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• New WebM Products and Projects

  2 juillet 2010, par noreply@blogger.com (John Luther)

  Some cool uses of WebM have come online recently :

  • a native VP8 decoder in FFmpeg

  
  

  • a VP8 decoder in Java

  
  

  • WebM encoding in the Firefogg add-on for Firefox

  
  

  • WebM playback in Media Player Classic - Home Cinema

  
  

  

• How to convert multiple files from mp4 to flv using a shell script

  22 avril 2013, par jerdiggity

  Assuming I had a bunch of videos sitting inside the directory /home/user/videos/awaiting_conversion how would I go about using cron to run a script similar to this one to batch convert each video into a different format ?

  /bin/sh -c $'nice /usr/bin/ffmpeg -i \044'\'$'/home/user/videos/awaiting_conversion/video_file_1.mp4'\'$' -s \044'\'$'480x320'\'$' -vcodec libx264 -acodec libmp3lame -ab \044'\'$'64k'\'$' -vpre fast -crf \044'\'$'30'\'$' -ar \044'\'$'22050'\'$' -f flv -y \044'\'$'/home/user/videos/converted/video_file_1.flv'\'$''

  The above script works fine for a single conversion, but :

  1. It assumes that the name of the video is static/known (which will not be the case when batch converting).
  2. It assumes that there is only one video to convert (which may or may not be the case), i.e. there's no "loop".
  3. It leaves the original file in place instead of deleting it (which is what I would want to happen to prevent duplicate conversions).

  The ultimate question would be how do I run that script for each video that exists inside /home/user/videos/awaiting_conversion, passing the file name as a variable ?

• Museum of Multimedia Software, Part 4

  20 août 2010, par Multimedia Mike — Software Museum

  This is the last part of the series, at least until some more multimedia software shows up at my favorite thrift shop or the other boneyards I scavenge.

  Miscellaneous Multimedia Programs
  This set includes the titles Matinee FMV Screensaver, MetaCreations Painter Classic, and Multimedia JumpStart. The second one is likely a creation program. I have no idea what the third one is, while the first title gives me chills just thinking about the implications.

  
  
  

  Miscellaneous Creativity Software
  Magic Theatre and Microsoft Home : Creative Writer. I think I loaded up the former once to find a very basic animation program. The latter isn’t necessarily multimedia-related but certainly classifies as creative software. It also reminds me of the ad I once spied in Entertainment Weekly magazine during the mid-1990s for a Microsoft music history CD-ROM. MS branched out into all kinds of niches.

  
  
  

  More Multimedia Creativity Software
  VideoCraft and U-Create Games & Animation. I wager these would be fun to play around with if I had the time.

  
  
  

  Showcase CD-ROMs
  "What Can You Make ? Showcase 7" from Macromedia and Microsoft Multimedia Pack 10.

  
  
  

  Basic Multimedia Software Discs
  As a multimedia nerd, these Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Video for Windows discs make me sentimental.

  
  
  

  Real Software Collection
  Grit your teeth and gaze upon CD-ROM distributions of Real’s software. There is a RealAudio disc back from when Real still called themselves Progressive Networks. "Everything you need to hear the web roar !"

  
  
  

  Clips
  And a few multimedia clip CD-ROMs, along with a disc that promises to test and tune your MPC setup.

  
  
  

  Wrap-Up
  I would be remiss if I neglected to mention a few more pieces of multimedia creation software in my collection. First, there’s the Barbie Storymaker. I actually gave that one a go, as you can tragically see from that link. Further, the Taco Bell fast food restaurant chain ran, as one of their many kids meal promotions, a series of 4 simple Comics Constructor CD-ROMs. I played briefly with it here and again during an exploration of XML data formats and the parsing thereof (which the software uses).