4 Sep
2004
4 Sep
'04
8:32 p.m.
It's somewhat off-topic, but judging by the joy everyone got out of CD
destruction I thought it would go over well anyway. :) MPEGs of a pair
of pretty spectacular, somewhat-unintentional, power-line Jacobs Ladders
(one of them three-phase, the other producing a prolonged 50-foot arc)
and also a little movie about what happens when your neighborhood
transformer shorts to ground:
http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm
There's also a link at the bottom of the page to show how to shrink coins
using about 100,000 amps of pulsed magnetic field. It's nice to know
there are other people out there having fun too. :) :)
-O.-
4 Sep
4 Sep
9:05 p.m.
MPEGs of a pair of pretty spectacular,
somewhat-unintentional,
power-line Jacobs Ladders [...]
http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm
Unfortunately the two long-arc mpegs just produce
Unexpected startcode 00000000 in system layer
when thrown at my mpeg player.
I went looking for updates to the software I use, and it doesn't appear
there are any; the readme webpage shows a date of "July 19, 1996".
Anyone know of an open-source mpeg player that doesn't require
installing the kitchen sink and yet is reasonably up-to-date? (I found
something called VLC, which looked good, until I saw that it required
libdvdcss, libdvdplay, libdvdread, libdvbpsi, mpeg2dec, a52dec, ffmpeg,
faad2, libmad, lame, libid3tag, libogg, libvorbis, libtheora, flac,
openslp, fribidi, live, gettext, libiconf, freetype, libebml,
libmatroska, wxWindows, zlib, libpng, libxml2, and libmodplug - most of
which are completely irrelevant for what I want! I don't care about
doing anything with DVDs. I don't care about font rendering or
non-Latin-1 language support. I don't care about encoding. I care
about GUIs, but negatively - I actively don't want a GUI. I don't want
a program that tries to do everything, even for small values of
"everything". I want a program that does one well-contained task well:
unpacking MPEGs into video frames. Doing audio data would be a plus.)
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9:43 p.m.
Linux & MPlayer?
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
Not certain of its multi-platform compatability, as I don't think I've
bothered trying anything besides Linux w/ it.
David
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, der Mouse wrote:
MPEGs of a
pair of pretty spectacular, somewhat-unintentional,
power-line Jacobs Ladders [...]
http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm
Unfortunately the two long-arc mpegs just produce
Unexpected startcode 00000000 in system layer
when thrown at my mpeg player.
I went looking for updates to the software I use, and it doesn't appear
there are any; the readme webpage shows a date of "July 19, 1996".
Anyone know of an open-source mpeg player that doesn't require
installing the kitchen sink and yet is reasonably up-to-date? (I found
something called VLC, which looked good, until I saw that it required
libdvdcss, libdvdplay, libdvdread, libdvbpsi, mpeg2dec, a52dec, ffmpeg,
faad2, libmad, lame, libid3tag, libogg, libvorbis, libtheora, flac,
openslp, fribidi, live, gettext, libiconf, freetype, libebml,
libmatroska, wxWindows, zlib, libpng, libxml2, and libmodplug - most of
which are completely irrelevant for what I want! I don't care about
doing anything with DVDs. I don't care about font rendering or
non-Latin-1 language support. I don't care about encoding. I care
about GUIs, but negatively - I actively don't want a GUI. I don't want
a program that tries to do everything, even for small values of
"everything". I want a program that does one well-contained task well:
unpacking MPEGs into video frames. Doing audio data would be a plus.)
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5 Sep
5 Sep
1:03 a.m.
On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 02:05 -0400, der Mouse wrote:
works here with mplayer under Redhat 9 from a shell (version 1.0pre2-
RPM-3.1) just using x11 as the output device. Although I don't know if
sound works - can't be bothered to get up off the chair and go switch
the amp on :-)
I haven't got mpeg playback working from a web browser yet but I'm none
too fussed about trying!
MPEGs of a
pair of pretty spectacular, somewhat-unintentional,
power-line Jacobs Ladders [...]
http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm
Unfortunately the two long-arc mpegs just produce
Unexpected startcode 00000000 in system layer
when thrown at my mpeg player.
I went looking for updates to the software I use, and it doesn't appear
there are any; the readme webpage shows a date of "July 19, 1996".
Anyone know of an open-source mpeg player that doesn't require
installing the kitchen sink and yet is reasonably up-to-date? I actively don't want a GUI.
jules@pukeko[~]$ mplayer -vo x11 /tmp/500kV_Switch.mpg
Couldn't be easier. Actually, giving the URL as the filename works
too...
I don't want
a program that tries to do everything, even for small values of
"everything". I want a program that does one well-contained task well:
unpacking MPEGs into video frames. Doing audio data would be a plus.)
Actually mplayer does seem to do a lot - I generally use it for
converting mp3 files back to a raw audio file, plus something else I
need to look at is how to get it to dump a realplayer stream to disk (I
think it can do it)
cheers
Jules
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