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March 10th, 2010 by Rolf
#135 is just going up to the server and I have some time to kill. 
I got several questions about the mobile version of the show. I don’t know which encoding to choose from the menus at Handbrake and would love to have a command line option for that. Here help is needed.
Is Ogg Theora (the free video format) an option for the show? Who can not decode it? Should I switch to it? Add it as an option?
Torrent questions came up too. I need some help with setting this up properly.
Comments to all topics very welcome!
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December 24th, 2009 by Rolf
Stealing the image from LuX’s posting in the forum I wish some happy days for you all. Take care of yourself and the world around you.
I want to point to an instructional video on Linux for Designers. I don’t know if this was done with Blender, but it must have taken a lot of the time since last winter to make. And never trust your tree decoration….
I think there will be a video still in 2009, but at the moment I am only lazy.
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November 24th, 2009 by Rolf
Jesús David Navarro has made a DVD torrent from the first 100 episodes of Meet the GIMP. The sites language is Spanish but the button below the entry with the wave on it downloads the torrent file.
If you have a torrent client running and some disk space and upstream traffic to share – please put this on to your machine. Just now it is terribly slow, but only one machine seeding.
And if you understand Spanish – have a look at the other things on that page, it looks like a really good collection of free educational material about all things graphics. Starting with PDF manuals and not ending with video podcasts.
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November 1st, 2009 by Rolf
Yesterday the site was very slow again. Restarting the web server solved the problem for some minutes – then it went down again. While watching the logs with tail -f I noticed a IP addess which requested a lot of different video files at the same time. I denied access to that address and the server came back up to it’s original speed in moments.
IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD A LOT OF VIDEOS, PLEASE, DO IT IN A SEQUENCE AND NOT PARALLEL AT THE SAME TIME!
I have lifted the ban on that IP (59.92.1xx.x – it’s in India and on a big pipe) but will keep an eye on the server performance and have the axe ready.
I’ll ask Marcin to limit the amount of connections for a single IP, then the problem should be gone.
UPDATE: Blocking the bot worked. And if you want to have a look at the log…. Whow!
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September 25th, 2009 by Rolf
Download the Video! (100.0 MB, 52:38)
Download the Video for iPods etc (61.9 MB, 52:38)
Download the Torrent! (likely broken)
Download the Companion File!
This week you’ll get both hosts of the show in one package. Philippe (southern France) and I (northern Germany) discuss the results of the Double Book Challenge in the “From Scratch” section. We use Skype and the connection is not as good as we were used to it between Chile and Germany. So expect some funny noises added to the accents.
At the end of the show we both come up with a random number and calculate in a highly scientific way who wins the two books. I’ll give you all a chance to find out in the video if you have won and contact the winners later next week. And IF YOU have won, send me your contact data so that I can forward them to APRESS, who sponsor the prizes.
All the images we talked about are in the companion file.
Tags: challenge, gimp book
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September 2nd, 2009 by Rolf
I am a bit under the weather and snowed in with work. So there will be no show this week.
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August 8th, 2009 by Rolf
In Episode 110 I reviewed Akkana Peck’s great book Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition, which was sent to me by the publisher, Apress. They had offered also two books to give away as prizes in a challenge for the audience – that is, for you.
And here are the rules:
Challenge 1: “From Scratch!”
Make an image from scratch with GIMP, like Philippe does in his shows. Start with a blank canvas and create.
Store your image as a XCF file and announce it in this board of the forum. You have to sign up as a member for that – but there are no strings attached. If your image is too big for uploading to the forum you can send it to info@meetthegimp.org as a mail attachment. We will host them on the server. We are open for further ideas of getting the images into the forum.
Write a bit about what you have done in the forum posting. This has not to be a tutorial – just that we all have an idea which way you have took.
If you post several images, then the last one will be in the draw for the book. All of them are in the pot for the review choice by Philippe.
The Book Prize
All entries that follow the above rules to be in the draw and are posted before September 10, 0:00 “Forum Time” (that is something similar to UTC) are put in a numbered list – starting with 0.
After the end of the challenge Philippe will generate a large enough random number (in the common sense meaning, not math proofed) in a way of his choice. And then the entry at the position “Philippe’s Number MODULO Number of Entries” will win.
