New World Order Conspiracy, World War 3 and more maniac irrelevant phrases.

So it is happy new year I guess, well still a couple of hours for that event. What exactly is it that we are celebrating? Why exactly this date in the Gregorian calendar chosen for the celebration of year's end. A cycle around the sun, but why we started counting on January first? Or why January first had to be tomorrow. It is a complete random day, since the winter solstice is 21 and 23rd, so not exactly 31st of December. Well for whatever reason, happy partying. I've got too much work to party, but hey, I'd rather program AI and create screencasts. Free will. さようなら。 ＰＳ: I will be releasing a screencast soon about Camstudio and screencapturing your screen and audio from the motherboard's audio device, later, next year. ;)

Thumbnail description and the consequences to the universe and existence

So today I load a bunch of tutorial/query based images on Flickr. Why? Because it attracts attention to this blog. I know that technical issues aren't as popular as celebrity break-ups, but hey, there is still a market, and despite all the obstacles, edutainment is coming in all its full glory.

Thoughts I had about the images can also be considered a psychological analysis opportunity. Hehehe:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77082971@N06/

Having to post about all the technical difficulties in this blog is part of the idea of sharing knowledge to people so that if they are encountered with the same issue, they can find the answer through search engines or subscription to this blog.

Xvid encoding with the following mediainfo information:

Format: AVI
Format/Info: Audio Video Interleave
File size: 91.4 MiB
Duration: 6mn 43s
Overall bit rate: 1 901 Kbps
Writing library: VirtualDub build 32842/release

Video

ID: 0
Format: MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile: Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP: 2
Format settings, QPel: No
Format settings, GMC: No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix: Default (H.263)
Muxing mode: Packed bitstream
Codec ID: XVID
Codec ID/Hint: XviD
Duration: 6mn 43s
Bit rate: 480 Kbps
Width: 1 680 pixels
Height: 1 050 pixels
Display aspect ratio: 1.600
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Color space: YUV
Chroma subsampling: 4:2:0
Bit depth: 8 bits

is not played by the VLC player, and according to a forum post on the official VLC forums, this is a known issue with VLC playing low framerate videos like 5fps, yet the aforementioned video parameters clearly show a 25fps, not something one would consider low in framerate.

As long as it is played by Media Player Classic and VirtualDub, I will ignore the issue. Apparently all I did was screen capture a bunch of BMP files repeatedly, converted them into the AVI container with Xvid as the codec format, and 16 bit depth, 44.1KHz silence audio, appended it to another equally formatted video file and saved the AVI with the direct stream copy option checked for both audio and video.