What the hell - so I get my head down to do some serious work and come back to this stuff!!! Advogato disbanding. PAh!. Well I'm going to continue on as normal. (PS, I support the StevenRainwater takeover bids as an alternative to hosting, and offer some limited financial / hosting support).

Right. So I've been working with FFMPEG and its conversion. The first thing thats weird is that it seems to lack certain elements (in Windows) that it has in Linux, causing a couple of weird bugs (that and the misuse of the MJPEG causing some... big images).

To recap, we're taking 3GPP videos from mobiles and re-coding them for the web. Now, very cool, but we're having a lot of problems with the audio - whilst some of the clips (taken at gigs right infront of 10 mega watt sound systems) actually have good sound on them, however others, taken in front of normal talking people, have terrible sound levels.

The only solution (As far as we can tell) will be to strip the audio from the 3GPP file, to perform some audio jiggery pokery (techincal term) and then return that audio to the original movie and hope everything is still in synch.

That's after the show next tuesday of course.