After several attempts at encoding (fuck DirectShowSource man…), here it is: the first ever fully video-ised real episode of Life in Hex. Currently, there is only one format available, however I will make others available soon.

Thanks to Haven Networks (OK, that’s actually Jalada) we have a mirror for this episode, so if you’re getting pathetic throughput from lifeinhex.com try the alternative.

Just a couple of comments about the video: It’s not the most impressively made video ever, but then it’s taken me 42 episodes to work out how! I still think it worked quite well, considering the set up was completely ghetto, and the audio and video are coming from completely different feeds, at different sample rates. Might as well have been on different planets for all the compatibility they had.

If you’ve listened to the show, then it’s worth getting the video (perhaps when it’s smaller) for the slideshow on the music, and the credits at the end.

So without further ado. Here is a list of formats and sources:

Xvid, MP3, 400MB (currently the only format)
Lifeinhex.com (GoDaddy, USA)
HavenNetworks.com (Dreamhost, USA)

Also on a final note, I believe we may be getting some Internal Server Errors on lih.com. Just hit refresh (or ctrl+refresh). It’s always happened, but it seems to be happening more recently.

High-Bitrate MP3 (59.2MB) Low-Bitrate MP3 (20.4MB)

• Housekeeping:
  • It’s the ‘last show’! We recorded a video version too.
  • This is NOT THE END. Just the end of a chapter.
• Life:
  • We’re both off to university very soon. Sefran went up for an induction week.
  • Jalada got C-Cube (Video only: a catwalk of C-Cube). Pics up soon are up.
• Gaming:
  • We review Bioshock for the PC and give it 9.5/10.
  • We talk about some upcoming releases and demo releases.
• Anime:
  • Prowen was meant to do something, but Sef does instead. He talks about Negima (the anime).
• Tech:
  • Alexander pointed out win-get, which is a bit like apt-get for Windows.
  • Jalada talks about Squid, the web-caching proxy.
• Shouts + Plugs:
  • Pachamac and Prowen for coming along to the pre-recording party.
  • A Whole Lotta People: Moonlit, Yama-chan, Shamus, Gaarda, Alexander, Debdrup, MissingIntellect, CodyPChristian, Tiny, TheGiant, Nox, MixWizard, Introversion Games, Hak.5, DDP Hack Radio, StankDawg and the DDP crew, The Abstuse One, StingWray, Skippy, Wile, DSC, Shinmaryuu, Podsafe Music Network, and everyone else we’ve forgot, thanks guys, love you all and keep tuned to the site for more updates in the future.
  • Music from Brother Love, again

High-Bitrate MP3 (39.8MB) Low-Bitrate MP3 (13.8MB)

• Housekeeping:
  • We’re back, this may be our penultimate show!
  • We had an email from Alexander about DNS Tunnel, as a follow-on from our talk about DNS last episode.
• Life:
  • Both of us are off to University in the next coming months. Sefran is going to the University of Central Lancashire (I think?) to read History with Japanese, Jalada is going to the University of York to read Computer Systems and Software Engineering.
  • We got our A-Level results, and they were good (obviously, otherwise we wouldn’t be going to Uni!
  • We went to the Pokemon Summer Day Camp 2007 in Peterborough. Check out the video, and pictures on our Flickr.
  • It was Jalada’s Birthday on the 13th August, he is now 18! The hosts’ last birthday.
  • Jalada went on holiday to South Cyprus with Elysium (Toni).
• Anime:
  • Sefran reviews Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei, and gives it a massive 9.5/10 and a big LiH recommendation! He also spelt shcrizofrenic (sic) wrong, and familiarility (sic).
• Tech:
  • Microsoft Vista SP1 Beta Builds have been circulating the interwebs. I made a slight mistake in the show, it’s not that close to coming out, Microsoft have quashed some of the rumours by saying it’s a way off yet. This is subject to change
  • Suprnova.org is back, under new management; The Pirate Bay!
  • We had some feedback from DEbdrup about the DNS stuff last episode. He mentioned that you can combine it with OpenDNS to get all the features of that service. What’s more, it’s really easy to combine it into BIND, which we talked about last show.
• Gaming:
  • We review Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, at last. We give it 7.5/10.
  • We talk about some news; Bioshock release, World in Conflict Demo, Medal of Honour Airborne, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts Beta, New Phoenix Wright game, and the gaming conventions going on at the moment. GG to all!
• Plugs + Shouts:
  • Shouts to Matt and Rosie for coming out for Jalada’s Birthday.
  • Shouts to Elysium for coming along to the Pokemon event.
  • Shouts to ourselves for getting into university, w00tage!
  • Plugs to no one
  • Music from All Days in Garden (MySpace alert!). Thanks to music.podshow.com as usual.

Myself, Sefran, Prowen, and Elysium (Jalada’s girlfriend) took a trip to Peterborough this August to the Nintendo Pokemon Tour of 2007, sponsored by Toys ‘R’ Us. On offer were Mew’s for download, some goodies, a chance to see and try out Pokemon Battle Revolution for the Wii, and of course chance to pwn some noobs and trade some pokes.

We took a bit of footage. We’re still new to the whole video thing, hell I’ve only just managed to work out how to encode properly…sorta…This is 10 minutes long but is about 80MB. I will be putting a smaller version up soon, it’s just ‘cos I can’t be assed to encode yet AGAIN because I keep misjudging it.

So anyway, enjoy, it’s a bit shakey, but what the hell, it’s better than nothing!

Download (AVI, XviD, MP3, 85.9MB, 09:44)

A while ago Sefran and I did a test run of some ‘Making of’ footage that we were set to turn into a video for everyone. However it never happened, and I think some of the footage has been overwritten by family video (urgh!), never-the-less, while I was going through the tapes now that I’ve worked out how to do video stuff, I discovered some of it. The most interesting is the footage of our ‘recording studio’ and equipment. A few people have asked to see the equipment we use, so I thought it’d be fun to release it, and you can have a look at our humorously poor filming skills. This is why we stay behind microphones.

If you’d like to see more Video ‘featurettes’, let us know and we’ll see what we can do. We are hopefully going to a Nintendo Pokemon event in a few days, so perhaps we’ll take our video camera along with us!

The shows will begin again in a couple of weeks, it is likely that they will be the final few Life in Hex shows in the current format, as both of us will be leaving for university in September/October. The Life in Hex name will stay alive through our community, and also we are going to continue the show as best as we can in some shape or form. It is likely to turn into an informal show, and may go on a hiatus for a few months while we settle in to our universities.

It may even end up more ‘featurette’ style like this kind of video. Who knows what’s in store…

Enjoy The Video! (AVI, XviD, MP3, 31.6MB, 3:29)