Welcome to my Site
Welcome to my site! I will write here about gentoo Arch Linux, open source, my Nokia N810 N900 and other stuff that interests me. Have fun looking around! If you have questions, suggestions or corrections feel free to send me an email.
Newest Blog Entries
New Version: n900-encode.py 0.2
Since the first version had problems with the resulting videos beeing out of sync I have rewritten the encoding part to use mencoder. Also you can now use CRF encoding mode in addition to Constant Bitrate encoding. The new version can be obtained from the original site here on my page or from my GitHub Repository. As always I'd like to hear about any bugs, problems, or possible improvements that you might find. Have fun with the new version.
GitHub Repository opened
I have opened a repository on github for my scripts. Feel free to have a look: Seiichiros Scripts at github
Migrating a xencon vserver from gentoo to archlinux
Recently I switched all my machines from running gentoo to archlinux. Last gentoo-based machine for some time has been my http://www.xencon.net hosted vserver which runs this website and my mailserver. Unfortunalety xencon doesn't provide preconfigured archlinux images like they do for gentoo, ubuntu, debian and others. But since they have an excellent service and therefore I wanted to stay with them as my hosting provider, I decided to take the hard route and install archlinux via the provided rescue system. In the following article I will outline how I did this.
n900-encode.py: Create N900-friendly MP4-Videos
Today I present a (relatively) simple script that I wrote to convert videos to a format suitable for viewing on the Nokia N900. I know that there are many solutions for doing this, but none could handle subtitles (especially styled ones like SSA) well. Also I wanted the script to be scriptable, e.g. for converting a whole directory. Finally its a follow-up from my old n800-encode.sh script. So here is my solution to creating N900-friendly MP4:
SSC Has Started!
After some time I finally have come around to realize an idea that I have had for some time. I wrote (and still write) a whole lot of scripts to make my daily Computer life more efficient and comfortable. So from today on I will post the best of my creations here on my blog and collect them in a new Category: Seiichiros Scripting Corner or short, the SSC. I hope some of my scripts will be as usefull for readers of this page as they are for me.
