If real life were like the Internet
Dec. 5th, 2006 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
giza...things shipped to you via registered mail would be shipped (re-transmitted) via UPS (higher QoS) if the shipper doesn't get your signature (Acknowledgment).
...then the item would be shipped again via FedEx (higher QoS, smaller window size) if UPS didn't get your signature.
...and finally, the route of last resort would also be the most expensive, a courier would deliver the item by hand.
Just some idle musings from, as co-worker M would say, "a total dork". :-P
...then the item would be shipped again via FedEx (higher QoS, smaller window size) if UPS didn't get your signature.
...and finally, the route of last resort would also be the most expensive, a courier would deliver the item by hand.
Just some idle musings from, as co-worker M would say, "a total dork". :-P
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Date: 2006-12-05 07:52 pm (UTC)My idea of "cool" is transcoding a DivX AVI to DVD-Video and using my desktop at full speed at the same time, thanks to the wonders of dual core.
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Date: 2006-12-05 07:57 pm (UTC)I think memory bandwidth is gonna play a bigger part there... single core could handle that just fine as long as there was pre-emptive multitasking.
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Date: 2006-12-05 08:06 pm (UTC)FWIW, once again you have shown me you know more about this stuff than I do. =^_^=
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Date: 2006-12-05 08:12 pm (UTC)I've merely been at it longer.
That means I've seen things NOT to do. :-P
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Date: 2006-12-07 04:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-07 08:37 pm (UTC)Google on DeVeDe, it's a GTK+ program that can convert any format supported by mplayer (ffmpeg, win32 codecs, etc etc) to a DVD-Video disc for playback in set-top players. It supports lots of features, including (I believe) menus and subtitles. I just dump the MPEG-4 AVIs to DVD without anything special myself.
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Date: 2006-12-07 08:43 pm (UTC)At any rate, you need a chain of commandline tools to do this...basically the programs that DeVeDe invokes. It's just a frontend for dvdauthor, mencoder, mplayer, and others.
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Date: 2006-12-07 04:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-12-07 08:47 pm (UTC)Holy shit. You must have exploited some sort of buffer overflow to set the QoS value!