the blog of david dean » video http://www.davidbdean.com currently not blogging much at all Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:30:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Smashy Smashy http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/12/06/smashy-smashy/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/12/06/smashy-smashy/#comments Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:34:42 +0000 David Dean http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/12/06/smashy-smashy/

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TED (Technology Entertainment Design) is an annual conference in Monterey, California that describes itself as a global community of remarkable people and remarkable ideas. Its content is extremely broad, including science, art, business, global issues, architecture, music, and comedy. Speakers are a “who’s who” of luminaries from a variety of communities. Speakers have included Jane Goodall, Freeman Dyson, Bill Gates, Billy Graham, Bono, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Richard Dawkins, and Steve Pinker.

Some of my favorite video so far are Richard Dawkins, Ray Kurzweil, Michael Shermer, Burt Rutan, Malcom Gladwell, David Deutsch, Ze Frank, and Al Gore (he’s funny – who knew?). I’ve still got a few I want to watch such as Bono, Jimmy Wales and Aubrey de Grey (there are around 45 talks up so far). Link to all videos.

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  • Why can’t I view my videos in chronological order? When I don’t watch videos for a while, or I want to look at my collection the videos always appear to be stored in reverse chronological order. It is very difficult to watch them in the order they were posted.
  • I’m still having problems with videos from Revver, such as ze frank and ask a ninja. Sometimes they work, sometimes they flash, sometimes they don’t show any video at all. Audio works fine, though.
  • Because I’m having trouble with videos not working, or maybe I need to get some work done when I haven’t finished a video, I would please like a ‘mark-as-unwatched’ option.

These issues aside, Democracy Player is the best platform for watching video podcasts that I have found. Thanks for the great app.

UPDATE: Apparently the flashing is a VLC issue in Windows. Democracy have milestoned it to be fixed in 0.9.2.

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Poor choice of music though. Youtube link, if you can’t see the video above. Thanks, Bad Astronomer.

]]> http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/09/12/pool-trickshots/feed/ 1 My 78 year old grandfather, sky-diving http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/08/31/my-78-year-old-grandfather-sky-diving/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/08/31/my-78-year-old-grandfather-sky-diving/#comments Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:42:49 +0000 David Dean http://www.cebidae.com/2006/08/31/my-78-year-old-grandfather-sky-diving/

And I put my first google video video up. Not as impressive though, huh? (If you want to see it bigger than the small window above, click here – you can also download a file from that link).

]]> http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/08/31/my-78-year-old-grandfather-sky-diving/feed/ 0 The Chaser’s War on Everything Video Podcast http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/08/19/the-chasers-war-on-everything-video-podcast/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/08/19/the-chasers-war-on-everything-video-podcast/#comments Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:18:44 +0000 David Dean http://www.cebidae.com/2006/08/19/the-chasers-war-on-everything-video-podcast/ Chaser VodcastChaser is one of those shows that I always mean to watch but never do. Most of these shows (they ones I mean to watch) seem to be on ABC or SBS in Australia. But it appears that they are putting up video podcasts of their complete episodes, which is probably close to a first for most TV shows in the world. I may get around to watching it now, once my internet stops being so slow. I wonder if more ABC shows will start doing this.

]]> http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/08/19/the-chasers-war-on-everything-video-podcast/feed/ 1 Viewing transcribed video with WaveSurfer http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/07/26/viewing-transcribed-video-with-wavesurfer/ http://www.davidbdean.com/2006/07/26/viewing-transcribed-video-with-wavesurfer/#comments Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:40:51 +0000 David Dean http://www.cebidae.com/2006/07/26/viewing-transcribed-video-with-wavesurfer/ WaveSurfer
Did you know that you can use WaveSurfer to view transcribed (or to perform transcription on) videos as well as audio? I do now: just install the plugin available here.

Word of warning tho: It says

Web-based install: In WaveSurfer, select Plug-ins from the File menu. Under Plug-ins available for installation, select video and click install.

I don’t know where that is. I have the latest version of Wavesurfer (I just downloaded it) and no such option exists in the file menu. Just follow the manual install instructrions (which I have edited slightly – in bold)

Manual installation (Windows): Download and open http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/video.zip . Put the files video.plug and QuickTimeTcl.dll the WaveSurfer plugins directory %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\.wavesurfer\1.8\plugins for WaveSurfer 1.8.*, where HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH are Windows environment variables (in most cases the directory will be C:\Documents and Settings\username\.wavesurfer\1.8\plugins). Optionally, also put Video.conf in your configurations directory.

UPDATE: I guess this is an example of freedback, so I’ve added that category/tag. (More freedback here)

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