KCLUG August 2007

45 participants
54 discussions

Video Conversion in Linux for DVD Creation
by Leo Mauler 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

A friend of mine recently converted my 3 hour wedding video from VHS to AVI for me. I've trimmed what I could, but the remaining video is still two and one-half hours long. I have Googled for how to fit 2-1/2 hours of AVI video onto a 2 hour DVD. All I have been able to find is information on how to convert 85 minutes of AVI video into one conventional 4.7GB DVD, which isn't what I'm looking for. The mencoder documentation isn't much help either: it doesn't quite tell you which commands affect bitrates and how to set constant bitrates to control file size. What I'd really like would be something like an older Windows tool I used to use before switching to Linux. It was a MPEG encoder, but it also let me change a few things, such as set constant bitrates and the like. I could set a video file to be encoded at a constant bitrate, say 3000Kbps video and 192Kbps audio, and it would create a 3 hour video file small enough to fit on a regular DVD, but still compatible with the DVD format to make it into a regular video DVD. If there was a utility which created the command line command for mencoder, that would work nicely, but everything I've seen so far which does this doesn't let you reduce a file size to make lots of video fit on one DVD. Avidemux will convert the file to DVD MPEG2, but it only lets you choose a maximum bitrate and then uses bitrates anywhere from 1 to your maximum bitrate, which plays merry heck with the final file size and results in a much more reduced quality of the final video than if Avidemux had just used the "maximum bitrate" as a constant bitrate. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/

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Ubuntu servers hacked to attack others
by Julie 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=453&tag=nl.e539 Thought y'all may be somewhat interested in this. L8rz, Julie @ };- --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.

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Embrace The Penguin on Songpull
by Jim Herrmann 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

The song "Embrace the Penguin" is up on songpull.com. http://songpull.com/performance/view_video/380 Now that the video is posted, I will get an Ardour recording done, and get that all posted. Then I plan to Slashdot it. You get to see the video first! Check it out and see if we can raise it's ranking to make the front page of Songpull.com. Share it with all your geek friends all over the world. Enjoy, Jim Herrmann

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iCalendar presenter
by Jonathan Hutchins 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

I need to find a way to present an iCalendar file on a web server as a nicely rendered calendar. Ideally we'd have a monthly clalendar view, with items in the box for each day, and be able to get details on each item. Does anybody know of something like this?

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SMB Backups
by Jim Herrmann 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

I saw this today, and I thought it relevant to some of our conversations last night. http://www.linux.com/feature/118225 Enjoy, Jim

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NUI Kansas City meeting - Aug. 28 - 6-7:30pm
by Alex Monteiro 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

We are holding a Novell Users Intl. meeting on Tuesday, August 28th and would like to invite all members of the KC LUG. We'd like to discuss with members of KC LUG how we can combine our efforts for meetings in Kansas City to get maximum effort. Thanks, Alex ============================ Here is your invitation to join us for the NUI Kansas City meeting scheduled for Tuesday, August 28th. 6:00-7:30pm. We hope to see you there! What: Novell Users International Kansas City When: Tuesday, August 28th. 6:00-7:30pm Where: KIS Kansas City - 4230 S. Phelps Rd. Suite A. Independence MO. 64055 - 816-373-9900 RSVP: http://register.novell.com/login/?action=prelogin&fuse=event&id=20897&lcode… Agenda: ** Novell's training and certification roadmap presentation Election of new NUI KC officers Identifying new locations and meeting dates for future NUI meetings Open discussion/rountable Pizza & refreshments will be served. -- Alex Monteiro Business Development Manager KIS Computer Center - Kansas City o. 816-373-9900 (vmail ext. 7554) f. 816-373-9904 m. 650-279-1909 www.kiscc.com - alexm(a)kiscc.com

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(no subject)
by jared＠hatwhite.com 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

>Did you read in the technical description how they can not only generate >light pulses but also light that has different spectrums (colors). With >that in mind they now have the ability to build a transistor that can >have numerous gate states. Base3, Base6 and Base9 are all possible with >this. Yes, I did read it carefully, several times. But I did not notice what you pointed out, and am glad you saw it. This really opens the sky even more than it first appeared, because now, electrical flow has multiple "flavors" as well as current, voltage, &tc. They really have discovered something larger than any single team of people can explore. Note also that they described the invention as having "3 ports: Ground, amplifier, and light-emitting." You might think that _this_ number three has nothing to do with the ternary conversation we just finished, but in fact, the order of "ground, amplifier, and light-emitting" is a perfect way to express the three poles in their natural relationship to one another. Thus far we've been talking about 1, 0, and -1. But when you extend the structure into analog, you start talking about things like "ground, amplifier, and light-emitting." For example, Hegelian dialectics is another way of looking at the relationship of these three positions. First there is the declaration and then there is an opposing response, and then arising from these two, there is a third "declaration" which is composed of insights derived from the spectrum revealed by the first two. Ground, amplifier, and light-emitting, if you're able to see the poetic insight weaving all of this together. It's exciting to see that the very newest technology in transistor development is not only light-generating, but tripolar in structure. -Jared

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Security Video
by Jonathan Hutchins 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

A client of mine wants to post video clips from his home system to his colocated web host. Right now he's thinking of taking ten minute clips and uploading them with a cron job, but it seems to me there are better ways. Base system hosting the camera is an OS-X Mac, server is Linux. Suggestions or pointers to good resources for this kind of thing (web-based video security) would be appreciated.

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Emacs taken too far
by Kyle Sexton 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

I'll admit that occasionally I fall of the emacs bandwagon and start trying to put *everything* into the editor, but this is taking it a little too far. :) http://1010.co.uk/gneve.html#2 -- Kyle Sexton

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SCO never owned UNIX copyrights, owes Novell 95 percent of UNIX royalties
by Billy Crook 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

SCO never owned UNIX copyrights, owes Novell 95 percent of UNIX royalties<http://feeds.arstechnica.com/%7Er/arstechnica/BAaf/%7E3/143515758/20070812-…>from Ars Technica<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.arstechnica.com%2…>by segphault(a)arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul) A federal district judge has issued a ruling declaring that Novell is the owner of the UNIX copyrights. This will effectively put an end to SCO's litigation campaign. The judge has also determined that Novell is entitled to 95 percent of the UNIX licensing royalties SCO collected from Microsoft and Sun. Read More...<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070812-sco-never-owned-unix-copyrigh…> <http://feeds.arstechnica.com/%7Ea/arstechnica/BAaf?a=GSQZn8> I propose a good riddance party for SCO.

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