Tag Archive for 'video'

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Capturing miniDV in Linux… It works!

Yesterday afternoon my humble Linux rig captured over an hour of standard-def miniDV footage from a Firewire camera. There were a couple of issues along the way, but considering the utter disaster I was expecting that’s not too shabby at all…

In defence of Adobe Flash…?

If you believe Steve Jobs and an army of Apple apologists, Flash is the very scourge of the web — with sloppy, buggy code that no turtleneck-wearing cappuccino-sipping Mac fan in their right mind would want any part of.

On the other hand, Flash-based games on the web are pretty fun…