Archive for Media
March 23, 2010 at 15:07 · Filed under Apple, Code, Fun, GNOME, Linux, Media, Open Source, openSUSE
Last Sunday, after being in development since August 2007, Matt Colyer released version 1.0.0 of the libimobiledevice library (formerly known as libiphone).
libimobiledevice is a free open source software library that talks the protocols to support iPhone ® and iPod Touch ® devices natively on Linux.
Unlike other projects, it does not depend on using any existing proprietary libraries and does not require jailbreaking.
It was successfully tested with the iPhone and iPod Touch 1G, 2G, 3G and 3GS models running up to firmware 3.1.3.
So what does it mean for me as a desktop user?
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January 30, 2009 at 11:00 · Filed under Code, Linux, Media, Open Source
Ah, feels good to be back finally. Enjoyed being ripped off and scammed in NYC over NYE and work has caught me up again.
In other news, you might have heard about NVIDIA’s VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) which literally offloads Video decoding and processing to the graphics processor on Unix systems. They introduced it with the 180.06 driver series which you can download at their official site.
Apparently frameworks like ffmpeg/xine and players like mplayer or vlc have or plan to pickup support for it despite it will take a few months to get there. Unfortunately, my framework of choice which appears to suit best for it, GStreamer (congrats for recent move from cvs to git), has no such efforts yet (and can’t directly profit on an ffmpeg implementation).
The API is only available for NVIDIA graphic cards but quickly checking out the docs today I picked up a line which kind of shows that NVIDIA seems to expect others to pick up…
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Back-end driver files. These files are located in the standard system (possibly X11-specific) library path.
libvdpau_%s.so For example:libvdpau_nvidia.solibvdpau_intel.solibvdpau_ati.so
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Interesting… Too bad ATI and Intel both plan to go with their own implementations of Video acceleration APIs.
Are we going to see a happy end for Video acceleration on Unix?
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October 2, 2008 at 11:45 · Filed under Apple, Code, Linux, Media, Music, Open Source, Research
Hey, it appears as those superbrain folks on the libiphone mailing list are onto something regarding the new hashing algorithm used in Apple’s 2.0+ firmware.
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December 16, 2007 at 21:01 · Filed under Art, Linux, Media, Research
Johnny Chung Lee from the Carnegie Mellon University demonstrates how to create a low-cost multi-touch capable whiteboard using a Wiimote, a pen with infrared LEDs, a projector and your average laptop.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ[/youtube]
Really nice! I can imagine that you could even project from below a surface instead, effectively getting rid of the “shadows”.
Additionally Petter Hutterer, the man behind the Multi-Pointer X Server project, has recently released an initial version of a Wiimote X input driver (patches are welcome). It will allow you to use the Wiimote as a full blown X input device and controlling your mouse. Might be cool to apply Johnny’s whiteboard idea here.
Looks like I have to go hunting for some nice projector and loads of free time soon…
Update: Oh heck, how could I forget “lasertraq” a cool solution for Linux which works with a regular webcam/camera instead of the Wiimote but basically allows you to do the same stuff. Heck it even uses the superdupe GStreamer framework!
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December 6, 2007 at 14:21 · Filed under Code, Media
Looks like I found a valuable plugin to be able to spam you with all kinds of media including YouTube videos and be able to upload audio and video.
I like! Below a cool music video from a Chilean group.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=OBSkLfVp2fQ[/youtube]
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