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Avidemux 2.5.x – Optimal Xvid Settings

I’ve always used XviD 4 to transcode things. So chose this from the video section and hit configure. Main Chose Two Pass – Average Bitrate and your required bitrate (1000 is good). Chose Interlaced (see interlacing note), Chroma Optimizer and … Continue reading

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rsync: protocol version mismatch — is your shell clean?

Again and again (over years) I’m running in this error-message on my terminal. All the good pages in the web are telling me that I have an edited .bashrc. But that isn’t true. So now I write it down; for … Continue reading

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nautilus-sound-converter and mp3

I was missing the feature to convert audio-files to mp3. The profile was existing but not working. The trick is to install gstreamer-plugins-ugly(-0.10). I have filed a bug-report here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998228

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Debian Linux: remove orphaned packages

deborphan command finds packages that have no packages depending on them. The default operation is to search only within the libs and oldlibs sections to hunt down unused libraries. 1$ deborphan -sz Where, -s: Show the sections the packages are … Continue reading

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