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Do you offer consulting to move a webite into PHPfog? What is the cost (hourly rate)?

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:02:38 -0700

Anon, I do. Would be happy to setup a screen share and show you the ropes. email me jim (a t) 9meter dot com and we can chat some more about what you are looking to do.

Photo

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:52:01 -0700

fantastic mashup gif, would love to know the source.

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:58:40 -0700

fantastic mashup gif, would love to know the source.

homemadecrap: made this for the mister….

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:51:15 -0700

homemadecrap:

made this for the mister….

taitems: newunitedcattery: Oh man, I love this.

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:32:05 -0700

taitems:

newunitedcattery:

Oh man, I love this.

imgfave: ★ discovered on imgfave.com (social image...

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:41:40 -0700

imgfave:

★ discovered on imgfave.com (social image bookmarking)

FFMPEG, A breakdown of settings

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:33:11 -0700

Recently for a project I was tasked with the challenge to setup a server distribution to handle any video upload, transcode it to MP4 with autostart capabilities and get it looking great on Apple/Android devices. I accepted the challenge, and was it ever fun. I’m not going to get into the gritty details of setting up FFMPEG on a linux machine, but after a few good hours of package installation on a Rack Cloud Debian machine, i got a really solid system running, all that was left was to write the commands to process the file uploads.

Conversion
The goal here was not only to get a small file size, decent bitrate and audio, but also keep the audio/video in sync & get it fully compatible for iPhone/iPad/Android devices.

/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i /var/dir/in_file.mov -r 24 -vsync 1 -async 1 -acodec libfaac -ab 128kb -vcodec libx264 -b 1200kb -mbd 2 -flags +4mv+trell -aic 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 560x336 -title MetaTitleName /var/dir/outfile_tmp.mp4

The keys to my success on this were as follows:

-r 24 -vsync 1 -async 1 helped to solve sync issues with the audio/video. I think the win here is to specify the hard framerate with the -async -vsync switches for it to work best
-acodec libfaac ensured that there was a compatible audio stream for Apple devices
-vcodec libx264 again, many to choose from but h264 was a great choice and ensured playback properly for Apple devices

Faststart
It’s always a pain when you have to sit there and wait for a file to download all the way before the packet of information is found at the end telling the video to start. Just doing an mp4 conversion isn’t enough, you need to introduce the gt-faststart command which does some lovely magic and allows an immediate download.

/usr/bin/qt-faststart /var/dir/outfile_tmp.mp4 /var/dir/outfile_final.mp4

Simple, but very effective.

The 1140px Grid

Tue, 31 May 2011 19:51:21 -0700

The 1140px Grid:

9-bits:

Nice clean fluid grid that goes down to mobile. If you’re aiming for a big, bold design and you want to support a whole lot of resolutions, this is a great tool.