mandrake.net

Welcome to everybody coming to my site from lifehacker and gizmodo! As you can see from the stats I have jumped up a lot in at least my flickr traffic – and my website had quite a boost in traffic, too. Haven’t had this many people paying attention to me since I was releasing software every day. Maybe I should start again to merit this much attention

In other news – I got my first Blu Ray to rip properly, and now I have an HD rip of The Matrix that actually plays on my AppleTV… and looks good! And has 5.1 audio! In case anyone was wondering, the tools I used to get that accomplished: AnyDVD HD, tsMuxer, and Handbrake… it was a 3 stage process, but the end result is nice. I will probably be experimenting with quality to see at what point the appletv flips out, but the size of the rip at 5500 kbps @ 720p was about 6 gigs, which I think is reasonable, though quite a bit larger (50%) than the HD movies I’ve downloaded from the iTunes Music Store… Not that that is a bad thing. Now to repeat this process for the rest of my collection!