get things worked out.

Something even better is coming!

Finally got moved into the new house and everything unpacked…

Oh yeah, me and the misses bought a house!

Just thought I’d share.

Fat32, NTFS, and Mencoder… Oh My! UPDATE! THIS DOESN’T WORK AT ALL… SORTA..

The Following bit of garbage is a snippet of command shell to make mencoder copy things into more manageable sizes…. Use it as you see fit.. oh cut and paste into a .txt and rename .bat for the noobs…

@echo off
color cb
echo READ ME FIST!!!!!!!!!
echo Welcome to (INSERT YOUR NAME HERE TO LOOK COOL)’s Intro to File Systems 101
echo In today’s lesson we will learn about FAT32 and NTFS
pause
color f4
echo.
echo.
echo But Mr. (IYNHTLC), why do we have to learn about file systems??
pause
color cb
echo.
echo.
echo Because it is important to know what size file you want to best fit your needs…
pause
color f4
echo.
echo.
echo Oooooohhhh…
pause
color cb
echo.
echo.
echo Let’s begin with a question.
echo What do you want to do with your file?
echo Play from a Computer? Play from an XBOX360? Just break it up to fit on a disc? And of course; Why does any of that matter?
echo.
echo.
echo Well children it matters a lot. So take some time to think about what you want to do with your file….
echo If you would like to play your file from a newer Computer(NTFS for PC or HFS etc…), then your file is probably fine the way it is, and you can exit the tutorial now by clicking the X at the top of the Screen…
pause
echo.
echo.
echo If you would like to play from an older computer or from an XBOX360(both read from FAT32) then we need to do some splitting.
echo For older computers and the XBOX 360 for which the file system is formatted FAT32(that’s not saying that the 360 is actually formatted Fat32, but that’s what it recognizes as a valid portable drive file system), the LARGEST READABLE FILE SIZE IS 4Gigabytes. Now just to be safe I would say 3.90Gigabytes for realocation of
sectors when transfering FROM a NTFS system, because the default block size for NTFS is smaller than FAT32, when transfering files TO a FAT32 system FROM an NTFS system, the file will ALWAYS become a little bit larger on the FAT32 end.
pause
color f4
echo.
echo.
echo Oooohhh! Continue
pause
color cb
echo.
echo.
echo Why is this important when burning to cd/dvd you ask?
echo Because, even though a standard blank dvd will hold 4.35Gigabytes, remember the FAT32 file system can only handle 4GB files, so your computer will only recognize the last logical byte range it sees, so your 4.35Gb file is now seen as a 350Megabyte file by your old computer….
echo.
echo And that’s bad, because now you’ve wasted an entire DVD!!!!
echo The same goes for a Dual Layered DVD, which is 8.5GB, even though the disc can contain 8.5Gigabytes of data, if you do not format it UDF,but you instead, leave it standard(FAT32), you will be wasting your disc!
echo.
echo So in summation, if you are unsure of your file system, then to be safe use 3.90GB or smaller…
echo.
echo Just as a side note, most all Portable Flash and Hard Drives come formatted as FAT32, this is for increased compatability, but will cause errors when transfering files larger than 4GB, and now
you know why….
echo Another side note, formatting your Flash drive as NTFS will allow you to put files larger than 4GB on the flash drive, but it will then NOT be detected by many consumer products like the XBOX, PS3, or many Home DVD players that have usb connectivity on them….
echo.
echo.
echo Thank you for joining me today, and happy encoding….
pause
color E0
echo Attempting to split WMVHD File…
pause
set title=
set dir=
set ss=
set endpos=
set /p title=What Do you want to name your file?
set /p dir=Where do you want to put your file?(Include full path: c:\blahblah\)
set /p ss=Set Start Time(Where do you want to start FROM use 0 for beginnig or HR:MN:SC for continuing.. i.e. 00:47:30 to start from the 47min, 30second mark)
set /p endpos=Set amount of conversion time(how many hrs/min/sec you want to encode FOR; like if movie is 2hrs and you want half, set for 01:00:00)
pause
C:\WMVHD\mencoder.exe -ovc copy -oac copy -ss %ss% -endpos %endpos% -o “%dir%%title%”.wmv %1
color 0E
echo WMVHD Now Split, I hope… brought to you by (INSERT YOUR NAME HERE TO LOOK COOL)…
pause

You can stop copynpasten up there at that “pause”

If any other video related info is needed please leave a comment…

****NOTE****

Much to my dismay, this actually doesn’t work for 1000fps wmv  it will work fine for other formats but alas I cannot get a playable file no matter what i try…. FFMPEG results in a playable file, but I can only get it to output the first 6min and 55sec OR the entire video.  I refuses to do no amount in between.  Sorry.

