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Converting YouTube flv to mp4

Posted 2010-10-23 (土) 午後11:21 by terra

Note: The following was originally posted on twitter because I play around with video files a lot and I thought I’d answer some questions that people sometimes ask me.

Some of you might wonder about what I do when I say I losslessly remux FLV files from YouTube to mp4. Here’s an overview:

If you’re slightly familiar with YouTube formats, you’ll realise that YouTube uploads files in a combination of FLV and MP4. All HD formats (720p and above) are mp4s; all non-HD formats are in FLV/3GP (with the exception of 360p which comes in both mp4 and flv).

FLV and mp4s are essentially container formats (i.e. they contain video/audio streams that are encoded using certain codes).

For YouTube, all videos, no matter whether they are FLV or mp4, contain H264 MPEG-4 AVC video streams; audio are AAC streams.

So technically, all YouTube videos can be converted from FLV format to mp4 format without loss in quality.

Subjects: Technology 技術

Mood: Random

Tags: video conversion, YouTube

Where has my life gone? Shall I turn this to the Adam Lambert Terrapolis site? The most epic WLL and only day 2.

Posted 2009-07-09 (木) 午前12:18 by terra

The EPIC Whole Lotta Love video synched with audio that won’t burst your eardrums

While waiting for Torchwood Epi 2 to be downloaded and obviously having no life, I remixed the great Tacoma WLL video footage (with OTT screaming fangirls and crap audio) with the one with the crappy visuals but decent audio (still features screaming fangirls but at least you won’t go deaf listening to it)

I’m still dying from the epicness of this video. OMFG

ETA: And now we have Life on Mars

Subjects: Music 音楽

Mood: Declarations, Raves and Rants

Tags: Adam Lambert, Whole Lotta Love, YouTube

Dying from Adam Lambert Portland AI concert videos

Posted 2009-07-06 (月) 午後10:03 by terra

My mind has gone to mush. It has been mush for the last 2 hours. *DYING* YouTube and Twitter are both blessings and curses. I can’t even type properly anymore

I don’t know if I’ll post anything else in this space. Maybe later when I’ve recovered.

No wait.

I’ll just post my Portland YouTube playlist here. OMG I’m a genius.

And presenting to you my favorite performance of the fuking night:

ETA: No guess what, we need the 21st century answer to David “GlamFking” Bowie here:

Subjects: Music 音楽

Mood: Gratifications

Tags: Adam Lambert, American Idol, concert, Twitter, YouTube

Thoughts on the 20/20 interview with Adam Lambert

Posted 2009-06-13 (土) 午前11:33 by terra

Can I say I’m slightly disappointed with the 20/20 interview that was broadcast? It felt… truncated, and like a repeat of what we already knew from the RS interview, other than the fact that we can actually see his bubbly personality on TV which we don’t get from print? And poor Neil got shafted! The online stuff was honestly so much better! To think I sat through half an hour listening to a report on the Amanda Knox case.

I really like Chris Connelly though. Unlike female interviewers who typically go gaga (like me), he’s mostly calm and collected in the interview and asked some nice questions (which unfortunately didn’t make it to the final TV cut). But I loved the part where he bursting out laughing on the snake issue (just like how Slezak couldn’t contain himself in the Idolatry interview about the Bob McKenzie showroom drag queen comment, or where Matt Mitovich chuckled to himself with the pink elephant comment). The dude has charisma.

On the bright side, some new findings gleamed from the broadcast interview:
1) He’s singing Fame by David Bowie(!!!)
2) The tour wardrobe looks awesome.
3) The new haircut really works.
4) How the f—k does he lose weight so quickly?? I need tips.
5) He rocks out and blows other regular performers away even at rehearsals.
6) He was totally flirting with the guy in the Skingraft store.

Anyway as usual, the hardworking people at Youtube already have the broadcast interview up:

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像, Music 音楽

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: 20-20, Adam Lambert, interview, Neil Lambert, Rolling Stone, YouTube

Rolling Stone media coverage, a.k.a !)@$)(!@% I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW... Rolling Stone Cover is OMG !)%)(!@%

Posted 2009-06-09 (火) 午後10:36 by terra

“I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the clouds and went, ‘Oh!’… I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make it happen.” — Adam Lambert

Photograph by Matthew Rolston

Magazine photos and outtakes

Someone tell me why these photos never made it to the actual magazine???? They’re gorgeous! Seriously, this is really old school glam rock stuff. I think the photographer, Matthew Rolston, must have had so much fun with it. (Read what he has to say about the photo shoot) What’s next? Vanity Fair fantasy styled photoshoots?

Rolling updates

ETA 7: Here’s ABC News’ shrine. Check out the videoc clip on the making of the RS photoshoot. Guess who’s behind the snake concept? (Great answer btw!). JMHO, as much as I like the RS interview, I think his personality really shines in face-to-face video/audio ones. I also think he’s a PR dream, handling the toughest questions with aplomb, unlike Gokey who seems to stumble everywhere he goes (“Money, money, money!”).

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像, Music 音楽

Mood: Gratifications, Raves and Rants

Tags: Adam Lambert, American Idol, FML, Glambert, Kris Allen, Matthew Rolston, Rolling Stone, YouTube

Rockin' good 60s music that make me feel good

Posted 2009-04-02 (木) 午後9:03 by terra

Felt in the music mood today so am re-living some of my favourite live 60s songs (not that I was born in the 60s though).

Woodstock (Live version) by Joni Mitchell
One of my all time favourite songs.

Subjects: Music 音楽

Mood: Gratifications, Philosophical Musings

Tags: Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, music, Rolling Stones, Woodstock, YouTube

何じゃと～！

Posted 2007-03-06 (火) 午後8:15 by terra

Noooooooooo!!!! Why do we have to wait till April 23 for the next episode of Heroes?????

Subjects: General

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Heroes, YouTube

東京ドリフト…被害者：一人の俳優さん

Posted 2006-08-08 (火) 午前1:16 by terra

If this wasn’t so fricking hilarious I would be ranting how extremely dangerous this prank was.

Just the other day me and my colleagues were just talking about the authenticity of Japanese pranks such as the infamous sauna and the toilet pranks. I mean, how do the producers get around without getting sued? But the plethora of ridiculousness has forced me to rethink otherwise. Maybe it is possible after all?

Anyways, methinks me shall end this blog entry before me ends up looking like a complete naive fool. Opinions are sometimes best left unmentioned.