Xbox 360 multimedia capabilities are very good, with streaming functions available not only for Windows systems (see here for streaming movies using Ubuntu).

There is a caveat though, the lack of subtitles functionality for movies, and the only way to use them is to hard-sub (encoding the movie again applying subtitles on it).

Several tools are available for every operating system, but the easiest one I use is mencoder (part of the MPlayer project), a command line tool for encoding audio and video files.

Mencoder is available in almost every Linux distribution, for install on Ubuntu just type:

sudo apt-get install mencoder

I encode each movie in Xvid format (which Xbox is capable of play), with this command:

mencoder mymovie.avi -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts fixed_quant=1 -sub mymovie.srt -o mymovie-encoded.avi

where obviously mymovie.avi is the original movie without subtitles, mymovie.srt is the subtitles file and mymovie-encoded.avi is the resultant output file.

The output file will be larger than the original one because I used the fixed_quant=1 option, that outputs larger files but with best quality (you can use 2 or 3 but the quality downgrades).

Encoding may be very slow on older systems, but once finished it can played as any other media…enjoy!

Como mostrado nos posts anteriores, instalei o UNR 9.10 no meu Eee PC 701, mostrei as teclas de função que funcionavam e removi alguns programas que eu não uso. Agora vou mostrar os aplicativos que mais utilizo e seus repositórios.

UbuntuTweak

Este nunca falta em nenhuma das minhas instalações do Ubuntu. Com ele tenho acesso fácil a algumas configurações do sistema, tais como, limpeza de pacotes, do cache de imagens, instalação de aplicativos de terceiros etc.

Para instalar basta adicionar o repositório abaixo:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

Para autenticar o repositório faz-se necessário a importação da chave que autentica o repositório. Para isto basta digitar o comando abaixo no terminal:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com FE85409EEAB40ECCB65740816AF0E1940624A220

Pronto, agora é só atualizar os repositórios e instalar o pacote ubuntu-tweak.

SMPlayer

O SMPlayer é, atualmente, meu player de áudio e vídeo favorito, e está disponível tanto para Windows quanto para Linux. Na verdade o SMPlayer é um front-end para o excelente MPlayer. O SMPlayer roda vários formatos de arquivo sem a necessidade de instalação de codecs separadamente, pois os mesmos já vem em sua instalação.

Para instalar a versão mais recente em desenvolvimento, adicione o repositório abaixo:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/smplayer/ubuntu karmic main

E a sua chave de autenticação:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E4A4F4F4

Basta agora atualizar os repositórios e instalar o pacote smplayer.

MPlayer

Aproveitando o ensejo, já que instalo o SMPlayer, instalo também o MPlayer feito por terceiros, que sempre se mantém mais atualizado do que a versão disponível nos repositórios oficiais do Ubuntu.

Para instalar basta adicionar o repositório abaixo:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/mplayer/ubuntu karmic main

E a chave de autenticação:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 03E02400

Atualize os repositórios e se já estiver com o mplayer instalado, basta atualizar, senão instale o pacote mplayer. Claro que se você instalou o SMPlayer antes, o MPlayer já estará instalado .

Medibuntu

O Medibuntu é um repositório de pacotes que normalmente não pode ser distribuído com o Ubuntu devido a motivos legais (como copyright e afins). Basicamente, ele contém pacotes de codecs de áudio e vídeo.

Para instalar, basta digitar os comandos abaixo, que já adicionarão o repositório e a chave de autenticação:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get -q update
sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get -q update

E, no final, instalar os pacotes desejados.

Chromium

Quem não conhece ou não ouviu falar do Google Chrome? Pois bem, para o Linux temos o Chromium (para quem não sabe, o Google Chrome é uma compilação do Chromium para Windows). É um browser leve, rápido e que, pelo menos para mim, tem disputado utilização com o Firefox. Para instalar o Chromium, adicione o repositório abaixo:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

E a chave de autenticação:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 4E5E17B5

Atualize e agora é só instalar o chromium-browser.

Eu mesmo nunca instalo os repositórios dos fontes do programas, mas se você gosta de fazê-lo basta visitar o site do aplicativo que lá você encontrará os links para os repositórios.

