I’ve always viewed regular expressions as some sort of nasty dark art that only a Perl developer could love, but today I picked up on a tool, RegexBuddy, that promises to make me fear regex no longer. This gem fell to me by virtue of one of the many dev mailing lists I skulk on–osflash.org, [...]
After a bit of fiddling I figured out how to use flvtool2 to overwrite the existing metadata values for an flv or even add completely new name value pairs.
In most circumstances the video tool used to encode an flv will insert a few values into the file’s metadata. Typically you will find properties such [...]
I’m a couple of years late to this party, but there’s a neat Ruby based tool, Flvtool2, which allows you to stamp metadata in flv files, insert cue points–both navigation and event, and allows you to slice and dice an flv file based on defined in and out points (kudos to Norman [...]
After years of resistance I finally caved and bought a sleek, shiny MacBook Pro over the weekend. I’ve been slowly figuring out how to set up my AMES development environment and that means figuring out the basics of using the Unix shell. I struggled to find a simple explanation of how to set environment variables, [...]