Extracting the Audio Track From a Video File
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 by \m/ikeSo now you’ve got that video off youtube saved locally, but what you really want is to use its audio to burn an audio CD. Yeah…let’s do that. Read more…
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Xbox 360 Media Sharing: Ushare and Fuppes
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 by \m/ikeSo you’ve converted a bunch of mkvs to mp4s via the guide on this site or you have a boatload of xvids dying to be seen on that lcd tv of yours. We could either put that dvd burner to work…or give it the night off and leave them right where they are on that 750 gig external. Trust me, your girlfriend is 4 times as sick as you are of watching “l33t scene rlsz” on your 19in laptop screen. Read more…
Converting (Remuxing) an x264 .mkv for Playback on the Xbox 360
Sunday, May 11th, 2008 by \m/ikeLooking to play some of those HD .mkv files you’ve been collecting on your Xbox 360? Looking for the Linux equivalent to GotSent on Windows? This is the guide for you. Read more…
Compiling (Just About) Anything in Ubuntu
Friday, May 9th, 2008 by \m/ikeSome basic commands for turning that .tar.gz into a happy .deb! Read more…
Compiling Pidgin from Source
Friday, May 9th, 2008 by \m/ikeThis is a link to a popular guide I wrote and maintain on the Ubuntu forums. Since the version of Pidgin in the repos is usually a couple of versions old, this is one I find myself doing fairly frequently (I’m always looking to patch up memory leak issues).