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Video, Web And Linux
I just spent the day doing media on Linux.
1) Cut and converted 4 videos for my Judo group's FaceBook group.
2) Grabbed frames from video to make stills for the Judo group.
3) Processed those stills to look better.
4) Worked on photographs (extracting parts of images an remerging them) for a presentation on web development.
All this was easy using my humble 1.7Gig PentiumM laptop and Ubuntu. ffmpeg did the video cutting and conversion. mplayer did the frame grabbing (the -vo option is great for directing output to other things than the screen) and the gimp is just a powerful as ever.
Hardware vendors must hate linux! I can do all this on such a small power machine because is it all hard core C coded and the video stuff is all command line. What is more, the scheduler and quantiser on the 2.6 kernel means that on one application can 'jam up' my machine.
Then - next Friday - I will being a presentation in Open Office. And I bet no-one in my MS obsessed company will notice :)
P.S. Also - ntf-3g rock. All my video coding is done on an external 1T hard drive - which is ntfs. OK - ntfs-g3 is not as fast as something like xfs, but when you have to use it, it just does the job. One less reason to stay stuck on MS. Not that I don't have MS machine, just don't like being forced to use MS stuff ;)
1) Cut and converted 4 videos for my Judo group's FaceBook group.
2) Grabbed frames from video to make stills for the Judo group.
3) Processed those stills to look better.
4) Worked on photographs (extracting parts of images an remerging them) for a presentation on web development.
All this was easy using my humble 1.7Gig PentiumM laptop and Ubuntu. ffmpeg did the video cutting and conversion. mplayer did the frame grabbing (the -vo option is great for directing output to other things than the screen) and the gimp is just a powerful as ever.
Hardware vendors must hate linux! I can do all this on such a small power machine because is it all hard core C coded and the video stuff is all command line. What is more, the scheduler and quantiser on the 2.6 kernel means that on one application can 'jam up' my machine.
Then - next Friday - I will being a presentation in Open Office. And I bet no-one in my MS obsessed company will notice :)
P.S. Also - ntf-3g rock. All my video coding is done on an external 1T hard drive - which is ntfs. OK - ntfs-g3 is not as fast as something like xfs, but when you have to use it, it just does the job. One less reason to stay stuck on MS. Not that I don't have MS machine, just don't like being forced to use MS stuff ;)
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Comment by t. shawn on October 23, 2007 at 10:07am
- I am also stuck in a MS obsessed IS dept. Have you been able to secure official permission to use Ubuntu, and if so, how did you go about it? We don't have a written policy that mandates we use MS, but I'm not sure I am ready to put it to the test just yet. I am the admin for a system that runs on AIX, I have no use for Windows at work.
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