Ant Movie Catalog

Ant Movie Catalog is a free (really free, i.e. the source code is available) program made to manage your collection of movies on DVD, CD (VideoCD, DivX, ...) and tapes.



If you use GNU/Linux rather than Windows, you can try to use WinE to get this program running; some people notified me that this was working. You can also check Moviefly, which is a complete rewrite of Ant Movie Catalog made with Python.

Moviefly stores information on video media files, including title, actors, genre, descriptions, comments, rating, director, producer, picture, languages, subtitles, video- and audio format, video- and audio bitrates, resolution, framerate, file size and media type. Technical information can be automatically extracted, descriptive information on a title may be downloaded from the internet.

Miro 1.0

Cross-platform, open source video application Miro is now available in a full-featured, bug-fixed 1.0 version. The program formerly known as Democracy Player plays almost any kind of video file, but its real value lies in its content fetching and organizing features. Miro can subscribe to video podcasts, grab from YouTube channel feeds or BitTorrents.

Warner Bros. to sell movies via BitTorrent

Warner Bros.'s video unit on Tuesday unveiled plans to sell movies and television shows to BitTorrent Inc. for legal downloads from the Web site that was once blamed for aiding the swapping of illegally copied films and programs.

Top 10 sci-fi films

No. 1 appears to be my favorite :-)

Sanyo PLV-Z1

I have found digital projector under $500 so I decided I will buy it. I can made slideshows of my pictures and it looks like this one can be also used in home theatre setup.

The PLV-Z1 High Definition (964 x 544) resolution panels make it the perfect match for home theater viewing 16:9 widescreen DVD movies (480i, 480p) and HDTV (720p, 1080i) format programs. For High Definition sources, the 1/4 HD resolution panels provide better scaling and improved image quality.
With high quality projection system and 700 ANSI lumens you are assured that your home theater will have rich and lifelike images even at 200-inches diagonal. Featuring a D-Sub 15-pin input for connection to a computer, and horizontal/vertical Digital Keystone Correction.

My Nikifor at Mill Valley Film Festival

In an extraordinary cross-gender performance, actress Krystyna Feldman becomes the curmudgeonly Polish folk artist Nikifor, a naive painter whose prolific talent and sheer stubbornness brought him national fame. Based on a true story, My Nikifor (crystal globe award, Karlovy Vary 2005) unfolds in mid-20th-century Poland across a gray winter landscape further oppressed by Communist party politics and perpetual shortages.


See Mill Valley Film Festival page.