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		<title>Optimal Video Playback in Managed Desktop Application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[...found that the media player was dropping frames.  The video files would playback perfectly in Windows Media Player, but when run through this WPF app, it just didn't work as well.  In many applications, maybe this is not a big deal, but we always want to achieve the best possible playback quality...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prettyextreme.com/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Stack Exchange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago or so, I discovered this site for helping with software development problems:
www.stackoverflow.com
It’s a completely free, community powered site for asking and answering questions related to software development. It was made for experts, by experts. It turned out to be an amazing problem solving resource, and shortly thereafter www.serverfault.com and www.superuser.com were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prettyextreme.com/?p=76</link>
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		<title>PrePix V0.3.3 Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An updated PrePix version 0.3.3 is available for download. This is a minor update that fixes a problem affecting Windows XP users who were unable to run version 0.3.2.
The new version may be installed directly over any previous version. Please let us know if you have any trouble!
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		<link>http://www.prettyextreme.com/?p=72</link>
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		<title>PrePix V0.3.2 Update</title>
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An updated PrePix version 0.3.2 is available for download. New features include:

Ability to save and reload all Screen Properties as .ppx files
Several minor bug fixes
Inclusion of a 6-foot scale zombie

The new version may be installed directly over the old. Please let us know if you have any trouble!
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		<link>http://www.prettyextreme.com/?p=70</link>
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		<title>PrePix Virtualization Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3Byte has produced a new tool called PrePix for previewing Video Content on Virtual Displays. PrePix has the ability to effectively model any LED, LCD, Projection or Plasma display.

Different technologies are modeled by selecting a Pixel Model, which is nothing more than a macro image representing a single pixel of the intended display technology displaying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prettyextreme.com/?p=60</link>
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		<title>Times Square Signs in Slow-Motion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And now, by popular demand, (AA says: &#8220;I&#8217;m popular?&#8221;) a few high-speed captures of LED signs in Times Square:
(All videos were captured at 1000fps with a Casio Exilim EX-FS10, rendered here as 30fps video.)


When transitioning from one frame to the next, the M&#38;M&#8217;s sign and all components of the ABC sign update all pixels on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prettyextreme.com/?p=45</link>
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		<title>Video Synchronization Testing Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I analyzed a video synchronization test from a recent video installation, and suggested that although the synchronization between screens was not perfect, it was certainly satisfactory, and as good as might be expected given the design of the system. Now, lets see why.
When a multi-screen video system is in proper sync, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prettyextreme.com/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Video Synchronization Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slow-motion analysis of a network-based video synchronization test.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prettyextreme.com/?p=17</link>
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		<title>computers hiding as solid state devices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prejudice. That is what it&#8217;s about. There is an old argument in the Pro AV industry about not using computers as video playback devices, or control systems, or anything else you can imagine that is mission critical.
I remember a few years ago on a certain project in Texas where the AV guys (I was the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prettyextreme.com/?p=58</link>
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		<title>ZombieCon on Taff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, a zombie reporter from a German TV station covered the New York ZombieCon:

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		<link>http://www.prettyextreme.com/?p=15</link>
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