VLC 1.1.0 for Linux – Complete Review

Jun 25th

Posted by Ashik in Fedora

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As always, VideoLAN has come up with interesting tweaks, updates and enhancements to its all popular VLC media player with the release of version 1.1.0.

Among some of the new features introduced by the VLC 1.1.0 player we can mention:

  • GPU decoding using VAAPI for H.264, MPEG-2 and VC-1
  • DSP decoding using OpenMax IL
  • Improved seeking for High-Definition (HD) MKV files
  • Support for Blu-Ray PGS subtitles
  • Support for HD-DVB subtitles
  • Support for VP8, MPEG-4 lossless and Indeo5 video codecs
  • Encoding and decoding of the WebM format
  • Support for Atrac1, FLAC 6.1/7.1, Vorbis 6.1/7.1, MPRG-4 ALS audio codecs
  • DVD-Audio files support
  • Optimized for SSE3/SSE4 and ARM Neon
  • Improved streaming performance
  • New x11, xv and glx modules
  • ADPCM More >
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Access Google from your Terminal

Jun 21st

Posted by Ashik in Google

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This weekend, Google proudly announced GoogleCL, a set of new command-line tools for some of its popular services, such as Google Calendar, Google Docs, Blogger, YouTube and Picasa. GoogleCL will allow you to upload photos to Picasa and videos to YouTube, add Google Calendar events or contacts on Google Contacts, edit Google Docs documents or post on your Blogger blog… all straight from the Linux terminal. Well, you will say now… “Who needs this stuff? We are in mid 2010 and command-line is for geeks only.” You are right! But this is a very good opportunity for some developers to More >

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Enable Automatic Login in Ubuntu Server

Jan 20th

Posted by Ashik in Tutorials

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Ubuntu makes it easy to enable automatic login if you’re using a login manager such as GDM. But what to do in case you don’t have GDM. Here’s how to enable automatic login.

Note: This was tested on Ubuntu 9.10. Previous versions of Ubuntu require different procedures because of changes to the way Ubuntu boots.

Open /etc/init/tty1.conf as root:

sudo nano /etc/init/tty1.conf

Change the last line of this file to (where USERNAME is the username of the user you want to log in):

exec /bin/login -f USERNAME < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>&1

Reboot, and the user you chose should be logged in automatically after boot. If something More >

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How to Keep Your Ubuntu System Clean

Jan 20th

Posted by Ashik in Tutorials

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If you are an geeky user who keeps installing various software and updates then with the passage of time you will feel that your system is messed up. Ubucleaner is a shell script which lets you clean your Ubuntu system by removing the following:

  • apt cache
  • Config file for Uninstalled .deb packages
  • Unused Kernels

First lets discuss the different items which this script removes.

APT Cache

APT is the package management tool which is used to install/upgrade and remove packages in your Ubuntu system. If you use it often then it’s cache consumes a lot of space. By removing the apt cache you get plenty of free More >

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Prevent Accidental Shutdown/Reboot in Ubuntu

Jan 15th

Posted by Ashik in Debian

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If you are  a command line geek then you would have often entered the wrong commands many times, some of which could lead to accidental shutdown/restart. Molly-Guard is a command line script which prevents you from accidentally shutting down or rebooting your Ubuntu system.

It basically overrides the default system binaries of the shutdown, reboot, or halt processes. So once you try to reboot or shutdown your system form the command line it will prompt you to enter the hostname of your computer. Thus in this way you are prevented from accidental shutdown or reboot.

Installing this script is a piece of cake, More >

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