After various requests and personal interest in the matter, I finally tryed to get skype working on my Sony Vaio SZ6 with Arch Linux 64bit and pulseaudio installed. Skype and linux never mingled all that well. Supporting linux was never high on their todo list and they surely acted upon it. Skype has never gotten [...]
I’ve posted another 2 packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR): netembryo and libnemesi. The first is a network abstraction library, the latter is an implementation of RTSP. Both didn’t exist in AUR yet so I guess there’s not much demand for them yet (I don’t even use them myself). MPlayer has initial support for [...]
Update April 8, 2009: uh_no_hu’s is still expanding the functionality of his tiling window manager script. Since my post 4 new feature’s have been added: vertical, horizontal, maximize, max_all. The homepage has also changed to a new location. You can discuss the window manager on the Arch Linux forums. Original February 14, 2009: Poor Man’s [...]
This article is the follow up of Comprehensive MPlayer Guide I: Introduction. To acquire a good MPlayer setup, you really don’t want to install the version packaged by your favorite distribution. The mainstream linux distributions like Ubuntu use “the latest” but very dated release of MPlayer. Their latest release, v1.0rc2, dates from 7 October 2007. [...]
This article is meant as a comprehensive guide to acquire a complete multimedia experience, in particular everything that is video related: from installation and playback to encoding, desktop integration and much more . I will try to give an in-dept but understandable explanation of the how and perhaps more importantly, the why. I will not [...]