AirVideo is a Client/Server-Mediaplayer, which allows you to stream videos directly from your PC to your iPhone. Its server software started as Windows-/Mac-only but now there’s also a Linux server module available, too. All details are explained in their user forums. Compile the special FFmpeg under Ubuntu Autostart AirVideoServer To autostart AirVideoServer upon bootup, you… Read More: AirVideo Server under Linux »
If you are on a 64bit system, you might sometimes stumple upon 32bit programs which need several libraries of which are no lib32-packages. A good example is the Amazon MP3 Downloader. You can now either search the missing libraries at packages.ubuntu.com or use a tool which does this for you: getlibs. You run it with… Read More: Install missing i386-libraries on 64bit systems »
If your flashplugin only recognizes the very first mouse click and then seems to ignore the mouse completely, just click somewhere outside the area where the flash script is (e.g. on the webpage background) and then flash will recognize the next click. Some more promising solutions are these: Flash Preferences unusable If your clicks onto… Read More: Flashplugin not recognizing mouse clicks »
One huge problem in a standard Ubuntu install is that not all programs are actually using the PulseAudio daemon but instead still use ALSA. This is especially true with the flashplugin. Since PulseAudio and ALSA can’t use the hardware device at the same time, they block each other which leads to hangs and maybe even… Read More: ALSA → PulseAudio for Flash and others »
Java crashes with EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc00000005) The AirVideo Server for iPhone runs only under Mac and Windows and needs Bonjour and JRE. Java always crashed with After some poking around, I found a thread at nabble.com. Disabling the d3d9.dll was the solution: That was it. Now, Java should run smoothly.
The default soundcard to be used with ALSA is that with the index 0 in /proc/asound/cards. Usually this is the first found sound device. If you want to change this order, you have to find out the name of the kernel module used for that card and then add the desired index to it in… Read More: ALSA Sound Card Order »
To get access to a Windows PC as an Administrator user, there is a very brute security hole which you can use. The only thing is: You need physical access to the machine. The procedure is as follows:
Desktop Drapes Has some problems under Karmic Koala (e.g. the thumbnails are not shown, crashes if you delete a selected image). The list of enabled images is kept in ~/.gnome2/drapes.xml. Wally Seems to not work in Karmic. Wallpaper Tray It is a panel applet which shows a small thumbnail of the current active image. It… Read More: Wallpaper Changer »
Enable in Ubuntu If you want some scripts to emit beeps, e.g. because you don’t always have your headphones on, you first have to enable the pcspkr module. This is per default disabled in Ubuntu. To enable it again, do the following: After that, you can play around with the beep program.
If you can’t aquire any video from a DV camera connected via Firewire/IEEE1394, check if you have these symptoms: The reason seems to be a faulty IEEE1394 driver in Windows 7 64-bit. Check the Device Manager whether you have the Texas Instruments 1394 Controller installed. If so, right-click and choose Update driver…, search your computer… Read More: Aquire video from DV-camera »