Microsoft India caught red-handed on CCTV threatening an ISO official.

Oh dear, the MacHeads are not happy bunnies...

Looks like a recent update to QuickTime has introduced some kind of DRM enforcement, that effectively renders it useless (pun intended).

Worse still, complaints about this update are being censored on Apple's support forums.

Apple - Support - Discussions - After QT7.4, AE error-you do not have ...

It seems that Apple has deleted (again) one part of this discussion...

Nearly two weeks after it was first reported that Anvsoft was violating the GPL, they continue to plagiarise Free Software such as mkisofs, cdrdao, dvdauthor, spumux, id3lib, lame, mpeg2enc, and mplex; by distributing a program called DVD Photo Slideshow, which includes the aforementioned GPL software, in violation of that license.

UPDATE!!! ... the issue now seems to be resolved, and I have personally verified that this software does now include a copy of the GPL, however I have yet to establish whether or not Anvsoft provide the corresponding source for that GPL software. I will update this entry as I get further information.

Situation critical | Media | MediaGuardian.co.uk

Situation critical

The BBC's desperate attempt to lead the new media revolution has been fraught with controversy, delays and huge costs. Bobbie Johnson asks how it all went wrong

Monday May 14, 2007
The Guardian

Save this script somewhere, e.g. /usr/local/bin/podit, then chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/podit

Usage: podit /path/to/file

Update: Apparently ffmpeg's parameters have changed yet again [sigh]. Depending on what version of ffmpeg you are using, you may need to make the following changes:

-vcodec h264 is now -vcodec libx264
-acodec aac is now -acodec libfaac

Thanks to FakeOutdoorsman for the update.

#!/bin/sh
# Name:    podit
# Summary: iPod H264 640x480 video transcoder script. 
# Version: 1.1.1
# Date:    2007.07.11
# License: GPL Version 3 or Later
# URL:     http://slated.org/howto_transcode_h264_for_ipod_with_ffmpeg
# © [H]omer, 2007
#
# Requires: ffmpeg
# Requires: gpac
# Requires: perl-DateManip
#