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Posts tagged entertainment
Apple iPad: Thoughts…
Apr 10th
When the iPad was first announced I wasn’t to thrilled with it. I’d been waiting for Apple to release a tablet product almost 4-5 years. When Steve Jobs pulled out the iPad with a iPhone OS like interface I cringed. I wasn’t impressed at all. I didn’t need an enlarged iPhone. I wanted a tablet running OS X with some tablet-like enhancements. This was far from it. It wasn’t all that attractive looking either. I disliked the large black border around the device and the square (instead of rectangular/widescreen) look to it wasn’t very appealing.
About a week ago, Apple finally released the product into the hands of the public and I’ve seen most if not all positive reviews for the device. I believe the only negative talk about the unit is that some of devices are having issues connecting to WiFi access points. Apple has already submitted a support article on this. More >
Converting MKV to MP4/H.264 in OS X
Apr 1st
When I get anime episodes/movies or even sometimes regular video content it’ll come in a relatively new format (at least to me) called Matroska, file extension .MKV. The format can easily be played on your Mac using Perian or even with VLC. However I do most of my video viewing via my AppleTV on a much bigger screen. Unfortunately iTunes and AppleTV don’t recognize the MKV file format so one needs to convert it into something which it does understand.
For the longest time I had a multi-step process which was a real pain in the ass and resulted in videos that had been re-encoded multiple times. As you can imagine this meant a pretty good loss of quality and time. I basically had to de-mux the subtitle track on my Mac, convert it to an SRT file (sometimes an SSA file is used for subtitles) on a Windows box (using Subtitle Workshop), copy the new SRT file back over, convert the entire MKV file to an MP4. Then I would take my MP4 and the SRT file and combine them using ViddyUp!. Basically it was a real pain in the ass. More >
Robot Chicken
Feb 5th
Robot Chicken is the most retarded show ever. However, that hasn’t stopped me from getting all four seasons and watching them all…
