I know there is a thousand other ways to do this (and to automate it) and some of them may be easier, but this is my way and is working for me. These are MythTV MPEG files Transcoded from NUV to MPEG (High Quality). I want them in Xvid, de-interlaced and the file size reduced. [...]
A few notes on getting some old computers running. In this post am installing Ubuntu 10.10 i386 on a 600Mhz CPU with 448MB ram and a 16Mb Voodoo3 card. I downloaded the regular install CD of Maverick and ran it. It completed with no errors, and booted to a 800×600 screen. I read some posts [...]
First I just installed the card and booted. Hoping that it would just work I tried some of the basic programs. $ sudo apt-get install tvtime zapping xawtv For me, none of these programs worked. Some start but with errors or black screens for output. I tried to get them working. $ sudo apt-get install [...]
Downloaded Ubuntu 10.10 PPC from here (direct link to 10.10 powerpc.iso). Burned to a CD in K3B and booted it on the IBook (I already had yaboot from a previous install). Installed great. Nice resolution, good speed. No 3D acceleration? Not acceptable nowadays. According to lspci, the video card in this laptop is a Radeon [...]
Last night I did some testing and got the Roland-MC303 working as a sound module. As a sequencer, it is less than average, but as a sound module, it is great. So after getting the piano set up upstairs, there was one big problem. The studio is on the opposite side of the house, in [...]
Just before Christmas we were in the toy section at Chapters, and Anna was really enjoying playing with the Carpenter Play Kitchen there. After snapping a few pics of her I thought, I could make that! First I needed a way to cut these big pieces by myself. I had planned this table, and finished [...]
Well it is going to take a month before I can set up all the gear in our new house, so I have been doing a bit of research on how everything is going to be set up. My first worries are: How to record the V-drums At first I was worried that I might [...]
Hooking up the mixer and guitars worked great. The programs I have been starting with are Jack Control (QjackCTL) to start/stop the Jack server, and Ardour for multi track recording. For levels, I have been using QAmix for quick level changes, and alsamixer for bigger changes. For the laptop, the default levels were way too [...]
Wish me luck. I’m installing the Ubuntu Studio packages on the laptop, in hopes that it will become my recording device. I was considering using a desktop with a PCI audio interface to record with, but the laptop has usb2 and firewire. I figure I can start out by using an old 4-track as a [...]
Ok. So there is no version of Mobile Media Converter (MMC) for Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) 64 bit, but there is a 32 bit version. To make it work for 64 bit, you need to force it a bit. Once again, please don’t take this as a real how-to. Actually, maybe that should be the tag [...]
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