Amazon Loves Linux Music Lovers
I’ve no idea when Amazon.co.uk lauched their MP3 store and I’ve no idea when they released their Linux client for downloading the MP3s you purchased. I don’t care, I just want to say I’m really impressed Amazon have considered us Linux users. Well done Amazon!
Not only that but the MP3s are DRM free, encoded using [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: 64-bit, Amazon, Linux, mp3, Store
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 [...]
In: Audio & Video · Tagged with: 32-bit, 64-bit, M2VRequantiser, tcrequant
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. [...]
