Good thing: So after some fiddling I have now discovered what you can and can't get away with on the psp (need to do some confirms though).

Bad thing: Handbrake can see subtitles in all files, but only supports burning them from dvd sources? I suspect this is an underlying limitation of ffmpeg, but still. MEH.

Meh, so I have experimented and reached the following conclusions:

1. spu-medialib is not ready for use on the ps3 for linux mode playback.
2. thanks to libswscale (I presume), ffmpeg is broken on ppc (at least on the ps3), even with altivec off. This means running handbrake / ffmpeg based conversion stuff under linux on the ps3 is also out.

combined with ( Read more... )

Been watching a lot of them lately. Partly because I had a book of blockbuster vouchers to use up, partly because PLV has been a bit under the weather, and partly because, well bic. These things go in waves.

The forbidden KingdomJackie chan/Jet li at it again in a film that (barring superior sfx) you would swear was a late 80's movie. The whole ( Read more... )

So, as a result of various ramblings, I decided to pick up a Gameboy Micro on the cheap ( Read more... )

Its perhaps worrying but I was just now seriously thinking I could use another screen for doing my work on.

And I currently have 4 ...

can be quite a pain. All I wanted to do was limit a box so other machines on the network could use it ok (shockingly it was pulling from a remote box that could completely max it all out).

( If you are not sufficiently geeky, you probably do not want to read more )

Who needs a ds?

So, the thing finally arrived (woo!). After much faffing to find appropriate devices to perform an image of the machine before first use (now done), and several hours of fiddle to get OSX installed, followed by an attack of xslimmer so I could install the sdks (10.5.6+iphonesdk+X11 leaves me with ~ 3gb free from 16 after running xslimmer ( Read more... )

Ok, its only a case, but still:
oiled leather ds case

Interesting weekend, if tired for most of it. Attended crazy-persons logan's run party. Ate, drank, was merry, discussed geeky things ( Read more... )