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Category Archives: Video

nVidia TwinView Dual Display Monitor Orientation Configuration and Setup

Monday, October 1, 2007

Was a real pain. The nvidia-settings program has always crashed on me, with two different video cards. I finally got it the way I wanted. One big large desktop/screen across my LCD and my TV. My LCD is on the right of my TV, and the orientation was the most troublesome for me. It seems [...]

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Watch Internet TV using Miro on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Friday, August 24, 2007

A great application to watch Internet TV, Miro, has provided the Ubuntu community with instructions on how to install Miro in Feisty Fawn. I’ve used the software for a while now, since it was previously called DemocracyTV Player. It requires a lot of resources to use, but the output is excellent. The best part is [...]

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Converting a Video to DVD using ToDisc

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Having struggled with many different programs and all other kinds of junk, I think I’ve found my favorite program to convert any video file to DVD in Ubuntu. It’s called ToDisc. It’s part of the Tovid suite.
Here’s why I like it:

 Fast! It has no interface so there’s virtually no load time.
Accurate encoding – It very [...]

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Converting a MPG to DVD Using ManDVD

Thursday, July 12, 2007

In my quest for the perfect program to use for burning DVD’s from AVI or MPG I found ManDVD. It’s very nice. It reliably creates quality output. Overall I am quite pleased with the application and I do find myself returning to use it, so I’ve spent some more time with it. Because of the [...]

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Problems Burning a DVD using DeVeDe

Monday, July 9, 2007

I burn a few DVDs, and I’ve tried a few programs for turning a movie (.mpg, etc) into a DVD video structure. The latest disappointment so far has been DeVeDe.
It looks wonderful. It seems to support every feature I need. This includes permitting the user to define pan and scan versus letterboxing options, even skewing [...]

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Ubuntu Shoutcast Software – TunaPie

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

My friend’s ZeroXR and schpenke recommended a nice application called Tunapie when I queried for a suitable application to watch Internet TV and Radio via Shoutcast streams.

Version 1.3 is available for install via the Ubuntu repositories using
sudo apt-get install tunapie
I suggest installing it first, and then upgrading to v2.0
To do that, download the tarball from [...]

Filed in Audio, Internet, Multimedia, Radio, TV, Video | Comments (0)