Monthly Archives: November 2006

How to Create a Streaming Flash Video Player Using Ming PHP or Ruby

By | Published: November 29, 2006
I mentioned in creating Flash videos using FFMpeg that you could use Ming to create your own Flash video player. I've added a patch to the ruby -ming extension for video streaming so now it is possible to create a streaming player with both PHP and Ruby using their Ming extensions. The following examples show [...]
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Ruby Ming Extension Patch to Add Video Streaming

By | Published: November 27, 2006
After playing with the Ruby Ming extension a little more I found that they don't have support for SWFVideoStreams so I made a patch to add it. The patch also fixes the beta issues I described in building the ming ruby extension.
Posted in ruby, utilities | 2 Comments

Creating Flash Videos Using FFMpeg

By | Published: November 26, 2006
One of the hardest parts about doing video on the Internet in the past has been knowing what video format to use. With the rise of video sharing sites like youtube the answer these days seems to be Flash video. It is very easy to create Flash videos and display them using FFMpeg and a [...]
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Building The Ming Ruby Extension

By | Published: November 25, 2006
I've been trying out Ming SWF output library in PHP for a few days and I thought I would give the Ruby extension a try to see how well it worked. It turns out that it is kind of old and busted but it is fixable.
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Even Amazon Can Hurt

By | Published: November 23, 2006
It just goes to show that even the most redundant sites in the world have their limits. Amazon is mostly unusable ATM because they tried to sell XBox360s at $100.
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PHP ImageMagick MagickWand Examples

By | Published: November 23, 2006
A while back I explained how to compile the ImageMagick extension for PHP and this past week I got around to creating some example code to make some of the command line examples I have in ImageMagick command line examples part 1 and ImageMagick command line examples part 2.
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Using Java to get detailed DNS information

By | Published: November 19, 2006
Not long ago I was curious about using Java to look up DNS information so I decided to put together a little DNSBL/RBL checker so I could experiment with Java DNS lookups and some PHP/Java communications. There isn't a lot of Java DNS stuff out there but it was easy to tell that the tool [...]
Posted in java, system administration, utilities | 6 Comments

Upgrade to PHP 5.2 and Get JSON For Free

By | Published: November 14, 2006
A few days ago when PHP 5.2 was released one of the things that caught my eye was that it now includes the JSON extension. For anyone doing AJAXy type stuff JSON is an easy way to martial your data between your server side language and javascript. For the longest time I've been using the [...]
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Installing Beryl and The Latest Linux NVidia Drivers

By | Published: November 9, 2006
I finally kicked my 64 bit install to the curb and am now running my AMD 64 desktop box in 32 bit mode. I decided that I had had enough of random crashes and having to compile things special every time I wanted something new. Having just upgraded from FC5 to FC6 on a couple [...]
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Fun with ANSI escape codes

By | Published: November 3, 2006
For fun I recently pimped out a ruby script that I had written for some testing with a little color and a spinner. If you have never used ANSI escape codes before I've put together a simple script that shows how easy it is.
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