Category Archives: opinions

Chrome and Theora/H.264

Posted on 2009/06/16 Tue by rob

There’s been a lot of noise recently about Google Chrome shipping with H.264 decoder support. They’re actually using FFmpeg for this and a few other things. <disclaimer>These comments on my blog do not necessarily represent the views of all FFmpeg … Continue reading →

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New PC

Posted on 2009/05/03 Sun by rob

I recently purchased a new PC. I had been using my Apple MacBook for quite some time without any desktop PC. And no, I’m not an Apple fan boy, but it has served its purpose quite well.
For what it’s worth, … Continue reading →

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Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD 500 PCI in Linux and MythTV

Posted on 2009/05/02 Sat by rob

I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD 500 PCI to use in a Linux machine. I was planning to use Debian testing/unstable AMD64, and may still do so, but at the moment I’ve settled on Ubuntu Jaunty.
I don’t think I … Continue reading →

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XCode Developer Tools 3.0

Posted on 2007/11/29 Thu by rob

Mac OS X Leopard is quite nice. I like the threaded file handling stuff, that is, the stuff that makes your optical drive spin up when you try to look at an e-mail with an attachment in Mail.app and the … Continue reading →

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job hunting

Posted on 2006/12/20 Wed by rob

I’ve been looking around for potential jobs. Most software development opportunities make use of web stuff, databases or a combination of the two. Thankfully Mans pointed me to a few useful websites, including a promising multimedia company that runs a … Continue reading →

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