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Multimedia is the last frontier of human art and inspiration related to computers. These are my technical findings about it.

The Flash versus Apple War 0 comments By AviPublished: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:29:52 +0000 Published: 29 Jan 2010 Published: 12:29 pm Categories: Multimedia • Web 2.0 Tags:
       

This is my reaction to The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience? that appeared on the Flash Blog.
I’m not an Apple fan but I tend to disagree with that campaign of Flash support.
Clearly, this is another platform war. The Apple platform versus the Flash platform. It is very strategic for Apple to keep the attention [...]

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Samsung LED TV with Medi@ 2.0 is not ready for me 2 comments By AviPublished: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:18:49 +0000 Updated: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:59:44 +0000 Published: 28 Jan 2010 Updated: 29 Jan 2010 Published: 7:18 pm Updated: 9:59 am Categories: Multimedia Tags:
       

Today I spent several hours testing the almost amazing Samsung LED TV on a local store. More specifically the UN40B7000 model.
The image quality is great and all but I was more interested in the digital multimedia features included in these new models, branded Medi@ 2.0 (or Media 2.0). You actually plug these TVs on your [...]

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How the iPhone 3GS records videos 0 comments By AviPublished: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:51:27 +0000 Updated: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:56:35 +0000 Published: 7 Nov 2009 Updated: 25 Nov 2009 Published: 3:51 pm Updated: 10:56 am Categories: Mobility • Multimedia Tags:
       

Here are some technical details an analysis about the formats used by the Apple iPhone 3GS to record video.
This is an annotated screenshot of the excellent Mediainfo by Jerome Martinez.

Some notes:

Apple always uses MOV as the extension for standard MP4 files. The recorded video uses an MP4 container so it is capable of holding modern [...]

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Organize fast and precisely your MP3 files with ID3v2 tags 0 comments By AviPublished: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:32:37 +0000 Published: 7 Jun 2009 Published: 9:32 pm Categories: Linux & Open Source • Multimedia Tags:
       

This is a set of personal notes and a tutorial for everyone about how to correctly organize and tag MP3 files using the id3 command line tool.
General way to tag MP3 files:
id3 -M -2 [-v] [-t title] [-a artist] [-l album] [-n tracknr] [-y year] [-g genre] [-c comment] file.mp3
Recursively tag with ID3v2 a tree [...]

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A Media Center at Home 2 comments By AviPublished: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:39:38 +0000 Updated: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:08:28 +0000 Published: 25 Apr 2009 Updated: 27 Apr 2009 Published: 11:39 am Updated: 9:08 am Categories: Linux & Open Source • Multimedia Tags:
       

Since we got a 52″ Samsung LCD TV almost a year ago as a gift from relatives, I knew it was time to attach to it a dedicated computer and have a full digital media experience in the living room. I’ll tell you here my experiences building and running this thing that makes all my [...]

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    • A Media Center at Home 2 comments By AviPublished: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:39:38 +0000 Updated: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:08:28 +0000 Published: 25 Apr 2009 Updated: 27 Apr 2009 Published: 11:39 am Updated: 9:08 am Categories: Linux & Open Source • Multimedia Tags:
           
    Flash Player now supports advanced MPEG-4 content 10 comments By AviPublished: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:06:12 +0000 Updated: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:58:22 +0000 Published: 11 Oct 2007 Updated: 2 Mar 2008 Published: 2:06 pm Updated: 9:58 am Categories: Multimedia • Web 2.0 Tags:
           
    Fedora Post-installation Configurations 26 comments By AviPublished: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:31:03 +0000 Updated: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:45:30 +0000 Published: 10 Jun 2007 Updated: 3 Aug 2009 Published: 5:31 pm Updated: 4:45 am Categories: Linux & Open Source • Multimedia Tags:
           
    A Media Center at Home 2 comments By AviPublished: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:39:38 +0000 Updated: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:08:28 +0000 Published: 25 Apr 2009 Updated: 27 Apr 2009 Published: 11:39 am Updated: 9:08 am Categories: Linux & Open Source • Multimedia Tags:
           
    How to Make High Quality DVD Rips 41 comments By AviPublished: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:36:50 +0000 Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:48:50 +0000 Published: 2 Mar 2008 Updated: 11 Mar 2009 Published: 9:36 am Updated: 9:48 am Categories: Multimedia Tags:
           

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