Ubuntu 64-Bit playing L4D Via Wine
Gaming, Linux Applications, Open Source Applications, PC Gaming, Ubuntu Desktop August 3rd, 2009
I took some screen captures while playing Left 4 Dead. I am running it via Win 1.1.25.
For more information about Wine visit their site.
I was getting fairly decent frame rates, around 22-35 depending. That was also while running the gtk-recordmydesktop screen capture application. For some reason the audio was stripped out. There is a new version of wine out, I plan to upgrade, tweak it some more and give that a try. I did have the shading turned way down just to increase FPS performance.
Video was recorded in OGV, and edited in Kdenlive
For those curious this machine is running:
AMD Phenom II Quad Core 2.2
8 GB Memory
Nvidia BFG GTX260
500 GB WD HDD
I will have more to come after trying out Wine. 1.1.26.
How To: Install KdenLive on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
How Tos, Linux Applications, Open Source Applications, Ubuntu Desktop October 14th, 2008
So I’ve been reading about some of the new features in kdenLive and I am pretty stoked to see some forward development for video editing on Linux. Some of the new features include:
Main Features:
* Capture video from your camcorder, webcam or screen
* Mix a large number of different formats (depending on your FFmpeg install): mpeg, flash, mp3, ogg, png, jpeg, dv, hdv, …
* See the result of your work (effects and transitions) in realtime
* Export your work in several formats (hdv, dv, mpeg, …)
* Create titles, slideshows and more
For those not familiar with this application, Kdenlive is an open source multi track video editor based on the MLT video framework and FFmpeg.
So how do we get this baby installed in ubuntu as there isn’t a “.deb” package on their website, and the current package in the main repo is on 0.5? Well, if you cruise over to the Wiki Documentation, you will find a nice tutorial written by Mads Dydensborg. The tutorial did work for me, and I am successfully running 0.7. The only thing I couldn’t figure out is why it installed a sleu of KDE apps and made launchers for them? This can be resolved by unselecting them in the alacarte tool. Below are the steps for installing.
1) Add a repo to your sources.list
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echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
2) Get a load of extra packages
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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gtk-qt-engine-kde4 bzip2 kdebase kommander subversion g++ cmake pkg-config kdelibs5-dev libsdl1.2-dev libxml2-dev
3) Make a new directory
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mkdir kdenlive
4) Move into the new directory
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cd kdenlive
5) Download the script
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wget http://www.kde-apps.org/CONTENT/content-files/85826-kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr.bz2
6) Extract, rename and make executable the script
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`bunzip2 85826-kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr.bz2 && mv 85826-kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr && chmod +x kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr
7) Sort out a path by typing:
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export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/kde4/bin
Run the script
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kmdr-executor kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr
9) follow the instructions on-screen. Press “Cancel” after success.
10) In file browser (nautilus) navigate to the /kdenlive directory which you created in step 3
11) click “kdenlive_start” and you are in business.
12) Use alacarte (sudo apt-get install alacarte) to add ~/yourpath/kdenlive/kdenlive_start to your menu.
I hope this helps with getting people to trry out publishing their videos on Linux!
Josh
Wordpress 2.6 Receives some nice enhancements
OSS News, Open Source Applications, Wordpress July 15th, 2008
Check out the video below for the newest features for Wordpress 2.6.
XBMC media center..ownage
Linux, Linux & OSS News, Linux Applications, Open Source Applications, Ubuntu Desktop, xbox 360 June 30th, 2008
XBMC media center is a free cross-platform media-player jukebox and entertainment hub. XBMC is open source (GPL) software available for Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows operating-system, and the Xbox game-console. XBMC can play a very complete spectrum of of multimedia formats, and featuring playlist, audio visualizations, slideshow, and weather forecast functions, together with a multitude of third-party plugins. Originally developed as XBMP (XBox Media Player) for the first-generation Xbox game console in 2002, XBMC has eventually become a complete graphical user interface replacement for the original Xbox Dashboard, and it is currently also being ported to run natively under Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating-system. This, The XBMC Project is also known as “XBMC Media Center” or simply “XBMC”).
Team-XBMC is always looking for talented developers to help with this effort.
Official XBMC software application names:
- XBMC for Linux
- XBMC for Mac
- XBMC for Windows
- XBMC for Xbox
XBMC en Ubuntu 8.04 from MuyComputer on Vimeo.
How To: Ubuntu + Rip DVD + Rippedwire (gtkhandbrake) using the handbrake tool
How Tos, Linux, Linux Applications, Open Source Applications, Ubuntu Desktop May 6th, 2008
First off, I want to thank Dan Trevino from the Florida LoCo team for helping me get this working. I was beginning to rip my hair out and cry like a little baby, (F this linux crap, I’m buying a mac) moment. So for a long time I have used “rippedwire” to rip my “legally” purchased DVD’s out to my network so I can stream them. If you haven’t heard of rippedwire, RippedWire is a graphical front end to HandBrake, the open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter.
