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Rivendell How To – Ubuntu Style

This page is meant to mirror http://www.kdrt.org/resources/Rivendell. Introduction The following packages for Ubuntu differ from the 0.9.80 version of Rivendell as follows: – Ogg-Vorbis read/write support – Mpeg read only support – When using Ogg-Vorbis for the library format mpeg and ogg-vorbis files are copied in (no transcoding). All other formats transcoded to Ogg Vorbis. [...]

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Sun, November 9 2008 » automation » Comments Off

Laptop Journal: Toshiba Satellite A135-S4656 (Headphone Jack Fix)

If I’m going to use this laptop as a “media hub” I want to be able to use another source of output rather than the speakers on the laptop.  Now, here’s the fix on how use your headphone jack as an output.  My current build of Ubuntu does not respond when I plug in headphones. [...]

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Sun, November 9 2008 » tech » Comments Off