EricBall's Tech Projects

So I have it playing MPEG4 Part 2 (aka XVid) videos. It's also possible to create both channel widgets and control panel widgets. Unfortunately, it seems no-one has tried to develop a control panel widget and the majority of the channel widgets are junk (I mean, 228 different clock widgets?). I'm tempted to take the time to figure out how to develop (or at least reverse engineer) some of my own widgets, although I don't have a pressing desire to.

Got H.264 working by disabling as many x264 features as I could. Now I need to start re-enabling those features and find out which (if any) break the Infocast decoder. One frustration is x264 is primarily an encoder, not a transcoder. Thus is has limited input format support and I'm not sure how it handles audio. ffmpeg is a transcoder which uses x264 for H.264, but it doesn't expose all of the x264 input parameters. So I'd really just like to use x264, but need the transcoding abilities of ffmpeg. Maybe one of the other transcoder/x264 wrapper programs (like mencoder or handbrake) will be better.Update: Handbrake is the wrapper I wanted. Any x264 options which aren't set via the normal interface can be set via the Advanced panel. My testing so far seems to indicate the Infocast decoder is more memory & CPU restricted than feature restricted. So the video tends to stutter rather than error out.