Why NOT open Video, And Why $100k won’t go very far

by Brandon Wirtz

So Mozilla wants an Open Video format for the web.  Yeah well, I want cheap health care for every person on the planet, a pony, and a Red Rider BB gun.  Did these people even talk to Acacia? Let’s start with a clarification, VC1, H.264, and Mpeg2 are all Open. You can go out to [...]

Filed under : Industry News

ZillionTV is hiring: This is Your Chance to Work with Me

by Brandon Wirtz

I have two positions which I am looking to fill at ZillionTV.  The first is part IT administrator, part video engineer.  I’m looking for someone who can replicate my capture and encode environment multiple times in multiple facilities.  An ideal candidate will have experience with SDI/HD-SDI, Sony J-Decks, Windows Server, and Windows Vista.  Experience with [...]

Filed under : Industry News, Life Hacks, Money

Western Digital Prevents You From Accessing Your Own Files with psuedo-DRM

Western Digital Prevents You From Accessing Your Own Files with psuedo-DRM by Brandon Wirtz

Western Digital’s 1 terabyte My Book World Edition External Hard Drive will let you back up your Media files but will prevent you from restoring them to a different computer.  Very Fun if you for instance work in a Video Production Studio and want to say Ship a bunch of AVI’s or WMV’s to your [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents

How To Convert RMVB to DIVX, Xvid, Mpeg, WMV, MOV, AVI, Mp3 or any other non-Real Media Format

How To Convert RMVB to DIVX, Xvid, Mpeg, WMV, MOV, AVI, Mp3 or any other non-Real Media Format by Brandon Wirtz

RMVB is not the most used format out there, which is why if you find a piece of content you want to convert from RMVB to DIVX, Xvid, Mpeg, WMV, MOV, AVI, Mp3 or any other non-Real Media Format you may have a bit of trouble.  Figuring out How to do this for a file [...]

Filed under : How To

Video Containers, Codecs. The anatomy of a Video File

Video Containers, Codecs.  The anatomy of a Video File by Brandon Wirtz

Downloading Video is getting more and more complex as there are increasingly more formats and more players.  Wrapping your head around it can be a challenge.  To help you out we quickly go over the Anatomy of a Video File The First thing to know about your File is the File Extension.  Most of the [...]

Filed under : Technical