• Audio and Video

    Download YouTube videos (Linux)

    by  • May 29, 2010 • Audio and Video • 5 Comments

    Want to know how to download a YouTube video? Just go and watch the video! It’ll automatically be downloaded for you. Let me explain further… While you watch the video on the web it is being downloaded for you to your /tmp directory. Try it out: go watch any YouTube video go to /tmp...

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    Screencasting on Linux – recordMyDesktop

    by  • May 6, 2009 • Audio and Video, Imaging, Utilities • 0 Comments

    Doing a basic screencast in Linux is pretty easy. The package recordMyDesktop can be found easily on the repository of many Linux distros (including Ubuntu 9.04 that I use). With this package you’re actually getting the backend recordMyDesktop which is written in C and the frontend developed in Python (gtk-recordMyDesktop or qt-recordMyDesktop). The feature...

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    Last.fm on Symbian phones

    by  • December 29, 2008 • Audio and Video, Mobile • 2 Comments

    I’m a big Last.fm enthusiast (although it isn’t open source) so I try to install a scrobbler on every single media player I use. It took a bit of time for me to find a Symbian Last.fm client and mobbler it was. Mobbler works like a charm! It recognizes and scrobbles songs being played...

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    Converting .mp4 to .ogv format

    by  • December 28, 2008 • Audio and Video • 12 Comments

    Over these past 2 days I recorded some videos on my Symbian cell phone that I wanted to share with my family back home. Problem is that the videos are saved in .mp4 format, which gave me some problems when trying to edit them (video editors I tried to use didn’t support mp4). So,...

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    Listen to ogg on your Symbian device

    by  • December 27, 2008 • Audio and Video, Mobile • 0 Comments

    As an open source fan, I make my audio CDs portable in .ogg (.oga) format. Problem is that unfortunately .ogg isn’t as popular as it should be right now so sometimes it can be difficult to find a decent player, which is exactly what happened with my new Symbian cell phone. Symbian OggPlay to...

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    Songbird is now 1.0!

    by  • December 8, 2008 • Audio and Video • 0 Comments

    My favorite cross-platform music manager Songbird is now on its 1.0 release!! I’ve written about Songbird before and it is fantastic to report that finally the first full release is available. Why do I like Songbird so much? it is open source; cross-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS X) built on top of the same framework...

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    Creating or editing movie subtitles

    by  • November 30, 2008 • Audio and Video • 0 Comments

    Today I had to add subtitles to a short movie. Problem is, I had never done that before, I’ve seen subtitle files but never actually done any changes to them. Let alone create subtitles! So, I go to my Ubuntu’s Add/Remove Programs app to look for what is available for me. I found and...

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    Free your iPod with Rockbox

    by  • August 28, 2008 • Audio and Video, OS • 0 Comments

    One of the reasons why I don’t like iPods is the entire philosophy of having everything closed and according to the likes of Apple. But, fortunately the open source community is too awesome and have developed a firmware that we can install on several different audio devices. Rockbox is a bit like an operating...

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