Flash Video (flv) lesson

Greetings earthlings,

This post is about a little (huge) problem i encountered whilst attempting to stream, via http, a 35 minute flv video on a remote server using the latest and greatest  jwplayer. The weird thing was everything worked flawlessly on my local sever (localhost / 127.0.0.1) but when i uploaded the file via ftp (gftp) to the remote site, the page containing the video would just show a blank screen and if i right clicked whilst hovering over it, the context menu
showed: "movie not loaded", and below that: "About Adobe flash . . .".

I tried using relative paths, then i tried absolute paths. Still, the blank screen remained. I scratched my head for a long time. Then suddenly, i remembered a piece of information i had retained from my younger days and it solved the problem instantly!

What was the problem?

I had uploaded the flv file (also the swf player files) using FTP in ASCII mode instead of BINARY mode.

I hope this info helps someone. i put it here in-case i forget

That's all folks

Brasero Audio Cd's

The other day i was asked to burn a audio CD for someone. I thought to myself:

"cool now i have a chance to check out Brasero"   

(Brasero is a CD/DVD Burning App for Linux)

After selecting:  "audio project" and adding my files, I was ready to burn. I swiftly clicked on the "Burn" button. Then to my surprise a dialog box popped up and it read: "Normalizing Tracks". I thought "OK that doesn't sound too bad, I only have one 20 minute track". However, after 30 minutes I asked myself: "How can this be taking so long? This is ridiculous". I gave it another 10 min and decided to cancel the job.

The thing is this: Brasero actually does NOTHING when you see this dialog box.
It just sits there staring back at you and never normalizes let alone burns anything.

(BTW: Normalizing Tracks ensures a constant level of volume between tracks.)


Here's what I did to fix (workaround?) the problem:
Click on "Edit" -> "Plug Ins" and then uncheck (disable) "normalize".

After I had done that, the CD was burned without a problem.


Happy Burning! :)

Google Joke

I found this and thought it was funny:
click here

Intentions

Greetings Earthlings!

Well, well, it's finally come to be that I have decided to join the blogosphere after 15 years online.
You see, I think a lot. Mostly about pointless things, but I have decided I will try and share 
the more useful "tid bits" I have flying around in my riotous mindscape. 


My intention is to write about topics including (in no particular order):


Music, Art, Science, Software, Hardware, Web Development, 
Graphics, Ranting, Raving, "Back in my day...", "Kids these days . . ."
and a whole lot more. . .


So stay tuned for updates. . . 


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