There’s an Update to the Howto

For Vista Users: see HowTo

Bleh!

That’s all I wanted to say….

An Ode to Cou… and Beau

Standing in line

For Weeks, count them 3

The 1st on my block

With this new gadget I must be;

It does all these great things

Like checkers and cloned snood

I can even watch videos

On the youtube;

So if this one is good

The next one should be great

With some usable features

And double the space;

Taking videos would be nice

And with twice the space

When I want to add music

That’s less Pr0n to erase;

So you should totally get one

Nah, I think I’ll pass

Maybe a new Treo or Sidekick

Now those kick @ss;

Ok fine, don’t get one

Be a good corporate drone

You bet i will, and P.S.

NOT Sent from my iPhone!

1st Post in a while….

The Mac literally blew up, and i just got the new one in and all setup Friday.  Me and Mod where standing here talking, and it went BLAM!!!!! It sounded like someone lit an M-80 in it. It, the 24″ Trinitron, and the 20″ Dell all went POP! The dell was the only thing that came back on, but it has a brown wash over the entire screen now. The mac and the sony are completely dead. On top of all that, this past Wednesday was the wife and my’s 3rd anniversary; and she’s had a bad sore throat and sinus infection, so I’ve been tending to her at the house. I still have a few things to set back up on the new mac, but at least I can log in and out of work and get to Job files. We still have to put CS2/3, Quark and Indesign on it. I tell you what, even tho it is a Mac, this thing files!, going from a Dual core 2.0Ghz G5 to a dual Quad Intel 2.8Ghz is a HUGE Difference! 8 cores FTW!! ssshhh I’d still take my AMD 6000+ and HD3650 HTPC over it tho. OSX still infuriates me. Cant wait to put Hardy on it!!!! I might do that today…. on second thought; I’ll wait on Mod just to be safe. He’s much more terminal savvy than me… I made a custom “foot pedal” for Rock Band. I’ll put some pictures of it up later, got to load a job up… OUT!

Yay My Profiles Are Saved!!!!!!

YAY MY PROFILES ARE SAVED!!! I guess online petitions can work…. now lets get to work on that Uwe Boll one.

Mah Breifcase!

Now anybody that knows me, knows i hate Vista and OSX equally, so don’t go judging me. But I was talking about My Breifcase with Cou, and had to whip this up….

Got a new Graphics card for the HTPC!!!

Not that anybody cares or anything…. I’m gonna do some encoding tests on the HD 3650 with Ati’s AVIVO software and pit it up against Avidemux on the X2 6000.  I’ll post some results on when i get them.

Full Specs of Egor2 are:

AM2 Asus micro-atx MB

3Gigs DDR2-6400 GSkill 4-4-4-12

1.15TB Total Hdd: 1-250WD IDE, 1-500WD Sata, 1-400Seagate Sata

AMD X2 6000+ 3.013 and 3.014

oh and 11 fans but i run it Cool and Quiet so it’s barely audiable.

*** Update ***

The card is amazing! Blazing fast Avivo encodes it’s averaging about 345fps from avi/mpeg sources to highest ipod/psp settings.(The ati software has it’s limits, as well as a fare share of bugs)

Ok now lets calculate encoding time
standard 2 hr movie 2hr x 60min
120min x 60sec
7200sec x 30frames/sec
216,000 frames in a typical 2hr movie
216,000frames / 345frames/sec =
626.08sec / 60sec  =
10.43min(and in reality it’s more like 8.5min, which is probably b/c most “movies” are 24fps, but i watch a lot of anime which is mostly 30 so that’s what i used to calculate)

But how did i get 345fps, cause Ati only gives you the Encode time?

Easy, i worked backwards. I took a movie that was 1.59hrs x 24fps(cause thats what it actually was), multiplied that all out. Then divided by the 8.whatever minutes it was and got 345fps.