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How to Make High Quality DVD Rips 11 comments By AviPublished: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:36:50 -0300 Updated: Sat, 10 May 2008 08:11:28 -0300 Published: 2 Mar 2008 Updated: 10 May 2008 Published: 9:36 am Updated: 8:11 am Categories: Multimedia Tags:
How to Make High Quality DVD Rips 11 comments By AviPublished: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:36:50 -0300 Updated: Sat, 10 May 2008 08:11:28 -0300 Published: 2 Mar 2008 Updated: 10 May 2008 Published: 9:36 am Updated: 8:11 am Categories: Multimedia Tags:

After a long study of months I found this method to be the best way to rip/encode or backup my DVDs. The resulting digital file uses the best standards and technologies (as H.264, MP4, Matroska, AC3 etc), looks practically lossless to human eyes and has reasonable good file size (about 1 to 1.4GB per movie).

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

How to Make High Quality DVD Rips 11 comments By AviPublished: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:36:50 -0300 Updated: Sat, 10 May 2008 08:11:28 -0300 Published: 2 Mar 2008 Updated: 10 May 2008 Published: 9:36 am Updated: 8:11 am Categories: Multimedia Tags:

After a long study of months I found this method to be the best way to rip/encode or backup my DVDs. The resulting digital file uses the best standards and technologies (as H.264, MP4, Matroska, AC3 etc), looks practically lossless to human eyes and has reasonable good file size (about 1 to 1.4GB per movie).

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Flash Player now supports advanced MPEG-4 content 10 comments By AviPublished: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:06:12 -0300 Updated: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:58:22 -0300 Published: 11 Oct 2007 Updated: 2 Mar 2008 Published: 2:06 pm Updated: 9:58 am Categories: MultimediaWeb 2.0 Tags:

Adobe’s press release says it all: lab version of o Flash Player 9.0 supports latest and best multimedia technologies.
Thanks to YouTube and other online video services, the Adobe Flash Player browser plug in is probably the most popular video player in the world. But before this version, only the proprietary and now inefficient FLV format [...]

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My New Cellphone 20 comments By AviPublished: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:12:39 -0300 Updated: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:59:51 -0300 Published: 4 Aug 2007 Updated: 2 Mar 2008 Published: 8:12 pm Updated: 9:59 am Categories: MobilityMultimedia Tags:

Its a Nokia E61i.

The Nokia E Series smartphones are currently the most advanced in the market. Some may say iPhone but there is no more than great usability and fancy-ness on it.
These are a few characteristics I like in E61i:

QWERTY keyboard. I’m tired of loosing stylus pens and even use them to point things.
WiFi with [...]

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Fedora Post-installation Configurations 23 comments By AviPublished: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:31:03 -0300 Updated: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:32:20 -0300 Published: 10 Jun 2007 Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Published: 5:31 pm Updated: 7:32 am Categories: Linux & Open SourceMultimedia Tags:

A short and practical guide on how to install proprietary technologies on Fedora Linux. Get MP3, DivX/Xvid, MP4, AVI, Flash, and fonts installed easily on Fedora Linux.

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Propagandas do iPhone para Linux 1 comment By AviPublished: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:26:37 -0300 Updated: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:58:56 -0300 Published: 4 Jun 2007 Updated: 2 Mar 2008 Published: 11:26 am Updated: 9:58 am Categories: Linux & Open SourceMobilityMultimedia Tags:

A Apple finalmente deu a data de lançamento do iPhone: 29 de junho.
Em seu site há 3 lindos videos mostrando a operação fácil do aparelho. Mas exige Quicktime e sem isso não funciona. Para um leigo.
Mas como já sabia que a Apple usa padrões ISO em seus videos, tipo MP4, H.264 e AAC, foi só [...]

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    Fedora Post-installation Configurations 23 comments By AviPublished: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:31:03 -0300 Updated: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:32:20 -0300 Published: 10 Jun 2007 Updated: 15 Apr 2008 Published: 5:31 pm Updated: 7:32 am Categories: Linux & Open SourceMultimedia Tags:
    How to Make High Quality DVD Rips 11 comments By AviPublished: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:36:50 -0300 Updated: Sat, 10 May 2008 08:11:28 -0300 Published: 2 Mar 2008 Updated: 10 May 2008 Published: 9:36 am Updated: 8:11 am Categories: Multimedia Tags:

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