Archive for the ‘Multimedia’ Category.
June 4, 2008, 2:50 pm
Sick of all those fancy CD-burning apps not working for you? You need something that just gets the work done? Welcome to BashBurn – It just works!
BashBurn is a collection of scripts for CD burning in a Linux console (BashBurn might very well work in *BSD, Solaris etc. but it is developed and tested only under Gentoo Linux). BashBurn was previously named Magma. It’s not the best looking CD-burning application out there, but it does what you want it to do (And if not then probably didn’t want to do it anyway).
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March 17, 2008, 2:07 pm
Amarok is already an amazing music manager, with Ipod and mp3 player support, last.fm support, a great search feature already built in, the ability to rate your music, display album art, and with a number of default scripts to fetch lyrics from various lyric sites and band information from wikipedia, yes, the wonderful music app can be made even more powerful and fun to use. Below are my top 10 scripts for amarok. Enjoy.
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March 16, 2008, 6:24 pm
Itunes may be for Windows and Mac’s only but don’t let that stop you from using your ipod with linux. There are many options (more than listed here) that aid you in updating your ipod from your linux desktop computer. There are drawbacks of course. Occasionally a new model ipod will come out and these applications may not support your model immediately due to the fact that their ipod support is all reverse engineered. But they are quality applications for ipod management. So here’s a few options to manage your ipod, my personal favorite is gtkPod, but pick what’s best for you.
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March 9, 2008, 8:22 pm
Ever hear a song on myspace but it isn’t yet available for purchase? Or hell, not even pirated on any Peer2Peer network? And of course all you want to do is enjoy it on your way to work in your car. Well now you can.You must have Soundjuicer (in most repositories), mplayer, the lame encoder, and a flash plugin in your browser for this to work. That being said, this is what you do:
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March 3, 2008, 4:37 pm
I wanted to upload some of the screen casts to Youtube. They don’t accept video files in Ogg Theora format at Youtube. I had to convert Ogg Theora file into Flash Video format to upload it to Youtube. I did some research on audio and video converters. FFmpeg was the solution to my problem. FFmpeg is a command line tool to convert one video file format to another.I used the below command to convert Ogg Theora file to .flv format.
ffmpeg -i in.ogg -b 384000 -s 640×480 -pass 1 -passlogfile log-file out.flv
in.ogg was the Ogg Theora file. The above command converted in.ogg to out.flv. I uploaded the out.flv file to Youtube and I was all set.
March 3, 2008, 4:31 pm
mpg123 is a command line mp3 player for unix-based systems. It’s relatively simple to use. To install:
- on Fedora: yum install mpg123
- on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install mpg123
- on openSuse: zypper in mpg123
- run the application:
mpg123 /home/username/song.mp3
or
mpg123 -C /home/username/music_folder/
Ta da.
By using the -C switch, keyboard controls are enabled and by default you can use ’s’ to stop, ‘p’ to pause, ‘f’ to jump forward to the next song, ‘b’ to jump back to the beginning of the song, ‘,’ to rewind, ‘.’ to fast forward, and ‘q’ to quit. Type ‘h’ for a full list of available controls.
