Jan 25, 2014 Posted by newlife007

Scanning Kodak PMC 6059 Film with Epson Perfection 4490 Photo

There are many different formats of negatives that have been used over the years. One that I recently ran across to scan was Kodak PMC 6059. Kodak PMC 6059 negatives are unusual for the Epson Photo 4490 because of the size. Kodak PMC 6059 is considered 120 medium format which contains a range of frame sizes; 6×4.5cm, 6x6cm, 6x7cm, 6x8cm, and 6x9cm. The most common being the 6x6cm size. This actually... read more

Dec 5, 2013 Posted by newlife007

How To Enable AAC Encoder on Ubuntu and Fedora using NeroAAC

So you have a wav file that you want to convert on Linux to MP4 format (aka AAC) and want to know how to get the encoder installed so you can use your conversion program to complete the conversion. Well, thanks to Nero this is a possible task due to their generosity of the NeroAAC Encoder. the process we are going to use is the same for Ubuntu and Fedora. Also, we will need to install gpac: MPEG-4... read more

Jul 31, 2013 Posted by newlife007

How to Install WinFF on Fedora

WinFF is an open source and cross platform GUI video converter that takes the power of command line conversions and puts a GUI front end on it. I have used this on Windows for many years and it has always done well for me. So why not put it on Fedora and see how it does? We can install the repository and install from the command line and have the ability to receive updates. Let’s install the... read more

Oct 20, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Plex Media Server Startup soci_error

A good friend of mine recently ran into an issue where Plex Media Server running on Fedora  would not start up. After multiple times trying to start\stop it, deleted pid files, removing subsys lock files, discovered that /var was full, so it couldn’t write something during startup which was causing it not to start. Receiving an error similar to this: Starting PlexMediaServer: terminate called after... read more

Aug 20, 2012 Posted by newlife007

How To Retrieve and edit MOD Movies off Panasonic Camorders

There are days that there is something you see makes you just scratch your head and go What?? Well one of those came to me when I was given a Panasonic Camcorder in which there was no software just the device and USB cable and asked to retrieve the movies and make a DVD. Upon connecting to the device I found files with the .MOD extension. Since I am running VLC I was able to double-click and was able to... read more