Tuesday, July 28, 2009

How to mount a Mac (iAtkos - mine) dvd on Linux

use the command with the specific filetype

Mount DVD: sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/hdc /media/test
Mount ISO: sudo mount -t hfsplus /media/hdc1/iAtkos.iso /media/test

(here the strings /dev/hdc and /media/hdc1/iAtkos.iso should be replaced according to your filesystem)

if you simply mount this without -t option you will not see all the files on the DVD

Further: More

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Honda Accord Commercial

Honda is one of the huge brands worldwide. When that name comes to my mind I remember the great Honda motorbike that we had couple of years back, Honda CM125. Wow, I still remember the proud hum it gives when the engine screams. Hearty...

Anyway, here I'm not going to talk about Honda bikes, but a commercial for Honda Accord car.

Commercial Video

Here they have used all the main parts of the model. Pretty cool, huh?

Check out more
Official Site
Wiki

Friday, May 22, 2009

Website Designing

One of the main and very popular methods of communication in the business world is web sites. So a good design of a website is very important to give customers, relevant and necessary ideas. In technical aspect, basically, a website should be compliant with most of the web browsers, which are currently being used. It should also have comparable technologies to provide customers a better and quality service to compete with the fast moving business world.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope

Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope is still in the Alpha 5 stage. But couldn't prevent installing that because of the curiosity I had towards it. :)
So finally upgraded the system from Hardy Heron to Jaunty Jackalope. Following commands were used.
1. Alt+F2 -> gives the 'Run Application' dialog.
2. There entered 'update-manager -d'
3. After the processing it showed that a new system is there to make an upgrade.

Everything went okay except compiz as I can see for the moment. But it is a minor problem. Display problem with lower graphics went okay after removing the following lines from xorg.conf and rebooting the system,
1. Driver "fglrx"
2. Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
2. Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"

System seems to be having smaller icons than the previous systems. But I am not 100% sure about that, but I feel like that. Have to try a little bit more to find out what's new. It's still alpha. :)

Cheers

Sunday, February 22, 2009

How to remove the audio track from an AVI file (using mencorder)

Issue the command from the folder in which the files are located. Change the .avi file names to the relevant ones.

Using the following command one can remove the audio track from an AVI file.
mencoder -ovc copy -nosound video.avi -o video_nosound.avi

The following command will add a new track to the AVI file.
mencoder -ovc copy -audiofile soundtrack.mp3 -oac copy video_nosound.avi -o video_new.avi

Thursday, February 12, 2009

How to Rotate a Video Taken by a Camera Using Mencoder

It was really essential to rotate a video before you post on to your blog or somewhere else if the video is taken in the other orientation from your camera. If you have mencoder, you can fire this command on the command line (I am considering Linux) from the place that you have your video file that you want to rotate.

mencoder -vf rotate=1 -ovc lavc -oac copy name_of_your_video_file.avi -o new_name_of_the_converted_file.avi

Change the names of the video file as described. Write the command continuously on the command line with relevant spaces.

If you don't have MPlayer or Mencoder you can download it from here.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Nautilus Scripts

Nautilus scripts are scripts embedded to nautilus file manager which is the official file manager in GNOME. These scripts can be run from the menu you get by right clicking somewhere, probably on a file so that you can fire an instant command on that file.

There were lacking some scripts for linux earlier but now it is not true anymore. These two scripts will be very useful to anyone who works with images and videos frequently.

1. nautilus-image-converter
You can just run this command on the command line
sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter
2. nautilus video converter
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=193754
Click on the link and follow the instructions given by the author carefully.

Enjoy the scripts.

Cheers