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    Normalize a Directory of mp3s

    Back in the early days of Napster, Kazaa, eMule, and other file sharing networks, I would download as many apps, movies, game, and movies as possible.  My illegal downloading was out of control; I would get DMCA notices from my ISP for apps and games I had...

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    Get and Remove EXIF Data from Photos

    If you've ever worked for an agency or a small web shop, I'd be willing to bet you've coded a fair amount of photo galleries.  You've probably also uploaded photos to social media, sent photos to friends and family, and so on.  Photos seem fairly innocent but, as is the...

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    Modify Video Speed with ffmpeg

    I watch a lot of sports and recently I've become fascinated with some of the methodologies they use to illustrate events within the game.  I don't have their advanced TV software or hardware, of course, but I do have a love for ffmpeg, which allows me to do...

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    Slice Videos with ffmpeg

    Isolating a specified portion of a video is a very common task for those who work within the media, probably using nice GUI tools to slice clips from the full video.  I'm a developer, however, and know how amazing ffmpeg is so I prefer to do my basic video slicing from command...

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    Instagram-like Filters with Cloudinary

    Apps like Instagram are a testament to how brilliant a few color modifications can make a photo.  We've seen hundreds of Instagram clones pop up, and even the CSS and Canvas specs have a filter property which allows us to modify imagery.  As nice as those APIs are...

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    Cloudinary Improves User Experience through Intelligent Delivery

    Over the past months I've been showing you techniques for optimizing your site media with Cloudinary.  Cloudinary has you covered with APIs in just about every programming language, a host of useful add-ons, the ability to modify images on the fly by modifying URLs, implementation of bleeding...

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    Convert webm to mp4

    There's an upcoming Mozilla trip to Hawaii on the cards and, in trying to be a good family man, I'm bringing my wife and two young sons.  Glutton for punishment?  Probably.  Anyways, I've been feverishly downloading cartoons from YouTube using youtube-dl to put onto our new iPad to keep...

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    How to Deliver a Smooth Playback without Interruptions (Buffering)

    There's only one thing worse than no internet:  unreliable internet.  The frustration I feel when one page loads quickly, then the next very slow (if at all), and then a mixture is unmanageable.  Like...throw your device across the room frustrating.  This slowness is most apparent...

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    Node.js Roku Remote

    I own an Apple TV 4, Apple TV 3, Roku 4, Chromecast, and a Firefox OS TV.  From that you can probably gather that I love streaming content, particularly sports and movies.  I obviously also love coding, which is why I loved being a Partner Engineer...

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    HTML5 Video Player Best Practices

    Let's all be honest:  when it comes to media and the early days of the internet, we definitely did it all wrong.  We started with embedded video players like RealPlayer and Windows Media Player which required custom codecs and browser plugins, then moved on to Flash and...