Archive for October, 2009

Making libmp3lame work with ffmpeg on OS X

I wanted to convert some youtube footage to mp3 by using the Firefox addon DownloadHelper together with ffmpeg. Ok, installed ffmpeg on OS X using MacPorts: sudo port install ffmpeg +gpl +lame +x264 +xvid Tried to convert a file. Got this error: [libmp3lame @ 0x1804600]lame: output buffer too small (buffer index: 8360, free bytes: 1432)

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Using twitter to maintain an operations log

Whenever you’re dealing with a system that changes over time, at some point you’ll find it useful to go back and see what changes were made 3 weeks ago. And then you wish you belong to the (small?) group of people who write down every change to a log file, so you can answer this [...]

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