Her wild feral stare, her dark hair.

[reddragdiva]

I spent this morning answering pimp calls in my sleep and did a phone interview at two. I have a second interview face to face tomorrow morning. redcountess did a sterling job as sekketry. arkady went out on secret dollie business.

mofette is down for the weekend dollie picnic at Regent's Park. w00t! We are going to Avenue Q on Thursday night (tickets bought months ago), so she will be trying for the Sluts meet. Is there anything on Friday to take her to other than the Dev?

I have been playing silly buggers with the MJPEGtools. Here we have Arkady doing poi:

MPEG2, 2.3MB (download)

— and kimkali and narnee's (entirely worksafe) Lesbian Recruitment Video:

MPEG2, 2.0MB (download)

To run the second at half speed, I used ImageMagick to break the MJPEG into frames (adjusting the levels and gamma of each), a shell script to make a copy of each, gThumb to rename them in sequence and jpeg2yuv | yuvdenoise | mpeg2enc to re-encode as an MPEG2. I'm sure there are easier ways, but this was more fun.

Update: Right-click and save these; I don't think either server is fast enough to stream them. QuickTime sucks — play the videos in VLC or MPlayer. These files are honest to God MPEG2s (possibly the raw stream dump with no container), so I'm reluctant to go wildly out of my way, but if anyone can tell me a simple way to get mpeg2enc to generate something QuickTime won't turn its nose up at then I'm all ears.

Comments

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Neither of those vids will play on my Mac...

[reddragdiva]

VLC.

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

VLC WTF?

Fine on my work box. They did look very flirty.

[reddragdiva]

What did they play in?

(the video, not the girls!)

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

Each other's hair?

Windows Media.

Follow the link

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

VLC is a nice app to have on the side.

[velvet-wood.livejournal.com]

They don't play on my windows box, either, sorry. The first tries... I get a few seconds of very jumbled, garbage-filled screen, accompanied by a sound like a campfire crackling, then the video cuts out and the crackling continues. The second won't play at all. :(

[reddragdiva]

Try VLC. Is there mplayer for Windows? I checked them both in mplayer.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Second works cheerfully enough in mpegfile on Win2k.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Don't know much about video encodings but am tempted to suggest Quicktime should get a grip.

[reddragdiva]

Indeed. mplayer is actually notably smoother with it than VLC.

[untermensch.livejournal.com]

VLC is great, but for Windows users, K-lite Mega Codec Pack FTW! Includes MPC (Media Player Classic, open sourced) & every codec under the sun. Obviates the need for silly Quicktime or Realplayer. No spyware / adware included. Plays every format EVAR! If you don't like MPC, keep using VLC but with the codecs from K-lite.

Brought to you by untermensch, pimping out MPC & K-lite since 2003.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Seconded. I only ever use K-Lite on Windows and have yet to find something it couldn't handle.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

There's no way I can stream any video on this connection - but many video problems are codec-based, rather than format based (I think the formats are just containers or something).

I dunno anyway - but codecs may be something to consider.

[reddragdiva]

Right-click, save — the web server has trouble serving it fast enough to stream anyway. The codec should be straight-up MPEG2; I suspect what we have there is just the raw stream dump, no container (which would be why QT turns its nose up at it).

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

I don't actually end up with anything to click on - just MPEG2, 2.3MB written in the space. Picture my connection as the worst form of dial up and you'll be close..

I'm possibly up for the Dev on Friday btw (finances permitting).

[reddragdiva]

Arkady poi: http://pics.livejournal.com/reddragdiva/pic/000215pe
Recruitment: http://reddragdiva.co.uk/recruit1.mpg

[mofette.livejournal.com]

I cant' come on Thurs - ebay auctions finishing and need to be posted.

so looking forward to being up!! :D

[kimkali.livejournal.com]

~waves~

Thank you!

I hope adding you is okay. I sort of just did.
~grin~

[reddragdiva]

Goodness!

Yes ;-D