Linux powers Sony’s new Mylo WiFi handheld
Would love to see a comparison between Nokia’s 770 and this..
From the article:
“In September, Sony expects to ship a Linux- and Qtopia-based handheld device featuring WiFi connectivity, an Opera web browser, and a variety of text- and voice-messaging clients and media players. The Mylo — short for “My Life Online” — will be available in black or white, priced at $350.
A couple of days ago I got FFMPEG working to automatically generate FLV video files for OpenVlog. Today I finally got thumbnails generating correctly. Here are the commands:
This creates a JPEG:
ffmpeg -i inputfile -t 0.001 -ss 1 -vframes 1 -f mjpeg -s 320×240 outputfile.jpg
This creates a QT Movie that I am using as a reference movie (just one frame of video):
ffmpeg -i inputfile -t 0.001 -ss 1 -vframes 1 -vcodec mpeg4 -an outputfile.mov
I got this working with lots of help from the following pages:
Converting Video Formats with FFmpeg
Extracting JPG Frames Using FFmpeg and mjpeg Parameter
Over at OpenVlog I have just finished implementing an automatic Flash conversion for video that is sent in. It was quite a task from getting FFMPEG running on Dreamhost with LAME and AMR support (you need to change your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable), understanding Ruby enough to get FLVTool2 installed and working (another environment variable issue) and building a fancy Flash video player..
I think it was worthwhile in the end..
A Sample: I love NY (click on the Flash Version link).
Next will be making thumbnails with FFMPEG so that I don’t use the silly “Click Here” graphic anymore.. I suppose I should still say, “click here” as for some strange reason I can not get the mouse pointer to change over top of the QuickTime plugin. That is a story for another day but the gist is, use JavaScript instead of reference movies. The added benefit is that IE users don’t have the extra alert.
Thanks to Cat and the FreeFormed.org crew for the impetus.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Soothing the Savages with Hold Music
Some good little command line snippets for conversion to GSM..
Due to overwhelming demand (1 person), I updated my QuickTime Embedding Plugin for WordPress to support Auto Play and Hiding the movie controller.
Just thought you might like to know.. ;-)
Oh yeah, John has been very hard at work on the next version of our Video Commenting Plugin. Prepare to be impressed (I am). It should be released over the weekend.
At this session at Vloggercon 2006, I presented the video comments plugin which this video is using.. Check it out. Click on “Watch Video” after the jump. (Warning, the video is long and big)
Nokia 770 Linux tablet firmware update beta draws praise, fire
I am particularly impressed by the “Good” list:
VoIP capabilities
IM and Google Talk messaging client
Integrated addressbook with presence information
Better performance, as well as a control-panel option for setting up a swap partition on the rs-mmc card
Better memory recovery when applications are closed
Google search bar available in home screen
Browser URL input field has partial matching
Home screen items now can be rearranged
Thumb keyboard is “input method of choice”
Package manager handles package feeds, and allows custom menu placement
DirectShow Java Wrapper: humatic – dsj
Very Nice..
From the site:
Need to play Windows Media files and streams, DivX video or DVDs in java? Access WDM capture devices? Control a firewire DVCam? Then maybe this can help you. dsj is an ongoing project to provide a java wrapper around Microsoft’s DirectShow API. It offers a set of high level classes that give java easy access to functionality widely missed by java programmers and also lets you dive deeper into the interiors of Windows’ core api for 2D media. On the java side dsj tries to keep things open as possible – you may use it standalone or let it feed data into JMF or other APIs.
They also point to a bunch of Open Source projects that are of interest:
Related projects (dsj does not use OpenSource, GPL or LGPL licensed code, but – as you are here – these projects may be of interest, too) :
JMDS – DirectShow Capture api Java wrapper: jmds.dev.java.net – fobs4jmf – ffmpeg c++ & java bindings: http://fobs.sourceforge.net
java VLC – VideoLan java bindings: http://jvlc.ihack.it – DXInput – DirectInput Java wrapper: www.hardcode.de
jARToolkit – ARToolkit java bindings: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jartoolkit/ – jFFmpeg – JMF codec pack: http://jffmpeg.sourceforge.net/
Takes concepts of software development, deconstruction and open source and creates a playground for remixing fashion. Awesome!
Archive de streaming
How to stream a file from VLC to Darwin/QuickTime Streaming Server. Don’t know why I couldn’t find this information in the past:
vlc my_movie.mp4 –sout ‘#rtp{dst=127.0.0.1,port=1234,sdp=file:///path/to/DSS/movies/my_sdp.sdp}’