Still Alive; pyy, mkvdts2ac3, is_awesome, mobile apps, hashtags

Been busy…

pyy is nearing its first major milestone, 1.0.0. All that remains is writing a proper documentation and drafting some good examples but the code is pretty much stable in the master branch. pyy has a very wide scope of applications from rapid prototyping to generating and serving large web sites. Look for an upcoming blog post and formal introduction in the coming weeks.

Version 1.0.4 of mkvdts2ac3 has just been released which fixes the problems with portability to FreeBSD and OS X. A minor rewrite of the script is planned to resolve known annoyances as well as introduce must-requested features such as multiple file input and default settings. Once stable these features will be announced in a blog post and likely be tagged as 1.1.0.

The is_awesome checker has been completely rewritten from scratch to be much more robust and thorough in its testing of MediaInfo output. Native support for localization was also added and a few translations are already in the works. Any updates are likely to be minor bug fixes and will be announced via my Twitter feed.

A MacBook Pro is in the works so SMSBarrage for the iPhone can finally take off. The Windows Mobile and BlackBerry versions will also begin to take shape over the next few months. Android development of SMSBarrage 2.0.0 as well as SMSPoll and SMSMorse is finally resuming too.

Stay tuned to the blog for major announcements or follow my Twitter feed. Some notable hashtags that I use: #SMSBarrage, #SMSPoll, #SMSMorse, #mkvdts2ac3, #pyy, #polyreviki, #thebdmt, #twopr, and i’ll start using #is_awesome.

Written on: 08-30-09 · 2 Comments » · Permalink

2 Responses to “Still Alive; pyy, mkvdts2ac3, is_awesome, mobile apps, hashtags”

  1. jan wrote:

    Hi!

    I’ve using mkvdts2ac3.sh for a while now, and it’s freaking great!! But I’m facing little trouble now.. I updated Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 and it’s broken.

    I’ve reinstalled aften, libdca and mkvtoonix but I’m getting “ERROR: The program ‘dcadec’ is not in the path. Is libdca installed?”. I’ve tried to read the script, but I don’t have any clue where the script is trying to look for the dcadec. Any hints or ideas? I’m not really sure where to post this, so..

    BR,

    Jan

     November 24th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
  2. Jake Wharton wrote:

    The script looks for libdca here: http://github.com/JakeWharton/mkvdts2ac3/blob/master/mkvdts2ac3.sh#L240

    If you’re running Ubuntu you should be able to install it by running one of the following:

    sudo apt-get install libdca
sudo apt-get install libdca-dev

     November 25th, 2009 at 11:25 am

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