Nov 24, 2010
Tracking Movie Collection with Griffith
Have you ever had one of those times that you were looking for a movie and didn’t know if you had it or just had no idea what movies you had? Well in comes a nice little application called Griffith. Griffith is a media collection manager application. Adding items to the collection is as quick and easy as typing the film title and selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the... read more
Jul 2, 2010
Adding Multimedia support on CentOS 5.5
Recently I have been building a new Home server as a Home Digital Server. In the process of using CentOS 5.5 as the Linux distro I ran into the need to Multimedia support. Here is how I accomplished the task. Add the rpmforge repos if not already installed. Type the following commands in the console/terminal For 32-bit installations (i.e. CentOS 5.x 32-bit installed), enter the following into your... read more
Jun 14, 2010
Installing Win32 Codecs on Linux
The following is an example way to install the “all” pack as root and will work on Ubuntu and Fedora. cd /tmp wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20100303.tar.bz2 tar -jxvf all-20100303.tar.bz2 su -c ‘mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs’ su -c ‘cp all-20100303/* /usr/local/lib/codecs’ rm -rf /tmp/all-20100303* read more
Apr 11, 2010
A Few Essential Repositories for Ubuntu
There are a few essential repositories that I use to add missing applications, codecs and other applications that are not available in Ubuntu. There are many more out there but these three are top added to my systems. Medibuntu (http://www.medibuntu.org/) Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for... read more
Mar 14, 2010
Epson 4490 Photo scanner Ubuntu
The Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner is not supported in Ubuntu by sane. To get the scanner to work in Ubuntu you must download and install third party software. This how to describes how I was able to install it on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 64-bit. Install libsane-extras (sudo apt-get install libsane-extras) Edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and uncomment epson2 if it is not done already. Go to... read more
