Introducing Triton Player

I am quite happy to introduce Triton Player, the current project that i am working on. This will be an extension of the eMplayer that was done with HTA technology using Javascript and some C code some time back. This time, the development is taking flight using Adobe AIR Technology. The most important feature that I am trying to add is Twitter integration using OAuth.

The logo for the application has been designed using Illustrator and Fireworks. The logo features a Trident with supposedly sound waves emanating from it. A sample UI Screenshot of the application's current state on my desktop is given below.

I am unable to say whether like eMplayer that this project will also come ot of Beta or if ever it would be complete. So this project would mostly be a non-release-to-public project. Lot of features are planned but i still have no idea about the completion of this one.

Add separate audio to a video file using FFMPEG

There was a need to put the "Wavin Flag" song with a video of football tricks and stuff. So i turned to FFMPEG. After tinkering with the command line parameters as much as i could do, I found the easy way is to specify the audio file and the video file as inputs and FFMPEG gave me a single video file with the desired result.

The syntax woule be

ffmpeg -i input_audio.mp3 -i input_video combined_video

Take a look at the example command.

ffmpeg.exe -i audiofile.mp3 -i source_video.mpg -b 800k output.mpg

I used -b 800k, to make sure that the output video would be with 800kbps bit rate.