Tag: Movies

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The Sensitive Side of Darren Carter

I went to see Darren Carter on Saturday Night at Laugh Factory in Long Beach. After the show we headed to Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza for what else? Pizza. We were talking about number of topics and one of them was about the passing of John Travolta’s son. I knew that Darren worked with John Travolta in “Be Cool” movie.

I just read a nice post on Darren’s WordPress Blog about John Travolta as a father and a person. Forget about ideology and personal belief for a moment, it is always a tragedy for parents to lose any of their children. Well said, Darren.

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Canon Unveils New Camcorder Line-Up

Canon announces numbers of High-Definition and Standard-Definition camcorders today (read Press Release).

New HD Vixia Line-Up:

  • Canon VIXIA HF S10 and VIXIA HF S100 Flash Memory Camcorders
  • Canon VIXIA HF20 and VIXIA HF200 Flash Memory Camcorders
  • Canon VIXIA HV40 HDV Camcorder

New Standard-Definition Line-Up:

  • Canon FS22, FS21 and FS200 Flash Memory Camcorders
  • Canon DC420 and DC410 DVD Camcorders
  • Canon ZR960 MiniDV Camcorder

Availability of the products are to be announced.

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Carlos Alazraqui: Taco Bell Dog Voice

A short test clip from Carlos Alazraqui’s performance at The Hollywood Improv. Recorded November 19th, 2008.

Carlos is wearing a Green Digg T-Shirt. On Saturday night show, Carlos was also wearing the same T-Shirt because we’re taping all the shows and going to put them together. Lala from Tiki Bar TV came up to Carlos and talk about Digg and its founder Kevin Rose who Lala is a close friend with.

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Perian 1.1.3 is Released

Perian 1.1.3, the open source QuickTime component that adds native support to many popular video formats. Perian QuickTime component also adds extra supports for some AVCHD camcorders.

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Changes in 1.1.3

  • Enabled Indeo 2/3 decodecs
  • Added external idx/sub (VobSub) support
  • Added support for H.264 and H.263 in FLV containers
  • Apple’s decoder now handles Baseline/Main Profile H.264
  • Fix inconsistent importing for multi-channel audio
  • Reduced memory usage for packed streams
  • Added sanity checks on all preferences
  • Fixed crash caused by (among other things) resizing a streaming window

Subtitles:

  • Enabled hack to show subtitles in Front Row
  • Fixed negative values in SSA frz tag
  • Fixed VSFilter bug-compatibility for an