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Convert Mpeg to 3GP file
Now I expected this to be hard. Or at least take a lot of fiddling to get right. However, it seems to be quite easy. http://www.niemueller.de/wiki/index.php?[[ConvertVideoTo3GP|This]] site has all the goodness. It requires three steps. Now assume we have a file called movie.mpeg and we want to convert it to movie.3GP. The steps required would be
mencoder movie.mpeg -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vop expand=176:144,scale=176:-2 -o movie.avi -ofps 12
This will extract the video, scale it and reduce the frame rate. Now we need to extract the sound.
mplayer -vo [continued...]
imported from wiki, 25 August 2006
Since I started using a DSL router with a built-in DHCP server I have had problems getting it to provide the DNS servers used by my ISP. It persistently re-wrote /etc/resolv.conf using its own IP address as the nameserver. I had circumvented this by making /etc/resolv.conf immutable but this is not ideal particularly with a laptop which may not be on the same network all the time.
Thanks to the book (The Debian System) recommended by AdamTricket I now have a solution.
It is really quite simple – aptitude install resolvconf, then edit /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base and add [continued…]
imported from wiki, 18 August 2006
Authoring SVCD with cinelerra and mplayer/mencoder
Note that all the tools mentioned here come on the dyne:bolic live CD from http://www.dyne.org, which turns even fairly tired PC’s into multimedia workstations as long as they have a few GB spare disk space.
In cinelerra set the project format up for 4:3 – For quick working you can use 320×240 (quarter PAL) which gives similar quality to video phones etc and enough definition for simple titles and captions. Avoid the borders marked out by cinelerra in the compositor window – the SVCD format loses quite a bit of [continued…]
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When: 10:30 – 16:30, Saturday 5th August 2006
Where: SeminarRoom1
Gallery: http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/HantsLUG_08_2006
[[TechTalks]]
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Recording desktop sessions to video – AlanPope
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Linux training and how to prepare – DamianBrasher
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Scheduling and Background tasks: cron, at, nohup and screen – AndyRansom
You’ll find slides, video and other media from the talks on the TechTalks/5thAugust2006 page.
AGM Minutes
Welcome. The Chairman welcomed everyone to the meeting and noted that the AGM was non-quorate, with only 17 of the required 24 [continued…]
imported from wiki, 12 August 2006
HantsLUG Summer Barbecue
When: 12:30 – 17:00, Saturday 1st July 2006
Where: StephenDavies garden, Aldershot.
Gallery:
Who was there
What happened
- It was hot!
- Food was eaten
- Beer was drunk
- Some deluded souls brought laptops
imported from wiki, 7 August 2006
When: 10:30 – 17:00, Saturday 4th June 2005
Where: SeminarRoom1
Who was there
imported from wiki, 7 August 2006
When: 10:30 – 17:00, Saturday 1st October 2005
Where: SeminarRoom1
[[TechTalks]]
You’ll find slides, video and other media from the talks on the TechTalks/1stOctober2005 page.
Who was there
imported from wiki, 7 August 2006
When: 10:30 – 16:30, Saturday 10th December 2005
Where: JamiesComputerClub
[[TechTalks]]
Who was there
imported from wiki, 6 August 2006 RHCE
Red Hat Certified Engineer
Linux vendor and consultant Red Hat, offer dedicate training and testing for their flavour of Linux. It is based around their commercial Enterprise Linux product family. The training can be purchased directly from RedHat or from resellers – training offered by RedHat themselves (at Guildford) and IBM (London and other places) in the UK. Along with the main Linux track, they also offer a ranger of other allied technologies.
There are a number of courses that make up the couse work, starting with one designed for people tottaly new to [continued…]
imported from wiki, 3 August 2006
Recovery
You’re tired. Its been a long day and you turn off your computer, only to realise that when you turn it on next, LILO has decided for whatever reason that it won’t load your system. Eek. What to do? Well, here is a generic fix for that (You’ll need some kind of recovery CD or floppy such as Knoppix or tomsrtbt).
Boot off rescue CD.
Some rescue CDs won’t mount your hard drive, in which case you’ll need to mount it yourself. The partition is “/”, something like:
mount -o rw /dev/hda2 /mnt
(Where [continued…]
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