I’m very happy to announce that he folks over at the fedoraproject have released version 8 codename `werewolf`. It’s a very satisfying release, while I expect 9 to be the major step, 8 is very exciting, they’ve gotten a lot of work done on the ‘prettiness’ of the OS which it was a bit lacking previously. I’m currently running the 64 bit version on a AMD Athlon 64 X2 here at the office and it’s absolutely flying and working beautifully.
Good job guys 🙂
-Scott
To encode to 16×9 ratio (change the aspect= value to be 4/3 to encode in 4/3), please note you’ll need to adjust -ofps value based on the frame rate of the source
mencoder -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -srate 48000 -ofps 24000/1001 -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:keyint=18:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=4900:aspect=16/9:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 transformers.dvdrip.avi -o Transformers.dvdrip.mpg
< Relax and go get a scotch or cigar as this can take some time >
if you need to merge files:
mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o “transformers.dvdrip.avi” “Transformers.disk1” “Transformers.disk2”
so lets say you have encoded Transformers.dvdrip.mpg and you want to write it to DVD, create a folder in the same directory as that file called ‘DVD’ or really whatever you want
then:
dvdauthor –title -f Transformers.dvdrip.mpg -o DVD
dvdauthor -T -o DVD
Now within that ‘DVD’ directory you have a AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folder just like a DVD
Popular OS this be.
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| Uptime | 1 days 15 hours 55 min 51 s |
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Ubuntu’s latest release happened today with the release of version 7.10. Sourcemirrors.org my mirror service is a download mirror for Ubuntu CD images and boy oh boy is it getting hammered. Here are some statistics:
| Hostname | mirror2.sourcemirrors.org () |
| Uptime | 19 hours 52 min 35 s |
| Started at | 2007-10-17 23:09:30 |
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794 connections
-Scott
Mcguyverofbeer.com is now running on an encrypted file system 🙂
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/EncryptedFilesystem
is a great and easy to follow tutorial for CentOS
-S
Steve Ballmer please close your mouth, shut up, and go color or something… you look like a complete fool ranting and raving on stage about linux and windows. “People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us,” -Ballmer Mr. Ballmer, I know you have a personal vendetta against RedHat due to the fact that they told you to go fly a kite when you offered to strike a “deal”. However just because they aren’t going to play your little mind games doesn’t mean they have stolen anything or are infringing on any IP… in fact it makes them look even better and you look even worse.
I hope you have a coronary.
-S