On Tuesday, I was in Sioux Falls (SD's biggest city) with my parents. I managed to get some shopping done. Not much, but enough to satisfy me.
Highlights were the NES version of "Strider" and heading down to the ethnic grocery store to grab some bottled Mango nectar. You can't get Mango nectar anywhere in my hometown.... unless you shop online of course.
I got a whole 24-bottle pallet of "Rayaan" 250ml Mango Nectar. These are small bottles good for a quick drink with lunch and snacks. They had larger bottles and boxed Mango nectar too.
You usually can't find stuff like this in WalMart. Only in the various ethnic grocery stores.
Oh, and I ended up contacting Cyberlink support as MediaEspresso 6.5, my normal video conversion application, suddenly began to crash on me after I start converting one of my Adobe Premiere videos from DV-AVI to MP4. The video still converts in the background, but the UI crashes after you start conversion or bring up the about box. I tried applying the various update patches and uninstall/reinstalled to no avail.
I suspect a Windows Update may have done something to the program, but I am not sure as no information on why MediaEspresso crashed is never displayed.
MediaEspresso is such a great program though. It supports hardware acceleration, making video conversion fast.
However, I found out my Adobe Suite comes with Adobe Media Encoder. I am currently trying out encoding files to FLV format... Flash 8 with On VP6 encoding, 856x480 widescreen and 700kbps bitrate. We will see how well this comes out.
Downside is that encoding is slower than MediaEspresso, but if I can't get MediaEspresso fixed, then AME is the only way to go.
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