Mencoder is an extremely powerful video converter that is capable of converting video from almost any format to any other format. One of the simplest exercises to do with Mencoder involves joining two videos to make a single video. To join the videos all you need are the videos and Mencoder installed on your system. […]
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µTorrent in Windows 7 & Other Links
Fix For uTorrent In Windows 7 – There are reports in various forums that uTorrent exceeds memory limit and shoots up to 100% in other cases some downloads will stop at 99.9%. In few cases uTorrent shows false reports and works oddly. – Here is how to fix those nagging problems. The Master List of […]
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Mplayer without Text
I upgraded my desktop to Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 yesterday and realized an unique problem. There was no text displayed in the OSD(On Screen Display). If you open the file in command prompt mode you will see the following message: subtitle font: load_sub_face failed. The reason for was basically that Mplayer could not find the required […]
One of the simplest ways to download Track, Waypoint and Route information from your Garmin GPS in Ubuntu is using gpsbabel. {adinserter 3} Install gpsbabel via apt-get sudo apt-get install gpsbabel Connect the gps via the cable provided to the serial port of the computer or via a serial to USB converter to the USB […]
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XBMC – No Cast Info from IMDB
Image via Wikipedia If you have been using the latest release of XBMC you might have noticed that XBMC does not seem to pick up the cast information of a movie from IMDB. The problem here is that Imdb recently made minor changes to its api and the infomation we are looking for is not […]