Dan Pisarski's Thoughts on Ruby, Video, and Agile
Ohai is a great little gem for gathering data about a system - used in Chef but also useful on its own. The documentation for it from the Chef site shows you how to load all available plugins, but you might have reason to load only a select one or two, then query the data. What reasons? Performance and memory footprint are two that come to mind - and if you are wondering if there is really that much different between 1 plugin and all of the ones that ship with Ohai, there definitely is - I found (in very unscientific...
One of our sales engineers created this impromptu demo of scheduling a television station using one of our (meaning, the company I work for) servers and the iPad 3G - server in Philadelphia, scheduler in Yellowstone: .
Sure, the web is abuzz with WebM news, and there are probably plenty of blogs out there gathering up various inflamatory headlines about it. But, should that stop me from posting one more? Probably. Nonetheless, some interesting headlines from the last 2 weeks all related to WebM: Miro is supporting it Hardware support for WebM Theora loves WebM Puts the fight with H.264 in an interesting perspective to consider that only 26% of online video today is H.264: Apparently, HEVC is coming, and could be...
Code 46: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Code_46/60036249 Moon: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Moon/70112500 Primer: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Primer/60034782
Telestream Episode Encoder: http://www.telestream.net/episode/overview.htm Sorenson Squeeze: http://www.sorensonmedia.com/video-encoding/ Apple Compressor: http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/compressor/
After working with digital video for a good 6 or 7 years now, I have spent a decent amount of time with a lot of tools, and like all technologies, seen tools go from exotic and wildly expensive to common and reasonable (though good video tools are not yet cheap, and don't believe all of the freely available ones out there - you often get what you pay for, though not always).However, the missing magic feature remains Closed Captioning, after all these years. Want to transcode a file from same format to same format...
Really great presentation on HTML 5, written in HTML 5 http://icio.us/f3y3zl
Always keeping an eye out for Semantic libraries for Ruby http://icio.us/1gya2f
Great view of where HTML 5 video tag is going http://icio.us/k1eh5m
Since 2003, I have been working with digital video. I also care about Agile software development and have been very slowly learning Ruby on Rails. I get to use all three in my current job at TelVue Corporation.
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