Powerful Multimedia Command-Line Tools, Part II&mdash;Transcode
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MEncoder has supported video encoding for a long time with the MPlayer Project and FFmpeg, which also now is part of MPlayer now. Transcode is a new command-line tool on the horizon for video and audio transformations. Transcode used to give me horrors, but it is much better now. It does take some time to learn its wonderfully unintuitive syntax&mdash;the read more
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This paper will cover the challenge of identifying a reliable source of information to populate and maintain accurate configuration information from the distributed application and server environment for use in the CMDB.
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David Wheeler presents an introduction to the Bricolage content management system (CMS).
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High Efficiency codec recommended to network, content providers
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Pixelmator, a Core Image-based image editing software package for the Mac, is now available for download.
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Plus: Mashups for the masses and HD Video in a Digital Camera.
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More efficient video compression; receiver add-on for TV.
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On Blogdigger WMV Media - Latest links for .wmv files
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BonkEnc is a CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It can produce MP3, MP4 / M4A, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Bonk and FLAC files.  BonkEnc supports freedb protocol level 6 (Unicode), CDText and ID3v2 tags. and is available in several languages.    BonkEnc is a new CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for Windows. The program is available in 28 languages and can be translated to other languages easily using XML language files.    The program is available at http://www.bonkenc.org/   Version 1.0 of BonkEnc has been released today. Reaching v1.0 marks an important milestone for the BonkEnc project. We finally have a stable release!  Future development will continue in two branches. The 1.0 branch will see mainly bug fixes and some minor feature additions. Development of new features will focus on the 1.1 branch which will eventually lead to BonkEnc v1.1.  The following things have been added or changed in this release:   - added Romanian language support - added a user manual - fixed crash when clicking "Edit language file" in the config dialog - fixed reading of low bitrate MP3 files - added CD ripping support to command line encoder - fixed some command line encoder bugs - fixed bugs in the graphical installer - upgraded FLAC to version 1.1.4 - upgraded FAAD2 to version 2.5 - upgraded FAAC to version 1.25 - upgraded Ogg Vorbis to aoTuV beta 5 - some minor bug fixes
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MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about video or audio files (MKV/AVI/MOV/MPEG1, 2, 4/M4A/M4V/MP3/AAC/RM/...)     There are several versions: Graphical interface, Command line, or DLL for third-party software developers (like emule). GUI is multi-language.     In this release: SWFv9, DVR-MS and DCII support and some speed improvements.     MediaInfo Project homepage:   http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/     You may download MediaInfo from:   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86862
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Plus: Mashups for the masses and HD video in a digital camera.
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Low-cost, TiVo-like living room media computer, anyone?
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MacCentral - The Digital Video Broadcasting Steering Board (DVB) has approved a revision to its implementation guidelines for audio and video codecs over a broadcast Transport Stream. The revision includes two technologies supported by Apple Computer Inc., H.264 or Advanced Video Codec (AVC) and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio codecs.
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An open-source application for Mac OS X encodes music using just about any audio file format imaginable. In Monkey Bites.
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The eagerly-awaited Ubuntu Studio has been released, adding another entry into the expanding list of multimedia-optimized Linux distributions. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but interested readers can peruse some installation screenshots or check out the latest news and information on the Ubuntu Studio Wiki. I plan to review the distro in a future column, along with an update on the latest version of the venerable PlanetCCRMA, but in this entry I'm focused on another very exciting new release. Ardour 2.0 is now available for download. This version is a significant improvement over the 0.99 series (1.0 was never released), with many new features and enhancements to performance and stability. The following article profiles the new Ardour as I employed it for three projects, all involving the program in the processes of composition and arranging as well as the more typical tasks of recording and editing. I've described each project in some detail, and each description includes a link to the final audio output.
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The MPEG4IP project provides an MPEG and IETF standards-based system for encoding, streaming, and playing audio and video.   Hi,   I've released version 1.6 of mpeg4ip.  This will be my last release of mpeg4ip; I am changing jobs and can no longer contribute to this project.  I will be able to answer questions about it in the forums and email list, but will not be able to actively make changes or maintain it.  The plans for what will happen to this project are not yet decided.  Working on this project has been a lot of fun for me, and I have a lot of great memories interacting with the forum regulars.   It is hard to believe that there have been almost 400K downloads of this project.  Thanks,  Bill May
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Both Windows and Mac versions of the multimedia program have a buffer overflow flaw that puts users at risk.