I recently found an old episode of the Computer Chronicles on YouTube which contained a interview with Linus Torvalds!! I rushed to download the entire episode from YouTube and cropped it to just contain the interview. And heres the end product:
So, you may have noticed that my blog has a cute litte tux the penguin looking at you through a round little window up in the left (or right) corner of your web browser. What you are seeing is known as a “Favicon” (short for Favorite icon) and it’s used to quickly and simply identify your website when it is in someones favorites. In this tutorial i’ll show you how you can make your own and what you must keep in mind when creating one. Continue reading
Ever wanted to play all of those classic MS-DOS games that you have on floppy in your old dusty drawer, but don’t have any retro MS-DOS computer? Don’t worry, you can play (almost) all of them in a emulated MS-DOS environment. And the emulator is called ‘dosbox’, and it’s not only available for Linux, Windows and Mac to! (among others)
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Whoaa, Long title there! Anyway, as the title would suggest, I am about to explain to you how to start and stop ffmpeg converting at a specific time. The command variables are very simple -ss (Start time) and -t (Convert as specified amount of time).
Sounds tricky? Don’t worry, i’ll explain it to you in detail. Let’s say for example you have a one hour long video (or audio track) that you want to start twenty minutes after the intro and then continue (used in the format, hours:minutes:seconds)
ffmpeg -i “video/audio.format” -sameq -ss 00:20:00 “output.format”
Very simple right? Ok, let’s imagine you want your video (or audio track) to start as normal but stop after one hour and twenty minutes, then use this command:
ffmpeg -i “video/audio.format” -sameq -t 01:20:00 “output.format”
And thats it! If you like this post and like to learn more about ffmpeg, Click Here to see my other ffmpeg tutorials.
NOTE: I am not responsible for any copyrighted material (ex, music videos) that get’s converted to audio or video using this method.
So, you want to extract some audio from a video ey? Sure! No problem! You can do just that using ffmpeg, here’s the command string.
In this example, i’ll extract the whole audio track to a mp3 file, with a 320k bit (constant) rate and 44100hz audio rate (high quality mp3):
ffmpeg -i “whatever.format” -vn -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 320k -f mp3 output.mp3
Here’s a short explanation on what every parameter does:
NOTE: I am not responsible for any copyrighted material (ex, music videos) that get’s converted to audio using this method.
