Comments on: Pushing a wombat down a garden hose

by: GemmaWilson

Wed, 25 May 2011 13:16:56 +0100

Oh my my - is this for real...Poor wombat

by: Alereon

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:29:20 +0000

Peridot, if high bitrate H.264 through x264 doesn't give you good enough quality, you're pretty much left with MJPEG or a lossless codec, and you'd probably have to include the codec with your file. If you've got the bandwidth you'd probably get the best results from CorePNG, especially if you can reduce the color depth of the video. You might also try high-bitrate XviD with Quarter-Pixel motion compensation on. Use this same setting when you test with H.264 as well.

by: michal

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:51:20 +0000

They still have the same problem even when it's hot. Ivan Milat anyone?

by: FuzzyPlushroom

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:22:38 +0000

I'm convinced, Dan, that people named Ivan want the rest of the world to be as miserable as they are, because they're freezing their toes off.

by: michal

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:12:42 +0000

Oh my god. I'm going to have nightmares now. Poor wombat.
Please tell me it was fiction. I'm afraid to check myself.
Even if it isn't, just say it is.

by: Daniel Rutter

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:06:56 +0000

When I was a kid I read various Muddle-Headed Wombat books, but all memory of them was driven out of my head because I also read "The Death of a Wombat" by Ivan Smith, which is a good a way to aim your kid at a life of severe clinical depression as I've ever encountered. I only remembered the cheerful Muddle-Headed Wombat just now because I was looking for the name of that book in which the wombat BURNS TO DEATH.

by: Itsacon

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:11:19 +0000

One thing I always liked about video-encoding was how the industry is always one step behind the `pirates': A full DVD (about 5 GB, MPEG-2 encoding), has pretty much the quality as a well-encoded MPEG-4 movie the size of a CD. A full blue-ray disk (which is what, 50 GB?) has the same quality as a DVD-sized h.264 rip...

Granted, the hardware required for the the ripped version is a bit heavier, but any modern graphics card can do it.

by: DBT

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:14:25 +0000

One of my favourite children's books:
http://www.harpercollins.com.au/book/index.aspx?isbn=9780207199950

...and the back story; more epic than the book:
http://www.jackiefrench.com/wombat.html

by: Ziggyinc

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:05:49 +0000

I read the Wiki on wombats, and I still cannot get over the image that formed when it described how the wombats deal with predators. Wombat says "Leave me alone or I'll sit on you." Or crush you against the tunnel roof actually.

by: Major Malfunction

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:47:01 +0000

Dan said, "Wombats are neither aggressive nor affectionate. If you stroke one, it’ll just stomp off somewhere else." I dunno about that, Dan. I touched a tame(ish) one busily munching grass at a camping ground and it growled at me! Weirdest noise I ever heard. Kinda like the Predator breathing, but scarier. I promptly withdrew my hand but it glared at me until I backed off a few steps, then went back to munching... I don't know what it would have done if I hadn't retreated, but I'll never interrupt a hungry wombat again! Anyhoo, that's all I have to contribute. I'm on dialup. What are these "moving pictures" of which you speak?