R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah

I vaguely remembered that sometimes around 2009, engVid on YouTube was very popular. I especially liked a teacher by name Valen Smith's videos. She was not only beautiful but also very good at explaining the English usage. I also vaguely remembered to check her channel ValenESL around 2015. But, not sure what happened to her or engVid, all her videos are sadly gone. I have also noted that many people on Twitter were asking the same. Not sure what happened. Some people seem to have reuploaded her videos and YouTube continuously removing them with a note "This video contains content from LearnVid, who has blocked it on copyright grounds." Strangely though, on Facebook, some people have managed to create a fake account using her old channel name ValenESL.

I was highly disturbed when I watched this scene in my favorite Desmond Morris's The Human Sexes program in Discovery channel. On a second telecast, I've asked Heleena to watch this scene and she too got moved. Here's the video (from 45:26 timestamp till end; especially from 46:36). The prison shown in the video is Kresty Prison, Saint Petersburg, Russia . After watching the video, you may: Start loving & trusting human beings, and or, Stop blabbering about Indian culture and stop salivating at overrated Indian girlfriends

Thumbnail creation is a very needed feature for any social networking site. Obviously, ffmpeg is the ideal solution for generating thumbnail. Problem-1: Detecting identical thumbnails Fortunately, we have a good solution-- libpuzzle . It would be ideal to have a filter in ffmpeg for that. Problem-2: Detecting black/dark frames I'm still keenly looking for a solution tied up with ffmpeg. When Google turned no help, Heleena (my wife) solved it by calculating average luminance value of the frame and ignoring the frames based on certain preset threshold value--which worked better at that time.