On Nov 7, 2005, at 11:03 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
Kevin Dangoor wrote:
I've just posted a new tutorial called "TurboTunes" which shows off
CatWalk a bit for people that haven't seen it. Ronald Jaramillo wrote
the tutorial and created the sample application.
This tutorial is a QuickTime (.mov) file with the video in H.264 and
the audio in AAC. This combination provided high-quality results,
small (19.3MB) file size and works with the latest QuickTime Player
for Mac and Windows, as well as VLC and probably Mplayer. Give it a
try and I'm sure you'll let me know if you have trouble viewing it!
Also of note: I've gone back to building the website from the
trunk (I
had been building from the 0.8 branch). 0.9-specific items (such as
the new tutorial) are marked as such. This arrangement will hopefully
make it easier for people running svn to find docs and for people who
are running the current released version to see what's coming next.
Spiffy; works fine with VLC for me. I like the rotating G.
One data design note -- I don't think you should normally give
length to
StringCol (i.e., you should use TEXT). Fixed-length fields are a
relic
of the 80's; modern databases can and do deal pretty well with
arbitrary
length text fields. Except MySQL doesn't allow indexes on them. Dumb
MySQL. In fact, if I remember correctly (and I may not), many
databases
will be more space-efficient with arbitrary length fields, because
they
don't preallocate the full length, but they frequently do for fixed
length fields.
Also, less typing!
Yeah, and space efficiency is directly proportional to performance,
because modern databases are almost always bound by IO.
-bob
