Author: Christian

if your avi index is corrupt, you can use a tool included in MPlayer (on OSX: sudo port install MPlayer)

mencoder -idx corruptAvi.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -o ReIndexedAvi.avi

for filename in *.xml; do newname=`echo $filename | tr -cd '\11\12\15\41-\176'`; mv "$filename" "$newname"; done

OSX contains some tools for system level analysis originally developed for Solaris – one of them is opensnoop.
The tools’ descriptions can be found here: http://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html

using python to create the lengthy AtomicParsley calls described in the last post:

#!/usr/bin/python
import csv
import pipes
import StringIO

#metadata.csv has to contain the following rows:
#filename, show, season, episode, title, artwork, description
csvfile='metadata.csv'
csvreader = csv.reader(open(csvfile, 'rbU'), delimiter=',', quotechar='"')

class Command:
	def __init__(self, file):
		self.command = StringIO.StringIO()
		self.command.write('AtomicParsley ')
		self.command.write(pipes.quote(file))
	def addParam(self, key, value):
		self.command.write(' --')
		self.command.write(key)
		self.command.write(' ')
		self.command.write(pipes.quote(value))	
	def toString(self):
		return self.command.getvalue()
	def close(self):
		self.command.close()

def handleFile(row):
	m4vfile = row[0]
	show = row[1]
	season = row[2]
	episode = row[3]
	title = row[4]
	artwork = row[5]
	description = row[6]
	episodeCode = season + '' + str(episode).zfill(2) ##leading zeroes

	command = Command(m4vfile)
	
	command.addParam('artist', show)
	command.addParam('title', title)
	command.addParam('album', show + ', Season ' + season)
	command.addParam('artwork', artwork)
	command.addParam('stik', 'TV Show')
	command.addParam('description', description)
	command.addParam('TVShowName', show)
	command.addParam('TVEpisode', episodeCode)
	command.addParam('TVEpisodeNum', episode)
	command.addParam('TVSeasonNum', season)

	print command.toString()
	command.close()

for row in csvreader:
	handleFile(row)

you can use AtomicParsley, a command line based open source tool to add metadata and artwork to your MPEG-4 files. On OS X you can use macports to install the tool.

example for an AtomicParsley call:
AtomicParsley 'Simpsons - Chili.m4v' --artist Simpsons --title 'Homer and the Chili' --album 'Simpsons, Season 6' --artwork Simpsons.jpg --stik 'TV Show' --TVShowName Simpsons --TVEpisode 605 --TVEpisodeNum 6 --TVSeasonNum 5 --description 'Homer attends a hot chili competition.'

M4V is just an alias for MP4.
So you can use ffmpeg to copy the audio/video streams in your AVI file to a more recent MP4 container:

ffmpeg -i source.avi -f mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy destination.mp4

add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
apt-get update
apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
update-alternatives --config java

Everybody working with Java has met JAD some time sooner or later.
Unfortunately JAD is pretty old, has no GUI and cannot handle Java 5/6 bytecode.

Now there’s a new player in town – you can directly open JAR archives in its nice GUI:
http://java.decompiler.free.fr/?q=jdgui

There are many articles about Audi on CES, I think this is one of the best:
http://www.golem.de/1101/80597.html (german)

By the way: e.solutions is Audi’s joint venture to develop the new MMI infotainment system for the next A3 in 2012.

I’ve wanted to implement a fully integrated Java based OSX tool for a while, during Xmas holidays I finally got to it: PowerNap.

PowerNap puts your computer to sleep after a given amount of time. Available for OSX and Windows.

featuring a design from my favourite web specialist :*

Sourcecode also available via GoogleCode.