Summarizing 2011

Inspired my the timeline of 2011 that Eric presented in his blog, I decided to create my own to summarize the professional and personal improvements and the travels of this year.

 

MATLAB’s mmreader on Ubuntu

I have always been frustrated by the fact that MATLAB under unix systems was not able to read compressed videos. You agree with me if I say that long uncompressed videos or image sequences require a huge amount of space for being stored.

Finally, I found a solution that works for MATLAB 2011b + Ubuntu 11.10. The solution has been provided by Frédéric, here.

You should simply replace (after a backup) the library libstdc++ in your MATLAB directory with the one in unix (symbolic link). For further details check the author’s post here.