{"id":645,"date":"2008-12-02T19:59:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T18:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:38:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T08:38:41","slug":"neuros-osd-christmas-present-from-grandpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/neuros-osd-christmas-present-from-grandpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuros OSD (Christmas present from Grandpa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/neurososd.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/neurososd.jpg?resize=126%2C95&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"neurososd\" title=\"neurososd\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-667\" height=\"95\" width=\"126\"><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nThis tiny box does two important jobs. Firstly it records any video source (as mp4 files) and secondly, it acts as a video jukebox (i.e. connects to the TV and can play video stored on a PC on the network). It&#8217;s a pretty useful gadget!\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been ripping old VHS videos and archiving old camcorder cassette tapes to mp4 and building up a digital library. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neurostechnology.com\/\">Neuros OSD<\/a> can stream from our Samba share. The video quality isn&#8217;t quite as high as hoped, it&#8217;s a bit dark but it&#8217;s really nice not to have to go through the hassle of copying video onto a USB stick to play it on our XBox 360.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, to make a DVD in Linux (Ubuntu 8.10) out of the ripped mp4 files, first we chop the mp4 files into small relevant chunks (strip out blank noise \/ adverts \/ etc). You have to know the start time and end time in seconds of the section you want to chop out:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo apt-get install gpac\r\nMP4Box -splitx &lt;startTimeOfSectionYouWantInSeconds&gt;:&lt;endTimeInSeconds&gt; inputFile.mp4\r\nMP4Box -hint outputFile.mp4\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The above commands leave the original untouched but creates a new file with the snippet you wanted. In takes about 10 minutes to chop out a 45 minute video. Once we have a bunch of snippets, we then use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rastersoft.com\/programas\/devede.html\">DeVeDe<\/a> to compile the DVD using mp4 files as the &#8220;tracks&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tiny box does two important jobs. Firstly it records any video source (as mp4 files) and secondly, it acts as a video jukebox (i.e. connects to the TV and can play video stored on a PC on the network). It&#8217;s a pretty useful gadget! I&#8217;ve been ripping old VHS videos and archiving old camcorder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}