Posts tagged: YSTV

From Hate to Love in a little over a year…

By , October 4, 2009 12:38 am

It has been an interesting year, and those of you who know me should certainly agree. This last year has been my Industrial placement year as part of my Degree – All fun and games you might think. Mostly, you’d be right – aside from the daily struggle of commuting to Leeds every day.

It’s been a busy year in YSTV too. This time a year ago I had just rolled out a bunch of new servers, setup a new flash streaming solution and generally made life more difficult for myself (but better for everyone else, i hope!). A year later, and I’m at it again. This time I’ve rolled out some new high spec Edit PCs, complete with Windows 7. On top of that, myself and several others completely rewired and re-organised the Control Room.

 

However, what this post is all about is how my outlook on a certain few big corporations has changed – Microsoft and Apple.

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High Quality h264 MP4 Videos with ffmpeg

By , March 3, 2009 5:12 pm
I’ve recently been doing some research in the area of producing High Quality MP4 files with the h264 codec. Of course, my program of choice for encoding to this format was ffmpeg with the libx264 codec. I just wanted to share some of my findings, in particular a few example commands for creating these videos.

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Updates and new features…

By , November 28, 2008 9:56 pm

Right. So i finally decided it’d be a good idea to update my wordpress installation – V2.2 was a little out of date! I must say though, V2.6.x is suprisingly different – but in a good way. The admin panel is so much nicer to use. Looks and feels better too – full of all that Javascript goodness we come to expect from websites these days.

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