M2VRequantiser for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux

I recently discovered that ‘tcrequant’ (part of the transcode suite of tools) has been deprecated. Worst still I found that when I ran ‘tcrequant’ on my 64-bit Linux workstation is was corrupting the video. See the links below for details.

transcode 1.1.0 Final Release
[transcode-users] tcrequant status

Therefore I decided to get the M2VRequantiser code from Metakine working [...]

Posted on April 23, 2009 at 4:47 pm by Martin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Installing Adobe AIR 1.5 on Ubuntu

Recently I’ve been trying to get the new BBC iPlayer Desktop for Linux working on my Ubuntu workstation, it requires Adobe AIR 1.5 and Adobe Flash 10. Despite installing both on my Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit workstation the BBC iPlayer Desktop for Linux installer crashes Firefox everytime I try to install it, so more research required. [...]

Posted on January 16, 2009 at 1:38 pm by Martin · Permalink · One Comment
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