I recently explored burning discs from the command line. To make things even more convenient, I can employ emacs dired to help in selecting the files. That is, suppose I have some files in a directory opened in dired. I can mark the files I want to be burnt, and invoke ! (dired-do-shell-command) on those… Read more »
I recently needed to rip some videos from dvd’s so I can have them on my computer in smaller files. I prefer the command line, so I use MEncoder that comes with mplayer. Supposedly AcidRip is a good interface that automates things for MEncoder. I wrote some scripts based on my research into how to… Read more »
On a Mac, creating a video slideshow with some pictures is easy with iPhoto and iMovie. I haven’t found similar programs on the Linux side (yet). I mean, there are many photo manager apps such as F-Spot and Shotwell that can create a quick slideshow from the selected pictures, but they don’t export the slideshow… Read more »