James Emmrich

As a Linux user, I guess you come to expect a certain amount of FREEDOM. And I think when you get a taste of it, you only want more, and more until you are at the point of being considered spoiled I guess ha!
Well I have a Windows Mobile (pocket pc) cell phone. It’s a [...]

Today I stumbled on this guy again, Matt Harding, the worldly crazy dancing guy. I remember seeing his very first video which went viral quite a few years back, probably one of the first very successful viral Internet videos. Since then, he has released a couple more videos.
I’ve always thought it was inspiring and a [...]

Over the past couple of years I have needed to convert audio and video files from one format/container to another.
Here I hope to archive all the useful commands that I use to get the job done.
.mkv to divx
I found a cool little script from HowForge.com that uses mencoder for conversion.
#!/bin/sh

INPUT=$1
OUTPUT=$2

mplayer “$INPUT” -ao pcm:fast:file=audio.wav -vc null [...]