Here's Why

It started with Boing Boing pointing to http://tvinjapan.com/blog/category/pythagoras-switch/
They have half a dozen compilations of episodes of this terrific Japanese educational kid's show. Every episode starts with a crazy machine, and has features teaching kids different ways to think. The algorithmic march is genius.  Of course I also got hooked on all the other Youtube and Google videos on the website. I download them with http://videodownloader.net

I found through a comment that there are bit torrents of 4 fan sub-titled episodes by the Dattebayo group at http://yhbt.mine.nu/.
According to http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Pythagorean+Switch they are shown on digital cable channel TV Japan in the USA and in Brazil. Maybe SBS will pick them up for Australian TV.

To be able to share my videos with people who don't have a GeeXboX , I have to convert the MOV or MP4 or whatever files to something they can watch at home, like DVD-video mpg. WinFF is the free open source solution for Windows. Its a small, fast front-end to the free FFMPEG video conversion library that will convert anything to anything, even mobile phone video formats.

GeeXboX is built around Mplayer which can play any media because it is built on FFMPEG. Mplayer also has a Windows incarnation.

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