Linux

How to convert AVI to 3GP

3GP or 3GPP is one of famous video format at present because most mobilephones could play video in this format. It is possible to upload a full-length movie into your mobilephone for watching in a bus. All you need to do is to convert movie to 3GP.

How to convert FLV to AVI

As of now, there are so many video upload services availabe in the wild, e.g., , , PornoTube, and many more. The secret behide all of them is flash video format and flash video player as I blogged earlier. Most of visitors who really like some videos might want to download them to play later offline on their computer. It is not easy for newbie to find the correct links to download FLV or to save FLV successfully even on simple services. That's why some guys would like to offer web sites to automate this process from given URL, for example, Javimoya, VideoDL. Javimoya also offers a Firefox Extension called VideoDownloader for retrieving URL instantly through Firefox. As a result, you will be able to download FLV and save it on your harddisk. Well, my linux box, Ubuntu Dapper, can't play FLV nicely. In particular, mplayer can play FLV but seek. I can't seek all FLV in mplayer. So I hope to fix it by converting FLV to AVI.

Create screencast with record-visual

I have blogged about recoding a screencast via VNC using vncrec-audio and record-visual. I just have a chance to try it out tonight. To install record-visual, I have to install its dependencies such as iconify, vncrec-audio, mencoder, and sls. In addition, I have to install jackd because vncrec-audio depends on this audio system.

AllPeers in Ubuntu Dapper #2

Today, in the morning, AllPeers has been upgraded to AllPeers Beta 0.40. I have not tested the issue of conflict to FoxyProxy yet buy I have tried to share my files and folders with my friends. The user interface is still too complicate in my opinion. It would be better to have tabular interface like eMule or something like that. Anyway, download speed is quite good even only one peer (me and my friend). However, as I mentioned above, thumbnail icon list is not efficient for large amount of shared files.

How to install BTQueue on Ubuntu Server

Since you are going to run BTQueue on Ubuntu or other Linux box, I recommend all you to use the latest version in Subversion repository. Sorry, I don't have deb package yet. If you don't have subversion, sudo apt-get install subversion to get the latest version.

AllPeers in Ubuntu Dapper #1

Hooray! After waiting for so long, I got my activation code for AllPeers. This is news of the day for me. I would like to try it out right now. The version that I tried is AllPeers Beta 0.39. I choosed Linux 32-bit with libstdc++ version 6 that is default for my Dapper box. Installation went fine and next to restart to activate the installation.