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Introduction I promised an entry on more law stuff, but because it requires a substantial amount of information and time to write, I am putting that off for another couple of weeks. Also, I "redesigned" the layout template, so that it's much "cleaner" looking! In today's brief post, I am going to be sharing the recent "collaborative" playlist that I created on Spotify. If you are a user who enjoys listening to EDM (Electronic Dance Music) and are interested in more of the "underground sound", rather then faux paux commercial stuff that is played on the radio, you will definitely appreciate this playlist. It's a blend of Deep House and Tech House. Briefly, Deep House has been around, since the early 90's and consists of usually deep resonating bassline, "soulful" vocals, shorter track lengths (on average of five minutes), and a mid-tempo BPM range around 118-122 BPM. Tech House usually complements Deep House. It's t...

Introduction Today, I am going to be showing you how to encode with Theora 1.1 library using ffmpeg2theora 0.28 tool in Linux. Briefly, Theora is an open source video codec, that was donated to the Xiph.org foundation by On2 video in 2004 (The same company Google recently bought that consists of VP8 codec portion in WebM!). Attempts where made to include it in the HTML 5 standard in 2007, by members of the W3C. Those attempts were met with heavy resistance. One of the main problem with the earlier builds of Theora, was the perceived lack "quality" with encoder and how it was not on "par" with H.264 standard put forth by the MPEG consortium. Proponents of the H.264 video, claimed it was "inferior", because it did not have the same level of glossy sophistication and there were too many macro-blocking artifacts, due to a older codebase with no bi-predictive frames, such as those of the newer more advanced H.264 codec. The lead developer and engineer of ma...