Some blurbs about tweaking mplayer’s codecs

The (non-) problem The truth is that there never was a problem. What really happened was that I got things confused between a few versions of mplayer/mencoder, and only the latests (of those I have, 1.0rc1-3.2.2) does the job. Bus since I wrote down some things I might want to return to some day, here’s [...]

Canon EOS 500D: Using the wrong driver intentionally

Foreword Before I say a word, my children, I have to warn you: What I’m about to teach you here is basically how to mess up your computer. It’s how to make Windows install the wrong driver for a USB device (possibly PCI devices as well). Don’t complain about a headache when you want to [...]