Started off on the ima4 codec again. Managed to convince the iMac to convert a wav file to an aifc. That was still getting distortion, traced that to it using the step/sample hint on each block each time, when normally it doesn’t really need to. In the end I only used that for seeking. Worked fine in the end, decodes lovely. Now doing the encoder, which is straightforward except for the file format which contains a 10 byte encoded float just to complicate things. Will get that finished pretty quickly. Then I want to add an MP3 encoder and that’s about all codec work finished then except may be for Android.

Jamie actually walked the dog with me today, so same distance, but my arm didn’t feel like it was put through a mangle.

Went to BodyPump, no running afterwards as we then headed out to Alison’s as it was her birthday the other day.

Now back, about to hang up the washing and eat pizza. Fun days.

pfSense news, had a bounced mail today as it appears that it’s not sending out on the correct ip addresses, will need to investigate further. But defo next job is to pile it all into the cabinet.

So today was mainly taken up with scaling GUI’s, not the most exciting thing in the world. I did eventually move back on to my codec’s and now got the m4a Apple Lossless codec working on PC.

Went to the gym and did combat. The guy behind me looked like he’d been in a swimming pool by the end of it. I’d hardly broken into a sweat, which means I’m either extremely fit or I’m just not trying hard enough.

Then moved back to pfSense. What I wanted to test was connecting the server to the DMZ and then the WAN (well local LAN) to WAN1. Therefore hoping that the two routed public IP’s would go across my bridge. To cut a long story short I couldn’t see anything from my public IP’s on the firewall logs until I rebooted the server. Then magically it all started working. I need to do a few more tests to make sure all rules are working correct and broadcast traffic isn’t going to the WAN.

No wine tonight, just lots of tea.