Kyle Carter wrote:

Collectively on irc we thought the 13th of January 2008.. Someone could pull logs to verify..

Town is too quiet to be pre xmas.. theres no sport on and theres no busy churches.. so no sat or Sunday... its early afternoon also.

well, for one: seems fair to assume all imagery was taken on the same day; I'd be surprised if here at Tongariro St was taken separately to Chartwell Square just down the road. so, for two: it's definitely quiet, but there's a truck backing into home here (48), which only happened on (a) Sun 14/12 around 5pm or (b) Wed 17/12 sometime in the pm. (unless my mail folder is lying to me) for three: the shops are -far- too quiet for a Sunday before Christmas, but busy enough for late weekday pm to be plausible. (Thursday parking around the various centres would've been *chocka*, probably from 3pm.) for four: my car's not at home, which rules out 14/12. I think I see it in Collingwood St though, which boosts the odds of 17/12. definitely before 5pm. I remember the parking in Collingwood St/Ruakiwi Rd being light that week, but the few cars that are there makes it much more likely to be later in the day than earlier. for five: cars are parked on the Bryce St clearway, so before 4:30. so, yeah: close enough to Christmas that the general bustle in town has slowed down, but not so close that last-minute weekday panic buying has started. ain't putting money on it, but it seems pursuasive to me! butting

Has anyone here ever used qDVDauthor?  I've managed to create a DVD, and I'd like to add subtitles, but there's virtually no documentation to help me.  I can import an SRT file (the creation of which is going to take me days), but I haven't the faintest idea where to go from there. Failing that, perhaps someone might know how to integrate subtitles with another method.

Came across the following link some time ago: http://www.linux.com/feature/139221 Haven't tried it yet. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

I tried following the instructions on that page, and was pleased to see that they worked. The biggest problem I have is foreign characters ('é' for example) in the SRT file seem to get converted to UTF-8, so the video ends up having two weird characters taking the place of what should be there. I found that using WINE Notepad seems to work just fine for foreign characters, so I guess I'll use that instead of Gedit. Thanks for the link. Sandy Peter Reutemann wrote:

Came across the following link some time ago: http://www.linux.com/feature/139221

Haven't tried it yet.

Cheers, Peter

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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I tried following the instructions on that page, and was pleased to see that they worked.  The biggest problem I have is foreign characters ('é' for example) in the SRT file seem to get converted to UTF-8, so the video ends up having two weird characters taking the place of what should be there.  I found that using WINE Notepad seems to work just fine for foreign characters, so I guess I'll use that instead of Gedit.

Kate seems to support other encodings apart from UTF-8, like Windows' Cp1252, as well:  http://www.nabble.com/Change-encoding-like-in-Kate-td13646567.html That would give you at least a decent editor. ;-)

Don't you be dissing Gedit ;). In the Save dialog box you can select the character encoding using the dropdown box at the bottom.

BTW If you're creating the .srt file yourself, I can recommend "gnome-subtitles" (http://gnome-subtitles.sourceforge.net/). I've done only one English movie with that software, so not sure regarding potential encoding problems.

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I came to the conclusion it was January 2008, on a Friday. Based on rubbish bin out and emptied for someone I know is a Friday collection, status of the V8 track build (no race markings whatsoever on road, so before the first races, but the pit lane has been constructed), status of The Base (Heathcotes hasn't even started being built), and empty churches and schools. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Kyle Carter <kyle(a)feet.net.nz> wrote:

Collectively on irc we thought the 13th of January 2008.. Someone could pull logs to verify..

Town is too quiet to be pre xmas.. theres no sport on and theres no busy churches.. so no sat or Sunday... its early afternoon also.

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looks like the imagery was captured around 4pm or so on 17/12/2008. (prove me wrong!)

VERY hi-res.

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Craig Box wrote:

It has to be before about 20 Jan 2008, because the pool [1] suffered an unfortunate lawnmower attack around that date. (And I'm pretty sure I see a yellow-rope fence, which probably puts it after Christmas.)

[1] http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=36+Nevada+Rd,+Silverdale,+3216,+New+Zealand&sll=43.449776,-80.489086&sspn=0.36539,0.892639&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.788218,175.330058&spn=0.000388,0.000872&t=h&z=21

There's a bin at my house[2], so it's between the 10th and 14th of January 2008. [2] http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=12+arthur+pl,+hamilton,+nz&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=59.597077,56.601563&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.75476,175.28043&spn=0.000461,0.000687&t=h&z=21 Regards, Jon

Not sure that the high-rez stuff out by the base will have been taken at the same time. It's been high-rez for ages and they may not have bothered updating it. 2009/4/17 Bryce Utting <butting(a)ihug.co.nz>:

Ed Linklater:

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I came to the conclusion it was January 2008, on a Friday. Based on rubbish bin out and emptied for someone I know is a Friday collection, status of the V8 track build (no race markings whatsoever on road, so before the first races, but the pit lane has been constructed), status of The Base (Heathcotes hasn't even started being built), and empty churches and schools.

... and I just found what's -definitely- my car, where I was working fifteen months back.  hmmmmph.

and Rifle Range Rd is hedged off from the Avalon Dr/Lincoln Rd roadworks, too.

which means it was all taken before the streetview stuff, which got up there first somehow.

so... whose is that bloody great *truck* in my driveway while I'm at work then?

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