20091026 av_interleaved_write_frame(): I/O error occurred

Usually that means that input file is truncated and/or corrupted., complains ffmpeg. No, there’s not any problem with the input file. What really happened is that ffmpeg was asked for a sequence of files but you failed to provide an appropriate file mask that ffmpeg could expand into a sequence of file names. For example: [...]

20091001 Roll your own ffmpeg build

I like to have my own build of ffmpeg. That way I don’t have to worry about not having this or that codec available. What I do is keep it in my ~/Applications/ffmpeg folder. Some people suggest using a ~/bin directory but I hate to drop every binary into the same place. Here are the [...]

20080612 The making of “Escena.org DVD #1″

We finally managed to release the first ever escena.org DVD. It had been the subject of speculations on repeated occasions during the past years and yet it was never done, until now :-) I’m going to detail how we produced the DVD for two reasons: Most of the tasks were done with Linux. And although [...]