waldoj

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   by waldoj 12y ago

   Former developer at OSTP. There was no drug test when I was hired in 2011.
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   by waldoj 12y ago

   Yes, I've tried both Handbrake and ffmpeg (and mplayer), and spent a lot of time tweaking the settings. I prefer MPEG Streamclip for this process—its ability to add new files to the queue after I've already starting the encoding p
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   by waldoj 12y ago

   I don't want to rip directly to MP4, because I retain a copy of the VOB files. I was doing all of this on a Mac mini that I bought in 2006.
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   by waldoj 12y ago

   Here's the code on GitHub: https://github.com/openva/video-indexer It's terrible (I wrote it for a very narrow use case, and only run it ~200 times each year), but it's enough to get the idea.
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   by waldoj 12y ago

   Memcached wasn't running for some reason. I've just fired it up, and all's well now.