Streaming/Encoding Fun, Snow, 'Tis the Season...
I've been tweaking WCYG occasionally lately - the computer hosting it was bluescreening occasionally (apparently Winamp was misbehaving) but it's stabilized since I began using AudioStocker as my Winamp compressor DSP plugin. I'd still like to get the stream down to 22kHz stereo and save some bandwidth, but I'm waiting on a new version of Oddcast that supports that without crashing.
I continue to create 1-CD OGM rips of DVD movies to exercise the various tools I use to do so; so many parts of the toolset are upgraded on a regular basis. The new version of Virtualdub is pretty cool, and I'm considering testing Avisynth 2.5 and its YV12 colorspace support to cut down on encoding time. The Avisynth forum on Doom9 is hopping with info about this; a lot of talented coders hang out there. Very impressive to a guy who codes the occasional Winbatch or Python script.
Well, we got about 8 inches of snow here in Harrisburg yesterday. It's about time! My son Ryan loves playing in it - this is the first year he's big enough to do so. He got a sneak preview in Buffalo last weekend.
And now it's Christmas season - time to start thinking about what to get everyone. My wife is a lot earlier and better at planning/executing this than I am. Well, I have a few weeks...