Here’s another panorama
The Wicklow Gap this time

Wicklow Gap

Camera this time was a Canon SX200 IS

Over a few hours when I went to the cinema whilst the tide was coming in.
Nikon S210, 30 seconds per frame. I should slow it down really.

from the top of Knockeyon

I’ve wanted a titainium bike for awhile now.
I went ahead and ordered one. Need to decide what the rest of the bike will be.
It comes in at 1.65 Kg’s for all in the picture there.
 

Litespeed icon

Litespeed Icon, side view

These wordpress upgrades just seem to keep coming out. I feel that the way they are handled should be better. This is mainly a test message to see if everything is still working. It went a bit messy this morning, but mainly becuase I’m in a rush, and I had a seven time difference with yesterday (Krasnoyarsk to Ireland).

Task for later and to find a decent spam filtering system for comments. I hate gotchas, and they’ve mainly been cracked, but they seem like the best option. I’ll have a look later and see what is the current thinking.

On holidays from work, therefore not spending much time at a computer. It’s great, first break I’ve taken since November.
Completed my first “Into the west” cycle challenge today. I did 330km overall. Average speed back was 34km/h. Happy with that result.

Here’s a photo I took recently in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Normal Jesus Painting?

There is one problem, this is what I see:

The True Stroy of Jesus

That’s all for tonight. I’m back home tomorrow, wohoo!

More of a brain dump for me again. I keep losing these settings, so it’s handy to have them on my site.

The command below will turn a normal avi into one that can be played on a Creative Zen. It should also work for other mp3 player like ipod etc., that need video at 320×240. I use Mplayer under cygwin when I’m stuck on a windows machine (in work). It’ll work the same from a dos shell on windows, or from a terminal on *nix.

mencoder.exe <input file> -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:v4mv:mbd=2:trell \
-vf expand=:::::4/3,scale=320:-11,harddup -oac mp3lame -lameopts \
fast:preset=medium -ffourcc DX50 -o <output file>

And in bash niceness do a whole dir and dump the output into the ./Zen dir (you’ll have to make it first)…

for i in *.avi ; do mencoder.exe $i -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
vcodec=mpeg4:v4mv:mbd=2:trel -vf expand=:::::4/3,scale=320:-11,harddup \
-oac mp3lame -lameopts fast:preset=medium -ffourcc DX50 -o ./Zen/$i ; done

If for some reason the index didn’t save with the file, the below will generate it, and save it into a new file. This can also be used to repair regular .avi’s with no index (One’s that won’t let you skip through them).

mencoder.exe -idx <input file> -ovc copy -oac copy -o <output file>

Update:

Was testing this under *nix today. If you are on a SMP machine, this will use two threads. Increase the number if you have quad core, etc.

mencoder.exe <input file> -ovc lavc -lavcopts threads=2 \vcodec=mpeg4:v4mv:mbd=2:trell \
-vf expand=:::::4/3,scale=320:-11,harddup -oac mp3lame -lameopts \
fast:preset=medium -ffourcc DX50 -o <output file>