Making Photo Slideshow DVD’s under Linux

As there are no simpler graphical tools available under Linux for this purpose, I’m explaining the method to create a slideshow video DVD of images/photos using a commandline tool called dvd-slideshow. Don’t be scared. It’s not that hard
It can be installed via Synaptic under Ubuntu OR you can fetch the latest from here.
Preparing [...]

Video Encoding made easy

There are several video/audio encoders available in Linux like Ffmpeg and Mencoder. But not everyone like the commandline version very much. But there are also GUI  front-ends for both these encoders. Avidemux and Vive are the GUI front-ends for Ffmpeg. And GMencoder is the GUI frontend for Mencoder. I built a deb package for these [...]

Useful bash commands

Here are some handy bash commands that are needed most.

Merging multiple PDF’s into one
gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=Out.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf

Converting wav to mp3
lame -h -b 192 in.wav out.mp3

VCD Creation Script [DOWNLOAD]

DVD Creation Script [DOWNLOAD]
m4a to wav
mplayer -ao pcm in.m4a -aofile out.wav