I’m documenting this for my own use and hopefully someone else can benefit from this.
Transcode has a useful utility called tccat that can read from a DVD and output a single vob file. I use it to rip the feature title to a single file for later conversion to xvid.
tccat -i <path to dvd mount point> -T <title #>,<chapter #> > output.vob
tccat -i /media/cdrom -T 1,-1 >movieName.vob
Be sure redirect the output or you’ll get a bunch of crap in your terminal.
Once done you can play the vob with mplayer (or whatever) and it should include all languages, angles, and subtitles that the original movie had but none of the extra features.
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Linux.com | ESR gives up on Fedora
ESR gives up on Fedora
For the record, I gave up on Fedora for exactly the same reasons about a year ago. Ubuntu rocks, and to date I’ve only had one small dependency issue which occured when I attempted to jump two full versions with one dist-upgrade. The dependency was fixed in less than a minute and the upgrade continued on without a hitch.
To quote Eric: Fedora, you had every advantage, and you had my loyalty, and you blew it. And that is a damn, dirty shame.
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Debian Package of the Day » Blog Archive » qalculate: the ultimate desktop calculator
So what is qalculate? First and foremost, its a calculator. Which means that it can do what you typically expect a calculator to do, no surprises there.
A very cool desktop calculator. Handles polynomials, unit conversions, and much more.
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Adobe Labs – Downloads: Flash Player 9 Update
Yipee, the Flash Player beta is out for Linux.
- Get the Installer for Linux
- tar xzvf FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz
- cd flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55
- locate libflashplayer.so (On Ubuntu it’s often in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/)
- sudo cp /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/backup.libflashplayer.so
- sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
- restart firefox and you should be good to go.
The audio lag in movies seems to be gone now. Not certain about stability yet, but it can’t be worse than before.
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CM-X270 Computer-On-Module – XScale PXA270 SBC with WLAN/WiFI 802.11b, 2700G, PCI bus, 100BaseT, Flash Disk, LCD and Audio
The CM-X270 is a small Computer-on-Module board designed to serve as a building block in embedded applications. The CM-X270W has all the components required to run operating systems such as Linux and Windows CE. Ready packages for these operating systems are available from CompuLab.
$52 each in quantities of 1,000. Anyone want to sell me just one?
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Tech-Recipes.com – ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives
The much anticipated release of the new ZFS filesystem in Solaris 10 will revolutionize the way system administrators (and executives) think about and work with filesystems.
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