Archive for August, 2007

I don’t know. Robots just make me hot. And their masters too.

Don’t go see the Transformers, Dave! Oops, I think I placed a product right there.

Seriously, after seeing that 2-hour marathon of commercials and cross-promotion crap with my own eyes, I wonder how Lynch would pull off directing My Little Pony without plugging a gadjillion of Hasbro products.

Don’t worry, though, it was only an april fool’s joke.

After long years of putting up with proprietary video encoding solutions for Flash, Adobe just released a public beta of the next Flash Player update with MPEG-4 and AAC support.

Tinic Uro’s blog states that Flash will be able to load .mp4, .m4v, .m4a, .mov and .3gp files that are encoded with a H.264 video codec (no luck with XviD or DivX, though, boys and girls…) using Baseline, Main, High (BluRay, HD-DVD) or High 10 profile and AAC audio codec using MAIN, LC or SBR profile. Yes, HE-AAC is supported! And 3GPP timed text and image tracks too.

So let me get this straight. Flash will be able to stream high definition video and audio encoded using open-source tools like libfaad, x264 and MP4Box? Hell yeah! You can even play files with multi-channel audio (although it will be downsampled to 44.1 kHz stereo until they replace  that horrible audio engine).

Don’t be shy, jump out from your cubicle and do a funny dance!

And finally some reports from the event at Planet Tuš in Celje.

Edinstveni spektakel v Sloveniji na terasi Planeta Tuš, Celje

I’ve been a big fan of the transformers since I was a kid. Little did I know I will actually turn into one at some point in my life. Although I will restrain myself from commenting on the movie itself, here is a video of me and Matevž getting ready to rehearse some robot moves for the opening event at Planet Tuš in Celje.