Ah, e no final das contas, não esquecer de instalar o pacote ubuntu-restricted-extras.

Bom, até a próxima.

Se trata de un complemento para Firefox que permite ver vídeos incrustados y además se integra perfectamente con el escritorio. Es por tanto una buena opción para remplazar a mplayer-plugin o totem-plugin. Su instalación es muy sencilla.

Fedora

Podemos bajarnos el código fuente y compilarlo o instalarlo usando los repositorios de RPMfusion.

yum install gecko-mediaplayer

ArchLinux

Recientemente se ha añadido al repositorio “community” por lo que podemos instalarlo usando pacman.

pacman -Sy gecko-mediaplayer

Si tenías instalado mplayer-plugin cuando actualices el sistema (pacman -Syu) te aparecerá un mensaje preguntándote si quieres cambiar ese plugin por gecko-mediaplayer.

Ubuntu

Está en los repositorios oficiales asi que abrimos una terminal y escribimos.

apt-get install gecko-mediaplayer

Как воспроизводить видео в консольном режиме ОС Linux ? Информации на эту тему мало, вот про это и будет статья.

Для этого нам надо видеофайл и mplayer, он есть в большинстве репозитариев Linux.

Вводим команду:

#mplayer -vo sdl ~/video.avi

-vo sdl – это драйвер вывода изображения.

Тестировалось на slackware 13.

No he abandonado esta seccion y ahora les presento algo mas completo que solo una aplicacion, sino una distribucion completa.

INX o INX is not X es una distribucion Live CD basada en Ubuntu Hardy Heron, la cual no tiene servidor X, solo consola, pero no se preocupen es igual de facil de manejar que Ubuntu. En el primer booteo nos presenta una serie de opciones donde nos puede llevar al menu de INX, un mini tutorial sobre el uso de GNU Screen, ademas de poder utilizar varios perfiles (algo muy bien logrado). En el menu de las aplicaciones tenemos varias secciones como Web, Mail, IRC, Radio por internet, aplicaciones de oficina y tambien la opcion de una terminal limpia.

Entre las aplicaciones que destacan estan:

• Mutt, para correo, y un script para usar Gmail (mas facil no puede ser)
• Elinks y Links2 (uno a base de texto que ya hablamos y otro con interfaz)
• Mocp, y mplayer para multimedia
• Midnight Commander como explorador de archivos
• Aplicaciones de agenda, hoja de calculo, calendario

La version que probe fue la inestable, que parece que agrega soporte para crear un pendrive booteable, algo de mucha utilidad. La imagen pesa ~200 mb y puede descargarse de aqui.

Como experiencia de usuario es algo nuevo, no es como Arch, pero parece un buen comienzo para aprender a manejar un sistema entero sin interfaz grafica. Punto y aparte es que contiene mucho humor geek, algo que le da un toque especial a esta distribucion. Para imagenes chequen la galeria de abajo.

How to get Real Player URLs for BBC Listen Again programmes? Go to the webpage iPlayer Real converter and turn the PID into a URL. This might not work forever as the BBC switched to Flash and wants to offer AAC and Windows Media streams instead of Real Audio. But for now the legacy Real Audio streams that can be downloaded and save with mplayer are still available.

My Blog Post:

Back in the days BBC used the RealPlayer for its Listen Again service. It supported inline use within the BBC website and streaming facilitating the standalone player. Then they created their BBC iPlayer which uses Adobe Flash. However, they still had a link to the .ram file which contains the link to the .ra RealAudio Stream.

But as you can read in the iPlayer help: Why am I no longer able to ‘Listen Again’ to BBC radio programmes on BBC iPlayer in RealMedia format? The BBC turned of the RealPlayer suppoert on 22 October 2009 – … officially.

On the BBC Internet blog you can read the article: Improvements to BBC Local Radio online. The blog post is from August 2009. It states that Real Streams for Local Radio have been turned off. They plan to offer AAC and Windows Media streams. But this hasn’t been implemented yet. So one can only listen to Local Radio on the Flash-based iPlayer. (Links and information via this site)

But this is not true for National Radio like BBC Radio 4 or BBC7.

