Posts tagged with:video

XenForo is a forum software created by former VBulletin developers. If you have used Vbulletin 3.x and then upgraded to 4.x you know why there are a fair share of 3.x forums out there. XenForo is simple and better and is not trying to be more than a forum, as Vb does. Recently I’ve moved […]

I had the pleasure of playing for a few days with an all-electric Renault Twizy. The car has no windows, so raining concerns appeared. But the interior is all plastic and has holes in the bottom for the water to evacuate. Here’s a video of the car after a two hour heavy rain:

Got really bored and decided to reinstall my Windows7 on my HP Probook notebook. Fairly an easy operation, half an hour to install Windows, half an hour to install all other software and tweak it the way I like it. And while doing it I realized Windows is a piece of crap OS. It really […]

ArsT Technica has a long article about how YouTube stumbles at peak hour and it’s all the cable companies’ fault. Somehow true, the video consumption has grown in the past years and cable companies have a hard time providing the pipe necessary for that. This happens also with telecom companies and smartphone usage. But the […]

I did some video conversion on my shiny new laptop with Windows 7, SSD and a i5 processor. I understood the processor load has gone to 100% and the fan was spinning like crazy. Half an hour after the conversion has stopped and i was only doing Chrome, the fan has not stopped his crazy […]

You can’t find any data about this. Sony does not mention this in the manuals or on the web. The A57 shoots some horrible video, even with the kit lens. You can hear the lens moving on the video! With Sony lens and with other lens. There are two solutions to avoid this: use an […]

Last year, i was so impressed with the capabilities of SLT technology I sold my Canon 60D for an A57. One year later, I really can’t stand it anymore. The problems are as follow: Noise. I shoot a lot of pictures indoors. Family events, two grandsons playing, products. And I shoot on Auto ISO. The […]

A few months ago i noticed Vimeo is not working too good in Romania, especially with HD videos. Upon further investigation, it seemed it’s not an isolated problem. Vimeo has discovered East Europeans watch a lot of videos and decided to cut them off. I can upload with almost half a meg, but i can […]

A few days ago, the pirate scene rules have changed, changing video standards from .avi to .mp4 on the basis of using a better codec (x264) instead of the old one (xvid). Torrent users complain now (one, two) that their devices cannot play mp4 files and they ask the torrent uploaders to switch to good […]

I have some video files that MediaPlayer, my player of choice, does not like. It does not play AC3, he does not like some mov or some xvid files. I’ve tried CineXPlayer and ACEPlayer and they are even dumber. CineXPLayer shuts down when i click on a movie instead of playing it. ACEPlayer freezes when […]