ZioGianni

I really love wordpress… I use it for both fun and profit. So, it is normal for me to develop some web sites using wordpress. Lately I have developed i site for a “fashion store”. The shop owner asked me to have the admin interface in Italian (she is italian). So I have installed the right files and she was happy. Her happiness vanished when she tried to make a post on his ow query_posts(“lang=it,en”);... This was not successfull... But query_posts("lang=it"); was ok. All the "italian" editor's messages were correctly shown ... but no one of the messages posted from "not italian" editors was shown. However I continued on the right way so I have writen:

$myownargs= array (
'post_type'=> 'post',
'meta_query' => array (
'relation'=> 'OR',

) ,
array(
'key'=> '_locale' ,
'value'=> 'en_US',
'compare'=> 'LIKE',
),
array(
'key'=> '_locale' ,
'value'=> 'it_IT',
'compare'=> 'LIKE',
)
)
);
query_posts($myownargs);

Not good... not good at all...
So I have forgotten the "right manner" and i returned to old way ... sql statements plus a nice wordpress object:


global $wpdb;
$myownquery="select * from $wpdb->posts where post_type='post' and post_status='publish'";
$myownres=$wpdb->get_results( $myownquery );

.......

This, definetely solved the issue.
The moral of this story is: "the meta are nice but sql statements are useful" ...

Hi got some videos to merge together. These videos was coming from eterogenous devices… Tablets, mobile phones, handycams, webcams.

I was really near to lost both my temper and command line habits. I installed some graphical video editor on my laptop… But they was not able to give me a quick and fast solution. So I returnd to my command lin habits. I have installed MP4Box (gpac package on debian ). But I solved the problem using mencoder.

The problem terms:

• mp4 files
• different resolutions
• different audio

The solution:
for every video file:

mencoder file.mp4 -vf scale=640:320 -ovc x264 -oac mp3lame -o file.rid.MP4

And then:

mencoder file0.rid.MP4 file1.rid.MP4 file2.rid.MP4 file3.rid.MP4 -ovc x264 -oac mp3lame -of lavf -o output.mp4


At this point you can use/re-encode it…