Entries tagged with “video recording” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Once again, America's biggest musical instrument trade show was an amazing mix of futuristic technology, fabulous performances, and freaky products. Here are some of my favorites, starting with portable audio recorders.

I bought a low-cost Flip video camera recently. I realized that I had seen many reviews of the camera, but had read nothing about the software that comes with it. So, here's my take on the Flip Video for Mac software.

A few weeks ago, my General Manger, Dan Brodnitz, asked me to create a new feature for our Digital Media site. He showed me a sample video of an online editor chatting about recent topics his site was covering. Dan wanted something like that for O'Reilly Digital Media. "But," he said, "I don't want you to spend a lot of...

Motion DSP's new Ikena system, announced today, looks to perform some astonishing cleanup on cruddy-looking, overcompressed videos. The initial Linux-based product (including hardware) will set you back $30,000, but this type of interpolation-based cleaning will certainly trickle down into affordable systems before too long. Check out the examples at MotionDSP.com and prepare to be amazed. I particularly like how the...

I dearly love my MythTV system. I travel a lot, and it enables me to take TV with me to 35,000 feet. What I love best is that it's growing with me. I recently added an Air2PC HD5000 card, so I now have a three-tuner box. (I hope to write an article on the new tuner in the near future.)...

In my initial MythTV article about hardware, I wrote that I had selected the Silverstone LC-03V because of the vacuum-fluorescent display (VFD). Although Silverstone boasted about the ready availability of Windows drivers, I had to do some digging. I discovered that the VFD used the NEC D16314AGJ-011 controller chip, which was described as being compatible with the well-known HD44780...

A few weeks ago, I upgraded to MythTV 0.19. For the most part, the upgrade is worthwhile, though I've had a few problems. On the plus side: My favorite addition is the signal strength meter. Adjusting the antenna with previous versions involved setting the antenna in a trial position, watching for half an hour, and counting the number of picture...

Simply shrinking a large frame of video to fit the display of a portable device, such as an iPod, just won’t work. They key is to shoot with your final output in mind.

NIST studied the quality of several CD and DVD recordable media under extreme conditions. They won't say who won, but there are clearly differences in what media you buy.

The next-gen DVD format HD DVD got a boost from a deal with several Hollywood studios.

First venture in blog land, so I figured I'd answer the questions I get asked most: which DVD-R media is the best and where is it the cheapest?

Pretty cool link on how to shoot 3D (stereo) video.

"Finally, it's hard to minimize the importance of the DVD Forum's provisional approval for Microsoft's VC-9 technology, essentially Windows Media Video 9, along with two other technologies, H.264 and MPEG-2, as mandatory on next-generation playback devices."

StreamingMedia.com is showcasing two apps that record live streams to files. A few years ago these kind of apps were frowned upon, but it seems like they're being more tolerated now.

Instead of complaining how digital video recorders are allowing users to skip commercials, advertisers and television broadcasters need to adapt to the new age of innovation.

Cool, simple explaination of codec features in DivX :-) and by extension, other MPEG-4 family codecs.

Macromedia ships Flash MX today, with the Flash Player 6 available now.

Will ZeoSync's claimed data compression technology really revolutionize computing?

RealNetworks revealed their answer to Microsoft's Windows Media Player 7 on Monday, with the release of RealOne, a platform that not only ties in their existing products, but is primed to become the single destination where customers can absorb every type of online media.

While Macintosh looks to OS X to be a turning point with both developers and everyday consumers, one must wonder why their marketing team focused on multimedia aspects that won't be there from the get-go.