Category Archives: video

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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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 →

Posted in MythTV, Ubuntu, hardware, multimedia, opinions, technology, video, work | 1 Comment

bit rate, file size, quality misunderstandings

Posted on 2009/05/01 Fri by rob

It seems quite a few people have been confusing how bit rate, file size and quality are inter-related. A number of people have been using the -sameq option from the ffmpeg CLI and expecting it to output a file of … Continue reading →

Posted in ffmpeg, multimedia, video, x264 | 3 Comments