by Jason L Froebe on October 3, 2012, no comments
The VTech Innotab is a young children’s tablet for learning. When I picked up two of them from the local Target, we installed the six free games but was rather disappointed with the video capabilities listed in the manual: File Type: AVI Resolution: 480 x 272 Video Codec: MJPEG Video Bit rate: 2400kbps Frame rate: [...]
by Jason L Froebe on January 7, 2012, 3 comments
I have an Nissan Altima with a BOSE radio that allows me to hook up an USB thumbdrive containing mp3 files. The problem is most of my audiobooks are in m4b format. Previously I’ve used tools like mp3splt and tried to split on ‘silence’ or timed increments (say 15 min) but I was getting mp3 [...]
by Jason L Froebe on January 20, 2010, no comments
Yeah, it’s Who Better Than Me by Phil Collins with the Turk and Tarzan names changed but it covers just about any two closely aged siblings IMHO: Miriam You’re one of a kind, I can’t explain it. You’re kind of cool, in a wonderful way. Though you’re weird, you can make it. And who better [...]
by Jason L Froebe on December 15, 2009, one comment
So, what we have here is a country that tries to run itself on the commandments of a god who the people feel maybe wearing his underpants on his head. Has he abominated underpants? No sir, but is probably only a matter of time. Yesterday, I posted <a href=”http://froebe.net/blog/2009/12/14/howto-convert-your-mp3-tags-id3v2-to-id3v1-so-your-playstation-3-can-play-your-mp3s/”>Howto: Convert your mp3 tags (id3v2 to [...]
by Jason L Froebe on December 14, 2009, 5 comments
Run the converter on your media server: ps3_mp3_converter.pl -d {directory} Copy your mp3 collection wherever you told ps3_mp3_converter.pl to run in. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use File::Basename; use File::Find (); use Getopt::Std; use Linux::Inotify2; use POE; $|++; ####################################### ####################################### our @found_dirs; sub watch_add_dir { my ($heap_ref, $session, $dir_name) = @_; $heap_ref->{inotify}->watch($dir_name, IN_CREATE|IN_CLOSE_WRITE, $session->postback(“watch_hdlr”)); print [...]