Martin Ankerl
No movement is faster than no movement

Create High Quality Flash Videos in Ubuntu

I recently got a nice new camera that can shoot HDTV videos, and the only way to show off the awesome quality to the world is by creating flash videos by myself. Here is an example:

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

var s1 = new SWFObject(”/files/yt/player.swf”,”ply”,”848″,”500″,”9″,”#FFFFFF”);
s1.addParam(”allowfullscreen”,”true”);
s1.addParam(”allowscriptaccess”,”always”);
s1.addParam(”flashvars”,”file=/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/p1000369.mp4&image=/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/p1000369.jpg”);
s1.write(”c3″);

I use Ubuntu, so this tutorial won’t work on [...]


Via Ferrata Teufelsteig

This sunday I was on a fabulous via ferrata (german translation is “Klettersteig”). Here is a video of it:

The via feretta is called Teufelsteig which translates to devli’s steep road.
Walking through difficult terrain, close to the peak
A view around to nearby peaks and chines
Finally, after about 4 hours hiking and climbing, we have [...]


ActionCam Damberg Kriterium

On 29th August, we went on a cool mountain biking trip around the Damberg. Here is a map of the famous Damberg Kriterium. It is about 43 km, and 850 meters in altitude (bikemap overestimates 1040m). It was a fun trip, thanks for Jürgen (who was NOT the organizer) for organizing this! Here is [...]