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Concentration
Originally uploaded by Ino*.

Importing data from web sites is a pain in the… armpit.
The Internet evolves so fast, websites are updated very often, HTML is a mess and I’m still looking for a date with Milla Jovovich.

Tellico, a cool whateveryouwant manager with a nice IMDb movie import routine. But it’s hard coded.

IMDb changes its pages once a month (ok, maybe not so often) and people have to wait for the Tellico developers to update the C++ code and build a new release. Then they have to download it and install it again, hoping IMDb didn’t change again in the meantime.

Sounds funny?

I can’t find my post-it notes, so this is a quick reminder for myself (thanks to MisterHowTo.com for the suggestions):

Trim/split video files with mencoder:

mencoder -ss hh:mm:ss -oac copy -ovc copy in.avi -o out.avi mencoder -endpos hh:mm:ss -ovc copy -oac copy in.avi -o out.avi

Remove an audio stream (the first stream has ID 1):

mencoder -aid 1 -ovc copy -oac copy in.avi -o out.avi

movida stage 2 is up!

It took me some time to rewrite the website and I know it doesn’t look all that awesome, but hey.. I’m not an artist!!

Too sad sf.net servers use php4 and apache 1.3. I had to change a few things to make the new site work. The site language (currently either Italian or English) cannot be changed as the apache 1.3 mod_negotiation doesn’t support the prefer_language environment variable. You will have to stuck with the language set in your web browser.

Now I hope there ain’t too much typing errors *___* 

PS: The source code section contains some nice tarballs with the latest source code from the SVN.

Ratts, holiday is over.

I have spent quite some time to clean up the source code and the new website for Movida. As a result, the IMDb import plugin is completely broken and has thus disappeared from the SVN. Most of the changes are in the movie editing dialog, so stand by to see the new website in a couple of days or checkout the SVN and hope the code builds (Qt 4.3 required!).

Here is a world wide preview of the screenshot that will appear on the home page of the movida:stage2 website