Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Spaniel Sitting - 3x the Fun!

Laetitia and I are taking care of Newton and Kepler, which means Pumpkin gets to spend time with her brothers out at the Boulder Knolls Observatory.

As you can see, they are very excited to see Laetitia in the morning:


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Video was captured on the Flip MinoHD, and then muxed to MKV/H.264/AAC for streaming through the DivX Plus Web Player.

Every time we take Pumpkin home after seeing them, she is completely wiped out... wiggling her tail around them must be exhausting!

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Christmas Card Lane

I'm on a roll posting videos today... Attached is video from our trip to Christmas Card Lane in Rancho Peñasquitos. We took Pumpkin, too, of course.



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This video has two audio tracks: track one (AAC) is the sound that was captured by the camera, and track two (MP3) is some Holiday music. After you click play, you can switch tracks by clicking the icon in the lower right of the DivX Plus Web Player (or by right-click), and switch them under "Audio tracks". Also, don't forget you can display in full screen. This video is an H.264/MKV video from an HD source, which is why I was able to stream it through the DivX Plus Web Player.

Sorry for the shaky camera work, but I was walking, filming, and trying to enjoy at the same time.

My New Flip minoHD

I was pleasantly surprised this Christmas with an awesome present from Laetitia - a Flip MinoHD! I have an iPhone 3GS, which can take video, but it's no where near the quality I've been wanting. Pumpkin is quite the performer, and there have been far too many occasions where we've wished we had a camera on us and missed out on some spontaneous awesomeness. So, attached is a sample video:


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The format by default is H.264/MP4, but I remuxed the file to MKV, so I could post it using the DivX Plus Web Player, which supports H.264/AAC/MKV - remuxing only takes seconds and doesn't affect the video quality at all, so this should be a fair assessment of the quality you'll get from the Flip MinoHD if you're thinking of getting one.

Meanwhile, Pumpkin, Laetitia and I say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!