Category Archives: Linux

HTTP Streaming with Encryption under Linux

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Barry O'Donovan

For a customer of Open Solutions, we need to mass encode thousands of video files and also segment and encrypt them for use with Apple’s HTTP Streaming. (using Amazon EC2 instances for the leg work). The one piece of the … Continue reading →

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Encoding Video for the HTC Desire

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Barry O'Donovan

A useful script to encode all files passed as parameters(s) for viewing on a HTC Desire. Continue reading →

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Encoding Full HD as FLV (for Gallery3)

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Barry O'Donovan

I have a full HD camcorder and I wanted to stick some good quality video on my gallery for relatives to view. So, I needed to convert my sample 100MB MP4 full HD file to a suitably sized FLV for the Gallery. Here’s what I did… Continue reading →

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perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”)

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Barry O'Donovan

Every time I debootstrap a new Debian server for a XenU domain, I get lots of verbose output from Perl scripts: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), … Continue reading →

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Kubuntu 8.10 and Mobile Broadband (and KDE 4.1)

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Barry O'Donovan

Kubuntu 8.10 and mobile broadband – the KNetworkManager has come a long way! Continue reading →

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