Thursday, November 8, 2007
I built a perl script that can be used as a "User Job" from within mythtv to convert a recorded TV program into a cell phone (.3gp) movie. It makes uses of mythname.pl to get the show and title (for the filename) and mplayer/mencoder and ffmpeg to do the actual transcoding.
Unless you want to drop [...]
Saturday, November 3, 2007
I do NOT recommend importing all of your windows fonts to Linux. Sure, you paid for windows, and should be able to use all the windows fonts on any OS you want, but Microsoft (and their lawyers) may not feel the same way. Read your license agreement carefully. Instead, you should install the freely released [...]
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
Installing Core Microsoft fonts: sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
To make them work in X-windows, you may also want to install x-ttcidfont-conf if it's not already installed: sudo apt-get install x-ttcidfont-conf
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
The old version of the X.org ati x-server would do a true "clone" of my Thinkpad X31's LCD display out the VGA port on the back of the laptop. The new version shipped with Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) however doesn't do a true clone, so video overlays (called Xv in linux) will display movies on the [...]
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Saturday, October 27, 2007
After installing an IPW2200 mini-pci 802.11g wireless card, my wife complained that her system would freeze for a minute while attempting to connect to an 802.11 (WEP) network for the first time. After the initial time-out and failure, wireless network connections would work fine until the computer was rebooted.
As it turns out, I was experiencing [...]
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Red Hat based distros such as Mandriva use loop-aes and losetup that have some default options that are different from a debian based distribution such as Ubuntu which use dm-crypt. To mount my "old-school" encrypted volumes I had to use the loopaes script from Gary Larson. (I also had to install the hashalot package [...]
The D-Link DWL-G122 USB 802.11g (revision B1) wifi adaptor works great for open or WEP encrypted networks and is supported by Ubuntu out of the box. Unfortunately, the open source driver doesn't support WPA2 (and only supports WPA via non-standard iwpriv settings, and even then, the support is flaky).
I was able to get it [...]
Sunday, September 23, 2007
I wanted to get Album Art for all of my (newly ripped) songs on my MythTV box.
Thierry has a nice perl script which finds album art on Amazon and automatically downloads it, but unfortunately for me the music plugin for MythTV has upgraded their database schema and the script no longer worked. I am [...]
Friday, September 21, 2007
Copying a streaming video to a file using mencoder.
I wanted to watch Randy Pausch's last lecture on my home media PC as opposed to my laptop. It has MythTV, which can be used to watch any file on the hard disk. Unfortunately, you can't just download the a file, as his lecture is hosted by [...]
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Using directions from Felipe Alfaro Solana, I set up an encrypted home directory in Ubuntu 7.04. I only had one problem, that exhibited an error message as follows:
Command failed: Incompatible libdevmapper 1.02.08 (2006-07-17)(compat) and kernel driver
This was caused by the dm_mod module not being loaded. I fixed it for the session by issuing [...]