The Review
Philippe will take his pick out of the entries and present one or more in the show.
Challenge 2: “Pimp my Photo!”
Modify a digital or scanned analog photography with GIMP and other Free Software programs, like Rolf does in his shows.
Store your original image from the camera and your result as a XCF file and announce it in this board of the forum. You have to sign up as a member for that – but there are no strings attached. If your images are too big for uploading to the forum you can send them to info@meetthegimp.org as a mail attachment. We will host them on the server. We are open for further ideas of getting the images into the forum.
Write a bit about what you have done in the forum posting. This has not to be a tutorial – just that we all have an idea which way you have took.
If you post several images, then the last one will be in the draw for the book. All of them are in the pot for the review choice by Rolf.
The Book Prize
All entries that follow the above rules to be in the draw and are posted before September 10, 0:00 “Forum Time” (that is something similar to UTC)are put in a numbered list – starting with 0.
After the end of the challenge Rolf will generate a large enough random number (in the common sense meaning, not math proofed) in a way of his choice. And then the entry at the position “Rolf’s Number MODULO Number of Entries” will win.
The Review
Rolf will take his pick out of the entries and present one or more in the show.
Other Rules
The books are not sent out by meetthegimp.org, but by APress. Our only responsibility is to send them the winners adresses, not to make sure the book is delivered.
All decisions, “random numbers” and so on made by Philippe and Rolf are final.
By entering an image you accept the above rules.
Have a lot of fun!
Added Aug 9th: Everybody is allowed to enter into both challenges – except for Philippe in the first and Rolf in the second. Both are not eligible for winning the book.
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July 28th, 2009 by Rolf
I need to chop up the production of the show into different parts, because rendering the video in the different stages takes a lot more time for the HD show. No problem, the computer can do that alone. But the gaps are now so large that I can’t fit the production into one day.
The problems with the video decoding are caused by the use of the “AVC1″ codec. This thing is quite modern and powerful, but needs a lot of machine resources and current software for playing it.
I can’t help you if your machine is too slow to play the video – you’ll have to switch to the mobile version and have basically the same quality as before except for a worse zoom factor. If there is demand for an intermediate format we can do that also – just write a comment with a proposition.
Mac/Quicktime users find an update here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23875/avc1decoder, for Windows this was recommended: http://download.cnet.com/The-KMPlayer/3000-13632_4-10659939.html
As I don’t use Windows or Mac I can’t t tell you what happens if you install the software. And if you have additional tips, links and comments, click on the heading of this posting and you’ll see a comment area below.
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July 24th, 2009 by Rolf
Download the Video! (57.9 MB, 30:28) Now iTunes and Quicktime friendly! (Since Aug 1 2009)
Download the Video for iPods etc (31.2 MB, 30:28)
Download the Torrent!
Download the Companion File!
It’s just a bit after Midnight here in Germany – and so at least for nearly half the world still Friday, July 24th. And that is the second birthday of Meet the GIMP.
I cover two questions for this is the first HD show – and it took ages to render. I will have to adjust my workflow. I start with a problem of Ivo, the producer of Autozine – an online car magazine made with GIMP. He wants to change reality a bit and move letters around in an image.His images are in the companion file.
Then I tackle selective sharpening again after I got a question about how to further control the sharpened area. In episode 6 I constrained the sharpening to the edges in the image – here I reduce it to parts of the image.
In case that you wonder why there is no sharpening while I paint the antenna – have a look at the “eyes” in the layers dialog box…..
This post will be updated tomorrow – then there will be also a mobile version and the companion file. Good night!
Mobile version of the vido is in the making is ready – I hope it will play everywhere.
There are comments about problems with iTunes and this episode. Is there anybody who can play this in iTunes?
The Mobile Version is a quick and dirty build with Handbrake. Does it play? Where? Where not? And why is it so large? Update: newer version in a bit larger and different encoding. Please check!
Tags: clone tool, selective sharpening
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April 7th, 2009 by Rolf
The Miro Guide features this project for about four days. 
A big welcome to all new visitors, you find the subscribe button just to the right.
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