Comments for Owen Mundy

Comment on To My Dearest and Beloved Family documentation by Lorna Joyce Mundy

Lorna Joyce Mundy — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:42:48 +0000

Nice work, Owen. I can see the people really appreciate the exhibit.
Joyce

Comment on Coleman Center residency progress Tues Jan 29 by Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:35:45 +0000

Looks great. Congratulations!

Comment on Use Processing and FFmpeg to export HD video by ow3n

ow3n — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:24:58 +0000

Yeah x264 makes small-ish files even at that high bit rate.

Cool, we’ll be in the same issue.

Comment on Use Processing and FFmpeg to export HD video by Jeff Thompson

Jeff Thompson — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:18:48 +0000

Hmm, I’ll have to play with the settings some more. I’ve been really happy using the PNG codec, for what it’s worth – since I write my frames as PNG there is little-to-no loss, though the video files are really big.

Also: thanks! The Wiki Loops piece will be the data issue – final editing as we speak!

Comment on Use Processing and FFmpeg to export HD video by ow3n

ow3n — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:19:49 +0000

Likewise! It was very interesting to discover your sketch after figuring out it could be done. I was actually searching/hoping to stream the images straight from Processing but this method is dependable. 1. I kept pushing it higher and higher until I the difference between the quality of the original PNG files and the video was acceptable. Many users on other forums pushed FFmpeg higher than 10Mbits. 2. "Threads tells FFmpeg to guess how many threads to use depending on number of cores" ref, and "pass 2" failed so I just left it at one pass. Thanks! There is probably something cleaner in Java for leading zeros but I was in a hurry :-) PS. Enjoyed the work on your site as well as your curatorial practice. Wikipedia Loops is very nice. I am looking forward to reading the Leonardo piece. Is it the "All About Data" issue?

Comment on Use Processing and FFmpeg to export HD video by Jeff Thompson

Jeff Thompson — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:54:37 +0000

Nice to see someone else using ffmpeg the same way! I’m curious about a few of your settings:

1. How did you arrive at the video bitrate of 6Mbits?
2. Since you’re including them as options (but me not sure what they do), I’m guessing that you intentionally chose ‘threads’ to be 0 and ‘pass’ to be 1 – any particular reason?

Also, nice filename pattern! Much more flexible than mine which is very finicky about numbering, etc.

Comment on Internet service just got creepy: How to set up a wireless router with Comcast internet service by L.Pence

L.Pence — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:20:15 +0000

This is so timely, Owen – I’m going through the same thing right now with Comcast, while also shopping for a new modem/router combo so I don’t have to lease from them. Thanks for the tutorial!

Comment on 12 apps to track, share, and visualize personal data by AA

AA — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:38:45 +0000

Hello Owen Another interesting app to add to the list is MercuryApp. You can (very easily) create a form and track your mood or how do you feel about something. These things are not quantifiable, so you get a scale of 1-5 to log your personal estimation and a text field to record notes that maybe give some context to your rating. These items can remain hidden for a given period of time so that your rating is not affected by past records and notes.