About Me « BLOG: Mitch Wilson, Austin TX

About Me

Mitch Wilson

Hi. I live in Austin, TX, USA with my beautiful wife Yvonne and two sons, Zander and Nick. Recently I picked up astronomy and drift rc racing. I've always enjoyed drawing and guitar. And now and again I still read comic books. which I collected as a kid and still have. Of course I'm a scifi fan of both movies and books. Gee, a computer nerd who likes scifi and comic books. Go figure.

I work (profile) as a Web developer, Flash developer, any kind of developer really because I love what I do. I love creating programs and seeing how people react to them. I always say, "I'm lucky people pay me to do what I love, because I would do it anyway."

Currently I roll as in independent contractor under the guise of Elastik Pixel working with small businesses in Austin. I am living my dream.

What kind of projects do I work on? The following Web frameworks and languages:

ActionScript
CodeIgniter
CSS
Drupal
HTML
Facebook
Flash
JavaScript
jQuery
JavaScript
Joomla
MySQL
Ning
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Twitter
WordPress

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Mohammad Ashour
October 23rd, 2009 - 23:14

Hey bro, really dig the texture work, font replacement, and nav and search look. Just a couple of notes, FYI: You have a secondary sidebar enabled on your about-me page and the shadow on the sidebar headers is killing the design. If you want some tips on transparency I’d be happy to tell you what I know. Anyways, keep up the good work. What are you using for font-replacement, cause I noticed that you can select the text so I didn;t think it could be cufon?
Mitch Wilson
October 24th, 2009 - 16:06

Thanks. I’m mainly a developer but I have been spending more time lately on web design. I was playing around with the wordpress template. The secondary sidebar is off now. I’m using a free wordpress template, so I didn’t create the transparency on the graphic you’re referring to. If I did create it, I would create it as a 32-bit png (24-bit plus an alpha channel). I do happen to know a thing or two about production web graphics . I was an technical illustrator and icon artist for a few years a while back.
John
January 4th, 2010 - 17:58

Found your name doing a search for Flash Video players. I was wondering if you knew of the best way to achieve sub-second “frame rate” seek (in other words 1/30th of a second) capabilities in videos played in any of the popular Flash players? The content is currently H.264 but can be cross-coded to anything – I have complete freedom to encode the videos however I want – though they should be the smallest size possible.

Feel free to email me. Thanks!
Mitch Wilson
March 25th, 2010 - 13:03

Hi John,

Unfortunately seek on those free video services (youtube, for example) will not allow sub-second seek (using milliseconds rather than seconds). In fact, it doesn’t even allow per-second seek. You can usually seek every few seconds. When you upload your videos, they will be compressed (again) by youtube (or other service).

Can you share more about your project and why you need that seek rate? Also, if you would like to discuss contracting a custom solution, call me at {512} * 680 * 8142.
Mitch Wilson
April 3rd, 2010 - 21:14

John,

One more thought. I didn’t mention it because one usually tries to avoid embedding the video in a swf, because it just adds overhead, but doing so in a swf with a framerate of 30 frames per second would allow you to seek each 1/30th of second in that you could seek to each frame, which is 1/30th of a second. Of course going this route excludes using something like youtube to publish your video. You would need a Web server to serve the swf with the embedded video and an html page to embed the swf. If you had no more than a couple of hundred videos to publish over a few years, this could be a feasible plan on a budget, given you have the expertise to import the video into flash, add the video player. specify the video in the settings and publish the swf and html page to a Web server.