The old RealStreams still exist. At least for now. (And maybe only for Non-UK-users) Old links (looking like this rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio7/sat1700.ra? ) don’t work anymore.

The website offering WebbIE, the free web browser for blind people with little or no sight, complains about this step as the flash-player isn’t that accessivle. Read about it here: WebbIE: Accessible BBC iPlayer (Listen Again)

But it turns out there still is a way to get the Listen Again Real Audio Streams for Real Player. I read a blog post about a ubuntu script that’ll download the BBC Listen Again Stream, save it as wav via mplayer and convert it to a mp3 via LAME. This directed my to the website iPlayer Real Converter. If you give the website a iPlayer PID or search through the schedule, it’ll give you a link to the RealPlayer Stream.

I, for example was interested in the current episode of Doctor Who that was broadcasted on BBC7. I will post some links here, but I guess they won’t work by the time you read this, as the 7 days will be over.

From either the Overview page for Episode ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009szrh ) or the Details page for the Episode ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nlyg5 ) you can get to the iPlayer (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00nlyg5) , which will use Flash to play the episode.  Within the html of the iPlayer I couldn’t find a link the stream. Maybe I overlooked it. Maybe the Flash player is used to create a URL for the stream from the PID. The source code contains somethink like this:

iplayer.semp.setMetaFiles({
flash: {
playlist: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/b00nlyg5",
mp3: true,
aac: true,
aacLow: false
},
real: "",
wmp: ""

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlist/b00nlyg5 is a XML file. It contains a lot of information like the image to be used. Or what shows might be similar. But I couldn’t find the stream – URL.

But iPlayer Real Converter will help you. If you go the Schedule of BBC which is retrieved from the BBC via an XML file the old lady is offering, you get a link to http://www.iplayerconverter.co.uk/pid/b00nlyg5/stream.aspx

You can easily exchange the PID b00nlyg5 to whatever PID you have in your case.

The link I got redirected me to a file on the BCC server called: RadioBridge_intl_2300_bbc_7.ram

It contained the following link to a Real Stream “rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk:554/bbc7coyopa/bbc7_-_saturday_2300.ra?timestamp=1257135938&pid=b00nly7h&BBC-UID=3ac234671728faa09320b837d0fb0c3d184337f196774&SSO2-UID=” [I changed the link slightly to obfuscate the UID - you can't use it anyhow because the seven days are over. (and I change the timestamp)]. But from my former experience with the BBC URLs you should be fine using “rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk:554/bbc7coyopa/bbc7_-_saturday_2300.ra?”

You can play this link using Real Player of mPlayer. Maybe you can even use vlc.

Just a quick note:

In case you want to listen the stream on day number 8. You might be tempted to run

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile FileNameEpisodeOfDoctorWho.Ra rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk:554/bbc7coyopa/bbc7_-_saturday_2300.ra?

which will put the file FileNameEpisodeOfDoctorWho.Ra into the current working directory. [If you want to use the full URL including the "&"s, you should be aware that Windows will think the command ends at the '&' and a new one starts at the '&'. You'll have to but '"'s around the URL in that case.] You can open this file using RealPlayer or mplayer. You can also use the more advanced command line shown on the blog post about a ubuntu script that’ll download the BBC Listen Again Stream, save it as wav via mplayer and convert it to a mp3 via LAME.

I will let you choose the bitrate for LAME and choose a good cache size and bandwidth. And you’ll get a .wav file from mplayer. The .ra file I created with my mplayer command line isn’t a wav file but a Real Audio file.  The size is about 20MB per hour.

Disclaimer: I surely don’t recommend you to save the stream. They’ll play a repeat someday. You don’t need to circumvent their 7 day constraint.

MPlayer este un player pentru filme.

Cu MPlayer puteti sa vizualizti foarte multe din formatele MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/ etc

Descarcati MPlayer

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Nesta 2ª Parte do Tutorial MediaPlayer com Delphi 2009,veremos  como configurar os componentes utilizados nos TabSheets e o  desenvolvimento do código do programa.

