21st August 2009
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Applications, Multimedia
Most DivX/XviD movies you download from Torrent sites are packed in multiple RAR archives. It takes some time for each to extract. If you don;t want to wait, you can use VLC and unrar to play the file within instantly. Y[...]
Tags: files, movie, RAR, unrar, video, VLC
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20th August 2009
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Applications, Multimedia
If you want to have Flash support in Google Crome, the Linux version, you can enable it like this:Make a plugins directory in the Google Chrome folder
sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/pluginscd to it
cd /opt/google/chrome/p[...]
Tags: firefox, Flash, Google, Google Chrome
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26th July 2009
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Applications, Multimedia, cli
You can make MPlayer play h264-encoded video files a lot faster on multicore machines if you graft some libraries from the ffmpeg-mt project into the resulting mplayer binary. We need to recompile for this. First, use Su[...]
Tags: ff-mpeg, ffmpeg, files, MPlayer, Multimedia, video
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8th July 2009
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GNOME, Multimedia
If by chance your GNOME files are displaying thumbnails that you know aren’t part of the video file or picture they’re supposed to represent, or if Nautilus is showing both thumbnails and icons for the same t[...]
Tags: GNOME, thumbnails
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