I know it is at least criminally insane to use a whole 3D animation suite just for basic video editing, but, if everything else fails miserably, here are some notes and a screencast explaining the basics of using Blender for video editing. Well, not exactly what a n00b and hobbyist like me had in mind,…
You all probably know what a screencast is. In my opinion, screencasts can greatly complement HOWTO documents and I strongly believe that they will be even more popular in the upcoming years. Although it would be more useful if this post dealt with how to create a screencast using free open-source software, I feel it…
This is an interesting article by O’Reilly Hacks, which provides tips on how to watch a video stream in ASCII art. From the article: Good ASCII art can take time and talent to look just right, but you can skip through that effort with AAlib, a library devoted to converting any image into an ASCII…
I wish GNUitar, a guitar effects software processor existed 7-8 years ago, when one of my main interests was my good old electric guitar. If I recall correctly, I had tried some computer programs under Windows back then, which tried to simulate a hardware sound processor. Acoustically, the result was fine, but from a technical…
I was aware that a non-encrypted VNC session could be recorded and then reproduced, but I had never searched for utilities that could do that job. The recorded sessions can be perfectly used to show others how to accomplish a task and, generally, can serve as excellent training videos. There is a very good HOWTO…
Lately, I have been revising a script I use for video grabbing from a bt878-based TV tuner card. What such a task requires is real CPU horsepower, but my desktop PC can only offer an old Pentium III 700MHz running at 933MHz. I decided to squeeze all the performance out of this overclocked processor in…
Actually, this title is not very descriptive, as sharing music across the LAN with Rhythmbox takes only one click of the mouse. However, this article intends to provide an overview of what happens behind the scenes after this mouse button has been pressed and how Rhythmbox and Avahi work together in order to make the…
This is one of the best HOWTOs around about authoring DVDs with menus by using only Linux native software. Shiznix writes in his article: This howto is written in the attempt to help those reading to: Accomplish transferring a video media file (.avi, .mpg, .wmv, .mov, etc.) to DVD media in a format that will…
LIRC is basically a small server which can decode or transmit infra-red signals. This is a tutorial about how to set up the LIRC server and how to use it in order to control your system or specific LIRC-enabled applications with a remote control. Examples of simple or more complicated setups are also provided.
This Nautilus script is used to add multimedia files to the Totem playing list. What files are considered as multimedia is user-defined.