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Libx264 has various preset profiles that determine how fast (and at what compression ratio + quality) it's going to work. I've run a simple, 450KB file through this on a pretty outdated server with an older (v0.6) ffmpeg. Here're the timing results (measured in seconds) for each preset profile ...

Working with MKV (Matroska) video files you'll pretty soon hit on Mkvtoolnix. Using it you can easily extract any track (audio, video, subtitle) from an MKV file.

Streaming video to the iPhone became "standardized" with the release of iOS 3 (ie. iPhone 3) in the summer of 2009. There're a few key aspects of streaming video to the iPhone ...

An amazing performance by Christopher Walken.

The best drum duet I've ever heard. An absolute favourite!
Here're a few more (from the same guys): Wembley concert (1987) and Paris concert (Farewell Tour 2005)
The latter is a drum trio.

VirtualDub is a very good tool for video editing (cutting, slicing, encoding, ...). Unfortunately it's Windows only, so Mac users have to look for an alternative (unless you want to run VirtualDub in a virtual machine ). Avidemux seems to be a good replacement. It also has a copy mode (in case you just want to delete some parts of the video or concatenate a couple of files that share the same format/container and codecs) for copying video and audio streams without reencoding (thus without loss of quility) and a "light"/clean user interface (something that I loved in VirtualDub). And Avidemux is cross-platform, meaning that it supports all major operating systems (Mac, Linux, Windows) and might be portable to other platforms without a major rewrite.

"Steal This Film" is a sort of a documentary on how file-sharing (and network based file distribution) affects our culture and daily life. It's actuality comes from the recent trial of PirateBay. I found the vid. enlightening and amusing, imho it's worth watching for 44 minutes.

Among many others, I like this T-Mobile ad quite a lot. The girl has a wonderful (soft and gentle) voice.
P.S.: the full song is also available on YouTube.

Dmitri Gaskin is a twelve year old boy, but his age should not fool you: he knows probably more about jQuery and Drupal than most of you. Here's a one hour presention of Dmitri talking about jQuery. He's of course far from a professional tutor (he's quite excited during the whole pres.), but you can clearly see that he has a lot of potential and is definitely a lot smarter than most developers (including me ). I was mostly playing my C64 (and doing some BASIC programming) at that age.

This is the music from a recent T-Mobile ad. The vid itself is not yet available on the net, but the music is awesome. It's quite strange: I did not find anything relevant on the singer, Jennifer Walt. It's as if she had only this one song.