Making mp3d from video/audio source

I was actually looking around how to do it in ubuntu today. And to answer your question, use ffmpeg in console.

type:

ffmpeg -i -vn

the i means input and the vn means no video.

so,

ffmpeg -i tvshow.avi -vn tvshow.mp3

now you will have a mp3 rip of that avi file. Hope this helps.

Amarok for editing Media Tags

Need to quickly edit mutiple mp3s to have the same album or tag information?

Amarok can help you! Just load the mp3s / whatever media into the playlist,
then select/highlight the media files you wish to edit.
Then right click to bring up the context menu while over the selection.
You will see a menu option that says " Edit Tags".

So select it and edit away! Now all those mp3s etc can have the right info so when you send them to your mp3 player you can quickly get to what you want to play.

Virtual Box start a VM from commandline

At the command prompt type:

VBoxManage vmstart "VM name"


You can make a kde icon to launch the machine!

mounting your NTFS partitions with fstab

You can add the following line to your fstab to mount ntfs partitions with mount

/dev/hda1       /mnt/win        auto     ro,users,umask=022



note the umask "ro,users,umask=022"

Installing Debian ETCH and adding the extras

Dec 1

System
graphics card drivers
module assistant build-essential
ndiswrapper -i -l modprobe
wine + rep
sensor-detect + ksensors
Virtualbox

Desktop
katapult
krusader
//adept
knemo
adept
kweather

Internet
qca-tls (for google talk in kopete)
kde-network-manager
fire fox +addblock + noscript+downloadstatus

Multimedia
deb apt source debian multimedia +rep
w32codecs
audacity
amarok
vlc
hydrogen
lmms
mixxx
mplayer
xinegui
jammin


Graphics
blender
scribus
inkscape
gimp
Office
openoffice
koffice
Development
kdev
eclipse

How to mount BIN/CUE - bchunk to the rescue

ISO is definitely the most common CD image type and basically every program will support it. Occasionally, you might come across a disc image in the BIN format. While there are ways to use BIN/CUE’s in Linux, it is much easier to convert them to the standard ISO format.

open up a terminal and type

apt-get install bchunk.

This will install a program called Binchunker.

Binchunker is used in the terminal and is very simple. Navigate to the folder containing the BIN/CUE file and run Binchunker in the following way.

bchunk IMAGE.bin IMAGE.cue IMAGE.iso

Depending on the speed of your machine, the time required will vary. Overall it is very quick and should not take more than a few minutes.

You should now have a standard ISO file that you can use anywhere!

Automate your xsession and repetative tasks :XMacro

Xmacro consists of a few command-line programs that can record and playback mouse moves and key presses from and to xsession.

It also contains and assortment of script commands that can be edited in to the macro script (text file) to tune its performance.
eg. Delay [n] - where n is a number of seconds.

so to start, record a macro by running

xmacrorec2 >newmacro.mac

(where newmacro.mac is the filename that will capture all the recorded info)

then xmacro will ask you set a key that will be presses when you are done recording (a good choice is the escape key)

As soon as you select the key, the recording will being, every mouse move, click and keypress will be recorded until you press the done key.

* note the timings of the above events are not recorded, so you will have to add delay events into the macro file later if your application requires pauses.

When you have pressed the done key, the recording is terminated and you can edit your macro file adding and removing the simple script commands.

To playback the macro file :

xmacroplay -d 10 :0 < newmacro.mac

where "-d 10 " is a delay of 10 microseconds
":0" is the screen to run the macro on

Enjoy!

PS. you can even make the macro run from your desktop or toolbar by making a shell script etc.