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[edit] CD Burning (Links)
- http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html - An excellent source for understanding the fundamentals is the CD-burning-HOWTO.
- http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January2002/article227.shtml - A very easy-readable but detailed guide on CD-burning with command-line or gui tools :
- http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/MP3-CD-Burning/index.html (How to make normal audio CDs from mp3 files ) - Linux MP3 CD Burning mini-HOWTO
- http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cdburn.html?ca=dgr-lnxw75BurnCDs Burning CDs on Linux - mkisofs and cdrecord at the command line make it all possible Level: Introductory
- http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/cdrw-hint.txt - Packet writing (or writing cdrw à la directcd)
[edit] Photo Processing Applications
[edit] GwenView
GwenView is a fast and easy to use image viewer/browser for KDE. All common image formats are supported, such as PNG (including transparency), JPEG (including EXIF tags and lossless transformations), GIF, XCF (Gimp image format), BMP, XPM and others. Standard features include slideshow, fullscreen view, image thumbnails, drag'n'drop, image zoom, full network transparency using the KIO framework, including basic file operations and browsing in compressed archives, non-blocking GUI with adjustable views. Gwenview also provides image and directory KParts components for use e.g. in Konqueror. Additional features, such as image renaming, comparing, converting, and batch processing, HTML gallery and others are provided by the KIPI image framework.
At first sight this is yet another album-creating photo management application, but it's remarkably flexible, thanks to a number of plugins. Today I have for the first time used it to print a batch of 24 photos, four to a page. There is a good print wizard where you can see exactly which photos you're going to print. Inevitably there was going to be some cropping, and I was a little apprehensive about this, but as the wizard progressed I found that I could move the cropping on each photo individually, to make the best result. That is very neatly done - the same effect as on my windows app, but neater. Finally, the printout - the results are good - better than the previous set of the same pictures, produced on the other app. Best of all, I printed all 24 photos in one print job, whereas the other app could only handle one page at a time.
Some GwenView and Kipi-plugins' screenshots
These notes, from Angelo Naselli, got me started:
I released on Mandriva club (testing state) digikam 0.7.1, it should work. http://www.mandrivaclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=RPM&func=download_page&RID=2625
You need libkexif and libkipi as well add digikam/kipi-plugins to enjoy their new features. (and of course a club access :)
One advice though, don't use libkipi and libkexif that are into distro cds, they are beta version and to use digikam 0.7.1 and gwenview 1.2.0pre1 you need at least libkipi/libkexif 0.1. You can get them either from club (only under digikam test rpms) or kipi page (following the link from gwenview site).
These are the packages i installed on my mdl 10.1 PC (the club's ones). The devel ones are not important to run the applications.
[root@angelo /]# rpm -qa | grep digik libdigikam0-0.7.1-0.1.101mdk libdigikam0-devel-0.7.1-0.1.101mdk digikam-0.7.1-0.1.101mdk [root@angelo /]# rpm -qa | grep kipi libkipi0-devel-0.1-1mdk kipi-plugins-0.1-0.beta1.4.1.101mdk libkipi0-0.1-1mdk [root@angelo /]# rpm -qa | grep kexif libkexif0-devel-0.2.1-0.1.101mdk libkexif0-0.2.1-0.1.101mdk [root@angelo /]# rpm -qa | grep gwenview libgwenview1-1.1.7-0.0.1.101mdk libgwenview1-devel-1.1.7-0.0.1.101mdk gwenview-1.1.7-0.0.1.101mdk [root@angelo /]#
They could have a little different versioning if you download them from their site. Anyway once you installed kipi-plugins you should be able to see all the plugins under the Plugins menu. Into Settings - Configure gwenview you can find "Kipi Plugins" and there you can check-uncheck plugins you need/don't need.
[edit] Parsing/Editing Video Applications
[edit] Themonospot - extract info from DivX, XviD file
[edit] Description
is a simple application that can be used to scan an avi file and extract some informations about audio and video data flow:
- Video codec used
- Frame size
- Average video bitrate
- File size
- Total time
- Frame rate
- Total frames
- Info data
- Packet Bitstream
- User data (in MOVI chunk)
- Audio codec used
- Average audio bitrate
- Audio channels
With themonospot is also possible modify FourCC informations
- FourCC code nel video chunk
- FourCC description nell'header dello stream video
And also change some problematic UserData values for table players (it set the value to DivX999b000p)
You can also export the report as text file.
Themonospot use MONO Framework and GTK# Mac release (work in progress) will use COCOA#
Developers:
- hman hmandevteam@gmail.com
- cjg cjg@cruxppc.org
IRC Channels:
- #mono on server irc.eu.azzurra.org
- #mono on server irc.gimp.net
[edit] Screenshot on Mandriva
[edit] Download and Install
On official website of themonospot are available:
- .rpm packages for some Linux distro
- .deb packages for some Linux distro
- setup package for MS Windows
Source code from official website of themonospot:
- tarball for Linux
- GoogleCode Subversion Repository
[edit] Media Center
Multimedia jukebox, VCR, PVR (Personal Video Recorder), HTPC (Home Theater Personal Computer), DVR (Digital Video Recorder), Personal Media Center
[edit] MythTV
The most popular PVR / Media Centre is MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org/index.php) which has many plugins. Packages for MythTV are available in the Contrib Software Repository. Please carefully follow the instructions on the MythTV site, which involves setting up hardware, database, etc.
An easier option is KnoppMyth, a Knoppix Live CD with MythTV pre-installed (http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html).
