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July 24, 2008 at 11:44 am · Filed under it
I had a very unpleasant time this morning compiling mplayer, with LIVE555 support, for Mac OS X Intel (Leopard, 10.5.4).
LIVE555 compiled fine, with
./genmakefiles macosx
and I moved it into /opt/local/lib/live to “co”"exist” with some macports libraries.
But mplayer refused to play nicely, until I built it with
./configure --disable-gui --disable-mencoder --disable-xinerama --disable-xv --disable-x11 --enable-largefiles --enable-macosx-finder-support --enable-menu --with-freetype-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/freetype-config --with-extraincdir=/opt/local/lib/live/ --with-extralibdir=/opt/local/lib
Yeah…right…I totally should have known that off the top of my head. At least now the binary is built, so I could Bonjour it to a coworker for his MacBook and he could start using it straight away.
mplayer (totally cool version with LIVE555 support) (Intel) (Mac OS X) (zip. 2.9mbyte file, HTTP download)
Please understand that this is being provided without any expressed warranty or merchantability statement. It is virus- and malicious code- free. I claim no rights of any kind for compiling open-source codebases into this binary.
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July 9, 2008 at 4:34 pm · Filed under it
My iPhone (Classic) was failing to get DHCP via one of the WiFi networks in the office. Some convoluted Googling later, I found that perhaps the clash is due to the Billion DHCP server implementation not liking the AirPort Extreme IPv6 Tunneling option being enabled.
Change the IPv6 configuration in your AirPort Extreme to:
And the basestation reboots by itself, which left me with working DHCP.
Yes, I have the WiFi basestation(s) as bridges onto the DHCP-serving router.
June 19, 2008 at 10:49 am · Filed under fun, it
I wandered down to the Sydney Apple Store opening queue. Yes, there’s only 4 hours to go now before people get their chance to walk the polished boards, gaze outwards from the steel-bracketed glass facade, and to ask premature questions about iPhone 3G.
I lent @decryption my spare MacBook Pro 15″ battery: he’s number 8 in the queue, which means he’s had a large number of cold hours sitting on a foldout chair.
The second part of the queue heads west up King Street, and probably takes the number of people well over 50.
The store looks great. I’m from a family of architects and designers, and I feel the building’s remodeling has a nice 2007/2008 feel, with some French/German modern glass-and-steel aesthetic thrown in. Being directly opposite the Telstra T-Life store is a masterstroke for design, town planning, marketing and sale potential.
The TV crews are there, just cooling their heels inbetween breakfast TV live crosses, and small magazine-style pieces about the type of geek who would camp out for a t-shirt and the chance to perhaps see Mr. Jobs who is rumoured to appear. Yes, it’s most surely just a rumour right now. If he steps off his jet this morning and appears at the ExecuJet terminal, I’ll try to let you know.
I chatted to a a few people while I sarcastically wore my ten-year-old Rhapsody Developer t-shirt: everyone was in great spirits, including the security staff.
March 8, 2007 at 2:03 pm · Filed under it, media
I tried to not go too far with the headline pun.
Extending from The Way Of Sony, the manufacturer has announced “real, actual” availability of BIVL.
BRAVIA™ Internet Video Link clips onto the back of selected TVs, and brings the content linking/downloading scenario of The Sony full-circle.
I was shown the design for a similar concept, whereby an entire HD IPTV Set Top Box and PVR could be slid in, as a board, to a manufacturer’s LCD panels. Not released yet, of course…
And I still have not seen Neotion’s enabler hardware.
Take yesterday’s comments on how to make “New TV”, and add the BIVL, and you might have a real, actual platform. As long as it’s not a closed, Sony-only platform.
[Via engadgetHD]
January 10, 2007 at 9:56 am · Filed under it, mobile, music
Given that I now will work feverishly to obtain one on launch day, they have obviously got the mix right.
It’s equal parts widescreen iPod, PDA-computer hybrid and phone with an operating system that doesn’t suck.
My previous forays into PalmPilots with GSM jackets, Newton MessagePad 2100s with GPRS cards, and Symbian Series 60 have all been leading to this point.
As long as they don’t count Australia as Asia, which means a 2008 launch date for the masses, I can see a lot of people dropping Windows Mobile smartphones quick-smart.
January 3, 2007 at 11:12 am · Filed under it, media
I’d say that PCs and TVs have been flirting, and quite possibly canoodling, for some time.
Joanne Ostrow, whose sub-editor had the great idea to use the phrase will change the way we live, posted this article two days ahead of the usual schedule. Her predictions for 2007 are real!
You’ve heard the predictions before, but this time they [consumer electronics manufacturers] really mean it.
Keyword, and buzzword, laden this potted copy-and-paste doesn’t tell digitalmediaphiles a lot they didn’t already know. Nor does it help Joe Average navigate the digital media landscape that is just outside the livingroom door.
Reverse anachronism (I don’t know the right word) steps in, predictably in a predictions piece:
The notion of how you discover programs will change, too. Channel surfing will become overwhelming with far too many choices to sample. Expect to see different navigation cues pop up to let you know what’s on, specifically of interest to you.
No.
Cues to relevance, to relationships, to currency and to community will help you navigate.
People already know what is on: they need to determine why it’s on, where it came from, what it’s like, and what exists around it or its topic.
December 2, 2006 at 9:02 pm · Filed under fun, it, media
Some of the language might be considered (mildly) Not Safe For Work, but this sounds just like the conversation two teenaged acquaintances had with me at the weekend.
Console supremacy wars roll around again!
Only one console will do this for you:
Speeds pace of evolution if touched
Read the article to find out which one.
Or read this post to see what might happen…uhh…to you…
December 1, 2006 at 4:03 pm · Filed under fun, it, media
I ordinarily don’t post virals like this, but seeing as though I mentioned that all my contemporaries want a PS3, I guess they (and I!) have to come to grips with what that might mean.
Mildly, mildly NSFW.
November 23, 2006 at 7:33 am · Filed under it, media
Promising so much since I began looking at the technology at IBC2004, CableCARD hasn’t delivered anything yet into the Asia-Pacific/Pacific Rim region I work in.
Combined with Common Interface Conditional Access Modules, CableCARD could allow an interoperability landscape to flourish amongst HDTVs, Set Top Boxes, media centres and content services.
Do we know what The Next Great Standard for TV is? No, and I’d never pretend anything different.
But the two standards mentioned above exist now, and if used in combination by an end user (such as an HDTV with a CableCARD in Slot 1, and a Neotion CAM in Slot 2) could create a display with aftermarket, yet built-in, IPTV, smartcard-based decryption and MPEG4.
…if they were in general release…
November 20, 2006 at 2:53 pm · Filed under it, media, mobile, music
Naturally, it’s first-generation, and may be enabled only for the Sony branded parts of your livingroom and jacket-pocket.
But free content downloads as 8Mbps MPEG-4 (H.264/AVC) should yield great HD results: I have done tests at those rates and have had only positive reviews so far.
Imagineering the approach Sony may take, I can see harmonious, elegant and profitable integration amongst the Sony properties of:
- So-net
- Walkman
- Playstation Portable
- Wega and Bravia
- SonyEricsson
There’s no shortage of commentators ready and willing to pile scorn on Sony’s choices based on a creative set of interpretations of Sony’s failures and shortcomings.
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