News concerning the progress of stalker 2.
The Stalker developers were planning to create a Stalker Netflix series.
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How make a nice contact sheet of a movie with FFmpeg.
How to make a very nice contact sheet of a movie using FFmpeg.
Read MoreAbyss of the Titanic. Movie pitch.
Movie pitch based on the recent Titanic submarine implosion.
Read MoreHow to save your place in a movie when exiting MPV.
Saving your place in a movie when exiting MPV is very easy, this would be very useful when watching a long film and you need to exit the player and watch some more later. Add this to the ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf file. save-position-on-quitsave-position-on-quit This will allow the player to resume playback when…
Read MorePossible Matrix Resurrections spoilers.
Possible spoilers for the new Matrix Resurrections movie The Merovingian is from the second Matrix / and is the first Exile when the Matrix was reloaded into its third cycle and the previous four before this one. He is also aided by Smith and Agent Johnson, Smith helps the Merovingian…
Read MoreHow to add subtitles to a movie with ffmpeg on Linux.
Merging a subtitle *.srt file to a move on Linux is very easy. Just download a suitable srt file from the Internet, then put it in the same directory as the TV show or movie you have. Then do this to merge the two. 1 2 3 4 5 6…
Read MoreHow to cut a section out of a video with ffmpeg.
Cropping a section of a video and saving it without reencoding is very simple, the example below shows how to use ffmpeg to cut out a section of video and then save it to a separate file. This example will cut out a clip starting 12 minutes into the video…
Read MoreMovie theater staff to wear NVG goggles to fight against movie piracy.
Movie theater staff are planning to wear military styled night vision googles to fight against movie piracy. This will allow them to see anyone who is using a camera to film a movie and create a camprip to upload to a movie sharing website. This is in Britain. But if…
Read MoreInterstellar movie shows real physics when depicting a black hole.
The new Interstellar movie is one that showcases science in a positive light as the possible saviour of mankind. We do need to find other planets to settle on, but why not settle on Mars? It has sunlight that we could use for generating power and water. But travelling through…
Read MoreDredd 2012 movie shows the Simple Metacity theme and nmap and top usage.
The 2012 Dredd movie shows a computer expert that is intending to use Nmap against port 22; which is the standard port that SSH uses. He wants to be able to trace Dredd when he next uses an information terminal. He uses this command against the network to find Dredd:…
Read MoreMy thoughts on the new Star Trek Into darkness movie and Star Trek in general.
The new Star Trek movie Into Darkness is an interesting film. The juxtaposition of the new JJ Abrams Star Trek with the classic scene borrowed from the ending of Wrath Of Khan, but in reverse is a strange element indeed. The fact that this is an alternative universe with a…
Read MoreKDE 3.4 Linux desktop seen in the new Pirate Bay movie on Youtube.
I have just seen the free movie about The Pirate Bay and at 10:07; you see a KDE 3.4 Linux desktop. I can not tell what Linux distribution this is but it is the good old KDE 3.4 for sure. The best and fastest version of KDE. The Pirate Bay…
Read MoreHow to use mplayer to rip the sound from a video and create a wav file that you can encode with lame.
This is the command I just used to rip the audio from a movie and save it as a wav file. Then the lame command is used to encode the wav into an mp3 file. john@adeptus-mechanicus ~/Music $ mplayer -ao pcm:fast:file=out.wav -vo null -vc null video.mp4 && lame -h -b…
Read MoreComputer interface used in the Avengers movie and thoughts on the touch interface.
http://cargocollective.com/jayse/Avengers. Some information here about the user interfaces used in the Avengers movie. These touch screen interfaces were used a lot in the movie. The touch screen computer model is all the rage at the moment even if it is not that useful when using a computer for a long…
Read MoreUsage of computers in the movies. Some get it wrong. The Matrix and Tron Legacy are the exceptions.
The usage of computers in movies has always been quite hit and miss. The Matrix Reloaded movie had realistic depictions of the usage of the NMAP port scanning command and the use of the ssh command to login remotely to the target machine and execute commands to shutdown the power…
Read MoreA look at the Armageddon movie and Hollywood depictions of space travel.
On the space.com website, there is an article about the Armageddon movie and the giant asteroid that was threatening the Earth. They calculated that the energy needed by a bomb to destroy the Asteroid would be 800 trillion terajoules — compared with the 418,000 terajoules produced by history’s most powerful blast,…
Read MoreTron Legacy UNIX desktop usage.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/09/linux-top-command-used-in-tron-trailer/#dsq-new-post. In the Tron legacy film trailer at 1:12, you can see a terminal displaying the output of the top(1) command, a traditional UNIX command to display the list of running processes. It is funny that the machine is only showing 9 days of uptime though, it should be longer…
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