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Linux for Designers

a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "video"

2nd Flash Player 10 Beta

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Adobe released a second beta of the Flash Player 10. This version brings a lot of improvements to the Linux platform:
* optimized sound sound API and sound buffer
* windowless overlay mode now working (Firefox 3 required)
* new embedding modes (explained by the developer Tinic Uro)
* support for the Video4Linux 2
Older details about Flash Player 10 can be found in my older post or at the release notes. And of course the beta 2 is available for Linux too.
Download it and copy the binaries as root to "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree". Shutdown your browswer and restart it, open the url "about:plugins" to make sure it's available.

Salasaga 0.8 Alpha 3

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Salasaga (formally known as the Flame Project) an integrated development environment for producing eLearning content is now released as 0.8 Alpha 3. Since 0.8 Alpha 2 there are several bugs fixed, take a look at the release log.
An example of what can be done with Salasaga is available online. A Deb package is available for Ubuntu too.

Prerelease of Flash Player 10

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Adobe released today a first beta of the Flash Player 10. This version brings a lot more hardware acceleration to Flash and makes it more, more powerfull. Now raster images, video overlays and effects will be rendered with OpenGL 2.0 directly on the graphics board.
With the new Pixel Bender language it will be easy for designers to create own effects too. Best of all this beta is released for Linux too.
Download it and copy the binaries as root to "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree". Shutdown your browswer and restart it, open the url "about:plugins" to make sure it's available.

Ubuntu for creatives

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During my own update session and the talk about WINE at the Hardy release party Berlin i forget that besides the normal Ubuntu distribution Ubuntu Studio 8.04 is available too.
Ubuntu Studio is a special edition packed with a lot off tools for creatives focused on Graphics, Sound and Video. It ships with a special dark theme too and supports realtime audio by the kernel. You can update your normal Ubuntu installation to Ubuntu Studio by installing the "ubuntu-studio-*" packages.
Thanx to Dan for reminding me :smile:

eLearning, video tutorials and screencasts

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Those who looking for a solution creating video tutorials or screencasts should try out Salasaga (formaly known as Flame Project). A Deb package for Ubuntu Linux is available too.
Or download the binaries of Wink 1.5 for Linux. Both solution will creating suberp Flash videos and allowing more then a simple capturing like xvidcap does.
UPDATE: Check out recordMyDesktop too.

Converting videos: WinFF 0.41

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I looked for such a tiny tool like WinFF. WinFF is a simple GUI for FFMPEG to convert various types of video files (AVI, Quicktime, Flash Video, MPEG) from one into another format. WinFF 0.41 is a bugfix release, all changes can be found in the release log.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can download a Deb archive too.

Adobe will add DRM to Flash

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Adobe is working on an update for its Flash player 9 that will bring DRM to Flash. Since the popularity of Flash video and the support for H.264 the music and film industry like to get back control of the streamed content. This step could stop the development of Gnash and SWFdec, two alternatives to Adobes Flash player, too.
Read more about the dark side of Adobe at the EFF.org.

Say "Cheese"!

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The GNOME Journal interviewed Daniel G. Siegel, the main developer of the webcam app Cheese which is simliar to Apple's Photobooth.

New Adobe Flash plugin with H.264 support

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Adobe releases the third update of the Flash plugin. This Update includes a lot of new features like support for H.264 video and the High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio codec. This pushes Flash to HD quality and allowing you to play back existing MP4, M4A, MOV, MP4V, 3GP, and 3G2 content. Many performance improvements were made too.
Installing the new version from the Tar binary archive is easy, just copy the "libflashplayer.so" as root to "/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree" (check the correct permissons).

Cheese is here...

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Cheese 0.2.4

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Another bugfix release of URL=http://live.gnome.org/Cheese]Cheese is available.
heese is a Photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures and videos from a webcam. It also includes fancy graphical effects based on the gstreamer-backend.
Get a deb archive here.[

Cheese 0.2.2

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Cheese is a Photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures and videos from a webcam. It also includes fancy graphical effects based on the gstreamer-backend. The 0.2.2. release brings some enhancements and bugfixes of 0.2.1.
Get a deb archive here.

UbuntuStudio available

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The special graphic, video, animation and 3D distribution UbuntuStudio is available for download now. But it seems the server is unreachable now.
To get a first impression take a look the Wiki.

Ubuntu goes Multimedia

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What ever UbuntuStudio will be, it looks interesting but we have to wait until April :frown:. For me it sounds like a special distribution of 3d, video, DVD, graphic and sound apps with a special look.