brainwagon

Every once in a while, I try to make some actual DVDs using software that I have lying around the house (namely, an Ubuntu box). A question occurred to me a couple of days ago: can I store uncompressed PCM video onto a DVD? It turns out the answer is yes, although the methodology using […]

Damn, it’s been nearly a week since I put out my last one, and this was painful to put out. Hopefully it isn’t too painful to listen to. Items from the show: Shameless plug for my Cinnamon Bear Podcast. I upgraded this weblog to use the latest version of the CG Powerpack. I rambled about […]

Well, I’ve burned a few DVD blanks today just to see what I can do. For source material, I decided to go to the feature film section of archive.org. They have a bunch of films available in MPEG2 format, all fairly good quality and ready for download with minimal transcoding. For my experiments, I chose […]

Well, I finally caved in. DVD burners and blanks are now cheap enough that burning CD-Rs seemed like a waste of time, so I went ahead and picked up an inexpensive Toshiba model while at Fry’s yesterday. A quick bit of surgery and it was neatly installed in my server box, and I then set […]