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Moodle @ School: the last day

Bart Bonamie — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:36:11 +0000

Today we went to the Acropolis, where we could marvell the wonder that is the Parthenon. For more videos, check our Facebook page.

Update: VLC Media Player 1.1.5

Bart Bonamie — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:10:30 +0000

Those wonderful folks at Videolan have released a new version of the VLC Media Player. If you’re using an ATI graphics card, and you’ve got version 10.7 or higher of the Catalyst drivers installed, then VLC can use DxVA2 hardware acceleration as well.

What’s new in 1.1.5:

1000 Web-shows listing integrated inside VLC’s playlist, provided by Channels.com

New Game Music Emu (GME) support

Windows SMB security issue - VideoLAN-SA-1006

Major updates in translations, and new translations in Asturian, Armenian and Modern Greek

Mac/Power-PC port fixed in 1.1.4.1

live .webm streams support

GPU HD decoding using Intel IGP on Windows, using DxVA2

Miscellaneous fixes on all Interfaces, Demuxers and Decoders modules

Codecs updates

Get it while it’s still hot!

Update: VLC Media Player 1.1.4

Bart Bonamie — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:40:26 +0000

Okay, we know: you use Videolan‘s Media Player VLC (because you know what’s good for you), but what we don’t know is if you’re using Windows as well. If you are, then you might want to upgrade again, because some problems have been fixed:

A bit after the 1.1.3, an important security issue was discovery in most windows applications, and VLC is affected too. Since security issues matters, here is a new release, targeted for the Windows platform!

Windows Dll loading security issue, in Qt4 and dmo modules – VideoLAN-SA-1005

Fix for folders opening issue on Windows

Updated translations

Go and get that upgrade, already!

Create DVDs easily with DVD Flick

Geert Bonamie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:25:22 +0000

Imagine you have a bunch of videofiles that you’d like to play on a standalone DVD player -with a nice menu of course. Well, in that case, DVD Flick is definitely worth while considering, not just because it is extremely simple, versatile, powerful but also because it is open source -oh joy!

On their website, it says “DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles as well as a menu for easier navigation.”

The modus operandi is fairly simple: if you want to create a DVD, you just add all the videofiles to your project -DVD Flick supports over 60 video formats and 40 audio formats so it’s not very likely you’ll run into problems here. If they’re available, you can also add subtitles and/or additional audiostreams. If you want to get your DVD fast you probably won’t need to dive deep in the project settings -with the target bitrate set to auto-fit, the default options are quite ok.

Fancy menu designs!

Creating a menu is as easy as falling off a log: you just click on Menu settings and you choose a fancy design. If you don’t like any of the preset designs, then you can always create your own but you’d have to download an additional tool.

The project settings

Before you actually burn your DVD it’s not a bad idea to have a look at the project settings -you don’t want to end up with an NTSC if you’re in Europe, for one. By default DVD Flick will create 4.3 Gb DVDs, but if you want to burn a double layer, then it’s just a matter of selecting it in the target size pulldown menu.

If you’re ready with everything, hit the Create DVD button to export the DVD to an ISO or to burn it straight onto a DVD.