Sunday, August 23, 2009

17 Year Old Going To A Club

flash memories New to Ubuntu 9.10

Yesterday I started to download the Alpha 4 Ubuntu 9.10 for a look at the latest, and to test it on computers that normally use.

Although there is still more than two months for the appearance of the final version, the behavior was correct, since I have not experienced any problem of lack of stability, and I have seen some of the developments in the pipeline.

The form of test has been the usual: Make a bootable USB and initiate the system in question in the test equipment (Asus EEE PC 701 and a Pentium 4 desktop which already has a few years old).



This version includes the 2.6.31-5 kernel and Gnome 2.27.5, which provide principalmete changes in drivers intel graphics cards and other related with GDM and las aplicaciones de Gnome.

Uno de estos cambios, es la sustitución del cliente de mensajería instantanea Pidgin por Empathy. En mi caso, lo he probado con una cuenta de Yahoo, y hasta donde he llegado, parecía funcionar correctamente.



Además, se incluye Firefox 3.5, el cual anunciaba importantes mejoras tanto en los tests de compatibilidad con estándares como en la velocidad y eficiencia de ejecución de aplicaciones javascript. Lo he probado con algunas webs que hacen uso intensivo de javascript ( Openstreetmap , Google Maps ) y sin haber hecho ninguna medida rigurosa, sí que da la sensación de que las cosas van con algo more agility.



Moreover, the information system and battery power for laptops, also seems to have improved and provides more detailed information.



Another novelty is the inclusion of some disk management tools. In particular one to analyze the occupancy thereof (which was already available in earlier versions, but did not appear on the live versions or default installations).



More interesting, in my opinion, that the disk usage analyzer is another tool that provides detailed information on our storage systems, and in particular on the SMART information currently provided by most existing discs, and unknown to a large number of users .



The utility is responsible for giving us this information is Palimpsest



Finally, a commentary on Ubuntu One . It is a system for storing and sharing files over the network. The system includes access to the service of storage, although in my case I have not been proven to not be subscribed to it.



In short, the impression made is very positive: the system behaves correctly, update the applications to the latest version available and strives to provide improvements and services as a novelty now (although they will respect Carefully read the conditions of use.) My opinion at the moment (although the test has not been exhaustive in depth) is that I have no complaints about Ubuntu 9.10 and that if things continue like this, in two months we will see installed on many computers.

Updated (05/09/2009): On 3
published September alpha-5 Ubuntu 9.10. I downloaded and installed that version on a computer in 2005: HT@3.2GHz P4, 1GB RAM, 250GB HD. The installation was done with the ext4 file system , which is used in the installation process unless otherwise instructed. The results after installation are excellent. Some tempos Indian system boot and applications:

Starting
Ubuntu 9.10 ~ 29s ~ Writer Open Office Org
5s 3s Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 ~ GIMP ~ 15s


Updated (18/09/2009):
The September 17 version was published alpha-6 Ubuntu 9.10. This version includes many changes to emphasize particularly the use of upstart, because it probably is the one that may have implications in relation to the rest of the system.

As developments included the implementation Ubuntu Software Store, which has a much more detailed graphics and applications available to install on our team.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Maybelline Eye Makeup Swatches

Create videos for YouTube capture video from MiniDV

In the previous post we saw how to dump our videos from a MiniDV camera computer's hard disk.

Next we will see the process of issuing these video on YouTube. If we look at the recommendations on video formats see the codecs for both audio and video to recommend use.

Our goal is to use some codecs that provide good quality and a resulting final file size fairly small. In particular, we will choose to work with more advanced codecs mpeg4 type supported: H.264 video (also known as AVC) and AAC for audio.

Moreover, since these are the codecs currently used in most of the video portals for the publication of these, it is even possible (although I have no proof of this) to avoid any additional step of Reencoded, achieving a better quality end result.

To convert, ffmpeg utilizarems tool, available in the Ubuntu 9.04 repositories and included in the default installation. With regard to video codec, we have to install the package libx264-65 which is where the code to encode in H.264 format, and finally, with regard to audio, we replace the package by libavcodec-unstripped libavcodec52- 52 since the latter is the one that includes the need to convert AAC audio format.

Ultimately, it is sufficient to do the following:

 
$ sudo apt-get install libx264-65 libavcodec-unstripped-52


Once we had the conversion tool and with the right codecs, we get the command line in question to perform the desired action :

 
ffmpeg-i-acodec captureTest.dv libfaac-ab 64k-vcodec libx264-b 720k-threads 0-deinterlace-r 25-s 640x480-aspect 4:3 captureTest.mp4


In our particular case :
  • The captureTest.dv input file (a video stream recorded on a MiniDV camera) and the file generated (output) is captureTest.mp4
  • generate AAC audio formats with a rate (bitrate)
  • 64kbps format video
  • x264/h264 generate a rate of 720kbps
  • As the initial content is interlaced, indicated that performs a process of interlacing
  • We want an end result of size 640x480 at 25fps
  • The proportion (aspect ratio) should be 4:3 final

With this command, applied to the video sample to get 69.5MB 2.75MB move, but since we use mpeg-4 codecs very efficient, we maintain reasonably good quality, as shown in the example:

As

Interestingly enough, the video shows the entrance to the Charterhouse of Miraflores in Burgos.

Why Is There A Bump On My Penis?

Ubuntu Ubuntu Ubuntu 9.04

about 9 years ago I bought a MiniDV camera. A long time ago just used it, but with the issue of having videos on youtube I have dusted and I've been seeing what can be done with it on a computer with Ubuntu 9.04

The camera records in PAL SD (720x576 25fps). The MiniDV format has the advantage that you can edit and easy access to each image, but has the great disadvantage that its compression is minimal. That is, the videos in this format are huge files. In particular, video recording at a rate of 28.8Mbps and audio to 1Mbps, so in total we are talking about 30Mbps. Ultimately, each minute of recording involving a 225MB of space if you decide to dump these videos on your hard drive.

So we find two steps to solve:

  1. Capture video on your computer.

  2. Convert video to a format more appropriate to use you're going to give it.


The video camera is connected to the computer via a cable IEEE1394 (Firewire). The team successfully finds the connector 1394, but it creates an entry in / dev / (including / dev/raw1394) until it detects that a device has been connected.

As capture software in the repositories can be found kino and dvgrab. Since the capture with kino is very simple, we will use this program.

 
$ sudo apt-get install kino


Before using Kino, said that in version 9.04 of Ubuntu is a problem with the creation of device / dev/raw1394. We can overcome the problem or using sudo kino launching from the command line:

 
$ sudo kino


Or, changing the permissions of the access point device (remember that previously you need to connect and switch the camera to the system to create access to the device in question):

 
$ sudo chmod 666 / dev/raw1394


If kino launched without making this change, we will see an error message (kernel side raw1394 module not loaded or failure to read / write / dev/raw1394 ", or pertaining to the language version you have installed the system) and will not be able to perform the capture process.

After this change, we launched Kino, and select the option to capture. The program is very intuitive. With the default options, the program turns the video clips in separate files (each shot is a separate file) in directory we have indicated.



the end, we will find a few video clips of very considerable size with which we can proceed to editing or format conversion. multiterminal