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Installing Eclipse Java EE (JEE) Galileo in Windows 7 using 64 bit JDK

June 2nd, 2010 Karthikeyan C No comments

Normally I do not do any development in Windows (I use Ubuntu for it). But recently tried setting up DEV environment in Windows 7 64 bit for a project which had Eclipse Java EE version – Galileo as the IDE.

I downloaded and installed 64 bit JDK 1.6.20 and then downloaded Eclipse JEE bundle for Windows platform. When i tried to run Eclipse it spit out an error dialog as it was a 64 bit JDK.

I searched for a 64 bit Eclipse JEE bundle but as on date cannot find one. Hence uninstalled  64 bit JDK and installed 32 bit JDK and continued with the setup.

Hope Eclipse soon comes out with a 64 bit JEE version soon.

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Google’s Chatback badge similar to Yahoo’s PingBox

January 15th, 2010 Karthikeyan C No comments

Recently came across Google’s chatback badge for your website or blog’s visitors to chat with you.

http://www.google.com/talk/service/badge/New

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Fixing audio hiccup (breaking) when using mencoder for conversion

January 9th, 2010 Karthikeyan C No comments

I use recordmydesktop to produce screen casts occasionally.  I was using the below  command to convert from ogv to flv format.


mencoder -of lavf -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -srate 22050 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=250:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3 -vf scale=800:600 -o tutorial.flv out.ogv

In the output file which is tutorial.flv, there were small breaks in audio (hiccups). The ogv file was fine as when i played in movie player there were no hiccpus. So the hiccups were introduced during the conversion.

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/HOWTO_Mencoder_Introduction_Guide helped me to make use of the command mencoder -oac help to view the options available and I chose the right options. This helped me to create the output file without any audio hiccups.

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