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Fifth Wedding Anniversary Video
Jennifer – you are such a blessing to me, and I thank God for our five years together. This song and video are in your honor. May we have at least 55 more!
Streaming DVD playback with VideoLAN
Background: Wartburg has a pretty sophisticated setup for distributing video and audio between Weiblen Commons, the Refectory, and the Chapel. There is no mechanism in place for displaying video in the chapel, though.
Jennifer and I were asked if it’s possible to play DVD video with a projector in the chapel at a large event where there would need to be overflow into Weiblen and the Refectory. The catch: it has to cost $0.
I fired up VideoLAN and got to work. I had tried in the past to play the disc but add a network stream to the local playback. That will work, but video and audio won’t be in sync. Instead, on the DVD playing computer, start two instances of VLC. The first streams the DVD via HTTP but has no local playback. The second reads that stream (via loopback) and displays it. On the satellite computer, connect to the HTTP stream as usual. That way both displaying instances receive their data at the same time, and they will stay in sync – or close enough.
Hopefully someone Googling will come across this information and find the technique as useful as I did.
The Inner Life of a Cell
Anyone who is interested in biology or chemistry has got to check out The Inner Life of the Cell, a Harvard project to visualize the inner workings of a cell. It’s an incredible video. They admit that they had to sacrifice some scientific accuracy for the sake of a good presentation, but it’s surprising how many things are so identifiable. I kept thinking “Hey look, DNA assembly!” or “That’s a ribosome!” This is an awesome combination of science and art.
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