There are, out there (here), evenings that simply don’t look like they’ll ever end.
They just keep going on and on again, without bringing you anything if not bad news (from home in this case…) and a general sense of uneasiness and frustration.
You start thinking about going to bed very early for your standards, especially counting you’ve a day off tomorrow and so no real reason not to enjoy the night you so much love, but the hot weather and/or the noisy neighbors still going on with their barbecue dissuade you from the idea of crashing on your pillow, and so…
…and so you end up living this awkward evening, helping yourself with loud music in your ears (Tool in this case) and you try to lose yourself in the vast and placid sea that can be the Internet.
Then, exactly when you were thinking again of switching everything off, you stumble upon a piece of great art, in the form of a video, and you end up grinning like a fool exactly like the title of the post you got the link from was suggesting.
This was too great, amazing, incredible and geek in its own (japanese) way not to be posted here too.
Actually, it’s really a nice version of a never too old song, which should be known by anyone pretending to like good music.
Outstanding.
As some of you may know (or may not) I’m the happy owner of a Video iPod G5 (30 GB).
Support under Linux is well known, and let me say that I really find myself more confident in using programs like GTKPod & GPixPod rather than that big fat elephant that is iTunes (yes, I tried it on windows… I promise to not boot that again. Really!). They work, and they work well, but something that is still missing is the ability to import (and thus to convert) video files to the shiny iPoddy which seems to have quite difficoult tastes when dealing with video, speaking of video and audio codecs.
But mplayer (and mencoder) is a powerful thing, and you’re using an intelligent Operative System: get advantage of that.
Someone (not me) did exactly that, and wrote down a simple script to do all the work [*].
Great.
Now, this works well, it actually stress my CPU quite bad, but that’s mainly because Haldir is a very old folk. Just remember a few Gentoo tips to correctly setup your system to work with video2ipod (or whatever you’d like to call it).
Be sure to emerge mplayer with encoder and aac support, thus using something like USE="aac encoder" emerge -a win32codecs mplayer. Of course you’ll need all the other codecs too, but that’s a fundamental part for the script to work: it needs aac audio codecs up and running.
Remember to emerge the relative codec too: emerge -a faad2.
Remember to activate the flag for “aac codecs” when emerging ffmpeg too: USE="aac" emerge -a ffmpeg
That’s good, you should be done with a system able to run the script an to convert your .avi, .mpg, .wmv... file to the .mp4 format you need for your iPod. Then upload them via GTKPod as if they were musical files, and that’s it: a fashion and cool way to discharge the battery of your Apple friend ;)))
[*]: The original script page is no longer available. Here you can find a local copy of the script hosted on my server. If you’re using Gentoo, this is a good place where where to start looking for info on the converting process.
My passion for anime & manga is famous.
My deep and unconditionated love for the Ghost In The Shell saga is almost legendary.
So imagine my whole self giggling and happily jumping around when I found out that an official trailer for the new chapter of the saga has been released! Looks interesting… even if the quality is not exactly HDTV ;)
I really don’t know if this YouTube embedd thing is going to work, but I’ll give it a try. In the case, let me know and I’ll change it to a plain old-fashioned link. Enjoy!
I’m sure all of you remember well the last video production of the swedish metal band Hammerfall. I blogged about it some times ago, pointing out how fun was the idea (even if clearly sponsorized by a contact lense brand… but hey, I use them almost every day too :p) of making a metal music video with sport stars of your own country. Last time was with the Swedish Women Curling Team (supporting them just before the Olympic Game), this time is with four athletes.
I must confess I recognized only the adorabole Kajsa Bergqvist, probably the greatest woman high-jumper actually in activity.
Any advice helpful in identifying the other three (I suppose swedish) athletes will be gladly accepted: when speaking about the Swedish Athletics Team I am able only to identify Kajsa and Carolina Kluft, both for obvious reasons :p
Anyway, thank to Pelle who wrote me an email about the new video, and enjoy it:
My passion for IRC is quite old. I came on-line for the first time in December 1994 with my 14600 baud modem, and since then I spent a lot of time on the various IRC networks around: IRCnet, QuakeNet, AzzurraNet, DalNET and EFnet.
I’m still on two of them quite in a stable way (EFnet & AzzurraNet) and I really still like the IRC world. It’s not just a matter of old feelings, I really still love it as one of the funniest and most interesting expression of Internet.
Speaking about funny and weird expression IRC-related, I stumbled across this amazing video.
Apparentrly, someone has dedicated a Trance song (ok, that’s not my kind, but I’m very open towards musical genres) to an IRC Bot called Anna. The video is something you have to see, it’s a really a good job, and to geeky to be left unseen!
Here you’ll find the video with english subtitles on Google Video. I’m not sure I found the real home page of the project, but actually the closer thing I found is at http://basshunter.m0o.eu/anna/ ;) (…but apparently I’m not able to see the video correctly from there).
In any case, I’ll host both the .avi and the .mp3 for quite some times here, hoping this is not going to freak out my bandwidth.
Here they are:
Ok, I’ll take this for real just because it’s too funny and too impressive not to be true.
Indeed, I took the link from here and I really don’t know what to say more about it, but it’s completely incredible!
Watch it, and watch it all!
