Subsonic is a wonderful cross platform music streaming software. With a little bit of hacking it can incarnate to its video streaming avatar with on the fly video encoding and streaming capability, allowing you to remotely access and view your video collection. I have discussed this for Windows machine using Subsonic 3.8 here. A...
Compiling FFmpeg from source to enable support for most restricted codecs like MP3, MPEG4, AAC, Xvid, x264 etc can be a hassle, and not for the mere mortals. Convenient ways of getting these goodies have been pointed out by FakeOutdoorsman at the UbuntuForums.org. I am listing it here for my own reference. Two approaches...
ffmpeg is a very powerful command line Video / Audio conversion, editing utility which is available for practically all platforms, Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora, and even Mac. But the command line options are often confusion for the beginners and also a hassle to keep track of. WinFF comes to the rescue. It provides a nice...
I have earlier discussed how to make a video from series of images on a Windows box. Doing it on a linux machine is even simpler. I am assuming that you have the images that you intend to use in a series of continuous numbers, e.g. Image001.jpg to Imagexyz.jpg, there shouldn’t be any break...
Earlier I talked about “how to download youtube videos“. So lets look at one of the methods of extracting the audio file out of the flv file or of any video file. Most flv files or video files have mp3 audio embedded inside the video. In such cases trying this command should do the...