Journal archive: June 2004

Actualities

In a few more hours, it will be back to the mundane working world for me where I will begin my new job. The oh-too-short-break was fun while it lasted. It’s ironic that I feel a less rested than when I was working. Most breaks are meant to catch up with much-needed sleep; whereas in my case, I slept a lot less than I did when I was working: irregular hours i.e. sleeping at 6am in the morning etc.

It was Father’s Day yesterday (which ended 1.5 hours ago) as well as my friend Haja’s wedding ceremony. Met up with my friends from university at the reception; took a few pictures which I will be posting - whenever I get to it.

After that it was dinner with my paternal grandparents for a second Father’s Day dinner. It was at least the fourth dim sum meal I had this week. Man do I need to go on a diet soon (and no, the nuts and chocolate doughnut from Starbucks earlier didn’t exactly help, not to mention the Oreos I had in a moment of greed). My dad couldn’t make it for this dinner, reason being that he had to have his usual game of golf with his church friends today.

Subjects: General

Tags: wedding

Merging Matroska S_VOBSUB

Goal:

Join 2 separate MKV files that are part of one movie.

Problem:

The MKV files contain S_VOBSUB streams that are zlib compressed. S_VOBSUB cannot be extracted with mkvextract, nor can be manipulated with VirtualDubMod or AVI-MUX Gui.

Tools Used:

  1. AVI-MUX Gui;
  2. Matroska Stream Editor;
  3. MKVMerge.

Assumption:

Let’s call the 1st MKV file A and the 2nd B

Step 1:

Remux A into a new MKV file, removing zlib compression for S_VOBSUB stream. Let’s call this new MKV file A_VOBSUBdecomp.
Repeat with B. The new MKV file is B_VOBSUBdecomp.

Step 2:

Remux A into another MKV file, this time removing S_VOBSUB stream completely. This new MKV file is A_noVOBSUB.
Repeat with B. This new file is B_noVOBSUB.

Subjects: Technology 技術

Tags: matroska

Problem-Solving Worksheet

Found the following joke in a Japanese video compression website. Took the liberty of ‘beautifying’ the picture for presentation on this page. Apparently, the joke’s been circulating around the web for ages in a variety of forms (e.g. this text version.)

Problem-Solving Flowsheet

p.s. Intended for the picture above to be in PNG-24 with alpha transparency but noooooooo…. I.E. 6 just has to suck…

Subjects: Jokes 冗談

Mood: Funny

Desired Books: 2004-06-09: Mashou no Ko (Chinese Version)

I already have the Japanese version for this one. But it’s tough to read. So I just have to get this. Not that it’s going to be easy, but at least my Chinese is still better than my Japanese for now.

Mashou no Ko (Chinese Version)Ono no Fuyumi 小野不由美
Japanese Title: 魔性の子 (ISBN 4-10-124021-3)
Chinese Title: 魔性之子(ISBN 957-10-2882-7)

Subjects: Books 書物

Tags: Juuni Kokki 十二国記, Ono Fuyumi 小野不由美