Watch out Bear Grylls, here comes Oscar Wild

Our 12 y/o son, named after the Grouch, not the playwright, has been making lots of funny short videos in the past year with his friends in the estate. But today’s deserved a blogpost all of its own.

Watch and enjoy.

Tech notes: He uses a Sanyo Xacti HD Camcorder on a cheap tripod I got in Argos years ago. They then edit on a low-end laptop using Pinnacle Studio Ultimate. The lack of welly, memory and dedicated GPU in the i3 laptop is starting to become an issue for him so I’ll probably be donating my self-built quad-core Phenom desktop later in the year. Particularly if they keep up the quality like this.

Also, not a bad English accent for a jackeen blow-in to West Cork aged 5.

Streaming video to kids in car. The Video.

Really pleased with how well this is working with the N770 tablets and Mediatomb running on EEbuntu. Now going to try Android, iPhone and N95-8GB a streaming clients. Have already got it working with Windows Media Player. Less success on the Linux video players without hacking.

If someone knows how to lock the N770 screen without causing the video to pause and creating a catch-22, let me know.