Archive for the 'Multimedia' Category

30th April Comments

Three utilities for automatically converting audio for portable music players

Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 6:29 am

While large cheap hard disks allow you to keep your audio collection in a lossless format such as FLAC on your home network, when you are on the move you probably want to squeeze the most out of every gigabyte by using a compressed format. This article takes a look at three tools aimed at [...]

11th April Comments

Open source video editing: what we have now and what we need

Posted on April 11th, 2008 at 8:55 am

Watching the evolution of open source tools for video editing and manipulation over the last 10 years has been less than a thrilling experience. But are things about to change for the better in the near future? Can even the people most disenchanted with the current state of affairs feel tempted to regain a spark [...]

25th March Comments

End-to-end video podcast production with Kino and FFmpeg

Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Producing a video podcast entirely on Linux is not only possible but fairly easy to do. This article outlines the steps you can take to make a video podcast entirely on Linux, as I do.
Creating a podcast takes three steps:
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29th February Comments

Audio conversion tools for Linux

Posted on February 29th, 2008 at 6:23 am

 
Most portable audio players can play music encoded in the MP3 audio format, but some consumers also have music in Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, or even WMA files. How do you change from one format to another when you need to? Here are some of the best audio conversion tools available in Linux. One of [...]

13th February Comments

Five fun ways to use a Linux webcam

Posted on February 13th, 2008 at 5:37 am

 
So you just set up a Linux-compatible webcam. You’ve tested it with Kopete, and you can send images on MSN and Yahoo! Now what? Here are some fun things you can try.
Finally some more uses for webcams outside of porn shots, not that,that is bad but a couple of these sound like fun, Baldy

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30th January Comments

CLI audio players for Linux

Posted on January 30th, 2008 at 7:20 am

What would life be without music? Given the proper codecs, in Linux you can play almost any digital audio format. Linux has many graphical applications that can do the job, such as Amarok, Rhythmbox, Audacious, and XMMS, all of which provide an intuitive user interface, playlist sorting, and various other options. But what if you [...]

30th January Comments

Lintube

Posted on January 30th, 2008 at 5:47 am

You know YouTube now meet LinTube, A site that has linux related videos ,it has some nice looking videos so stop in and check it out. Videos for almost any linux question youmight have.
Check it Out

28th January Comments

Amazon says will begin int’l roll-out of its MP3 store

Posted on January 28th, 2008 at 5:56 am

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Sunday it will begin an international roll-out this year of its digital music store that offers songs without copy-protection technology known as digital rights management.
Amazon said it is the only retailer to offer DRM-free MP3s from all four major music labels as well as thousands [...]

23rd January Comments

MPAA admits to lying about college downloading

Posted on January 23rd, 2008 at 3:30 am

 
The MPAA study that showed that students were responsible for 44 percent of film downloading? A big old lie. And now the MPAA has admitted it:
In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry’s domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college [...]