Git in colour

I've been using Git for a while now, but only today realized I can have coloured output for diff, grep, branch, show-branch and status, without having to hook in any other external tools (like colordiff, for example).

Here's my ~/.gitconfig file, which enables colour:

[user]
        name = Nick Boldt
        email = nickboldt (at) gmail.com

[giggle]
        main-window-maximized = false
        main-window-geometry = 1324x838+0+24
        main-window-view = HistoryView

[core]
        trustctime = false
        branch = auto
        diff = auto
        interactive = auto
        status = auto
        editor = vim

[merge]
        tool = vimdiff

[receive]
        denyCurrentBranch = warn

[branch]
        autosetuprebase = local

[color]
        ui = true
        diff = true
        grep = true
        branch = true
        showbranch = true
        status = true

[color "diff"]
        plain = normal dim
        meta = yellow dim
        frag = blue bold
        old = magenta
        new = cyan
        whitespace = red reverse

[color "status"]
        header = normal dim
        added = yellow
        untracked = magenta

[color "branch"]
        current = yellow reverse
        local = yellow
        remote = red

HOWTO: AVI to DVD Conversion, Part 2: Merging Multiple AVIs

Converting a single AVI to DVD format is easy.

However, if you want to merge multiple files into a single DVD image, you must:

• Convert the AVI files to MPEG:

  for f in $(ls /path/to/season1/{GI_Joe.S1E0*.avi,GI_Joe.S1E1*.avi,GI_Joe.S1E2{0,1,2,3}*.avi}); do \
    g=${f/.avi/.mpg}; g=${g/season1/season1_mpg}; \
    transcode -i $f -y ffmpeg --export_prof dvd-ntsc --export_asr 3 -o movie \
      -D0 -s2 -m movie.ac3 -J modfps=clonetype=3 --export_fps 29.97; \
    mplex -f 8 -o $g  movie.m2v movie.ac3; \
    rm -fr movie.m2v movie.ac3; \
  done; \
  cd /path/to/season1_mpg

• Next, using a more complex dvdauthor.xml file...

  <dvdauthor dest="DVD_Season1_Ep01-05">
    <vmgm />
    <titleset>
       <titles>
         <pgc>
           <vob file="GI_Joe.S1E01.The_Further_Adventures_of_G.I.Joe.mpg" chapters="0,8:00,16:00,21:00"/>
           <vob file="GI_Joe.S1E02.Rendezvous_in_the_City_of_the_Dead.mpg" chapters="0,8:00,16:00,21:00"/>
           <vob file="GI_Joe.S1E03.Three_Cubes_to_Darkness.mpg" chapters="0,8:00,16:00,21:00"/>
           <vob file="GI_Joe.S1E04.Chaos_in_the_Sea_of_Lost_Souls.mpg" chapters="0,8:00,16:00,21:00"/>
           <vob file="GI_Joe.S1E05.Knotting_Cobras_Coils.mpg" chapters="0,8:00,16:00,21:00"/>
         </pgc>
       </titles>
    </titleset>
  </dvdauthor>

  ...merge the MPEG files into a single disc image:

  dvdauthor -x dvdauthor_s1e01-05.xml

• Verify the video and audio will play.

  xine dvd:/full/path/to/DVD_Season1_Ep01-05

• Burn the DVD.

  growisofs -Z /dev/dvd1 -dvd-video DVD_Season1_Ep01-05/

Yo, Joe!