Posts Tagged Ubuntu
How to enable mp3 support in K3b
Posted by Mike Beach in Uncategorized on August 16, 2011
By default, K3b does not support MP3 file sources for audio CD burning. You can install support for MP3 by running the following command: sudo apt-get install libk3b6-extracodecs This is current as of Ubuntu 11.04
How to monitor your microphone through headphones in Ubuntu
Posted by Mike Beach in Uncategorized on July 26, 2011
If you want to monitor your headphone feed, either for streaming it to the output or for mixing purposes, you’ll need to know your audio device names. Start with reading the latter half of this post to find your device names. Once you have the input and output device names, substitute them in the following [...]
Ubuntu and the Intel Centrino Wireless N 1000 wireless card
Posted by Mike Beach in Uncategorized on July 9, 2011
The Intel Centrino Wireless N card is on the Dell N4010 and some other laptops. In this case it was the N4010 that a buddy of mine had which gave him the trouble. It’s a compatible card, but needs some nudging to get it to work. The N4010 also has a software kill button in [...]
Broadcasting a multimedia stream using icecast2 and gst-launch in Ubuntu Linux
Posted by Mike Beach in Uncategorized on June 28, 2011
The following is (I hope) an adequately-documented procedure to stream desktop audio capture via icecast2. What you will need: Basic audio hardware An Internet connection Ability to accept inbound connections on a port (default 8000) Some basic idea of what you’re doing Setting up the icecast2 server Icecast2 is a free server for streaming [...]
Guild Wars on PlayOnLinux
Posted by Mike Beach in Uncategorized on June 24, 2011
Here’s a quick run-down of the steps that I took when setting up Guild Wars on a friends Ubuntu machine under PlayOnLinux. We chose PlayOnLinux because of the ability to use Wine prefixes, so we could customize the Guild Wars prefix for best play experience and no interfere with other configured Wine software. It also gave the [...]
Gnome places menu items give ‘File not found’ error
Posted by Mike Beach in Uncategorized on June 24, 2011
This is one of several issues that I ended up helping a friend with last night on his Ubuntu installation. When clicking an item in the ‘Places’ menu, such as Pictures, Home, Music, etc, a dialog box appears that reads “Error: File not found”. We were scratching our heads until I realized that the error [...]
How to easily create a multipart (multivolume) RAR file easily in Ubuntu
Posted by Mike Beach in Uncategorized on June 19, 2011
This explains how to quickly and easily create a multipart (multivolume) RAR file using Gnome / File Roller in Ubuntu. First, locate the file(s) / folder(s) you want to compress and highlight them. Next, right-click and select Compress… When the Compress dialog appears, enter a filename for your archive and select rar as the extension. [...]
Default font packages installed on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty)
Posted by Mike Beach in Uncategorized on June 7, 2011
If you’re experiencing font display problems in Ubuntu, you may want to check the list of installed font packages. It’s likely you have uninstalled or replaced one or more font packages, which are changing the displayed fonts on your system. Here is the list of font packages installed by default: ttf-kacst-one ttf-khmeros-core ttf-liberation ttf-takao-pgothic ttf-unfonts-extra [...]
Ubuntu not booting with nVidia video on i3-i5-i7 Intel CPUs
Posted by Mike Beach in Uncategorized on June 6, 2011
Systems with i3/i5/i7 chipsets and nVidia video may experience Ubuntu not booting, and instead getting a blank screen with a flashing cursor or corrupt video display. This seems to be an issue with some combination of kernel, video card, and nouveau driver, and appears to stem from the fact that the system technically has two [...]
How to rip a DVD to m4v (mp4) or mkv using HandBrake in Ubuntu, Windows, or Mac
Posted by Mike Beach in Uncategorized on June 5, 2011
After writing my previous post about ripping DVD to avi using k9copy (and the ddrescue workaround), I found HandBrake. After doing a little reading on it, the general consensus is it does a better job at reading DVDs, even those with some issues. I was able to get HandBrake to completely convert my DVD easily and, although [...]
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