1. Selecione o Timer1 e o Timer2 e altere as propriedades dos componentes como segue:

Timer1

Enabled: False

Interval: 500

Name: Tempo

Tag: 0

Timer2

Enabled: True

Interval: 500

Name: Música

Tag: 0

2. Agora selecione os Buttons no TToolbar e faça as seguintes alterações:

TollButton1

Caption: Play

Name: Play

Hint: Tocar

Style: tbsButton

Tag: 1

TollButton2

Caption: Pause

Name: Pause

Hint: Pausar

Style: tbsButton

Tag: 2

TollButton3

Caption: Stop

Name: Stop

Hint: Parar

Style: tbsButton

Tag: 3

TollButton4

Caption: Next

Name: Next

Hint: Próximo

Style: tbsButton

Tag: 4

TollButton5

Caption: Prior

Name: Prior

Hint: Anterior

Style: tbsButton

Tag: 5

3. Selecione  o TPopUpMenu  e link com o TImageList através da propridades Images do PopUpMenu1.

4. Selecione o TListView  e,  em propriedades,  faça as seguintes alterações:

ReadOnly: True (grid não editável)

RowSelect: True (permite a seleção de mais de uma música)

CheckBox: True

5. Selecione TImagelist  e altere as seguintes propriedades:

DrawingStyle: dsNormal

ImageType: itImage

6. Selecione o TDriveComboBox(DriveComboBox1)  e link ao TDirectoryListBox (DirectoryListBox1) através da propriedade DirList como segue abaixo:

7. Selecione  o TDirectoryListBox e  link com o componente TFileListBox (FileListBox1) através da propriedade DirList como segue abaixo:

Agora, começaremos a trabalhar com a Unit do programa.

8. Vá até a Unit do MediaPlayer (UMedia, conforme o primeiro tutorial) e acrescente em uses o componente MPlayer.

9. Em Private crie  dois procedimentos AtualizaTempo e AtualizaLabels.

10. Em var crie a váriável Fmediaplayer.

11. Em Public declare:

12. Chame o procedimento AtualizaTempo e  AtualizaLabels acrescente os seguintes códigos:

procedure TFmediaplayer.AtualizaTempo;
var// crie as variáveis

x : integer;
ntempo : Ttime;

begin

ntempo := StrtoTime(‘00:00:00′);

for x := 0 to ListView1.items.Count-1 do
if ListView1.Items.Item[x].Checked then
ntempo := ntempo + StrToTime(‘00:’+ListView1.Items.Item[x].SubItems.Strings[0]);

lbltempototal.Caption := TimeToStr(ntempo – StrToTime(‘00:’+lbltempdecorrido.Caption));
end;

procedure TFmediaplayer.AtualizaLabels;
begin
lblduracao.Caption  := ‘00:00′;
lbltempdecorrido.Caption  := ‘00:00′;
end;

Na terceira parte do tutorial, daremos continuidade com os códigos e a instalação do componente RXLib no Delphi 2009. Irei disponibilizar o componente  RXLib para download no próximo tutorial.

Hi,

UPDATE: this howto is outdated, i will write a new one today (mencoder is not compatible with h264 from RPMforge)!

Follow my previous howto to install the RPMForge release for CentOs 5.x. Once installed run the following command:

yum install libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libungif-devel pkgconfig libdv-devel speex-devel libmad-devel lame-devel xvidcore-devel x264-devel libmpcdec-devel faac-devel

Once the process is finished download the following archives:

wget -c http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
wget -c http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2

Install the codecs:

tar xjf all-20071007.tar.bz2
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs
cp -a all-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
cd ..

Install mencoder and mplayer:

tar xjf MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
cd MPlayer-1.0rc1
TMPDIR=/root ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

Once finished mencoder will be installed in /usr/local/bin/mencoder, and mplayer in /usr/local/bin/mplayer. Mencoder is compatible with the latest Adult Video Script conversion line.

