Tuesday, 20 Nov 2007

Nashbar Order Status

Don't bother ordering from Nashbar if you're concerned with customer service. For example, their Order Status page says to "check back soon". Well, don't hold your breath, since it's been broken since July 2006.

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Josh
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Sunday, 11 Nov 2007

A letter from the past

English (or "communications") classes at MTU were pretty tame. For most people, they were a joke.

I've been sorting through old paperwork, and came across a letter I wrote for a class assignment in 1999. Thankfully, the instructor had a sense of humor.

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Josh
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Thursday, 01 Nov 2007

Extracting audio from Flash video

I started watching Cory Doctorow's talk at Google on YouTube tonight. I quickly realized that I'd rather listen to this on my MP3 player, since the video isn't very interesting. Here's how I extracted just the audio from the YouTube video.

  1. Download the Flash video using something like the Firefox plugin UnPlug.
  2. Use ffmpeg to extract the audio: 
    ffmpeg -i get_video.flv -vn -acodec copy just_the_audio.mp3

The audio in this Flash video happened to be in MP3 format (I'm guessing most are), which meant that I didn't have to re-encode it to use on my MP3 player. If re-encoding is necessary, I can specify -acodec mp3 or -acodec vorbis, for example.

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Josh
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