avconv doesn't love my webcam :(

I had a way to get a view of my DCS-932L, but now it's broken! Somone's gone and fixed (or introduced) a bug into the Ubuntu 12.04 build of avconv, and it's dead in the water. The IP cam didn't change, and the Ubuntu machine is updated regularly, so I'm calling it Ubuntu's change. The output from the DCS-932L is buggy over any interface, so I suspect the original fault lies there, but.. Well, I just want the picture back. The original article is here, and I'll update it when I get to it... Bug reporting time.

Clock synchronisation approaches

Further to my earlier thoughts about Spanner. http://krzyzanowski.org/rutgers/notes/pdf/06-clocks.pdf