Playing .avi files under Linux

Ronald Bradford
January 22, 2006

Got myself some .avi files but didn’t have a player under CenOS 4.2. MPlayer would appear to rate well as a media player for linux.

<br /> yum install mplayer<br /> yum install lame<br />

Unfortunately mplayer while registered could not be downloaded, tried the hard way

wget http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/4/i386/mplayer-1.0pre7try2-2.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh mplayer-1.0pre7try2-2.i386.rpm

lame wasn’t needed via the manual process, but just in case

#wget http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/4/i386/libmp3lame-3.96.1-4.i386.rpm
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Surprisingly, it’s not a GUI interface, but mplayer on the command line is more then adequate.

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MySQL and Heatwave Summit Presentation

Ronald Bradford
April 30, 2025

Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the MySQL and Heatwave Summit in San Francisco. I discussed the impact of the new MySQL 8.0 default caching_sha2_password authentication, replacing the mysql_native_password authentication that was the default for approximately 20 of the 30 years that MySQL has existed.

Readyset QueryPilot Announcement

Ronald Bradford
April 22, 2025

At the MySQL and Heatwave Summit 2025 today, Readyset announced a new data systems architecture pattern named Readyset QueryPilot . This architecture which can front a MySQL or PostgreSQL database infrastructure, combines the enterprise-grade ProxySQL and Readyset caching with intelligent query monitoring and routing to help support applications scale and produce more predictable results with varied workloads.

More CPUs or Newer CPUs

Ronald Bradford
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In a CPU-bound database workload, regardless of price, would you scale-up or scale-new? What if price was the driving factor, would you scale-up or scale-new? I am using as a baseline the first available AWS Graviton2 processor for RDS (r6g).