MPC-HC for audio sync

Sometimes the encode doesn't match up the audio and video tracks correctly. Recently I've discovered that, while playing in Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (1.3.1249), you can use the numpad + and - to change the audio delay, and once you've dialed it in (or at least have gotten it close enough), you can apply those changes during audio encode.

Re-installing software: still the magic bullet

Had some trouble with video decoders a while back; graphedit wasn't even showing a video pin when I opened up a .m2ts file. Today I re-installed Matroska Splitter, and now it works. Meh.

Software frustrations

Spent all day dealing with stupid software. Well, not all day. Did go see a $6 matinee (How to Train Your Dragon, very cute) and have a nice lunch outside (beautiful day today), but the rest of the day was pretty crappy because of this software thing.

First: installing libavcodec. Have svn, so tried installing from the ffmpeg source code. Have cygwin, tried that to no avail (couldn't get the right compiler settings to run ./configure). Tried to install MinGW and MSYS, but MSYS install involves picking and choosing from a myriad of packages; didn't want to figure that out. Got a precompiled Windows binary; that didn't help. Finally found ffdshow, which installs ffmpeg and everything was good.

Next, opening the .m2ts file to create an AVS script for MeGUI still doesn't work. And can't open in graphedit, either. Re-installed Haali, didn't do anything. Frustrating.

Anyways, I finally gave up on that particular file. Turns out I can open other ones okay, so to hell with it.

Next: the sf9domahrs AHRS code. Arduino IDE keeps wanting me to move it into a different folder with the same name as the .pde file. And then it can't find any of the other files. No header files anywhere, wtf? Finally realize that if the main .pde file has the same name as the folder it's in, then opening it in the IDE automatically includes the rest of the files in that folder. Gah.