Yesterday I've been to the first BikePride organized here in Torino, my city. It's been a pretty great and funny experience. Lot of people, relaxed environment, funny persons, sun and bikes everywhere! I really had a good time.

I always liked the time-lapse technique and always wanted to try it. So, a bike pride, with 2 hours of biking between lot of other bikes was the perfect occasion for such a test. Obviously, as I was riding, I couldn't use a tripod. I needed an headcam!

If you are interested in audio/video conversions and general manipulation you should really have a look at ffmpeg.

ffmpeg it's a little command line utility which will let you do some really great things with multimedia files.

During the time, I collected some examples of usages of ffmpeg which I found useful. I posted here some and continue to update this page everytime I find a new ffmpeg trick.

Recently I'm playing a bit with the new feature available on the new Adobe Flash Player 9: the support of h264 encoded video for flash videos.

Well.. seems that this will really give us incredible developments as this technology it's really super powerful.

As an example of it you might have a look at this h264 flash video h264 demo (right click on the video to go fullscreen).

The resolution and definition of this video it's really incredible. Even if the video is being downloaded from a website in real time the quality is really high but still it plays without interruptions and smoothly.

And the quality.. it's amazing. Actually higher than lot of divx which are commonly available in Emule and friends.

Wouldn't you pay a couple of dollars to stream online your favorite movies with superb quality and without the hassle of time consuming and bad quality with P2P ? ... Let's see what will happen.