Howto Install OSS4 in ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) for better sound quality

Posted by suvi under Multimedia, Ubuntu

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Howto Install OSS4 in ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) for better sound quality After upgrading to Ubuntu 10.4 LTS, I was happy to notice that audio in all applications (including Skype) was finally working perfectly! However, I was less happy to notice that Pulseaudio was using quite a lot of CPU-time, [...]

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How to install VLC 1.1.4 in ubuntu 10.04

Posted by suvi under Multimedia, Software, Ubuntu

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. How to install VLC 1.1.4 in ubuntu 10.04 VLC media player is a media player, streamer, and encoder for Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, QNX, and PocketPC. It can play from many inputs like files, network streams, capture device, desktops, or DVD, SVCD, VCD, and audio CD. It [...]

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Install VLC 1.1.1 in Ubuntu 10.04/9.10 using PPA

Posted by suvi under Multimedia, Software, Ubuntu

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Install VLC 1.1.1 in Ubuntu 10.04/9.10 using PPA VLC Media Player is a long-time open-source favorite, and the latest version is also the first to be out of beta development. It’s not the only option for free video playback, but it’s one of the best, and the feature updates [...]

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How to Recording Internal Audio in Ubuntu

Posted by suvi under Multimedia, Ubuntu

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. How to Recording Internal Audio in Ubuntu This how-to should show the steps required to record whatever audio is playing on your computer, similar to recording “stereo mix” in windows. This makes recording audio played by any application, including flash videos, possible. (…) Read the rest of How to [...]

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Wxcam – Simple webcam application for ubuntu desktop

Posted by suvi under Multimedia, Software, Ubuntu

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Wxcam – Simple webcam application for ubuntu desktop wxCam is a webcam application for linux. It supports video recording (in an avi uncompressed and Xvid format), snapshot taking, and some special commands for philips webcams, so you can also use the program for astronomy purposes. It supports both video4linux [...]

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Howto install ATI drivers on Debian 5 (Lenny)

Posted by suvi under Debian, Multimedia

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Howto install ATI drivers on Debian 5 (Lenny) This tutorial will help you to install ATI drivers on Debian 5(lenny) Link to the original site

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How to Edit Videos With Avidemux

Posted by suvi under Multimedia

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. How to Edit Videos With Avidemux Avidemux is one good video editing software that we used regularly to edit our videos. It is free, cross-platforms and supports simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. One of the most important thing is that it is easy to use. Even if you [...]

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Howto install Real Player 11 in Debian Lenny

Posted by suvi under Debian, Multimedia

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Howto install Real Player 11 in Debian Lenny RealPlayer plays streaming audio and video over the Internet in real-time. It plays RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, 3GPP Video, Flash, SMIL 2.0, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RealPix, RealText, Ogg Vorbis, and Ogg Theora. It is available for Windows, Macintosh, Pocket PC, Nokia 9200 [...]

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Media PC on Linux

Posted by suvi under Linux, Multimedia

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Media PC on Linux As an experiment I decided to build Media PC based on Linux. First of all I was wondering, how much did the Linux distributions evolve in the past few years (I’ve used Linux since a few years only on servers). The second thing is, I [...]

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How to create a custom DVD using ConvertXtoDVD v.4

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New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. How to create a custom DVD using ConvertXtoDVD v.4 ConvertXtoDVD 4 is out! I believe you all know ConvertXtoDVD. Just in case, ConvertXtoDVD is a top video conversion software that makes it easy for you to convert any video file and… Link to the original site

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Install Flash and Multimedia Support on Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”

Posted by suvi under Multimedia, Ubuntu

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Install Flash and Multimedia Support on Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” Ubuntu’s latest release is here, version 9.10 “Karmic Koala”, and with it a batch of new users. It seems like each new release brings a pool of new adopters, and with it a pool of new questions. With this [...]

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Howto install Miro in Ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy

Posted by suvi under Multimedia, Ubuntu

Miro (previously known as Democracy Player and DTV[1]) is an Internet television application developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation. It is supported on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Using GUI Opem Synaptic package manager from Open System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager. You will be asked for your user password upon opening [...]

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MPlayer play music recursively in a directory.

Posted by suvi under Multimedia

It’s quite often I have directories full of media files (specifically music) and subdirectories within them also with music files, and though the manual for MPlayer is thicker than the Chinese phonebook I have not been able to find any option for it. I did however find a method which isn’t exactly the guru one-liner, [...]

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Rip audio from a flash file

Posted by suvi under Multimedia

Well folks, here’s another quick tech tip that I use once in a while. How do you rip only the audio from an .FLV file? .FLV files, or Flash Video files are the format used in browser-embedded videos, common on video-sharing sites such as YouTube or Vimeo (and Eadrax!) For whatever reason if you have [...]

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Capturing Video (How I Did It)

Posted by suvi under Desktop, Linux, Multimedia

One of the common questions we get here at linuxjournal.com is how we produce our videos. Shawn produced a howto video on some ways of doing it. The following describes how I capture my videos and also the script that I use to add the Linux Journal logo watermark to it. The video capture howto [...]

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