Posts Tagged ‘video’

A little behind the times, but…

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Sorry for this being so dreadfully old, but I’ve only just seen it and thought I should share the laughs with other people who, like me, are perpetually two years behind the inane stupidity of the rest of the world.

I’d also like to point out the awesome bit in the url:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91sqAs-_-g

This Is How Someday Reminds Me Of Why I Don’t Listen To Nickelback

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Not only the longest blog title I’ve ever written, ever… but my second embedded video in a row! I’m turning into a blogger! Help me!

Or maybe I’ve just run out of things to do.

Guitar Hero DS

Friday, May 30th, 2008

More DIY videos at 5min.com

Dude, you sound like an idiot. Game looks mildly entertaining though.

Sheer Data

Friday, May 9th, 2008

I’ve got too much data. 460GB isn’t enough to store it all, I need a bigger hard disk.

Bring on the 2TB external drive!

About Time

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

It is with joy I report that the BBC have started transcoding iPlayer content for the iPhone/iPod Touch. What this means is that whenever I am hooked up through a WiFi hotspot, I can get hold of any of the BBC’s programmes which are stored on the iPlayer.

There are also some other interesting points raised. Firstly, the ’security’ mechanism behind this is that the BBC does some user-agent checking. Basically, anything which can pretend it is an iPhone (Or Touch) can get the iPhone video stream. It was possible to rip the Flash video stream the BBC was using before, but it was fairly low quality. However, the H.264 stream given to the iPhone is higher quality, hence higher quality rips which are ready to go on an iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV.

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