September 9th, 2009 by acmelab68
I’ve recently reported about creating 3gp videos for playing them back with an average mobile phone. I’ve done this by using ffmpeg. Now – since my attention came onto 3gp video files, I was wandering if My Media System (MMS, a light Media Center unlike XBMC or MythTV), precisely speaking my mplayer-vdpau wrapper script was able to handle them also. To my surprise the video does play back, but audio is missing.
Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Missing Audio on Playing Back 3gp Video Files’
August 30th, 2009 by acmelab68
For the impatient: Read here the compendium.
Recently I’ve bought a mid-range mobile phone for my wife. It’s a Nokia 2700 Classic for about 100€. At this price level you don’t have a sophisticated video support regarding recording or playback. You don’t have avi, wmv or flv support. The only video format the mobile phone understands is 3gp. Continue reading ‘Creating 3gp Videos with Linux’
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June 20th, 2009 by acmelab68
Funny theme name: “Unnamed Lite“, isn’t it.
After my heavily customized theme Blocks have been pulled to pieces after my final optimization attempt, I’ve been looking for a theme, which does offer the features I like to have, without screwing around to much.
Theme Unnamed Lite seems to be my candidate so far. These are the following advantages I’ve found out so far: Continue reading ‘Tweaking WordPress: Theme Unnamed Lite by Xu Yiyang’
June 20th, 2009 by acmelab68
µTorrent is told to run on Linux through Wine. Well – version 1.8.3 does not, at least not for me. I’m using Jaunty Jackalope (9.04, x86_64), and the installation process just stops after the last button press.
The installation window disappears but doesn’t actually crash. The log on the console ends with these lines:
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_SECURITY_FLAGS; STUB
fixme:heap:RtlCompactHeap (0x5d0000, 0x0) stub
Unfortunately I haven’t found the reason, why it’s not working. But after a while I’ve just tried an older version (1.8.2), and it instantly start working right after the installation. Continue reading ‘[solved] uTorrent 1.8.3 doesn’t install on Linux via Wine’
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