2003/07/23
00:53:37
Nothing too interesting at work. Spent way too long poking with a kiosk image since the drive was acting like it was bad. Once it was up and running right though it worked fine. As long as it stays that way long enough to image it onto the other machines I guess. Didn't watch any movies, and no new toys came today. Did get the shipping confirmation on one though. After work I spent time working with transcode encoding video. It's not very well documented and I had to do an annoying amount of poking and calculating to get what it wants. BTW, if you want to make an anamorphic 16x9 DVD from 2.35:1 input the correct scaling is 720x408 and add a 36 pixel black border to the top and bottom. I think... Now to get the input to decode properly realtime...
Or maybe 720x360 (scaling to mpeg encoding blocks). That gives a 2.37 (2.35 is 363) which is close enough. That's 120 pixels split between the top and bottom... And apparently 3ware controllers don't like writing out GB of data as fast as the PCI bus wants to send it (I'm hitting a similar problem as Avalon but on a linux box and I'm actually pushing it harder than people are pushing Avalon).