Preston L. Bannister { random memes }

For rather a while I have not felt especially motivated to update my computers. Even my old Athlon 2200+ laptop is adequate for almost everything I do. With Eclipse, VMware, Tomcat, and Firefox running – I tend to want more memory rather than more CPU.

Until today. Wanted to record a video of a short demo. Set a Windows 2000 VM under VMware to 1152×864, and used VMware Workstation’s “Capture Movie” to record the demo. Copied the AVI file to my laptop, fired up Window XP’s Movie Editor and … boy oh boy could I use a lot more CPU!

Still mucking around trying to figure out how to convert the video (encoded with the VMware VNC-derived codec) into more easily distributable form (at full resolution, without requiring the viewer to add the VMware codec. Each experiment takes …….. a long time with the CPU running flat out.

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