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UNIX Scripts Bash Tips: transcoding converting video files
September 9th, 2007Being a media whore, I’ve amassed a large collection of video files. All easily viewable using the excellent MPlayer on Linux. The problem has been in making some of them viewable when stuck with Windows.
There is a lot of Windows software out there that can take care of this. Unfortunately, not all of it is compatible on really old hardware. Also, when doing my transcoding using software like VirtualDub, it may not be compatible. For example, Flash (FLV) and Real (RMVB) video files.
After reading the HOWTO Convert video files, I wrote a few bash scripts that use mencoder (of MPlayer) to resolve these problems.
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UNIX Scripts Bash Tips: batch resizing images for a web site
September 9th, 2007Here’s a simple script I wrote to do batch resizing of images.
Scenario: you have A LOT of large pictures in one directory that need to be resized to be suitable for viewing on the web.
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