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	<title>Sometimes People Ask Things &#187; Linux</title>
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		<title>How to convert a DVD to avi using Linux</title>
		<link>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/08/how-to-convert-a-dvd-to-avi-using-linux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paulo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dvd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To convert a DVD to avi I use the following command:
mencoder dvd://1 -alang en -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1500:autoaspect -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=128 -o ~/OUTPUT_FILE
The dvd://1 can change depending on the DVD. What I do is to enter mplayer dvd://1 and check if that starts the main movie. If it does not, I try dvd://2 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things to remember when rsync just hangs halfway&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/07/things-to-remember-when-rsync-just-hangs-halfway/</link>
		<comments>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/07/things-to-remember-when-rsync-just-hangs-halfway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paulo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notelets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unix]]></category>

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Check if the file system at the destination is full!

List to be continued&#8230;
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		<title>How to convert mp3 to aac for the Nintendo DSi under Linux</title>
		<link>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/07/how-to-convert-mp3-to-aac-for-the-nintendo-dsi-under-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/07/how-to-convert-mp3-to-aac-for-the-nintendo-dsi-under-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paulo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dsi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ffmpeg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mp3]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently got a Nintendo DSi for my child and one of the first things she asked was for her music to be copied there.
Since the device does not read mp3 files, we had to get them converted to aac, despite the fact that they have to have the m4a extension.
ffmpeg does a great job for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to convert a video file for the MEMUP Wizzle portable video player</title>
		<link>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/07/how-to-convert-a-video-file-for-the-memup-wizzle-portable-video-player/</link>
		<comments>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/07/how-to-convert-a-video-file-for-the-memup-wizzle-portable-video-player/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paulo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mencoder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wizzle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I own a really cheap MEMUP Wizzle video player. It plays regular mp3 files, but it&#8217;s not simple to get videos to run on it.
This device uses a AVI video compression codec (sherpya mencoder-mingw) with some strange options (version 1.0, based Xvid 1.1 video with 20 fps and audio codec 0&#215;0050 mpeg1 layer 2, 44100khz [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will I replace the system in @Linuxcar with an iPad?</title>
		<link>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/04/will-i-replace-the-system-in-linuxcar-with-an-ipad/</link>
		<comments>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/04/will-i-replace-the-system-in-linuxcar-with-an-ipad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paulo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Car]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ipad]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some friends have been asking me if the iPad could eventually replace my custom made Linux multimedia car system.
I reckon that the screen is nice an all, but can the iPad &#8230;
- Take Skype phone calls
- Automatically pause live radio (not just mute) when a call comes in
- Update the twitter account @linuxcar with what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancel all print jobs</title>
		<link>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/03/cancel-all-print-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/03/cancel-all-print-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paulo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unix]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey folks,
Is this still the best way to cancel *all* print job requests from a queue in Solaris?
cancel `lpstat &#60;printer queue name&#62;&#124;awk &#8216;{print $1}&#8217;`
Sugestions welcome.  
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		<title>Proud member of the Linux Foundation</title>
		<link>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/03/proud-member-of-the-linux-foundation/</link>
		<comments>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/03/proud-member-of-the-linux-foundation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paulo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to let you know that I&#8217;m a proud Individual Member of the Linux Foundation since the 14th of March 2010. Somehow I just can&#8217;t stop bragging about this!  
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		<title>Convert AVI (or something else) to FLV</title>
		<link>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/03/convert-avi-or-something-else-to-flv/</link>
		<comments>http://paulojacob.com/wp/2010/03/convert-avi-or-something-else-to-flv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paulo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mencoder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To convert a video to the Flash Video format, use the mencoder command like this:
mencoder &#60;SOURCE_VIDEO&#62; -o &#60;OUTPUT_VIDEO&#62;.flv -of lavf -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -srate 22050 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=500:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3
Some (older?) versions of mencoder will require you to add the option -lavfopts i_certify_that_my_video_stream_does_not_use_b_frames
This assumes you have the lamemp3 libs installed and that the output video [...]]]></description>
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