Roman Shaposhnik's

I'm a visual junkie. Not only that, a significant percentage of the visual culture I grew up in is completely alien to my non-Russian friends. Which means, more often than not I find myself in the middle of a conversation making obscure references without much hope of getting through. Although Tarkovsky is a safe bet and so is Bekmambetov these days, the rest needs to be localized into Americana. This means two things: subtitles and PAL to NTSC conversion. And even though there are a couple of end-to-end applications for acomplishing that I always end up doing bits and pieces of this work in a variety of simple (even command-line!) tools: FFmpeg, mjpeg_tools, dvdauthor, mkisofs and, above all, awk and sed.[Read More]