I noticed that all of a sudden my Google Chrome (Mac OS X version) has a ~ 10s delay between displaying a web page and making the links clickable.
At first I suspected my password manager extension that it scans through the page for possible forms to fill, or some other extension. So I went through a Search and Destroy sequence with all of my extensions but for avail, until I disabled the AdBlock extension.
Suddenly all is fast again. Alas, now the ads slow it down.Read More »
A few times before I have imported my short clips from the Sony HDR-CX106 camcoder directly using iMovie camera import features. Now, that I had a bit longer videos on the camera, I got to thinking why it takes so long and how come it reports that 60 GB of my hard drive will fit only 1 hour or so full-quality video. It turns out that by importing, iMovie probably converts all the clips into HDV compliant format, thus MPEG2 and thus resulting in wasting my hard drive space.
I had a shell wrapper script to convert MTS files with FFmpeg, but somehow, when running on multiple files, only the very first one got converted.
Turns out that FFmpeg swallows the stdin from the bash script when it is run and therefore nothing remains in the stdin for the next iterations. To remedy this, I had to fake input to ffmpeg:
while read movie do echo "" | ffmpeg -i "$movie" -vcodec copy -acodec copy "$movie".mov done
Without the echo command this would’ve ended after first iteration, regardless of the number of files in the input.
BTW, the above command is useful for turning MTS files into MOV files, while preserving the audio-video streams, for software that does not support MTS.
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