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Google Earth 5 crashes on Linux

Google Earth 5 for Linux crashes. You can solve this problem by renaming libcrypto.so.0.9.8 to something else. But be careful, there are probably more than one file with this name on your hard disk drive. Be sure, the file you rename resides in the googleearth folder.

Howto strip/crop and rename multiple file names in a commad line (Linux)

Today was again the day where I needed to rename over 100 file names of an mp3-collection. And again it took me half an hour to make it work. That’s way I decided to write it down now, so I won’t have to think about it again. The situation is very simple to explain. My [...]

mplayer-vdpau: The “Error 23″ issue

There are some .mkv files, that refuses to play with the latest mplayer-vdpau (nvidia-180.18 + mplayer-vdpau-3263604. The error code, they return is: Error 23 at libvo/vo_vdpau.c:724 Some recommend at the nvidia forum to change line 94 in libvo/vo_vdpau, and set up the value below up to anything higher:

VDR-Xine Plugin now with VDPAU support (HOWTO)

[UPDATE]Read here, how to install VDR on Karmic Koala with Binary Packages.[/UPDATE] Reinhard Nissl managed to get his vdr-xine plugin going with Nvidia’s vdpau hardware acceleration support. What does mean HDTV and H.264 (mpeg4/avc) hardware acceleration is reality now on Linux! YES! He instructed me on IRC#xine-vdpau and guided me through the installation process. He [...]

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