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

My mother always told me, have to mix with the wise! Eddie always show me great tactic to do something, this time he show me how to fold a T-shirt with very fast manner, that he learn it from a japanese lady. Haha ! It works! I am gonna use it for my shirt for future when I stay at KL.

Who say youtube causing brain rod ? I learn how to fold T-shirt from there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m78AktVhK5E Check it out!

FLV, Flash Video.

You may notice nowadays, people digs video sharing. Thats why www.youtube.com are so famous, where it allocate space for internet user to share videos. If you are regulary surf youtube, you may relized that the video hardly play realtime, it takes sometimes to buffer the download. Sometimes you really like the content of the video, and wants to download and keep it for future replay.

Now you can with just install a add-ons for firefox. VideoDownloader enable you to download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion... and other 60+ video sites ! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc) ! Directly ! check out this web
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/

Now after you downloaded, you try to play using xine or mplayer and figure out that there are no sound. This problem exist until today. There is a work around solution, convert flv to mpg format. With ffmpeg, the conversion is simple. Let say you download a file temp.flv and you would like to convert it to mpg, you can consider bellow command line.

ffmpeg -i foo.flv -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 foo.mpg 

To ease conversion, I write a bash script:

#!/bin/sh
if [ -n "$1" ]
then
        if [ -n "$2" ]
        then
                ffmpeg -i $1 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 $2
        fi
else
        echo "Usage: `basename $0` source.flv target.mpg"
fi