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Comment on MP3 Tag Editing in Linux by Paul

Paul — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:20:06 +0000

Reviving an ancient post here, but just for the next Googler who comes along: Puddletag is probably the best I’ve found as a graphical editor (lets you customise which tags to show, etc). It’s a bit clunky in parts but then, so are they all. It’s just the LEAST clunky. :)

For command-line, eyeD3 is fine. Another option is mid3v2, Mutagen’s reimplementation of id3lib’s id3v2 to add id3v2.4 support. The output’s a little bit more readable (by both human and machine) than eyeD3 IMHO.

Comment on DVD to XviD Encoding with Mencoder by TuxNuX

TuxNuX — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:53:10 +0000

very good tuto thank :D

if you want resize after crop

exemple;

mencoder dvd:// -vf crop=704:576:8:0,scale=704:300 (other options)

fix aspect ratio

exemple;
mencoder dvd:// -force-avi-aspect 2.35:1 (other options)

for choose subtitle
mplayer dvd://1 -identify -frames 0 -vo null 2>&1 | grep sid
Sous-titre ( sid ) : 0 langue : english
Sous-titre ( sid ) : 1 langue : french
Sous-titre ( sid ) : 2 langue : italian

exemple with french subtitle
mencoder dvd:// -sid 1 (other options)

full exemple with french subtitle, crop etc

mencoder dvd://1 -aid 128 -sid 1 -force-avi-aspect 2.35:1 -vf kerndeint,crop=704:416:10:80,scale=704:300 -oac mp3lame -lameopts q=0:aq=0 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=2:autoaspect -o video.avi

Comment on Rhythmbox ID3 Tag Issues by Antares

Antares — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:51:00 +0000

The id3.v1 problem can be fixed using id3v2 using the -s option

id3v2 -s

Regards.

Comment on Using Mencoder Profiles by gmendoza

gmendoza — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:48:26 +0000

It’s in the same directory as mencoder.exe. For some that may be: c:\mplayer\mplayer\.

Comment on Using Mencoder Profiles by visitor

visitor — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:39:05 +0000

And in Windows where is located mencoder.conf ?

Comment on Extract Audio from Video Files to WAV using FFmpeg by gmendoza

gmendoza — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:12:26 +0000

Hey there! You need to compile FFmpeg with opencore-amr support. FFmpeg as it’s compile on your system does not know how to decode your audio stream. The following two lines from your output can help you when troubleshooting other scenarios.

Input #0, amr, from ‘sound2.3gp’:
…
Decoder (codec id 73728) not found for input stream #0.

See this post to enable opencore-amr support:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7584660&postcount=409

Hope this helps!

Comment on Extract Audio from Video Files to WAV using FFmpeg by sumitavo biswas

sumitavo biswas — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:24:57 +0000

Hi friends, i am facing a issue..i have a requirement to convert a .3gp file to .wav file. We have to use ffmpeg for the same, but currently the transcoded file(.wav file) do not play, it is of 0 bytes…can anyone help me how to do it? Following is the stacktrace

$/opt/csw/bin/ffmpeg -i sound2.3gp -acodec pcm_mulaw -ar 8000 -ac 1 -f wav 3gp.wav
FFmpeg version SVN-r21156-snapshot, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
built on Feb 12 2010 01:57:40 with gcc 4.3.4
configuration: –prefix=/opt/csw –enable-shared –disable-static –enable-ffplay –enable-runtime-cpudetect –enable-libtheora –enable-libvorbis –enable-libx264 –enable-libxvid –enable-libmp3lame –enable-gpl –enable-postproc –enable-avfilter –enable-avfilter-lavf –bindir=/opt/csw/bin/sparcv8 –libdir=/opt/csw/lib –incdir=/opt/csw/include
libavutil 50. 7. 0 / 50. 7. 0
libavcodec 52.47. 0 / 52.47. 0
libavformat 52.46. 0 / 52.46. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter 1.15. 0 / 1.15. 0
libswscale 0. 8. 0 / 0. 8. 0
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
[amr @ 442c0]max_analyze_duration reached
[amr @ 442c0]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, amr, from ‘sound2.3gp’:
Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Audio: samr / 0x726D6173, 8000 Hz, 1 channels
File ’3gp.wav’ already exists. Overwrite ? [y/N] y
Output #0, wav, to ’3gp.wav’:
Stream #0.0: Audio: pcm_mulaw, 8000 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 64 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Decoder (codec id 73728) not found for input stream #0.

