Many people I meet in forums don't know that there is a difference between video codecs and containers. The confusion is so widely spread that I decided to make an explanatory video on it. With a German accent. And my very first animation. Maybe it still helps...

Here are some useful software links on the topic.

Handbrake, a great tool to convert video codecs: http://handbrake.fr/

A little tool I programmed to change video containers without reencoding: http://sourceforge.net/projects/containerswitch/

The video was animated in Apple Motion 5. The graphics included are from openclipart.org, thanks a lot to them.

My homage to iTunes 10 has been transcoded and extruded into another iteration! A collaboration with Alex Myers. You can hear, see and 3D print it at your own great expense in the forthcoming Run Computer, Run exhibition, Rua Red, Dublin.

DANIEL ROURKE + ALEX MYERS Daniel Rourke is a writer and artist. His work explores error, noise and kippleisation through words, sounds, performance and whatever ideas are to hand. He is one half of GLTI.CH Karaoke, an experimental performance platform exposing the course of accidents, temporary lyrical disjoints & technical out-of-syncs. Daniel writes regularly forRhizome.org and Furtherfield.org. He is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD in Art and Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. machinemachine.net / twitter @therourke Alex Myers makes artgames to explore how accidental meaning/anomalous discourse emerges by breaking rule-based game spaces to disrupt player expectations and concepts. He is an Assistant Professor and Director of Game Studies at Bellevue University. Alex has exhibited at NP3 in Groningen,Nikolaj Kunsthallen in Copenhagen, Lab for Electronic Art and Performance, Berlin, Interaccess in Toronto, FACT in Liverpool, and LACDA in Los Angeles. www.alexmyers.info / twitter @aandnota

I’ve released a single. Yes me, a music single. It’s 79p / 99c on iTunes: RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2 RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2 by therourke But is it noise-art or just digital sinister?