Archive for the ‘openSUSE’ Category
h.264 to mpg
The following will probably not mean anything to you:
mplayer -vo dummy -ao dummy -identify your_video.avi 2>&1 | grep AUDIO_FORMAT | cut -d ‘=’ -f 2
hwac3:
mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:aspect=16/9 \
-ofps 25 -o your_video.mpg your_video.avi
everything else:
mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup \
-srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:aspect=16/9:\
acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 -ofps 25 -o your_video.mpg your_video.avi
Yes, I needed to convert a video file. No, I can’t remember the options by heart.
1st thing to do after installing openSUSE
The first thing to do after installing openSUSE is to turn your install into a multimedia machine. Luckily, things have advanced so far that it only take a click of a button. (The necessary buttons are right here for your convenience.)
Enjoy!
Kernel panic after upgrading to openSUSE 11.3
If you, too, suffer from a kernel panic after upgrading to openSUSE 11.3 adding
- nohz=off highres=off
to your boot options will let your beloved OS come back to life.
Educational Linux distributions
If you are looking for an educational Linux distribution, you have at least three choices:
- openSUSE Education is a live and install DVD based on openSUSE 11.2.
- Edubuntu is the education version of the quite popular Ubuntu.
- LernTux and KinderTux are Mandriva derivates created by Dieter Schütze.
- UPDATE: Skolelinux based on Debian. (How could I forget this classic?)
KinderTux is especially interesting, because it isn’t aimed at pupils or teachers but at younger children to help them enjoying computers. The only alternative to KinderTux I could find was Quimo, which uses Ubuntu as base system.
Bitten by Metacity: Bug 555027 – autologin failure …
I got bitten by this ugly bug (Bug 555027 – autologin failure …) and could no longer login to my lovely Gnome. With the help of the fine lads at #opensuse-gnome on Freenode and in the forum, I was able to find a patch here.
Now everything seems working again.
