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projects:nogold [2013/08/19 14:56] – [Ubuntu bugs and other things] Julien Deswaefprojects:nogold [2013/09/03 15:17] (current) – [Ubuntu bugs and other things] Julien Deswaef
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 Especially with multiple sessions of Xwindow and Xinerama **disabled**.\\  Especially with multiple sessions of Xwindow and Xinerama **disabled**.\\ 
 BUG: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/885989 \\ BUG: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/885989 \\
-Nautilus is buggy. Replaced with thunar+Nautilus is buggy. Replaced with Thunar
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 +:!: Removing Nautilus from a clean Ubuntu will remove gnome-session and break the desktop. You don't want that. To keep a working gnome-session, I added the gnome3 ppa before removing nautilus. Which actually updated gnome-session in the process. 
 +<code=bash>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3</code> 
 + 
 +And to get something like DISPLAY:=0.1 in the command line, you need to bee in Unity2D. Geez. 
 + 
 +=== Cropping source videos === 
 +Since Noemie has done some editing to the videos. She has brought letterboxed videos to display. And since we wanted the image to be fullscreen. I cropped the video using FFMpeg: 
 + 
 + 
 +<code=bash>ffmpeg -i input.dvd -vf "cropdetect=24:16:0" dummy.mpeg 
 +</code> 
 + 
 +detects where the cropping should happend. I could make calculations myself, but it was more fun to have it done by FFMpeg.  
 + 
 +<code=bash>ffmpeg -i input.dvd -vf "crop=720:432:0:72" -sameq -an cropped.dvd</code>  
 + 
 +Crops the video while keeping the quality the same, though removing the unecessary audio.
  
  
projects/nogold.1376916964.txt.gz · Last modified: 2013/08/19 14:56 by Julien Deswaef