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 == Bernie's brain backup for January 2008 ==
 
+=== Sun, 13th ===
+
+=== Bernie the rockstar ====
+
+If you were considering hiring me, or entrusting me to do anything serious, you'd better watch this first:
+
+ * [[BernieIronMaiden.ogg]] - [1.8MB] if you have the free OggTheora codec
+ * [[BernieIronMaiden.mov]] - [3.6MB] if you're stuck with proprietary QuickTime codecs
+ * //nothing// - [0MB] if you're stuck with the proprietary MediaPlayer or RealPlayer codecs
+
+
+**Q:** why doesn't my browser play the link right away rather than asking me to download it? \\
+**A:** because my wiki doesn't support mime-magic yet
+
+**Q:** why don't you just let apache serve media files? \\
+**A:** because a CGI has no way to "handoff" a file to the web server once they've been invoked
+
+==== Food and Power ====
+
+Here's a stupid movie by SamuelKlein, ArjunSarwal and myself:
+
+ * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerLow.ogg]] - [16MB] OggTheora stream, quality 5
+ * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerHigh.ogg]] - [26MB] OggTheora stream, quality 7
+ * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerMed.ogg]] - [62MB] OggTheora stream, quality 10
+
+If your computer cannot play the above links, you should really consider installing
+a free media player, or just switching to Linux which comes with all the free media
+players and codecs out of the box.  Meanwhile, here's a workaround:
+
+ * [[FoodAndPower/FoodAndPowerMed.avi]] - [103MB] original AVI stream from our shitty camera
+
+These also prove the quality of the OggTheora codec.  After seeing this, I think
+I'd recommend using it for its technical advantages in addition to its legal advantages.
+
+In producing these movies, I found out that:
+
+ * mencoder has bad support for ogg-theora
+ * transcode kinda sucks
+ * ffmpeg seems the best command-line encoder of the three I tried
+ * The easiest solution if all you need is encoding anything to Theora is ffmpeg2theora.
+ All you have to do is:
+ {{{
+ ffmpeg2theora FoodAndPower.avi
+ }}}
+
+
 === Sat, 12th ===
 
 ==== Cow power! ====