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Am Montag ist es endlich so weit - die Preise werden verrücktspielen. Vier Wochen lang haben die Amazon.de-Kunden für den Cyber Monday, den Tag der Tiefstpreise, abgestimmt und aus über 100 Artikeln ihre 30 Favoriten gewählt, die jetzt drastisch reduziert werden.
Das letzte Wochenende im November mit dem "Cyber Monday" ist für Kunden in den USA traditionell ein Tiefstpreis-Fest und für Schnäppchenjäger der Startschuss für die Weihnachtssaison. Gleiches Recht für alle, meinen wir und holen den Kult jetzt für Sie nach Deutschland.

Viel Spass beim Kaufen - zu erreichen ist die Aktionsseite ueber folgende URL:

http://goo.gl/7lT7m

Go see Inception (IMDB) - great movie



Nothing more to say, imo it's just a "must have seen"! Oh, and don't be blended by prejudice because of that Titanic guy - he did a very good job there.

PS: (At least?) three "Batman" ("~ Begins" + "The Dark Knight") actors, go find them:p

Update (18:08): more filtering! (see below)

Since some people (PCWelt, VLC Team at Facebook, ...) are actually interested ín vuvuzela-blocking-stragegies (Seems like they just copied the startup parameters *shrug*),
here is the next level of vuvuzela-filtering: (The easy solution is for Windows-Users only this time - feel free to compile a Linux binary, Sourcecode included).

I modified the VLC param_eq Plugin to take 4 instead of 3 parameters and included the vuvuzela-frequencies as default-parameters.

Feel free to include a link to this page this time

If you have any ideas to improve this filter (e.g. better frequencies, ...) - please leave a comment

So all you have to do is:

(0. Get VLC 1.0.6 - should also work with 1.0.5 (and maybe some other versions))
1. Download Zip File
2. Extract the libvuvuzela_plugin.dll to your $VLC\plugins directory
3. Enable the "Vuvuzela Filter" (Advanced Audio Options -> Filter) (Running VLC with "vlc --audio-filter vuvuzela" parameter should also work)
4. Restart VLC
5. Enjoy.

This time i created some audio samples:

Without any filtering:


Filtered:


(Yes, this is OGG Vorbis Playback in HTML5, if it doesn't work for you: get a real browser! (Chrome / Firefox)

UPDATE

Fixed copy&paste Bug (updated v1.0)

UPDATE / Experimental
Added 2 additional frequencies from https://www.audiocation.de/blog/2010/06/15/vuvuzela-filter/ (could be too much, doesn't sound that good anymore... )

Filtered (Version 1.1):


Files:

Download VLC Version 1.06 Plugin .dll - Win32

Sourcecode vuvuzela_1.0.c (Fixed copy&paste bug)
Sourcecode vuvuzela_1.0.c.txt

For incompatible browsers that can't handle HTML5 audio:

Download demofile - without filtering
Download demofile - filtered (1.0)
Download demofile - filtered (1.1)

Experimental Download VLC Version 1.06 Plugin .dll - Win32 - Version 1.1 (2 more Frequencies)
Sourcecode vuvuzela_1.1.c
Sourcecode vuvuzela_1.1.c.txt

Well, its not perfect, but its better than the original "sound":

VLC startup/cmdline parameters (windows: start -> execute -> cmd.exe, switch to your vlc directory and run the following line):

vlc --audio-filter param_eq --param-eq-f1=233 --param-eq-f2=466 --param-eq-f3=932 --param-eq-gain1=-20 --param-eq-gain2=-20 --param-eq-gain3=-20 --param-eq-lowf=100 --param-eq-lowgain=15 --param-eq-q1=10 --param-eq-q2=10 --param-eq-q3=10

Still missing one Frequency (1864hz) because VLC only supports 3 EQ parameters.

EDIT: Gets somehow better if you also lower 1ghz and 3ghz frequencies in the graphical 10-band equalizer.

With "real" software you can get much better results:

http://www.surfpoeten.de/tube/vuvuzela_filter