Tag Archive for 'HOWTO' at Acmelabs' Blog

Howto Map Mplayer Subtitle Commands on a Remote Control

May 16th, 2009 by acmelab68

I’ve been looking for a example where I could see, how subtitles for mplayer can be mapped on a remote control. But my search have been quite unsuccessful. Looking for lircrc, example, subtitles and mplayer didn’t return anything meaningful. And if you build (check out) mplayer from source, there is a file called input.conf in [...]

How To Vanquish Rsync

May 6th, 2009 by acmelab68

It’s a shame! Rsync is an old, stable, field-tested, nice, quick and versatile tool for backups. And if you had bad luck, like I did, and just cut and pasted the first best example found on the Internet, and that example didn’t behave the way I thought it supposed to, you are lost, because all [...]

Setting up webcam on Linux

March 13th, 2009 by acmelab68

I’m sure this has been described thousands of times, but today it took me again almost one hour to find out how to set up the webcam application on Linux. This HowTo was made for Debian like systems, if you are experienced enough you can easily port this HowTo onto other distros like Fedora/Redhat, Gentoo [...]

[solved] No sound via stereo jack with Philips LCD-TV

March 13th, 2009 by acmelab68

I’ve recently bought a quite cheap LCD-TV from Philips. It’s an 42pfl5603d. The TV has FullHD (1920×1080) resolution and is 42″ in size. These are actually the only features I’ve been keen on. The first one I sent back, because the TV set didn’t react either on remote or local (side panel) key presses. Amazon [...]