Need help converting a mySQL database with Latin characters to UTF-8 [more inside]
posted by GJSchaller on Oct 9, 2009 - 7 answers

If I posted AskMes with any great frequency, this could be construed as a waste of a question, but: That Zalgo thread. What do I need to do to see it properly? I'm on xp/ff3.5 and I'm seeing little boxes with numbers in them.
posted by juv3nal on Jul 6, 2009 - 15 answers

I just ordered the updated Mac Mini, and I'm looking around for an external box that I can plug analog or DV sources into to capture video. The main purpose would be to capture a lot of old material on VHS and Hi8 tape that is getting well past expiration date. If it could tune into cable or over-the-air tv, that'd be great, but it's really just capturing/encoding video from external sources (RCA,S-Video,DV) that it needs to do well. I have one of these things for inputting analog/outputting digital audio, and it works great with its parent application. I'm hoping to find something similar in quality for video. My price point is $200-400. Does anyone have experience using something like this, that they'd care to recommend?
posted by $0up on Mar 3, 2009 - 10 answers

iMovie help! I've converted a VHS tape to digital format using EyeTV Plus on my iMac. I've followed the steps to convert the file to iMovie using the EyeTV program. This creates a iMovie project file and 22 5-minute clips in a .dv format. Problems arise when I open iMovie to start editing. [more inside]
posted by wsquared on Feb 9, 2009 - 1 answer

I need a program for ripping DVDs to get past the encoding (I think that's the term). I've got most of them covered by my DVD Ripper, but I'm having some trouble on a few. [more inside]
posted by Deflagro on Jan 1, 2009 - 13 answers

I'd like to legally buy DVDs of a British television series. Unfortunately, they're only available as Region 2 discs and are encoded (I think) as PAL. Is there a convenient way to play them on my new iMac and OS X 10.5.5?

There have been a few questions along these lines, but no definitive answers as yet. I'm hoping that there's been some software innovation since those last posts that someone can point me to. [more inside]
posted by aladfar on Nov 14, 2008 - 17 answers

In working through a tutorial for Amazon's Simple Storage Service, I'm stuck on two steps. The first step is to base64-encode my policy file... and the second step is to generate a signature value (SHA-1 HMAC) with my Amazon Secret Access key as a password. Am I going about it correctly? [more inside]
posted by avoision on Oct 11, 2008 - 3 answers

FirefoxFilter: On certain sites, Firefox (for Vista) displays an accented lowercase i instead of an apostrophe. The HTML for the sites in question calls for UTF-8 encoding, which is what Firefox says it's using. Why is this happening? [more inside]
posted by phaded on Aug 8, 2008 - 7 answers

What does the construct "?/" refer to in Ruby? [more inside]
posted by nakedcodemonkey on Jan 14, 2008 - 6 answers

Help me open an Apple Mail attachment on my Windows PC. [more inside]
posted by analogue on Jan 7, 2008 - 6 answers

Did I do something to mess up character encoding in firefox? [more inside]
posted by juv3nal on Sep 9, 2007 - 5 answers

Using MEncoder on Fedora 7 Linux and a bt878 TV card, how do I avoid or work around duplicate frames when encoding video from a VHS tape? [more inside]
posted by remi on Aug 16, 2007 - 9 answers

I have what appears to be a word file (no file extension) that was generated on a mac and sent to me via email. I am trying to open it up on a Windows box with Office XP but there appears to be a problem with Office recognizing the file encoding. Is there an easy fix using the PC (no access to a mac) that can be done pretty quickly?
posted by buttercup on Jun 3, 2007 - 13 answers

I'm creating a DVD Video for my family using Toast Titanium 8. I wonder what the best encoding settings for my case are. [more inside]
posted by hz37 on Apr 30, 2007 - 4 answers

What encoding is this source code? Alternately, any ideas on this puzzle? [more inside]
posted by provolot on Mar 31, 2007 - 23 answers

What's the binary encoding scheme (bitmap -> n) used in Tupper's Self-Referential Formula? [more inside]
posted by onalark on Feb 2, 2007 - 7 answers

I regularly use ffmpeg to encode videos (from mpeg2 to mpeg4) for my ipod. I've been doing this for nearly a year with no problems. Now, every time I start an encode, my system is suddenly under a lot of pressure - I can't use any other application. If I go into the windows task manager and set the priority to 'below normal', all is fine again. Anyone have any idea why this change might have occured, or any idea how I can get around it (preferably without using task manager)? [more inside]
posted by ascullion on Jan 31, 2007 - 5 answers

Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 encoding (export) problems. Hopefully someone can help me out! [more inside]
posted by cheero on Nov 12, 2006 - 4 answers

I'm having issues playing back music. It all has to do with the left or right channel being washed out: Sometimes the lead vocals or lead guitar from a radio signal isn't heard, sometimes its the same for listening through an ipod with headphones and through a computer with headphones. There is a bit > [more inside]
posted by premortem on Sep 26, 2006 - 7 answers

How does a web browser decide whether it can display a numerical character reference? [more inside]
posted by Nothing on May 31, 2006 - 5 answers

double-pronged question about working with XVID [more inside]
posted by chudmonkey on Feb 24, 2006 - 17 answers

What is the best way to encode video for cross platform (mac, windows and *nix) use? [more inside]
posted by ikareru on Nov 3, 2005 - 16 answers

I just bought a brand new 12" powerbook to replace one that was stolen several weeks back. I am told by a friend at Apple that I can watch different zone DVDs 5 times, and on the 5th viewing the machine will permanently set to whatever region that DVD is encoded to. Is there no way to undo this encoding? For example, if I foolishly, for example, allowed a friend to use the machine and he watched 5 Korean DVDs, am I stuck with that region forever?
posted by luriete on Oct 6, 2004 - 11 answers

Determining the region/format encoding of a DVD with OSX? [more inside]
posted by dobbs on Mar 24, 2004 - 10 answers

Your help please in playing DRM protected video clips without DRM software... (further details are contained within) [more inside]
posted by muckybob on Mar 10, 2004 - 4 answers

How to parse unencoded ampersands in URLs in PHP with preg_replace() while excluding already-encoded ampersands? (more inside) [more inside]
posted by brownpau on Dec 11, 2003 - 8 answers