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any to WMV

While trying to vamp up XBox 360 support for rygel, I also need a transcoder suitable for the XBox. While H.264 would work it is CPU consuming and hard to get right for the XBox, because it is quite picky. So I decided to go for WMV1/WMA2. Prototype gst-launch commandline:

gst-launch filesrc location=input_file ! decodebin2 name=decoder [...]

pmp 0.1 released

I just uploaded pmp 0.1 – Poor man’s prism desktop web application creator to github: http://github.com/phako/pmp

A release tarball can be found here: pmp-0.1.tar.gz

What is pmp?

pmp shares some similarities to Mozilla’s Prism. It creates a “standalone” app from a web application. Pmp uses Webkit as its rendering backend.

How do I use it?

To create an edge (that [...]

Making putty look nice on Windows

I don’t like the default look of putty on windows, so I usually do two things:

Download the DejaVu fonts
Get this PowerShell skript to tangoify the putty palette
Note: On Windows 7 you might need to enable yourself to be able to execute powershell skripts.