So I have been playing with Justin.tv ever since I interviewed for the position and I must admit that I am addicted. It sucks that they decided not to hire anyone for the position
But hey, they got another user out of it!
Justin.tv is a live webcasting website that is totally free! Like YouTube for live footage. It is the most awesome up and coming application out right now.
You can check me out two ways… First you can click on the “Live Feed” link above or if you want to chat while I am live you can go directly to my live feed on Justin.tv by clicking here.
Last year I drove from Florida to California with a trailer in order to move my life to the left coast. I video taped a lot of the ride and I am planning on editing it in to a nice little documentary/travelog. I upload it a scene from the trip to YouTube yesterday. In it I have just crossed the border in to Texas and found myself in a gridlock of vehicles.
So, Sean, my co-worker decided that he wanted to archive all his movies in a NAS and watch them streaming through his home network. Then he changed his mind and decided that he wants it to handle downloads and I am sure the next thing is that he wants it to be like a sling box. Or at least it will be when he reads this
So, I am toying around with creating a software package for Linux/Mac that will allow you to manage videos, music, and photos locally and clustered to NAS arrays that will allow you to watch uncompressed or compressed on the fly movies via direct access or a web interface. It will also have a built in torrent downloader and an indexer that will allow you to quickly and easily find media on the cluster. It will also support multiple users and roles so that you can let you friends in to download and upload things with disk and bandwidth quotas.
And there you have it. Its only an idea at this point and I won’t be able to do it alone so if anyone that happens upon this blog can help, shoot me an email or IM.
If you own a JVC Everio video camera you will share in my frustration on this.
For some stupid reason, JVC decided to use a damn proprietary file type for their video files. .MOD
.MOD seems to be an MPEG2 format that nothing but iMovie can read and to make matters worse, the tools that came with the camera are windows only and by what I have read don’t even handle the files right.
Thankfully though, I have found hope in converting the stupid useless files in to something more useful and even compressing them for web use. Check out: http://www.squared5.com/ they have the answer that I have been looking for and its for Windows and Mac! I just used it and it works beautifully. I converted to .MP4 and posted it on my you tube account. You can check it out here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7gX_IHn0_4
The converter even has full H.264 compression support for .MP4 files!!! YAY!!
