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Or any *nix for that matter. Although DVD Video is past it's prime, I used it for years to archive and share my videos easily. As the elitist quality addict that I am, I've come up with a method that is far from being the easiest, but certainly results in satisfiable quality and compatibility. Read More

I was about to give up after googling for how to get something like virtual surround on Linux when I "discovered" a plugin for ALSA called vdownmix. It downmixes 4.0 or 5.1 audio to create a virtual surround effect on stereo headphones.
A good kept secret? Probably not, it's in the official ALSA plugins package after all. But why does it seem like nobody is using it (google)? Read More

If you know ALSA well it's probably very simple but still here it is because I couldn't find it anywhere: my ~/.asoundrc (or /etc/asound.conf) to use two ALSA devices simultaneously from a single playing application. Read More

Updated July 2nd 2009: Now using Sebastian Pipping's bs2b LADSPA plug-in instead of tap-bs2b

After picking up some new headphones yesterday, I wondered whether there was any way to convert stereo audio to binaural audio. It took an hour of time but now I've got it working wonderfully, by feeding ALSA the LADSPA plug-in for Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural.

Read on for my how-to. Read More

Low power consumption and high hardware compatibility is exactly the right alternative to WiFi when all what you want to do is sitting in the green and chit-chat with other hackers and browse the web a bit.
But it needs you to do some tinkering before it works nicely, so reading what steps I took to make it work for me might make things easier for you. Read More

If you need SCIM support in Mandriva 2007 for both GTK and Qt apps, add this to your ~/.i18n or /etc/sysconfig/i18n file:



EDIT: Looks like SKIM, the KDE frontend for SCIM, sometimes gets a bit confused with this. Omit the XIM_PROGRAM and XIM_ARGS lines mentioned above and enable autostart in skim (use the settings dialog or set Autostart=true in ~/.kde/share/config/skimrc) if you use KDE.