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When I was a teenager and into my early 20s, I had a large spiral bound map book in the back pocket of the driver's seat in my car. I didn't have to use it often though. The rare trip to a new location was just

I used HyperCard in the late-80s and early-90s to make some fun applications and animations. It still amazes me that Myst was implemented in HyperCard. As kids, we did more with HyperCard than I've ever seen kids doing these days. I used Gtk with Perl to craft some

Years ago I looked at curtisjones.com and saw that it was for sale. That might be fun to own. According to the Wayback Machine, it had been used for precisely nothing its entire existence, which was a little sad, and a lot fortuitous. The domain reseller follows up with

Google just replied to (and closed) my ticket regarding MPEG-DASH. Apparently they cannot provide any examples of their ingest actually working. "Go ask StackOverflow." Very cringe. Anyway ... on to HLS now. Question 1: Can I use AVAssetWriter to write the MPEG-TS stream? The answer seems to be "

I've got the SIDX atom in place at the start of each M4F file, immediately preceding the MOOF atom. No change in the black rectangle. Hmm. I noticed in an example MPEG-DASH stream that it has a different set of "compatible_brand" values (avc1, iso5, dash)

I spent the last day merging the initialization segments and media segments emitted by the two AVAssetWriter's (audio + video). The result at the moment is that VLC won't play it, and YouTube is still broadcasting a black rectangle. I pulled down some example M4F files from

Progress! "The ingestion stream does not contain any audio streams, but it must contain exactly one audio stream." First thing this morning I noticed that while the MPD's SegmentTemplate "media" attribute was set to "file=media$Number$.mp4", I was sending files

After last night: I was trying to psych myself to manually put the encoded H264 frames into a fragmented MP4 container. I'd need to get some 3rd party tool to validate my work. There was nothing exciting to this "solution". And then I found this: Author