It works just fine on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10. I was having mono dependency errors however installing it on Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS release. Below are the instructions for installing this (BAMF) application.
First, download rippedwire DEB package to your home directory.
$ sudo apt-get install mono-mcs
$ sudo apt-get install mono-2.0-devel gtk-sharp2
$ cd to your home directory of where the deb package is i.e. cd /home/username
$ sudo dpkg -i –force-overwri
**UPDATED Instructions
The instructions should be modified to be:
1. sudo apt-get install mono-mcs mono-2.0-devel gtk-sharp2
2. sudo dpkg -i monofix_1.0_all.deb
3. sudo dpkg -i handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb
Download the monofix package here
I should also point out… if you’ve already installed with the ‘old’ instructions you can ‘fix’ your system by doing:
1. sudo apt-get install -f
This will remove handbrakegtk
2. sudo dpkg -i monofix_1.0_all.deb
3. sudo dpkg -i handbrakegtk_1.0.1_i386.deb
Ok, now you are ready to party like a rockstar.
Go to Applications > Sound & Video> HandBrakeGTK
Load a DVD, you click on the source button, select your movie and desired settings, and rip away, like you see below as I’m ripping Snatch!
Thanks again Dan !
Monitor your laptop power consumption with PowerTop
Linux Applications, Open Source Applications, Ubuntu Desktop March 26th, 2008
So one thing I have recently been complaining about is how running Ubuntu 7.10 on my HP nc6400 laptop tends to frustrate me because of the power consumption issues I have been having. The system runs hot, the an is always blowing hard, and the battery is only lasting for about an hour and 5 minutes.
When I run Windows XP SP2 PRO on it, I tend to get about 2 hours and 15 minutes, and it stays very cool. I have run the same tasks with both operating systems from surfing the web, ripping movies, running multiple applications and compiling. So I was stoked to find this cool little application called “PowerTop” today.
PowerTOP has these four basic goals:
- Show how well your system is using the various hardware power-saving features
- Show you the culprit software components that are preventing optimal usage of your hardware power savings
- Help Linux developers test their application and achieve optimal behavior
- Provide you with tuning suggestions to achieve low power consumption
I hope this helps you determine what applications or procceses are taking over your lappy.
You can download PowerTop here.
If you are running Ubuntu, you can install it by doing the following:
$sudo apt-get install subversion
$svn checkout http://powertop.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ powertop
cheers,
~j
Backup your Gmail email
Linux & OSS News, Linux Applications, Open Source Applications, Ubuntu Desktop March 26th, 2008
If you are like me, you heavily rely upon your gmail. Why would you ever want to back it up? Suppose you needed some sort of information in an offline mode, or perhaps you just don’t want certain data hosted with gmail? For whatever reason, I just think it’s kind of a cool idea. I like it for keeping a copy of my data on hand so I can manipulate it however I like. I can easily find any piece of data without having to use the gmail web filter options.
Pyropus Technology has developed “getmail” which is available under the GPL license. Feel free to download it and try it out.
Fun with widgets using screenlets
How Tos, Linux, Linux Applications, Open Source Applications, Ubuntu Desktop March 21st, 2008
Screenlets is a pretty cool little widgets application. It allows you have a similar interface which is available in Mac OSX. If you are running Ubuntu, there is a deb package available for it here.
Below is a screenshot of some it’s uses, and you also have more widgets you can download and use. It’s more of an eye candy utility than a functionality tool for me. But who doesn’t like eye candy?
cheers,
~j
LC Podcast Episode #005
LC News, Linux, Linux & OSS News, Linux Applications, OSS News, Open Source Applications, Podcast January 25th, 2008
Linuxcrypt.net podcast is now available. Please visit
Ubuntu Tweak 0.2
Hacking, How Tos, Linux, Linux Applications, Open Source Applications, Ubuntu Desktop January 15th, 2008
I like it when I find utilities to make the easy things easy. Ubuntu Tweak is just that kind of application. It’s a simple download / install, and then you are off configuring the little nuances on your system.
The “Computer” tab allows you to quickly view all of your system information. It will list the host name, distribution, kernel version, platform, CPU, Memory, current user and environment information. 
Ubuntu Tweak allows the end user to easily change what starts at bootup . login, modify security settings as well as system and user interface configurations. This tool is great to have in your system tool apps and I would recommend it for the new user, as well as the experienced. Like I said, I like it when the easy things are easy.
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