Thats it

Akhirnya bisa nulis lagi di blog ku tercinta ini, kali ini saya ingin menulis bagaimana memutar file video di opensolaris. Salah satu aplikasi yang banyak digemari kalangan opensource adalah MPlayer, yupz kali ini saya menggunakan MPlayer untuk memutar file video. Pertama download dulu MPlayer, kalau sudah selesai ikuti perintah dibawah ini untuk mengekstrak :

brokenz@opensolaris:~$ tar -xjvf MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2
brokenz@opensolaris:~$ cd MPlayer-1.0rc2

kalau sudah install gcc dan gmake untuk install MPlayer :

brokenz@opensolaris:~$ pfexec pkg install SUNWgcc SUNWgmake SUNWxorg-headers SUNWGtk SUNWsfwhea

lalu ikuti perintah di bawah ini untuk setting pathnya :

brokenz@opensolaris:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
brokenz@opensolaris:~$ export PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:/opt/csw/gnu:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

buka configurasi disini, dan copy configurasinya pada text editor simpan dengan nama configure dan ikuti perintah dibawah ini untuk mengcopy file configure ke direktori MPlayer :

brokenz@opensolaris:~$ pfexec cp configure MPlayer-1.0rc2

selanjutnya kita bikin file configure menjadi file execute dengan cara :

brokenz@opensolaris:~$ pfexec chmod +x configure

dan kita lanjutkan dengan mencompile :

brokenz@opensolaris:~$ pfexec ./configure –prefix=/opt/mplayer –enable-gui
brokenz@opensolaris:~$ pfexec gmake
brokenz@opensolaris:~$ pfexec gmake install

terakhir kita download skin MPlayer dan ikuti perintah dibawah untuk ekstrak dan pindahkan ke direktori ../skins/ :

brokenz@opensolaris:~$ pfexec tar -xjvf DVDPlayer-1.1.tar.bz2
brokenz@opensolaris:~$ pfexec mv DVDPlayer /opt/mplayer/share/mplayer/skins/

dan rename DVDPlayer dengan nama default :

brokenz@opensolaris:~$ cd /opt/mplayer/share/mplayer/skins/
brokenz@opensolaris:~$ pfexec mv DVDPlayer /opt/mplayer/share/mplayer/skins/default

sementara kita jalankan saja dulu MPlayer, dan biarkan saja jika muncul pesan error lalu tutup lagi aplikasi  MPlayer :

brokenz@opensolaris:~$ /opt/mplayer/bin/gmplayer

kita setting untuk subtitle nya :

brokenz@opensolaris:~$ ln -s /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf

dan jalankan MPlayer lagi, sekarang silahkan menikmati :

brokenz@opensolaris:~$ /opt/mplayer/bin/gmplayer

Refferensi dari blog temenku Rachmat.

Installing FFMPEG

This guide will show you step by step how to install ffmpeg. First, you will want to connect to your server’s shell as root. Once you are connected, you will

want to ensure that your /tmp partition is writeable so you can properly compile the modules. Use this command:

mount -o defaults,remount,rw /tmp

Next we will begin installing the individual components that FFMPEG needs to operate properly. First, we will want to download and install libogg using the

following commands:

Next, we will be downloading and installing libvorbis:

wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar -xzvf libvorbis-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd libvorbis-1.2.0
./configure –prefix=/usr && make
make install
cd ../
rm -rf libvorbis*

Next we will be downloading and installing LAME, which ffmpeg uses for handling the audio components. 

After LAME is installed, we can install ffmpeg itself by running these commands:

wget http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/releases/ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2
cd ffmpeg-export-XXXXXXX
./configure –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libvorbis –enable-shared
make clean && make
make install
mkdir /usr/local/include/ffmpeg
cp libavformat/avio.h /usr/local/include/ffmpeg
cp libavformat/avformat.h /usr/local/include/ffmpeg
cp libavcodec/avcodec.h /usr/local/include/ffmpeg
cd ..
rm -rf ffmpeg*

The base ffmpeg component is now installed, but we arent done yet! Next up is ruby, which is required for ffmpeg to function properly. Install it with these 

Next we have to download and install the ffmpeg-php module. Do so with these commands:

We have one more thing to install, thats thats the MPlayer/Mencoder application. Do so with these commands:

Now that we have all the required components installed, we need to change /tmp back to normal with this command:

After that, we need to open up the global php.ini file ( /usr/local/lib/php.ini ) so we can change a couple of settings. You can use whatever text editor you

like, but I recommend nano:

You will want to scroll down until you locate these lines:

You will want to replace the extensions_dir value with the extensions folder that we saved earlier. 

