I just found that WMP11 can’t select which audio stream is played from a DVB-S m2t (AVCHD) file. So I turned to Linux to figure out how to fix a Windows bug as usual! Turns out the fix is easy and takes about 1m20s: ffmpeg -i infile.m2t -acodec copy -vcodec copy -map 0:0 -map 0:4 outfile.m2t The 0:0 is the video track and 0:4 is the English audio track we want to keep; 0:1/2/3 are the voiceover audio and subtitle tracks we want to remove.

Now my server is finally back online (apparently although hosted in Germany somewhere, the support staff are in flood-ridden Australia) so I thought I’d update the blog. I’ve rebuilt my desktop machine now I’ve got the HDTV card. I finally fitted the 64Gb Kingston SSD boot drive, installed Fedora 14 and put the 1Tb SpinPoint F3 hard disk back in to supplement the rapidly-filling 1Tb F1. I noticed how much of a difference the SSD makes when rebuilding the Nessus plugin cache – on a HDD it takes literally minutes, on the SSD its almost instant!

I’m thinking of getting a WinTV Nova HD-S2 card for my PC as there’s a satellite feed right by the computer in my bedroom – albeit with an aerial connector on it, so I’d need a female aerial to female F-type adaptor. I could watch/record Freesat HD in my bedroom and stream it over the new GigE to the Revo downstairs (which has hardware accelerated HD playback – currently using about 30% CPU watching 720p from BBC iPlayer) and also watch SD Sky using the box in the lounge.

I received my new Acer Aspire Revo R3610-M nettop which comes preloaded with Windows7. Plugged it in a wireless is pretty crap on it (could also be the BT Business Hub as I’m getting a stronger signal from nextdoor’s BE-box!) its good enough for surfing but not stable enough even for SD movies. I Installed Fedora14 and it didn’t even pick up the RT3090 wireless-N card, which is supposed to work with the RT2x00 drivers (awful drivers I’ve used before).

I built some 64-Bit Fedora 13/14 RPM’s for John-The-Ripper 1.7.6 with the OpenMP-7 patch applied so I could use more than one core for cracking the Gawker list. Download here. I had to remove the Fedora-specific CFLAGS and edit params.h to force “#define JOHN_SYSTEMWIDE 1”, plus applying the single-have_words-fix-1 patch that is needed when not building with Jumbo-9. So I acquired the Gawker password list, which contains 1,247,893 usernames and passwords; however only 541,520 of those have email addresses too (which I expect will be seeing an increase in their spam soon!