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 […]
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 […]
Image via Wikipedia If you didnt know, I happen to have a huge media collection. Everybody has Giga bytes of music and maybe a few episodes of their favorite tv shows. I have that and about 80 unwatched movies on my comp at any given time 😛 For me one of the biggest problem was […]