Howto install ATI drivers on Debian 5 (Lenny)

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Howto install ATI drivers on Debian 5 (Lenny)

This tutorial will help you to install ATI drivers on Debian 5(lenny)
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How to Edit Videos With Avidemux

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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 are a [...]

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Howto install Real Player 11 in Debian Lenny

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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 [...]

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Media PC on Linux

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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 was fascinated [...]

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How to create a custom DVD using ConvertXtoDVD v.4

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

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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 post I [...]

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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 Synaptic.
Once Synaptic [...]

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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, but [...]

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Rip audio from a flash file

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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 part [...]

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Howto install VLC media player 1.0.0 in Ubuntu

Posted by suvi under Multimedia, Ubuntu

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
It doesn’t need any [...]

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Installing Moovida Media Center On Ubuntu 9.04

Posted by suvi under Desktop, Multimedia, Ubuntu

This tutorial explains how you can install the Moovida media center on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. Moovida is a media center “bringing
the best of the internet to your TV screen. Automatically creating your
own digital library you can browse from your sofa with a remote
control. The elegant and easy to use interface automatically displays
artwork and fan [...]

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Shrink DVD images in Linux

Posted by suvi under Linux, Multimedia

Let’s say you have an 8GB DVD ISO file and you want to shrink it to a more acceptable 4GB ISO file. You can use K9Copy’s Shrink Factor feature. Just extract the DVD files into a separate folder, load that folder in K9Copy (by using the Input Device’s Open button), select ISO image as the [...]

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How to install gnash in Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

Posted by suvi under Debian, Desktop, Multimedia

Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Flash is an animation file format pioneered by Macromedia which continues to be supported by their successor company, Adobe. Flash has been extended to include audio and video content, and programs written in ActionScript, an ECMAScript-compatible language. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports most SWF v7 features [...]

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How to Convert OGV to FLV Using ffmpeg

Posted by suvi under Debian, Multimedia

This tutorial will explainhow to convert an OGV file to FLV. You will need the ffmpeg audio and video encoder.
Install ffmpeg in debian
#apt-get install ffmpeg
To convert an OGV file to flv file use the following command
ffmpeg -i input_file.ogv output_file.flv
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