Muere Richard Wright

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Muy tristemente me entere que el tecladista miembro de la una de mis bandas favoritas Richard Wright fallecio a causa de cancer. Nunca tuve la oportunida de verlo en vivo lo cual me hubiese gustado mucho.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7617363.stm

Me quedo con una nota en la pagina de David Gilmour y su legado musical como parte de Pink Floyd.

In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick’s enormous input was frequently forgotten.

Pink Floyd, Again?

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According to several media there is a rumor that Pink Floyd is getting together again to support humanistic causes, this is great news for me, Pink Floyd is one of my favorites bands.
Money (Pink Floyd song)

Image via Wikipedia

Transfer DVD to iPod Classic

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After several attempts to transfer some of my concert dvds to my ipod, finally got them working, here is how:

I first update the ffmpeg packages from medibuntu, after this install dvd::rip package from multiverse, once I had dvd::rip opened a new project, and select the option to “Encode DVD on the fly” in order to save some space in my disc, here is an screenshot about the settings I used to encode:

dvd::rip encode options

Once I had the .avi file I execute the following command to convert the file to a .mov:

ffmpeg -i 24_1_001.avi -f mov -b 1800 -maxrate 2500 -vcodec xvid -qmin 3 -qmax 5 -s 640×360 -padtop 30 -padbottom 30 -acodec aac -ab 128 24_1_001.ipod.mov

The result is a good quality video to enjoy it in your ipod.