The Irish political ship is adrift

Image shows scene from 'Mutiny on the Bounty' with characters representing Irish political parties - the image alongside it, shows a radio controlled tugboat in a pond, operated by a EU controller

FFmpeg: Display and isolate macroblock motion-vectors in mpeg video


# Isolate motion-vectors using 'difference128' blend filter
# - add brightness, contrast, and scaling, to taste

ffplay \
   -flags2 +export_mvs \
   -i "video.mp4" \
   -vf \
   "
      split[original],
      codecview=mv=pf+bf+bb[vectors],
      [vectors][original]blend=all_mode=difference128,
      eq=contrast=7:brightness=-0.3,
      scale=720:-2
   "

Works best with higher-resolution videos; 4K source used in this case.

more info: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Debug/MacroblocksAndMotionVectors
source video: Czech National Ballet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn12Ffi15Go
shorter alt. version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN_c4mdBpvg

Archiving 2015/2016 FIS Alpine Skiing tv coverage





info: http://www.fis-ski.com/alpine-skiing/events-and-places/calendar?sector=AL&season=2016&discipline=ALL&gender=L&start=2016-02-01#timeline

Infini (2015)



It's like two different stories in one. The transition is so jarring, I'm convinced two concepts were combined to save money. If not, the beginning of the film is filled with deliberate red herrings, which do nothing but irritate the viewer.

imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3327624/

Richard Stallman comments on Ian Murdock

context: https://twitter.com/FredericJacobs/status/694235802100961281

Related:

Longer quote regarding Murdock's abhorrence of the term "GNU/Linux":
Debian is still known as "Debian GNU/Linux," rather than simply "Debian Linux." Today, Murdock says that he "abhors" the term GNU/Linux, but at the time it made sense. "Even before I worked for the FSF, Richard [Stallman] called me one evening and said 'I'm concerned about fragmentation, and I'd like to make a statement that Linux is part of the larger GNU Project."

Murdock says that at the time, fragmentation was a major concern. "There was the libc at the time was a fork from glibc, there were a few other examples — the Linux community had taken GNU software and ran with it, and were not doing a particularly good job of coordinating with upstream GNU maintainers... who couldn't move quickly enough given the pace with which Linux was evolving. Some just gave up on coordinating as a result of that."

As a result, Murdock says that "I thought his argument was reasonable, and I thought his concern about fragmentation was quite valid, so I said 'sure.'" But things have changed, says Murdock. "The reason I abhor the term now, it has very clearly been rejected by the larger community. To insist on continuing to call it something the larger community doesn't use, it seems to me to be a bit pointless."

https://www.linux.com/news/special-feature/stories-of-linux/465353-stories-of-linux-interview-with-ian-murdock-on-debians-early-days
related: http://oioiiooixiii.blogspot.com/2016/04/jobs-banksy-stallman.html

Jobs, Banksy, Stallman

Banksy's dedication to Steve Jobs, defaced with the words of Richard Stallman: 'I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.'