BiaMovE (pronounced by-a-movie) is an advanced mencoder GUI I've written in Python and Tkinter. Features include:

• Configuration for popularly used audio and video codecs (e.g. LAVC, x364, xvid, mp3lame, twolame etc.)
• Save/load profiles. You can create a specific profile for encoding different types of videos.
• A dialog box for common video filters - crop, scale, expand etc.
• Other advanced mencoder options not found in other video encoding GUIs.

What BiaMovE doesn't do:

• Detect mencoder/codecs installed on your system. You need mencoder installed with specific codecs you need for it to work.
• Advanced error checking. Be aware that Mencoder is a complex video encoding software and supports hundreds of options. Using certain combination of options/codecs might produce invalid, incompatible video formats. BiaMovE just passes your choices to the Mencoder command line and doesn't do much more than that.

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As mentioned in my previous post, I'm still working on the Mencoder GUI, but it's now beginning to take shape. I've almost completed it (except for saving and loading profiles and the actual encoding part). All the codec specific/video filter configuration dialog boxes are complete as of now.

Here's a screenshot of the main window. More coming up later.

I've written a new blog tool in PHP called LiteDoodle. It's a simple, configuration driven image blogging system, ideal for small webcomics. Doesn't use MySQL or any databases.

Before you test it out, make sure you read the install-readme.html file. It has some useful information. It's a very rough-and-ready tool, so you won't find much polish in the code, but it does the job and is not very complicated.

Download: LiteDoodle.zip (25 kB)

It's been a long time since I've made a post here. It's been a busy month for me due to a variety of reasons and I've also been down with a cold in the last few days, but I just found a new mail in my inbox which attracted me. I'm glad to see that the script which powers harishankar.org which I shared a long time ago has actually been used by a few people. Here's a website which uses my script. I thank the website owner who brought it to my notice along with his appreciation. It feels good to be of some use.

I've made a lot of enhancements to the script since the time when I first released it. I will probably share the newest version of that script (which also features a changelog with Atom 1.0 feeds).

Here's my import script which I used to convert this blog from WordPress 2.3 to b2evolution 2.0.1-alpha. The attached file has instructions on how to convert your blog. I strong recommend that you peruse the README file before using it. This works only with WordPress 2.3 and not versions below it. If you have an older WordPress blog, please upgrade first to 2.3 before importing.

I have enjoyed using b2evolution so far as it's much more configurable than WordPress (in the admin interface) and it's more like a CMS than a blog. However, you can check for yourself. This importer does not touch your existing WordPress installation, so there is no harm in testing it out.

You can ask questions and provide your feedback here! I would appreciate it.

Download link: wp_2_b2evolution.zip (6.6 kB)