Life, movies and games
So I’m officially 26 now, and I figure that’s a good reason to update anyone who actually reads this on a few things. First of all, I’m on chapter 4 of Heavenly Sword. The game is still awesome though I’m afraid it’ll be over soon. There’s some really fun and challenging missions with Kai (the funny cat-girl looking character) at the end of chapter 3, and the boss fights keep getting more involved. It’s defiantly not just a button masher. I’ve cooled off on the Warhawk lately, but it’s still a ton of fun to pickup and spend a few hours blowing people up. I’m totally into the dogfight aspect. I should probably play some ground battles more but it’s just not as fun as the expansive open chaos of the dogfight. In other PS3 news I’m currently testing the development transcoding stuff in mediatomb. It works pretty well, considering the age of apollo (the server that is running this thing) and the fact that it’s an external transcoder so seek/pause doesn’t work. It pretty much makes my dream of having just the PS3 and my stereo hooked up at the new house a reality. I just have to get mencoder working so I can watch quicktime movies.
I finished cleaning out the rack the other day, it’s so empty now… but I’m also only using 66% of the one UPS now, so that’s a 33% decrease in electricity usage which I can totally get behind. It also frees up the other UPS to move upstairs to protect the WAP and switch in the den. Since my workstations are both laptops that means I can survive a short power outage unscathed. Hooray.
In other news, I’m waiting to hear about my car which remains at the dealership being worked on and the approval paperwork for the new place is still in limbo so hopefully I’ll start hearing soon and we can begin moving on to the next stage.
Notable birthday events: Had dinner with mom and the family, was nice if not hectic as usual :) Had wine with Nina, was a nice quiet way to end the day. Generally laid around and relaxed.
Tags: games, technology
Congratz!
I found this blog when I was looking for a way to view xvid movies on my PS3 using Mediatomb. Unfortunately, the svn source does not compile on my server.
Anywho, happy birthday, although it’s a bit late! :)
i wasn’t aware you were still in contact with Nina. Heh, shows how much attention I pay.
> Rat
I wasn’t until she moved in across the street from me…. Heh.. Kinda hard to ignore her when I see her leaving for work in the morning.
> Patrik
I ended up having to check out the svn repository on one of my vmware machines running a newer version of Slackware than my main box so I could generate the automake stuff. Once I did that I copied the source tree to my server and compiled it there… Might work for you since it needs a really new version of automake and autoconf.
FWIW, it works pretty well. I hope they release the next version soon.
Thanks for the birthday wishes!
I actually got it to compile on my FreeBSD system later with some help from Jin at Mediatomb who commited a few changes.
And now you are moving again… nice… lol We need to reinstate the payday lunch thing I think. IM me and we’ll see what’s up.
> Rat
Absolutly, we only stopped because you had to go and play pirate for 2 weeks! Which, btw I hope was a blast. If I don’t get sideswiped by evil badness again this coming year I’m totally into coming to Pennsic with you.
> Patrik
Glad you got it working. I hope the transcoding works out for you as well as it has for me.