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I wish I knew the exact codecs that people who *ahem* tv shows and other media do to compress an hour very clearly and smoothly into 350MB.
From what I recall, mostly Divx and Xvid.
New question - a client is requesting their digital masters in H.265. I can safely assume that's a typo, right? (My extremely cursory Google search indicates that H.265 hasn't been released yet. If that's wrong, does anyone have a link to where I can download it?)
[eta: I found this post from July suggesting a 2009 release date and nothing has jumped out to contradict it [link] ]
From what I recall, mostly Divx and Xvid.
Xvid for video, MP3 for sound ought to do the trick. I compress an hour show sans commercials (for personal use) to about 500MB, but that is at higher resolution than the 350MB people. I can't remember what the bit rate I use is off the top of my head.
I sorta want one of these...
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About $20 for 2GB of RAM, a spare hard drive, load on Mythbuntu and it would be a very nice frontend for the living room TV.
I was stupid and ordered a Roku a few months ago and have never even opened the box. I think I was influenced by Buffista conversation.
Any of you use a Roku? Should I open the box one of these days?
And thank you for the answers about the pdas and alerts for email. The Treo needs to get thrown out the window soon and the phone I am seriously thinking about is the Fuze..
Java, I think you should send it to me.
Or me. I'll use it and tell you all about it.
Google Reader users - is there a way to tell it not to include friends' shared items in the Unread count?
I use Google Reader, but I have no friends. :(
My computer parts arrived today! Sadly, I will have no time to assemble them until next week. A quick question while I'm thinking of it: Thermal paste... Should I use it? My last processor came with a small tube, but this one did not. Should I try and find the three year old tube and use what's leftover?
Really, it didn't come with thermal paste? Is there maybe a pad on the bottom of the heat sink or something? A retail processor should have something.
If it was a boxed Intel processor that includes a heat sink then you should see a thermal pad already on the bottom of the heat sink.
