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Converting to webm to break the privacy leak and serial dependency to Youtube, AV1 recompression with the following command executed the second pass at a blistering 0.00917x actual speed, or 0.3 fps compression rate.

 ffmpeg -i Band_at_Borgo_a_Mozzano.MTS -c:v libsvtav1 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -preset 2 -svtav1-params tune=0 -b:v 0 -crf 39 -pass 1 -an -f null /dev/null && \
 ffmpeg -i Band_at_Borgo_a_Mozzano.MTS -c:v libsvtav1 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -preset 2 -svtav1-params tune=0 -b:v 0 -crf 39 -pass 2 -c:a libopus -b:a 128000 Band_at_Borgo_a_Mozzano.webm

Posted at 04:03:03 GMT-0700

Category: Geopost • Places • Positive • Reviews • Travel • video

beepocalypse

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Arriving in Italy we found our apartment had been squatted in by a swarm of hornets, probably through the chimney. It appeared they’d recently had a massive party and most, but not all had died.

We started a fire to clear the chimney and dispose of the corpses, which given how gigantic they were, was a lot of burning. By a lot, I mean dustpans full of hornets, some still crawling, at a time.

They could have been European Hornets, but the largest were closer to 5cm or so, fairly large even for European Hornets.

Posted at 02:05:58 GMT-0700

Category: Geopost • photo • Travel

Rebuilding is Complete

Thursday, October 20, 2011

I wish to thank everyone for their support in this brief moment of crisis.

Posted at 14:59:07 GMT-0700

Category: Funny • Geopost • Odd • photo

I WILL rebuild

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Earthquake damage

Posted at 14:53:00 GMT-0700

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Scrapper

Thursday, October 20, 2011

I went to see Scrapper, the documentary by Stephen Wassmann, that was showing as part of the SF Documentary Film Festival. It is the story of the people who live between the Salton Sea and the Chocolate Mountain Bombing Range and make a living gathering scrap metal off the range between bombing runs.

It’s quite a frank and intimate portrayal of some extremely eccentric characters. They spend their time divided between driving around the range gently prying the aluminum tail fins off unexploded ordinance, heating the booty over open fires to loosen the scrap-value-reducing steel rivets, and doing crystal meth and drinking, though the last activity isn’t so much divided from the former two.

The most entertaining character is an old guy who set up camp on the isolated East side of the range, far from humanity, and cruises around the range in a highly modified VW bug living a life pretty much straight out of the Road Warrior.

It is definitely a movie where every moment seems to balance precariously on the edge of a ravine or on a delicate trip wire on a 2,000# bomb that failed to release when it buried itself fins-deep in the desert sand.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/11457549[/vimeo]

Posted at 04:18:18 GMT-0700

Category: Films • Geopost • Positive • Reviews • video

Only in NY

Friday, September 23, 2011

Yes, the fire truck is on fire.

I smelled burning plastic from across the street and looked up to see a smoke plume coming out of the passenger cabin of the ladder truck across the street. They seem to have put it out before the truck burned. They are firemen after all.

Even better, it is parked in front of FDNY gifts.

Posted at 07:40:29 GMT-0700

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