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Using Skype in Ubuntu Intrepid

January 19, 2009 – 10:34 pm

I have been trying to get Skype set up on my Vaio Laptop running Ubuntu 8.10 and I thought it would be straightforward. I was a bit worried that the Skype download page offered Ubuntu 7.04-8.04 as I’m on 8.10!
Luckily this did not seem to matter as the “.deb” file seemed to install fine [...]

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H264 codec for web video

December 28, 2008 – 12:17 pm

I have been trying to find out what is the best way to get a video clip onto the web and I have looked at the H264 codec. This seems to give much better video quality for a given bit rate compared with the older Sorenson codec I had tried.
I have used DVGrab [...]

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Playing DVD movies with Ubuntu Intrepid

November 24, 2008 – 11:47 pm

Intrepid comes with Totem as the default player but so far I have not had much luck getting it working (playing DVD movies) on Intrepid, but I think it worked on Hardy.   Totem comes with gstreamer by default and works with xine as well, but neither seemed to play the main movie, just the copyright [...]

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