Glad to hear that the thread is useful. Over the years my system has become very personalized. There are launchers pointing to scripts that do all sorts of things, permissions changed all over the place, system files edited, daemons running, and so on so that my computer will do what I need it to do...

Wow. Really good stuff to know. I realize this is all just Linux 101, so I appreciate your extra help. Will check out paco. Unless your notes include the location of each and every file that is installed by that software, you still might have problems when you'll want to remove stuff. Actually my in...

Rule number one is that I never make serious system changes unless my bootable, full-system backup is up to date.... so I wasn't too worried about trying this. That said, while I knew it worked I didn't fully understand why, so I very much appreciate your explanation. A couple questions: 1) how do y...

Hey Gapan. Actually I did a test to see what would be affected by removing ffmpeg r22692-1686-1gv, and I realized I would be affecting the following programs: guvcview 1.4.1-1gv libquicktime 1.1.5-1485-1gv mjpegtools 1.9.0-1486-3gv gst-plugins-bad 0.10.18-1486-2gv vlc 1.1.4-1486-2tm ....so instead I...

Too old. The Salix repo version doesn't support video filters (-vf). So just for the experiment I updated my ffmpeg using: http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/restricted_slackbuilds/ffmpeg/ I then ran the command: ffmpeg -i ben_eat.3gp -b 5000k -vf "transpose=1" ben_eat2.AVI ......

Hi Shador. I tried that actually. First I tried: ffmpeg -i ben_eat.3gp -vf vflip ben_eat2.3gp ...then I tried: ffmpeg -i ben_eat.3gp -vf "transpose=1" ben_eat2.AVI ...and in both cases got: FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers built on Mar 26 2010 11:25:03 ...

Solved. What I did was: This worked for a .3gp file accidentally shot in portrait mode on my phone, where it played fine by the way, but then played sideways on my laptop and when I posted it to a social networking site. 1) Navigate to the video file, r-click and open with avidemux (available from S...

Hey there, I accidentally shot a video (on my android) in portrait mode rather than landscape mode, so when I view the video on my laptop it is sideways. I found a Linux blog which offers this solution: http://www.thelinuxblog.com/rotating-videos-in-linux/ But when I use this advice I get: dennis[20...

Pretty good overview of the cloudscape. Unfortunate, but makes sense. Or should I say, the sense it makes is unfortunate. Anyway, all the more reason to make sure our little torch-wielding, bearskin wearing Linux tribes don't get wiped out.

Which is why we need a donate button.

Huh. The actual technology behind all of this, or as much of it as I can grasp, is fascinating. That said, I think that MS, in the guise of improving security, is really just following Apple's model and attempting to make Windows-only PCs.... but unlike Apple, which has it's own proprietary hardware...