Comment on Resize and Watermark Images in Linux by Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:16:32 +0000

What a waste of the authors time! A simple image displaying the watermark would have helped a reader judge the outcome. I have to skip this article sorry.

Comment on Strip All Unwanted MP3 ID3 Tags by Manipulando Tags ID3 Com O eyeD3 | Daemonio Labs

Manipulando Tags ID3 Com O eyeD3 | Daemonio Labs — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:17:27 +0000

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Comment on Quickly Identify Video File Attributes by Hannes

Hannes — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:01:07 +0000

Pointing me to these features of mplayer was very helpful.

Thank you!

Comment on Revelation Password Manager for Gnome by Mike

Mike — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:58:22 +0000

I just upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 15. It’s not a pain free experience. After I solved the initial set of broken functionality, I discovered that you guys redesigned your password storage files such that I can’t read the my old file anymore. Would it have been that difficult to provide an import capability that could recognize older files? Sorry, if I sound snippy, but I can’t understand why you would subject your users to this inconvenience unless you were trying to discourage then from using your program. At least provide a program to convert the old files to ascii, so I could re-key them.

Comment on Bash User Input Validation by wayne

wayne — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:13:09 +0000

looks like my regular expression was annihilated by your comment form. email me if you want it.

Comment on Bash User Input Validation by wayne

wayne — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:09:55 +0000

if this is input validation, shouldn’t it actually check for an appropriate input and inform the user if it is not correct? that is my understanding of what “input validation” means. here is something i wrote up to check to see if a mac address is valid for a given company whose allocation starts with “00:01:32″:

tmp=$(echo $REPLY | grep -E “\” \
| tr -d :)
if [ "x$tmp" == "x" ] ;then
echo “Please enter a valid Brawndo MAC Address.”
exit 1
fi

the very best thing about this is the smiley face at the end of the third line. just sayin…

Comment on Add Stereo Audio Tracks to MKV Files by Marcelo Culotta

Marcelo Culotta — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:58 +0000

For converting MKV DTS to MKV ac3, I use two applications:
WinFF and MKVmerge (it shows as MKV files creator in the Applications menu)

1. WinFF:For creating the AC3 audio track, I open WinFF, then I Add the MKV file that contains the DTS track. In Output details, I select

Convet to Audio
Device Preset Ac3 – 384kbps Stereo
Output Folder Any folder you like (I use the one containing the MKV file)

This will create an audio file with the same name as the MKV file, but with the ac3 extension

2. MKV files creator (mkvmerge)

Input Files: add the MKV file for which you created the ac3 audio track.
In the Tracks, chapters and tags, UNSELECT the DTS audio file
Input files again: add the ac3 file that you created with WinFF
Start muxing

This creates a file with the same name as the MKV file, except it has a (1) added to it that will have the ac3 audio track for playing as 2 channel stereo.

I hope this helps!

Comment on Rhythmbox ID3 Tag Issues by happyfish

happyfish — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:45:58 +0000

The only thing that’s working for me to solve this problem- and I’ve tried all night- is using a WINE run of SongBird Portable to edit the id3 tags… I’ve used several command line programs, VLC, Rhythmbox itself, puddlemp3… Nothing else is working. :S I have no idea why…

Comment on Extract Audio from Video Files to WAV using FFmpeg by Purab Gujar

Purab Gujar — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:38:59 +0000

I tried your command. But why do you suggest we use any codec at all when converting to wav? Just giving the wav format is sufficient. i.e. why use -acodec pcm_s16le instead of ffmpeg -i video.mkv -acodec -ac 2 -f wav -y audio.wav

Comment on VirtualBox Host Interface Networking with NAT by Frans

Frans — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:07:55 +0000

Very good article !! Thank you for this, it really solves my problem.. ;)

Comment on MP3 Tag Editing in Linux by Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:13:11 +0000

I’ve just release a new ID3 tag editor for Linux/OS X. I’d really appreciate any feedback. It’s an alpha release so used it against a set of test mp3s.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bulkid3/

Best Regards,
Andrew

Comment on Backup and Restore Package Lists in Ubuntu by blog:backup_and_restore_package_selections [Brb wiki]

blog:backup_and_restore_package_selections [Brb wiki] — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:54:05 +0000

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