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Ubuntu's best move ever

Music to your ears

Battle for Wesnoth is a ton of fun

The Ten Commandments Of Open-Source

The unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit

Free voice recognition software that works

Learn the Linux command line

protect Your Linux Box from Viruses

Next major PC company to go Linux will be HP

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How to Rip DVD's with VLC

A step-by-step guide on how to extract and convert the files from a DVD to mpeg or other formats using the Videolan VLC media player for the use of uploading them to YouTube, for example.

1. Open up VLC and click the open button (it’s the leftmost one). From the dialog box that appears select Disc and then DVD. Enter the letter of your DVD-ROM drive (or /dev/hdc in my case in Linux) in the device name box, and 0 in the title box. Click OK to see if that’s what you want to rip. If it is, click the stream/save box and then settings. Otherwise, change the title to 1 and then keep increasing the number until you find the one you want. It might take a little bit, some DVDs have the main video as late as title 15.
2. Open the settings box and uncheck the “play locally” box if it’s checked (unless you want to watch it at the same time it’s ripping) and check the file, video, and audio boxes. Select where you’re going to save your movie (save it as a .mpg, like movie.mpg) by hitting browse and then navigating to the folder where you want to save it and typing moviename.mpg in the name box. Select mp1v for the video codec and mp3 for the audio, 1024k is usually a good size and produces a nice balance between size and quality.
3. Click OK, and OK again. VLC should start transcoding the disc to your hard drive, where you can watch it. You can watch the ripped files in any media player.

http://www.wikihow.com/Rip-DVD's-With-VLC

Weekly Links (1)

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Thomas Hawk's digital connection / Jackson Reviews the iPhone

news

GIMP Tutorial: Creating a Navigation Button

Software Freedom Day 2007--Bigger than Ever

Dell keeps improving Linux support

Options in OpenOffice.org Calc

screenshot

Welcome to GPLv3

WiIl it blend? -- iPhone

don't try this at home :-)

VL 5.8 standard on an old pentium 200

Today I managed to install Vector Linux on an old Pentium 200 mmx with 40 mb of ram. I had to change the default window manager (xfce4) to windowmaker. I have to say that it runs better than expected.

Here is the first screenshot:


The next thing I will try , is to install Fluxbox anc compare it with windowmaker and to test the battery life.

Modern love song

Just Brilliant ! :-)

How to clean your LCD screen

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