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- Creating Animated GIFs from Video Files
- It's surprisingly simple to create an animated GIF from a video file using only free software tools. I'll be using Avidemux and the GIMP for this tutorial. After opening the file in avidemux select the range of frames which you'd like to turn into an animated GIF using avidemux's A and B markers. Now it's time to [...]
- (Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:55:10 -0400)
- Panucci 0.3 - A Polished Turd
- After a lengthy testing cycle Panucci 0.3 has been uploaded to Maemo Extras and is available to all Maemo 4.1 (Diablo) users that have the Extras repo enabled. Panucci 0.3 is a big step forward from 0.2, here's a brief run-down of what's changed: Bookmarks are stored in an SQLite database Playlists (m3u,pls) are fully [...]
- (Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:42:36 -0400)
- Using The Xv Overlay Adaptor By Default
- For most people the overlay adapter is a better choice than the textured video adaptor because you can use it with compiz and it doesn't have horizontal tearing on fast action scenes. The disadvantage, as pointed out by someone in #gstreamer is reduced color accuracy (iirc) but I don't notice it... If you have an Intel [...]
- (Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:58:37 -0400)
- Bypass Bell?s BitTorrent Throttling With rTorrent
- This assumes you have tor and privoxy installed (and privoxy is accepting connections on port 8118). rtorrent \ -i `curl whatismyip.org 2>/dev/null` \ -O encryption=require,require_RC4 \ -O http_proxy=127.0.0.1:8118 It's that easy UPDATE: You may need to disable DHT for this to work, add "-O dht=disable" to the command line or simply put "dht=disable" in your ~/.rtorrent.rc
- (Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:53:53 -0400)
- Site Updates
- Today I finally got around to moving this website to a proper webserver with a ton of bandwidth If you find any dead links/broken pages please contact me, I'll make sure they get fixed ASAP.
- (Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:02:33 -0400)
