DATA RECOVERY UNION

I need to fill an excel column with a sequential series, in this case from -500 to 1000.  I’ve got a macro to do it, but it takes a lot of lines … Vba – Filling cells with sequential numbers in an Excel (2003) macroRead more

Sometimes I need to work on EXTREMELY large text files.  200-300 megs or more. My favorite text editor on my MacBook Pro is TextMate.  However, TM chokes on very large text files. … VERY large text files and Snow LeopardRead more

Instead of providing a fixed frame rate to FFMPEG/libx264 (-r/-framerate), I would like to specify a variable frame rate with a MAXIMUM value, and allow libx264 to down the frame rate as … Video – FFMPEG / libx264: How to specify a variable frame rate but with a maximum?Read more

I’m trying to create a basic 5 second zoompan to the center of an image (from the example on the ffmpeg.org website). The command below works, but jitters more than my hands … Video – ffmpeg: smooth zoompan with no jiggleRead more

To convert an MKV to AVI, I do two things. The first thing I do is this: ffmpeg -i filename.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.avi or this: ffmpeg -i filename.mkv -sameq -acodec … Video – How to convert an MKV to AVI with minimal lossRead more

I am watching a Flash stream. I can watch the same stream in two different players (set up by someone else), but I don’t like any of them. Is there a way … Video – How to find the stream behind a Flash playerRead more

I have an avi and corresponding .srt file for subtitles.  I hate having two files for this movie, so what I want to do is convert this file to mkv as I … Video – How to soft code an MKV with subtitles?Read more

I have two halves of a single show in two .MP4 files, encoded in H264. I would like to join them without re-encoding. Is this possible? I managed to create a joined … Video – Joining H264 *without* re-encodingRead more

What tool can I use to to rip DVD movies? I have used “Dr. DivX” long back. Is there any better tool to rip DVDs? Solution: Handbrake   HandBrake is an open-source, … Video conversion – What tool can I use to to rip DVD movies?Read more

I want to encode a video file to H.265. The last version of ffmpeg should be support H.265 (Source). However, I could not find any information about the exact command. I do … Video encoding – How to generate an MP4 with H.265 codec using ffmpeg?Read more