Jwar's Tech Toyz

I'm testing some different video settings for my encodes that I publish to the site, here are links

Crysis Clip on the three monitors in Flash

Dog Video in Flash

Jude doing his thing in Flash

Bronco game in Quicktime


Ken flying his plane in Quicktime


Ken flying his plane using Flash

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Here is a short video of me paying Crysis on three monitors

Here is a zip file that contains the apps that you will need to convert your DVD's into a format that will work on your iPod. iPod.zip

First you will need to install DVD Decrypter, and rip the DVD to a folder on your harddrive.

Second, use Vobmerge to merge the VOB files from that folder into one big vob file. Usually, if you list the files in that folder so that you can see the details, you only will need the VOBs that are 2_1 through 2_6 or somthing like that ( could be any # x_x, but they will include a number of 1GB files) they will be much bigger than the other VOBs, the little ones are probably trailers or special features. Generally the x_0 VOB is the DVD menu, so don't include that in your merge.

After you have the merged VOB, open videora, and click on Convert, then click the one-click transcode button, and select the merged VOB. This will automatically re-encode it, into an MP4 format that you can play with quicktime, or upload to your video iPod.

Best of Luck.

I am setting this blog up at the moment. my intent is to update these posts with more in-depth reviews on each of the items posted. Check back in the future and there will undoubtedly be more content to be had.

Regards,

jwar

This is the first handgun I ever owned. It is also one of the most fun to shoot. If you ever get a chance to shoot one of these accurate little guys, take it.

This gun is an H&K G36 .223. It sure is a kick to shoot. It can only be owned by military or law enforcement. I had a chance to shoot it full auto at the .50 cal and Machine Gun shoot in Fort Morgan this summer.

I usually run these in landcape mode, but I thought this was a neat wallpaper. Before the awesome 2405FP's came out, these Dell 1905FPs where the best way for me to get a lot of realestate.

This is my Beretta Model 96. It shoots a lot better than I do. This shoots a .40 cal bullet, so its very managable while still having quite a bit of bark to it. A friend of mine's Dad sold it to me after seeing the pure joy I had shooting it. Beretta is truly one of the finest firearm manufacturers out there. Very good design and function.

This is my first High Definition television. I had roughly 4700 hours on the first bulb before I recently replaced it. I bought it as a display model, and its been a great TV. Unfortunatly, it doesnt to so great when there is light streaming into the windows behind me, my livingroom isn't setup for optimum viewing during daylight hours. During football season I watch upstairs on the LCD.

This is another display model that I purchased at Circuit City. I'm a real sucker for 18 months No Interest deals. This one has a beautiful picture, and freed up a ton of room in my loft. Only drawback is that it doesnt have an RGB in, just HDMI, so to hook-up my media pc, I had to use a 25' DVI-HDMI cable. With the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro in my HTPC, the best resolution I can display clearly is 1152x668. 1280x720 overscans too much to be worthwhile. Anyhow, it does the trick...