My birthday is over at last!

Nearly 4 months after the fact, my birthday is finally complete – my “Netherlands and Architecture” “Open Source” coin finally arrived from the Royal Dutch Mint:

Royal Dutch Mint coin - Netherlands and Architecture
Royal Dutch Mint coin - Netherlands and Architecture

The delay was caused by transmission errors introduced somewhere while communicating our delivery address.

Obligatory GStreamer bit

The other nice thing from today is this script Luis and I put together to convert any supported video into a format suitable for playback on his new BlackBerry Storm after he had trouble with encoding errors trying to use FFmpeg for the task.

It’s a simple shell script that uses GStreamer’s gst-launch utility to do 2 pass conversion to H.264 and AAC in an MPEG-4 container. You can find it here if you’re interested.

As an added bonus, Luis reports that the GStreamer conversion is noticeably faster than the erroneous FFmpeg one.

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