May 2, 2011
Install Kdenlive on Fedora 14/15 64 bit
Recently I rebuilt a system to run Fedora 14. One of the many jobs I plan to use it for is for video editing and one of best Linux editors in development is Kdenlive. According to the site, Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies. So let’s move on to the install. Part of the issue with installing Kdenlive is that it is not in 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
Mar 20, 2010
Downloading YouTube Videos and Extracting Audio on Ubuntu
Have you ever had a YouTube video that you just wanted to have on your PC in-case you were not online to watch it or you wanted the audio extracted from one of those videos to listen to on your PC or iPod? With Firefox addons that is a reality. I had a friend who had found a very, very old German song and found it on YouTube put to a slideshow and was asked how to download the video and extract the... read more
Mar 14, 2010
Adding DVD Support Ubuntu Karmic 9.10
Due to licensing on encrypted DVD you are unable to watch your movies on Ubuntu. To remedy this you can add the support needed to Ubuntu 9.10. $ sudo wget –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get –quiet update && sudo apt-get –yes –quiet –allow-unauthenticated... read more
