My Southwest USA trip day 15: Downtown, Los Angeles, CA 
Friday, January 9, 2009, 07:58 AM - Personal, English, Nederlands

Not a road day.
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My Southwest USA trip day 14: Landers, CA - Los Angeles, CA 
Thursday, January 8, 2009, 07:55 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

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Here is a Fullscreen Panorama of Downtown Landers. Main attraction: the Post Office.
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My Southwest USA trip day 13: Indio, CA - Landers, CA 
Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 07:43 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

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My Southwest USA trip day 12: Wickenburg, AZ - Indio, CA 
Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 07:34 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

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My Southwest USA trip day 11: Silver City, NM - Wickenburg, AZ 
Monday, January 5, 2009, 07:16 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

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My Southwest USA trip day 10: Alamogordo, NM - Silver City, NM 
Sunday, January 4, 2009, 07:03 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

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Time lapse movies made with Flix.

To convert avi to flv I use ffmpeg (you can download the latest windows binary here), it's a command line tool, the commands I use for two-pass encoding:
first command (on one line):
ffmpeg.exe -i input.avi -vcodec libx264 -s 448x336 -g 300 -vb 512k -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -pass 1 output.flv
second command is exactly the same, except for '-pass 2'.
where:
-i: input video file
-vcodev: video codec, in this case h.264
-s: size, [width]x[height]
-g: gop (group of pictures) size. 300 means a keyframe each 300 frames
-vb (or -b): video bitrate
-qmin: minimum video quantizer scale
-qmax: maximum video quantizer scale (these two quantizer values makes it possible to get close to the desired video bitrate)
In case you have audio in the avi, add these options:
-acodec: audio codec (libmp3lame is default with flv)
-ab: audio bitrate (e.g. 64k)
-ar: audio sampling frequency (e.g. 22050)

For a complete ffmpeg manual see http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html

Update 2020 (second corona wave)
Luckily I converted to h.264 codec, so conversion to mp4 is lossless.
Now html5 is playing the videos.

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My Southwest USA trip day 9: Lordsburg, NM - Alamogordo, NM 
Saturday, January 3, 2009, 07:56 PM - Personal, English, Nederlands

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