Last January, I had to author a blu-ray disc. This reminded me of the old days of making DVDs years before iMovie and point and click software came out. The specs were to make VC-1 blu-ray discs and WMV files. These are the programs I ended up using to do that:

quicktime – process original source files
quicktime aja uncompressed codecs – so quicktime can read source files
avisynth – video processing engine
avsp – process videos / qc
avisynth decomb plugin – recover progressive frames instead of de-interlace
avisynth qtsource plugin – lets avisynth load quicktimes
virtualdub – make uncompressed avi for cinevision
cinevision – encode VC-1
scenarist – author blu-ray disc
ps3bdfix – increase compatibility of scenarist output
nero – burn discs
powerdvd – view blu-ray discs
final cut – audio/video delay determination

adobe audition – trim and convert AIF to WAV
ssrc – convert 44.1 KHz to 48 kHz
besweet – audio processing engine
besweet-gui – gui for audio processor

vc12avi – put VC-1 in AVI container
SolveigMM ASF Multiplexer – change AVI container to ASF
windows media stream editor – remux ASF + WMA to WMV
Windows media encoder – turn WAV to WMA

March 28th, 2008 | Nerd | No comments

At first, I thought the little shroud on the Antec P182 (also on the P180) was a little annoying because it broke up the horizontal space that I could otherwise use for piling up misc crap. Lately, I’ve been putting my external hard drives on top of the shroud. The airflow helps cool them down. My 7200 rpm 2.5″ drive in the Macally PHR-250CC (an excellent enclosure) gets really hot, and this will definately help.

March 26th, 2008 | Neato! | No comments