!!!IMPORTANT!!!
If you are using any other custom .so modules, you will want to copy them into this folder. !!!IMPORTANT!!!

Scroll down to the “Dynamic Extensions” section, and add this line:

extension = ffmpeg.so

Save your work, ( ctrl+O if you are using nano ) and exit. FFMPEG is now installed and ready for use.

In order to join multiple video files, into a single video file, you just need to issue following command:

$ mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o joined_single_video.avi video1.avi video2.avi video3.avi

Even you can use wild cards (*, ?) too.

$ mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o joined_single_video.avi video*.avi

PS. In place of ‘avi’, you can give whatever file format is available.

I got an AVI file from a camera today, it was 235MB in size. I tried VideoLAN, it would transcode from a file to a file, but it would not transcode both the video and audio (audio only). I couldn’t find a tool on Windows to convert the file to MPEG format, but there were a couple posts on a Linux board referring to a tool in Linux called Media Encoder, or mencoder. The posts both said that if you had Linux Media Player you had Encoder also.

I switched to my Fedora 10 instatllation, and found it did not have Media Player installed. A quick “yum install mplayer” fixed that. But the command line mencoder didn’t work. I did a locate on the disk, not there. So I went back to the command prompt and “yum install mencoder” and then I was converting the 236MB AVI to a 35MB MPEG that looked and sounded just as good.

Since Linux mounted my other XP partition just fine, i copied the file to that environment. At first, I wanted to send the converted file to my very cute and XP using roommate, but I realized that I really wanted to upload it to the HTTP server I run on the school computer.

While I was playing around with the Windows Network list on the “Connect to Server” function (off the Gnome “Places” menu item), I noticed it had options for connecting to an FTP server, in both anonymous and authenticated modes. “What the heck”, thought I, and specified the information for my server at St. John’s.

Now, FTP is pretty common, but in this case, instead of a command window, or a dedicated drag-and-drop GUI, a mount point appeared on my Gnome Desktop that was labelled “68.15.100.56″ (the St. John’s IP address). I double-clicked it, and it opened up a file window, just like I could see for my local filesystem! Cool, thought I.

I drilled down to the root of the webserver document directory, and there were the files I expected. I grabbed the converted MPEG file from the Gnome Desktop and dragged it to the opened webserver directory, and a couple minutes later, the file was on the St. John’s webserver!

The FTP icon had an Unmount item when it was right-clicked, and when I selected it the FTP session was logged off just fine. That was about the slickest FTP I’ve ever done.

So, between mencoder to convert the media file, and mplayer to verify the file was converted correctly, and finally the very cool FTP function, Linux rules!

Hoy es martes, tiempo de una aplicacion sin interfaz grafica.

Caso: Tenemos una coleccion enorme de mùsica que escuchamos con Mocp, pero queremos escuchar musica nueva de cierto genero, siempre estara shoutcast, pero como busco las estaciones sin interfaz.

Para eso esta shoutcast-seach (bueno no dije que tuviera un nombre original). Este programa de linea de comandos escrito en Python, nos permite buscar entre las miles de estaciones de shoutcast.com. De manera predeterminada al realizar una busqueda nos saldra la URL en bruto de la estacion y poder abrirlo con nuestro reproductor deseado (yo recomiendo mplayer):

$ shoutcast-search -n 1 -r | xargs mplayer &

Para una busqueda mas refinada podremos usar las opciones del programa:

$ shoutcast-search --verbose --sort=rn2l --genre=anime

Nos dara los resultados con el nombre de la estacion, cuantos las escuchan, la calidad y la URL.

Para instalarlo pueden descargarlo desde la pagina solo necesita un sistema con Python.

En Arch Linux se encuentra en AUR ;D.

Una solucion mas para escuchar la radio desde consola.

Mata ne!

I made the commitment to deliver updated binaries of mplayer.git (64bit and Snow Leopard only). These are very simple to install in your graphical user interface of choice, even if I always recommend MPlayerOSX Extended.
The binaries are available on the project page hosted on Google Code.