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HowTo: Create your own subtitles to display on video in Totem
Subtitles – a simple, but effective means of communication for speakers of non native languages and the hard-of-hearing. We see subtitles in DVD’s and on TV in various forms. It would be good to...
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HowTo: Eliminate the Green Bar on video playback in Totem (and other media...
Some people, including myself, have experienced an annoying issue whereby some videos you playback, particularly those encoded with the Xvid codec, have an apparent corruption of video represented by a...
View ArticleHowTo: Rip a DVD video title into an x264 and Ogg encoded MKV video file
Many people like myself jumped aboard the revolution that was the DVD ten years ago (has it already been that long??) and collected a vast library of discs that now take up space on several shelves in...
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HowTo: Rip a Blu-ray movie using an LG GGC-H20L Blu-ray drive with Ubuntu
The Blu-ray disc format has brought with it the ability to easily provide the next generation of High-Definition 1080p movie content. There’s just one problem – Ubuntu and Linux in general has no...
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HowTo: Encode a Blu-ray rip into a smaller format without losing quality
Those of you who archive or backup their Blu-ray movie media to hard-drive will already be aware that the average movie comes out at a good 25GB. Some of the bigger titles top out at around 40GB or...
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HowTo: Fix MythTV’s Frontend not going full-screen in Ubuntu Jaunty.
The next version of Ubuntu is here – 9.04 aka “Jaunty Jackalope”. Along with a wealth of new features comes a wealth of new minor bugs to fix. Not enough to be show-stoppers, but enough to annoy the...
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HowTo: Build a MythTV box from scratch using Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04
MythTV is a project that brings analogue and digital television to your Ubuntu-powered PC. It primarily functions as your television and personal video recorder (PVR), but can be made to do many other...
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HowTo: Deal with BD+ copy protection when ripping Blu-ray titles using Ubuntu
A fair while back now, I wrote an article detailing how to decode Blu-ray titles using Ubuntu and an LG GGC-H20L Blu-ray optical drive. This article detailed how to decrypt just about every movie under...
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HowTo: Use lxbdplayer – the Open Source Blu-Ray Disc player for Linux
Yes, you read that right – there is finally an Open Source Blu-Ray Disc player GUI for Linux, albeit unofficial and certainly very grey in legality depending on which country you are in. lxbdplayer is...
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HowTo: Install Flumotion Streaming Server on Ubuntu 14.04
Flumotion Streaming Server is a great open-source application that is available in the Ubuntu repositories that can easily allow you to broadcast a live stream from a video camera, or broadcast...
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