{"id":61,"date":"2009-12-20T22:18:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T05:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2009-12-20T22:18:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T05:18:20","slug":"game-over-and-format-fiddling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Game over and format fiddling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day, another load of time spent playing Civ II.\u00a0 That game is addicting.\u00a0 I kicked everyone’s ass and won the game, of course.\u00a0 I read more about ancient Chinese history too.\u00a0 I’m such a geek.<\/p>\n

I just updated FembotWiki, and now it’s time to get to bed.\u00a0 But not before I bitch about Windows software for a while.<\/p>\n

I was trying to make an iPod-format video for someone.\u00a0 He had bought Paul McCartney’s new live one recently, and it came with a free download of the video on iTunes.\u00a0 When he plays that video (a full concert) on his iPod, it always crashes at one spot, and he has to re-load the video (after rebooting the iPod) and scroll forward to past the point where it crashes.\u00a0 And THAT’S an official release.<\/p>\n

I need a drink…<\/p>\n

Mmmmm… sweet water.\u00a0 Not sweet actually.\u00a0 Not sweet lemonade either… yeah, sweet lemonade sweet sweet lemonade.<\/p>\n

So I managed to get an xvid video for him… but that’s not exactly iPod size, so I needed to convert.\u00a0 For some reason, Video Converter (WinFF) in Linux wasn’t up to the task.\u00a0 I kept getting an error that no such directory exists.\u00a0 Since I’ve never used that application for anything… I thought I’d try a windows application.<\/p>\n

I had read about some video converters on LifeHacker<\/a> not long ago, so I found that page again and downloaded the one voted to be the best of 5.\u00a0 I also downloaded the 2nd best… and another…. until I downloaded MediaCoder iPod.\u00a0 The reason I tried three fucking programs before I got one to work is that they need the Microsoft .NET framework to work.\u00a0 Who the fuck uses .NET for programs?\u00a0 What, are you fucking crippled and retarded?\u00a0 Lazy fucktards.<\/p>\n

Since my “music” computer, the one with the actual Windows XP has no internet connection, and since I don’t want shit like .NET polluting it, I needed to find something else.\u00a0 MediaCoder iPod worked… but it only encodes in 4:3 aspect ratio.\u00a0 That means the video I will return to the guy who made the request for me to get him a new iPod version will look all stretchy and like everyone is real tall and skinny.<\/p>\n

Meh.<\/p>\n

I will have to give that live performance a listen though, from me jumping and scanning through the avi file, it looks like a good one.\u00a0 I hope I can have that level of energy when I’m 67.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another day, another load of time spent playing Civ II.\u00a0 That game is addicting.\u00a0 I kicked everyone’s ass and won the game, of course.\u00a0 I read more about ancient Chinese history too.\u00a0 I’m such a geek. I just updated FembotWiki, and now it’s time to get to bed.\u00a0 But not before I bitch about Windows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,38],"tags":[39,41,40],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-video-games","tag-civ-ii","tag-ipod","tag-video-conversion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}