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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.

I haven’t posted one of these for a while, thought I would post my desktop today…

Daily Screenshot

Wallpaper : Click Here

Icons:  Click Here

Metacity : Click Here

How To: Install Nvidia 64-Bit Linux Driver on Ubuntu – Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 Beta from linuxcrypt on Vimeo.

So today I decided to show off “seamless” mode running netflix “watch now” window. Pretty sweet.

Adobe released 1.5 version of their Air application for Linux. Adobe Air, is an application hybrid of the sorts that mesh’s the desktop application with a web application. I have been using Air to run twitter, however there are a slew of other applications that run on Air. Give it a try and see how slick it is.  Get Air

One other note, Adobe will now be releasing Air like flash at the same time for Mac, Windows, and Linux users at the same time for future releases. Rock On!

To Install Adobe Air on Ubuntu Linux 8.10, follow this:

Download Adobe Air: http://get.adobe.com/air/

It will download “AdobeAirInstaller.bin” to your default location. For me it downloaded to my desktop. Open a terminal:

Applications > Accessories > Terminal

$cd /home/user/Desktop (replace “user” with your userID)

To make sure we can install it, you can check the permissions, or just make it writable:

$chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin (this makes the file executable by the user)

Now install

$./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

This will generate the installer process, you will see the following screens. Since I had an older verison already installed, I am prompted to “update”, yours might just say “install”.

Voila, now you can go to a site like http://www.twhirl.org/ which is a twitter application that runs on AIR and simply click the “install now”.

Enjoy !

Nick and I just recently recorded episode #14 of the Ubuntu Podcast. This episode covering news and topics around the ubuntu Linux Distribution and community. For all the latest episode check it out at http://ubuntupodcast.net

Episode #14 Covers:

-Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase

-Adobe 64-Bit Flash for Linux

-Handbrake GTK DVD ripping application

-Benchmarking betweek Fedora 10, Ubuntu

-Crunchbang distribution and much more..

The Ubuntu 8.10 Intrebid Ibex final release is here!

I recommend downloading the files via bittorrent. You can find the version that’s right for you HERE

Enjoy, happy downloading, and remember to seed your files to help others download as well!

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

• 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

• 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

• mkdir kdenlive

4) Move into the new directory

• cd kdenlive

5) Download the script

• wget http://www.kde-apps.org/CONTENT/content-files/85826-kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr.bz2

6) Extract, rename and make executable the script

• `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:

• export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/kde4/bin

Run the script

• 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

Nick had to do the show solo and pulled it off nicely. I was on vacation but will be back for show #4. Great job Nick, aka (boredandblogging),  very informative. Some highlights, Mark Shuttleworth throws the gauntlet on Linux desktop, Ultamatix, Launchpad 2.0, and Ardour.

Check it out here!