Category Archives: video
Morgan Territory Motorcyclin’ — 85 mile east bay loop around Mt. Diablo with Honda CB400A “decaf”
After months of work, Russ finally gets his Ninja 600cc working! Hunter, Russ, and I celebrate with an 85-mile day trip during the three day weekend around Mount Diablo, through the legendary Morgan Territory. Ridden over: Oakland, Canyon, Moraga, Lafayette, … Continue reading
simple way to make h.264 mp4 web and iOS/mobile playable video mp4 files for linux and macosx using ffmpeg
Greetings video geeks! At my job, I’ve updated the process and way we create our .mp4 files that are shown on video pages on archive.org It’s a much cleaner/clearer process, namely: I opted to ditch ffpreset files in favor of … Continue reading
decaf 1978 honda CB400A running and instruments working
Here’s a short video mid-way through a 50-mile day of canyons and twisties. Fun! The “idiot lights” are working (still have to get the dang neutral light to turn off when in gear, but otherwise good 8-p) and now you … Continue reading
decaf 1978 honda CB400A speedometer and instruments replaced!
OK, so I sorted out all my re-wiring and was able to replace my stock honda huge instrument cluster with a much smaller and streamlined single mini-speedometer with four instrument lights combined in it. I used a CB400A wiring clymer … Continue reading
replacing CB400A instruments to smaller cafe racer style
Today I did much more than I thought I would — I pulled out and disconnected all instruments and relocated the ignition/key switch. The plan is to combine the current speedometer/odometer with four of the seven indicator lights (neutral, high … Continue reading
convert yuvj420p to yuv420p (chrome playable!) mp4 video (eg: canon/nikon video)
hooray! found a nice (video lossless, best i can tell) way to convert the video from cameras like my Canon ELPH SD1400, which is *already* h.264 video + PCM mono audio to a new mp4 container with aac audio. that … Continue reading
deinterlacing 2323 telecine video into fields for visual analysis
Having some challenging fun working on trying to deinterlace some toughie clips from my brother’s upcoming feature film. His camera recorded in 24fps (24000/1001 to you fellow geeks and smartly did a “2323″ writing/stretching of it to 60i (60 half-frames). … Continue reading
natively compiling ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder on MacOS Lion (with x264!)
OK, I’ve revamped my script to compile these tools: ffmpeg ffrobe qt-faststart mplayer mencoder on MacOS Lion, using the heads of the trees, with direct encoding support for: x264 vpx / WebM http://archive.org/~tracey/downloads/macff.sh.txt A nice recent update to ffmpeg is … Continue reading
camaro 0 to 60 test
2012 Camaro V6 Transformers Edition “Bumblebee” Hunter and I had some fun out in the east east Bay and gorgeous farmland countryside seeing how my little ‘Bee can buzz! Not super sophisticated Ms. Driver — but still lotsa fun and … Continue reading
more books for Internet Archive!
My boss had the great idea for me to time-lapse record 48 hours of a book donation, cataloging, and moving event. It was held in one of the longest buildings at Fort Mason, San Francisco and wound up giving the … Continue reading
drifting lotus elise on playstation
OK, this was harder than it looks to pull off, but after a lot of practicing, I finally got the hang of drifting corners with this car and managed to score big points on all four of the drifting zones. … Continue reading
natively compiling ffmpeg, x264, mplayer on mac (with builtin x264 and webm encoding)
i’m very pleased that after years of hacks here and there, all three heads of the current codebases pretty well build natively on mac (snow leopard) for x264 ffmpeg mplayer here, i’m making sure that i compile in static version … Continue reading
star wars 1977 reedit night
We had a blast watching our favorite film Monday night at our new “work theatre” (as opposed to “home”) and my new accurate prop replica pieces came in for the event!
internet archive holiday party time-lapse
This was our 2010 work holiday party where I used iTimeLapse w/ my iFone to make my longest time-lapse ever — over 8 hours (sped up to play in about 2min 30sec!) This features great music from Hunter!
The Train from Spain rides Mainly on the Plane
Kinda fun HD 720p video of my tiny camera taped onto my 3-year-old nephew’s matchbox-sized train. The camera weight and size meant it couldn’t go up train hills or tight spaces, so it was a flat track with “elbow room”. … Continue reading
fun with ford GT in GT5
more silly fun with the playstation. a very hopped up yellow 2006 ford GT with custom wheels and tons of engine mods. the rear wheel drive and crazy power makes sliding around the track a lot of fun…
it’s fun to drink and drive!
I’ve been having fun racing the boyfriend on the PS3 game “Gran Turismo 5″. Turns out the quite recent and relatively new Nissan GT-R is a totally insane car — 4WD and one of the largest engines Japan has made … Continue reading
Amazing Summer trip to Bali!
Two week vacation to the glorious island of Bali, summer 2010. Bali is culturally fascinating — full of very happy and cooperative people unlike any place I’ve seen. Here are some interesting tidbits/observances: Bali is an amazing isolated place whose … Continue reading
Sony P-Series running 10.10 Meerkat Ubuntu
Sony P-Series (specifically: win7 era P788K, 8″ 1600×768 display, 2B RAM, GMA 500 graphics, 64GB SSD) I got this supercute mini-laptop last year I had been using Ubuntu linux Lucid (10.4) and just upped to Meerkat (10.10). (Both were Netbook … Continue reading