A few things, mostly technical notes...

Friday, December 31, 2010

suggestion to shareholic/boxee

I use shareholic to add items to boxee, and have a suggestion to make:

currently shareholic cannot find boxee-able itmes in pages like http://www.asianetglobal.com/ShowVdo.aspx?GlHID=2008, but can be easily fixed.


if you look closely, from,


http://www.asianetglobal.com/flvplayer.swf?videoURL=http://videos.asianetglobal.com/flv/asianet/VdoGallery/KKandathum2712.flv&thumbURL=Images/VdoGallery/Kettathum%20Kandathum.jpg


you should be able to extract just the flv url fairly easily,

http://videos.asianetglobal.com/flv/asianet/VdoGallery/KKandathum2712.flv


I'd love to see this added to shareholic

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Microsoft LifeCam Cinema

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41da5eR2zlL._AA300_.jpg


So far this has been the best webcam I've ever used. It's an HD webcam, 720p HD widescreen, even works on ubuntu (lucid) linux right away under uvcvideo. It also has a microphone, and the audio quality is very clear.


[ 26.861845] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM) (045e:075d)
[ 26.911241] input: Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.1/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/input/input6

$ lsusb |grep -i microsoft
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:075d Microsoft Corp.

Above all, it is priced reasonably.

vital specs:
  • 720p HD Widescreen Video
  • Auto Focus
  • High-precision glass element lens
  • ClearFrame Technology for smooth, detailed video
  • Digital, noise-canceling microphone
more here..


tl;dr: here's a good HD webcam for almost all operating systems. works with skype and other IMs.

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