Beyond the Sky

Remember starwars kid?
He is the first one who start video shot himself playing "lightsaber"

Nowadays, technology is so advance, you can put yourself into lightsaber virtual fight, check this three out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dykGRGzzVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUBUtZranpE
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=630

There are more, and there even have video tutorial showing how to make those "lightsaber" effects.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/400298/how_to_lightsaber_effect_video_tutorial/

I take the entire screencast video using xvidcap under ubuntu edgy. The video shows of using mplayer with 2 different video output. The video is quite blur after uploaded to youtube.

First of all I type

mplayer -vo x11 filename.flv

Try to make it fullscreen my press 'f'

Later I change x11 to gl2, and make a fullscreen again.

mplayer -vo gl2 filename.flv

Links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6fnR--IDKc

This is the song I keep listening to nowadays! I found the MTV at youtube.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHu901NtnSU

Nice song isn't it? haha

This is the first mtv that i really puke after watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n-bBf_pnjM&search=ladyboy%20karaoke

You want idol, we give you idol!

If you know www.youtube.com, i may feel frustrated where you have to wait for so long to download a video clip for streaming. After downloading, you can't save it, you can only play it for once, because it uses flv.(Flash Video format)

If you have google enough, you will already discover that, you can still download it to a file and play it using your player. To do this, you need 3 programs, vlc, firefox and geasemonkey extension.

First of all, download and install firefox 1.5 and vlc player.
Secondly, download geasemonkey and restart firefox. Gease monkey is a firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its behavior. Next, you need a script that allow you to download the flv from youtube. Right click here and click "install user script"

Now you can go to youtube and grab your fav video clips. Howto refers here.

To play the files that you have downloaded, use vlc. Enjoy!

It do works at ubuntu linux, but you have to compile the vlc 0.8.4a because the precompiled binaries come with apt-get is not updated. Compilation tooks an hour using MAC G4, and resolves dependencies takes more time. I haven't have time to work on it yet. Maybe i ll wait for 0.8.4a precompiled version.