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Category: Multimedia

  • Playing with HEIC images in lossless mode

    Analisys on the lossless compression rates of HEIF/HEIC image format along with advantages over old image types. This article studies how HEIC lossless compression performs in several situations.

  • Advanced Multimedia on the Linux Command Line

    There was a time that Apple macOS was the best platform to handle multimedia (audio, image, video). This might be still true in the GUI space. But Linux presents a much wider range of possibilities when you go to the command line.

  • IBM Smarter Planet Icons in SVG format

    These are the 25 Smarter Planet icons I’ve collected on an internal work I did at IBM. They are smart and I love them.

  • FaceTime do iPhone 4 é uma revolução para VoIP, não para video-chamada

    Horas depois do lançamento do iPhone 4, twitei sobre como seriam revolucionárias as novas capabilidades de VoIP do iPhone, batizado de FaceTime. Fiz questão de vasculhar a Internet para encontrar empatia naquela visão, mas aparentemente todos estavam facinados somente com o aspecto “videochamada” do aplicativo.

  • Como será sua próxima TV

    Antena ou “conversor” digital é bobagem para quem tem TV a cabo. Só serve pra quem precisa captar sinal digital do ar e por enquanto só serve para a cidade de São Paulo. Sobre OLED vs LED vs LCD vs Plasma, é o tipo da coisa que você só sente a diferença de imagem na…

  • The Flash versus Apple War

    This is my reaction to The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience? that appeared on the Flash Blog. I’m not an Apple fan but I tend to disagree with that campaign of Flash support.

  • Samsung LED TV with Medi@ 2.0 is not ready for me

    Today I spent several hours testing the almost amazing Samsung LED TV on a local store. More specifically the UN40B7000 model. The image quality is great and all but I was more interested in the digital multimedia features included in these new models,

  • How the iPhone 3GS records videos

    Here are some technical details an analysis about the formats used by the Apple iPhone 3GS to record video. This is an annotated screenshot of the excellent Mediainfo by Jerome Martinez. Some notes: Apple always uses MOV as the extension for standard MP4 files. The recorded video uses an MP4 container so it is capable…

  • Organize fast and precisely your MP3 files with ID3v2 tags

    This is a set of personal notes and a tutorial for everyone about how to correctly organize and tag MP3 files using the id3 command line tool. General way to tag MP3 files: id3 -M -2 [-v] [-t title] [-a artist] [-l album] [-n tracknr] [-y year] [-g genre] [-c comment] file.mp3 Recursively tag with…

  • A Media Center at Home

    Since we got a 52″ Samsung LCD TV almost a year ago as a gift from relatives, I knew it was time to attach to it a dedicated computer and have a full digital media experience in the living room. I’ll tell you here my experiences building and running this thing that makes all my…