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Downloading ooyala video's or how I viewed a m3u8 on my windows phone.
Neil deGrasse Tyson posted a video on his blog today and I wanted to watch it on my mobile phone.
I could have just watched it because its very small but no, I realy wanted the video offline.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-nerd-hobby-2015-1?r=US
And lucky us, ooyala provides a link to embeded the video, in such a way, that we have a direct link to their playlist. or apparantly, a m3u8 is a kind of stream playlist.
Some google and bing minutes later and I got the following website:
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/359319-How-do-I-download-the-following-m3u8-url
basicly saying:
ffmpeg can download it with the following command line:
Code: ffmpeg -i inputvideo.m3u8 outputvideo.ts
So yes, after I downloaded ffmpeg (realy handy) I later got a ts file, thats basicly a mp2 file like settop boxes use for streams.
altho I could have tried converting the file, windows mediaplayer and VLC just play it.
and while I copied the file to my Windows Phone 8.1, he said "This device does not support playing this file, would you like to convert it?" I clicked yes and there was a WMV file, with audio and video on my mobile :D
Thanks for reading, the more you know :D
Blog update
Well thats odd, ive not been updating my blog for a while but I do have lots and lots of ideas for "great" blog posts, video blogs and wishes to change my website "again".
So instead of working behint the scene with code and never showing anything, instead of month of silence, im gonna use my blog as a note book.
Started a year back or so I began using a paper book for notes, mainly because I lose focus or just have to get rid of ideas that roam my mind.
So ill give this joomla cms system a change again, hope it wont fail me. And you will see some more updates in the couple of days :D
BIG important other news, im married :D (jeej) and also I do my Thesis on OCR for a company in Amsterdam.
FEw things I currently work on and hope to make some updates on are:
- Runix, Linux for the playstation classic
- Xqemu, the xbox emulator, lets try compiling it and run some code on shall we
- GPG, someday I need to give you my public hair... I mean key. and its pubic hair, cubic?
- MCPX/Chihiro fix, yeah, got one, but its broken, ill try fixing it
- Zilog computer, somehow I would like to make one of my own.
- XBox live homebrew, done some research and like to share some with you.
- Comment system and blogpost engine, this joomla thing isnt for me...
- Videoblogs :D I like them, want to post my own aswell... gonna start some filming.
Broadcom Wireless cards and Lenovo E530 Bios UEFI Whitelist
Its a trouble maker, a soldering iron fire starter. The Lenovo E530 I got two(already!)years ago can sometimes be a pain.
First I destroyed the filesystem, then I borked the Bootsequence and last time I beeped flipped the Bios/Uefi variables completly.
I save those boot errors for another blog, when I try refashing it.
Wich actualy started my research for COreboot or just removing/altering the Whitelist of my beloved Lenovo.
Wait what? if you never heard of Bios whitelists, or whitelists for hardware, go read here:
So yes, My lenovo has a whitelist and I do not agree.
Click the readmore button to view some awesome images of the card without shield cover and my further research:
Read more: Broadcom Wireless cards and Lenovo E530 Bios UEFI Whitelist
Xbox iso creation
When I tried backing up some OXM demo disks I found out that I got to iso parts.
this is done by the backup app I used on the xbox. So here is a bit of the official update info:
| Dvd2xbox v0.7.5 = finally exact 1:1 backups |
| All this time messing with layout files, dumps and isos in order to get almost 1:1 backups has finally reach to its end. Today Dvd2xbox v0.7.5 was released including a very interesting feature: What's new/fixed: * beta: added iso ripper to dvd2xbox. Please note that the raw ripping highly depends on the reading capabilities of your DVD drive. Couldn't test it due to missing softmodded box. Any reports are appreciated (http://forum.ws0.org/viewforum.php?f=9) With this new feature you can get an EXACT 1:1 dump from any original you insert on your Xbox. As usual dvd2xbox´s output can be saved to the xbox´s hd, or directly to a samba share on the pc. In the first case, Dvd2Xbox will output 2 files if the disc´s size is +4gb, so you´ll have to join them back in your pc using the usual "copy /b file1+file2 finalfile". |
Done :D
They forgot we worked hard
Like many schools, sometimes teachers forget that when you work in a team and some of the team members speaks and nobody else really say anything, its a wrong assumption that they dint do anything or know nothing.
But before I tell to much before I give skool a change of defence ill tell you that during the project GetConnected I needed to add 2 new IO expanders and theyre adress space apeared diferent. Ofcourse I coald have know that, but when you have 2 hours remaining, its a short time for datasheet searching.
but in the end I did looked at it and spottet that a PCF8574N and PCF8574AN just difrenses in adress 00100xxx and 00111xxx where xxx is the adress you set on the adress lines.
For anyone intrested, ive added the complete Arduino code after the break. Next time ill upload our full java code. To fully explain the code ill later make a document explaining the whole workings.
Ow and its a bit dirty, we did understand it could have been done more "cleaner". sorry for that.
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