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Don Melton, former Engineering Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, talks about his non-browser-based passions - Blu-Ray, transcoding, H.264, and managing massive amounts of media. Warning: Contains extreme nerdery. Show notes transcode-video.sh: Don Melton's shell script for OS X to transcode a video file (works best with Blu-ray or DVD rip) into MP4 (or optionally Matroska) format, with configuration and at bitrate similar to popluar online downloads. Requires HandBrakeCLI and mediainfo executables. detect-crop.sh: Don Melton's shell script for OS X to detect crop values for a video file to use with mplayer and transcode-video.sh. Requires mplayer and mediainfo executables. convert-mp4-to-mkv.sh: Don Melton's shell script for OS X to convert an MP4 video file into Matroska format with a single audio track. Requires mkvmerge executable. HandBrake and HandBrakeCLI: Convert video from nearly any format. HandBrake and HandBrakeCLI: nightly builds. MediaInfo: Display technical and tag data for video an