Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies » sourceforge.net http://froebe.net/blog Tips & Tricks for Databases (Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), Windows, Linux, Solaris, Perl, Java, Bash and so much much more Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:12:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 So you want to tweet to Twitter from *WITHIN* Oracle 11g? Here’s how! http://froebe.net/blog/2009/04/12/so-you-want-to-tweet-to-twitter-from-within-oracle-11g-heres-how/ http://froebe.net/blog/2009/04/12/so-you-want-to-tweet-to-twitter-from-within-oracle-11g-heres-how/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:04:45 +0000 Jason L Froebe http://froebe.net/blog/?p=1046 Lewis Cunningham Twitterhas once again given us a gem from the world of Oracle’s relational DBMS!  This time, he has written ORA_Tweet, an API to send/receive Tweets (microblog posts) from within Oracle 11g.  Major kudos to Lewis Cunningham for writing and releasing ORA Tweet to Sourceforge.net :)

Call the Twitter API from within an Oracle database. ORA_Tweet uses the UTL_HTTP API within Oracle to call the update_status API. It is written completely in PL/SQL.

So, my question is…  Will someone write a Flickr API for Sybase ASE?

]]> http://froebe.net/blog/2009/04/12/so-you-want-to-tweet-to-twitter-from-within-oracle-11g-heres-how/feed/ 0 Rip a dvd with HandbrakeCLI on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron) for the Sony PS3 (mpeg4 / h.264) http://froebe.net/blog/2008/07/14/rip-a-dvd-with-handbrakecli-on-ubuntu-linux-804-hardy-heron-for-the-sony-ps3-mpeg4-h264/ http://froebe.net/blog/2008/07/14/rip-a-dvd-with-handbrakecli-on-ubuntu-linux-804-hardy-heron-for-the-sony-ps3-mpeg4-h264/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:45:18 +0000 Jason L Froebe http://froebe.net/blog/?p=571 After much trial and error, I chose HandbrakeCLI for ripping a dvd to a h.264 mpeg4 file that I can play on my Sony Playstation 3 console. Please note that HandBrake does quite well on live action video but not so good on animation.

% sudo aptitude install build-essential
% sudo aptitude install zlib1g-dev jam yasm
% wget http://handbrake.fr/rotation.php?file=HandBrake-0.9.2.tar.gz
% tar zxvf HandBrake-0.9.2.tar.gz
% cd HandBrake
% ./configure
% jam
% cp HandBrakeCLI ../bin  # to copy the binary into the user’s bin dir

We need yasm installed to pick up any cpu extensions that our cpu supports. For example: MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 3DNow!

Now that we have a working HandBrakeCLI binary built for our system (works for 32bit or 64bit depending on which system we built it on).

I wrote a very simple script that will rip the dvd (legal dvd rip btw) into a mp4 file, copy it to the media-server which will be picked up automatically by mediatomb.

make_ps3_hb.sh:

#!/bin/bash

# make_ps3_hb.sh <video_name .mp4> [genre]

nice -n 15 ~/bin/HandBrakeCLI -i /dev/dvd -e x264 -b 1200 -B 160 -R 48 -E faac -f mp4 -P=16 -x level=41:subme=5:me=umh -T -2 -d -7 -8 -O –crop -m -N eng -o "$1"

if [ -f "$1" ]
then
  if [ $2 ]
  then
    echo copying $1 to media-server /home/jason/Videos/$2
    scp "$1" "jason@media-server:/home/jason/Videos/$2/$1" && rm -f "$1"
  else
    echo copying $1 to media-server /home/jason/Videos
    scp "$1" "jason@media-server:/home/jason/Videos/$1" && rm -f "$1"
  fi
fi</video_name>

Handbrake documentation is available on the Handbrake wiki website.

UPDATE: If you’re looking for a GUI front end for HandBrakeCLI on Linux, check out RippedWire by th3rmite.

Screenshot: HandBrakeGTK 1.0.1 - Queue Tab

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