Archive for the ‘Audio & Video’ Category

Converting Matroska to M2TS for PS3 and Mediatomb

It has been a while since I last posted, mainly due to not having Internet access at home for a month Anyway, I’m online again and I have been tinkering with various projects the most recent of which is Matroska conversion (again).  For sometime I have been converting Martoska files to MPEG-4 with AAC 5.1 [...]

Posted on April 15, 2009 at 4:19 pm by Martin · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: Audio & Video · Tagged with: , , , , , ,

Mediatomb 0.12 – Streaming audio and video around the house

Mediatomb is an open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a nice web user interface, it allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and listen to/watch it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices, such as the PS3 in my case. Mediatomb 0.12 is not yet released as final yet but it [...]

Posted on February 7, 2009 at 4:23 pm by Martin · Permalink · 16 Comments
In: Audio & Video · Tagged with: , , ,

Converting DVB-T to DVD Compliant MPEG-2

I am just about to clean up and convert another batch of programmes I have recorded from Freeview (DVB-T in the UK) so that I can add them to my DLNAServer. I thought I’d share the method I use on Ubuntu. By clean up, I mean edit out any adverts and trim crap from the [...]

Posted on January 22, 2009 at 11:46 pm by Martin · Permalink · One Comment
In: Audio & Video · Tagged with: , , , , , ,

Home Brew DVD : Part 1

I am about to undertake a long overdue project my wife has been requesting. Unusually, this is a project I am actually going to enjoy We have a number of videos from family holidays and events that my wife wants converting to DVD. So I thought I would record progress here in my blog to [...]

Posted on April 11, 2008 at 3:21 pm by Martin · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: Audio & Video · Tagged with: , , ,