A Dolphin’s Journal of Events

I hate them.

To see friends tear apart because of differences in party or choices, it tears bits from my soul and my heart.

Please, stop.

- Mick

PS: I’ve been fixing crud between close friends all day. It’s really no fun.

PPS: Whatever side you are on, and if you’re a friend of mine, do us all a favor and don’t let things get heated. Friendships shouldn’t be broken because of difference of opinion.

PPPS: I’m in several communities. If you see no political issues in your own, then I’m not talking about yours.

Mmmmm, thought I’d post this, get some feedback:

Phlix.TV basically will take any non-flash video file [AVI/MOV/WMV/MP4/Etc, as long as it's on a http server], and convert it to flash on the fly, without [too] much wait [5-15 seconds at most if the server containing the video is slow]. No need to download some random codec to watch videos, as long as you can stand [slightly higher quality than normal] flash video.

Randomly got the idea with a chat with my mate, and a few others who seemed to be interested in the idea. Basically it’s to bridge the gap in the online media world, where there’s still non-flash files laying around. [And if you don't like flash video quality, well then don't use this!]

A weekend’s worth of coding; yay ffmpeg having most of the support that I needed already in, only had to hack in a few things. Thanks to TJ for abusing it to death to iron out some odd bugs. Fun times had by all.

Anyway, try it out, tell me what you think, and if something doesn’t work right, let me know.

Todo:
- Idiot proof the url box
- Support FTP
- Properly detect live-streams so it won’t try to cache them
- Provide Embed code
- Impliment h.264 support [mmmm more ffmpeg editing]
- Provide some notice when the source server is being head-achingly slow

Can’t get enough of this video.

So earlier this week, NVidia hosted a big convention called NVision, part of which was NVScene, a demoparty.

So, here’s a small taste of what was released there. The top 3 for each category at the party. Remember, normally these demos are generated in real time, and etc etc, just captured here for those without a powerful PC/don’t feel like downloading the binaries.

4kb - 1st

4kb - 2nd

4kb - 3rd

Demo - 1st

Demo - 2nd

Demo - 3rd

There’s actually two winners for 3rd:

Sadly, my Capped.TV Kiosk wasn’t used, but you can download and see it on Pouet.net

Capped.TV Kiosk. If you’re headed to NVScene or NVision, stop by the demoscene hall and check it out.

And that’s my work of the month.

Edit: Yes that’s my only bit to NVScene; was unable to get a demo together after working the past few weeks on the kiosk. I’m sure no one wants to see Rob is Jarig encapsulated in a time-delay fake prod anyway… [Hey, will someone release a 4k version of it already? ;)]