After some searching on the Apple website, I found that iMovie cannot work directly with mpeg files. Apparently these files have the audio interlaced with the video rather than as a separate track. I needed another piece of software ($40) to convert the files into a format that iMovie can use. So, the files have been converted, mashed together with iMovie, made into a Quicktime format, and uploaded to YouTube. The link below should have both video and audio…. Also, embedding doesn’t work (yet). So, you’ll have to make do with the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj1XoTyO-Hs

I’ve also been doing some other work the past couple of days. The picture album software needed a small update to warn about picture file names that are too long. The picture filename itself can be any length, but the database was set to 35 characters. If the filename was longer than that, it got truncated and then the picture wouldn’t show. I first thought I could check in Javascript after the files were selected and before they were uploaded, however, because of security reasons (a malicious person could intervene and cause a buffer overflow), that capability has been removed from Javascript. So, I can only check after the file has actually been uploaded. But, that’s better than no check at all.

I’ve also wanted approved comments to appear in-line with the post. That took about an hour this evening to figure out on my blog. Unfortunately, making that work is theme dependent. Figuring it out once should make it easier to plug into any of the other themes. So, if anyone wants that capability, let me know. I think it should be a configuration option and built into standard WordPress, but so far that hasn’t happened.

Three posts in one day. “That ain’t natural….”