me and my stuff

If you have trouble in playing media file, stream [like me] may be this will help. Today I try open video stream with mplayer and get no sound. So I go to run mplayer from terminal and get errors about codecs below pnix@pnix-a7n:progdl$ mplayer mms://61.47.35.66/NTTV MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu13 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 ... Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll IMediaObject ERROR: 0x8773d96 could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0) Failed to create DMO filter ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmv9dmod.dll. You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package. Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmvdmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll, /usr/...

Today I'm looking for mp3 player for my ubuntu. Feisty come with rhythmbox but after few months using I think it's time to try something better. Rhythmbox does not let me edit idv3 tags and [for me]it's hard to manage library so it's not acceptable. All I wants are a) idv3 tags must editable. This is important for me because some of my mp3 collection don't have info in tags or some have a wrong info. b) full support thai language. c) gtk+ application will be good. I found this blog [http://onlyubuntu.blogspot.com/2007/03/media-players-available-for-ubuntu.html] list some media players in ubuntu. I choose some to try[all are easy to install in Feisty just 'sudo aptitude install <packagename>'] Beep Media Player is like xmms. If I'm not wrong I think the project is stop now. Amarok come with great interface, full of features but it's KDE app so it's need some other kde package to install and run. Exaile, like KDE's Amarok but it's G...

The problem about playlist on media player are unreadable when it use thai character. This is caused by different encoding used in id3 tags and in media player. Id3 tags use cp874[don't know why] but in current linux distribution, player use unicode. This will not be a problem if tags are english characters that cp874 and unicode has the same value e.g. 'A' is '0x41' for cp874 and '0x0041' for unicode, but not for thai character. To correct thai character in playlist. There is a script to convert 1-byte charsets to unicode[ download ] by Kopats Andrei. Now what to do: 1. download the script. You'll get 'tag2utf.py'. 2. install requirement software sudo apt-get install python-eyed3 3. in the script, looking for charsets = {'cp1251':'c','koi8-r':'k' } and replace with your language encoding[ for thai change it to charsets = {'tis-620':'t' } ] Now we ready to convert mp3 tags. run script by 'tag2u...

Today I try to open ptvthai.com[ the website that live broadcast rally against "council for national security" from sanamluang bangkok, uhh no politic here, Pls don't censor me ha ha ]. It needs realplayer plugin for firefox but "Plugin Finder Service" can't install it automatically. RealPlayer isn't on feisty repos yet for now and i can't wait. So to install i download RealPlayer10GOLD.bin, add execute permission and install it in $HOME/app/RealPlayer[ without sudo privileges ]. pnix@pnix-a7n:~/progdl$ wget http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer10GOLD.bin --23:26:37-- http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer10GOLD.bin => `download.html?f=unix%2FRealPlayer10GOLD.bin' . . Connecting to software-dl.real.com|66.203.123.22|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 5,802,563 (5.5M) [application/octet-stream] 100%[========================================...