[Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos
- From: venkat83@xxxxxxxxx (Venkatraman S)
- Date: Thu Jun 10 12:12:56 2010
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:05:03 Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
I meant that going to the Net for help in the form of mailing lists,
forums and so on is useful only after we do our homework and
are really sure that we have run out of options.
different people have different learning processes - one process does not
work
for all. It is like finding the way to some new place - some people keep
asking
for directions and are soon there. Others refuse to ask anyone for
directions
and may never reach. Some people are only comfortable if they learn on
their
own and hate being instructed - others prefer to get instructions.
Right. I learn more from #irc and stackoverflow. IMHO, most people cant say
or are afraid to say 'I dont know' or 'can you help me'. Humility
helps...and it helps a lot :) 'Asking' shouldn't be done without any
homework.
In this particular scenario, video streaming is not a simple arena to get
into and understand all the nuances of it, given that there is a raging war
on the video formats. I find it easy to 'ask' and also it lets me learn
different aspects of it. For eg. i was just about to get into mplayer and
learn more when someone brought about the point of 'last rev' which i had
completely forgotten.
Another instance: I had a simple Q on file uploads using progress bar and i
'asked', and i was surprised with the replies and the subsequent research
that i did. for eg. flash based or not, whether the django dev server would
run on it or not, whether flash based version is the ideal or not or whether
it 'actually' shows the 'actual' progress or not, and finally HTML5 which
has a cool fileupload drag-drop interface and many more. Hope you get the
point.
I would rate *humility *and *curiosity *as the 2 biggest virtues that every
person/programmer should have. No one likes to be instructed, but at the
same time, if they had the curiosity, i don't think anyone would ever be
instructed.
-V
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