MBPurple 0.2.1 for PortableApps

New Microblog-Purple for Pidgin 2.5 PortableApps, where you can store your Pidgin on thumbdrive and bring it wherever you go, is released! Download it here

Thanks to rottnkorpse for very quick help!

Adium port for MBPurple released!

Thanks for @jsippel for your hard work. Now the first release of Adium port for #mbpurple is here (base on 0.2.1). Enjoy!

Using PS3 to view MKV with Thai Subtitle

No, the subject is misleading. Actually I found no viable solution for viewing MKV on PS3 properly. Many will thought that I found a way to do this on Linux, but no.

The problem is sound driver. It seems that with latest mplayer-ps combination with spu-medialib, HD MKV can be viewed without any problem. (not to mention that latest mplayer now has improve x264 support + multi-thread decode on ffmpeg!). However, sound driver for any PS3-base Linux support only 2 channels!

The method I am using right now is very simple. I use mkv2vob to translate the MKV file into AVCHD-compatible format on my 80GB USB HDD. mkv2vob also handle size-limit on FAT32 by separating file into small pieces. The only problem lies in subtitle. I want the thai subtitle to be displayed on PS3!

The solution is to use SSA sub, with Thai font specified in SSA, and then use mkv2vob with "load subtitle file" enabled!. I tested this with Eagle Eye and it worked well! Thai subtitle displayed correctly on my TV screen!

The only problem is that movie screen is not in the middle of my TV. I saw on some forum said that this was because the size of original MKV file is not exact 720p or 1080p. Anyway it is a very minor point, at the least we have lots of space for subtitle.

MBPurple 0.2.1 released!

It's about 3 months from the last release. This release contains both major & minor bug fixes and some enhancement, mainly to Twitgin. Please proceed to download the latest release here

Don't forget to enable Twitgin in Tools->Plugin This version contain major bug fixes and some improvements

• Twitter, Identica, and Laconica now serve mainly as protocol only plug-in. You need to enable Twitgin in order to get old fancy output in conversation windows
• Fix SSL connection bug that may crash Pidgin when connection is unstable
• Clicking reply link now add in_reply_to_id http parameter (make the message appear sa "reply to message" in web-site)
• Remove "twitter.com" label. Now conversation showed as if coming from each individual user
• Add * (Favorite) and RT (Retweet) link for easy favorite and retweet (thanks to @nopparat)
• Move "Enable reply link" preference to Twitgin "Configure plug-in".

We are also working on Adium port of MBPurple. Hopefully this will be released very soon!