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I'm doing some volunteer work for a rural education institution. They do a lot of installs and reinstalls of ubuntu that require updates and a few select packages from the repos. The internet out...

WinFF is a good GUI for ffmpeg, but I don't know if it does MKV. I know you can convert from ISO or VOB to AVI (DivX, XViD, x264, etc) with k9copy, and you can set it to use either ffmpeg or mencoder.

I'm gonna put in another vote for Handbrake.

I use k9copy to back up my DVD to the hard drive as an ISO. Then I use Handbrake to convert to an x264 codec in an MKV container with either AAC or AC3...

You should be able to use ToVid or DeVeDe. They're both in the Ubuntu repositories.

I figured out that the semicolons may act as a comment signifier, like the hash tag. I've tried uncommenting, I've tried changing the permissions of the shared folders to 755, nothing seems to be...

I've tried using the in-built Simple File Sharing options, both as my regular user and root. I've tried adding the shares through the samba-config gui. I've edited my smb.conf file. For some reason...

I want to start with a warning: I'm a complete ignoramus when it comes to servers. I don't know any of the terminology - phrases like "headless", "NAS" and so on just fly right over my head. I'm...

Running kubuntu karmic. Geforce 9800GT graphics card. About a second after login plasma crashes. Tried restarting plasma but it just crashes again.

No error message appears after the crash. I'm...

SOLVED.

Previously I simply altered the configuration files after the Karmic upgrade. This left the multifunction working, but for some reason the printing misaligned.

I did a complete removal...

I picked up a pack of DVD labels at ALDI and I've been trying to set up a template I can use to print onto them. It doesn't have any bundled software as far as I can tell, so this is the only way.
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Just a quick update for those few who may be interested:

I recently purchased a USB micro bluetooth adapter. I don't have the full functionality I would have under Windows (backing up phone-book...

I used to use Acid on Windows many years ago. I decided to get bck into making music and was delighted to find Ardour. My brother is interested in getting into making music with samples and loops,...

Adding to Sealbhach's reply:

If your MP3's are all numerically named and zero padded (eg: 01.mp3, 02.mp3 etc) you can navigate to the directory

cd /path/to/directory
and combine them all at...

I opened up System Monitor while running Handbrake (not using Exhaustive Motion Estimation any more - I saw no discernible difference between it and the much faster Uneven Multi-Hexagon mode).

It...

Thanks! TOR is now up and running perfectly.

Another related question: Will I need to change my swap memory from 4GB to 8GB? If so, is there a way to do resize the partitions without losing data?

Edit: I just noticed the guide for resizing...

Bumping to ask related question --

I've been trying to back up my DVDs to small-size MKVs, but I think the encoding speed is getting a bit slower, probably because I'm using settings like...

Additional: I've tried this as my regular user account and as root. Either way, k3b will not save the settings. What the ☢⚡⚙☹ is going on?!

I thought I found a fix...

I went into Settings/Configure K3b/Plugins/Audio Encoder/External Audio Encoder/Configure/MP3 Lame/EDIT and ticked the Swap Byte Order and Write Wave Header boxes. From...

17 hours later bump?

Excellent! Thanks for the help. Sorry I didn't reply earlier - I forgot to subscribe to the thread ^_^'

I'd like to use k3b to rip some Audiobook CDs (specifically the Ricky Gervais podcasts I bought from Audible - I had to burn them off on a Windows PC to enjoy them on my kUbuntu desktop thanks to...

Any hints at all?

I bought an external media player from Aldi that takes SD cards , flash drives and USB hard drives. It's compatible with the following : MPEG4, AVI, DivX, XviD, WMV, RM, RMVB, MPEG2, VOB, MPEG1, DAT...

There's also a Firefox extension called Rdown that's pretty useful for Rapidshare free users. You copy-paste your links into it and it'll do all the waiting and button clicking for you.