{"id":74,"date":"2009-03-25T06:07:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T19:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noraisin.net\/~jan\/diary\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-03-25T06:07:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T19:07:44","slug":"my-birthday-is-over-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"My birthday is over at last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 4 months after the fact, my birthday is finally complete &#8211; my <a href=\"http:\/\/pythonide.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/how-to-make-money-with-free-software.html\">&#8220;Netherlands and Architecture&#8221;<\/a> &#8220;Open Source&#8221; coin finally arrived from the Royal Dutch Mint:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/noraisin.net\/~jan\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/2009-03-23-231709.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/noraisin.net\/~jan\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/2009-03-23-231709-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Dutch Mint coin - Netherlands and Architecture\" title=\"2009-03-23-231709\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/2009-03-23-231709-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/2009-03-23-231709.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Royal Dutch Mint coin - Netherlands and Architecture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The delay was caused by transmission errors introduced somewhere while communicating our delivery address.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obligatory GStreamer bit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The other nice thing from today is this script <a href=\"http:\/\/luisbg.blogalia.com\/\">Luis<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple shell script that uses GStreamer&#8217;s gst-launch utility to do 2 pass conversion to H.264 and AAC in an MPEG-4 container. You can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/noraisin.net\/~jan\/gst\/convert2bbstorm.sh\">here<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p>As an added bonus, Luis reports that the GStreamer conversion is noticeably faster than the erroneous FFmpeg one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 4 months after the fact, my birthday is finally complete &#8211; my &#8220;Netherlands and Architecture&#8221; &#8220;Open Source&#8221; coin finally arrived from the Royal Dutch Mint: 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/?p=74\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My birthday is over at last!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gstreamer","category-hacking","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}