MultiMedia

Media file analysis, editing, transcoding and conversions.

PDF
Image
Video
Audio
MediaBox Setup
- Remote control
Troubleshooting
- ImageMagic error converting from Avif image format
Memes
- Marketing Matters

PDF

See PDF doc.

Image

See Image doc for image conversions, joining, triming, metadata etc.

Video

See Video doc for buffering, downloading, metadata, clipping, transcoding, downscaling etc.

Audio

See Audio doc for getting and setting metadata such as artist/author, album/title, track numbering etc.

MediaBox Setup

This is old from 2010 and probably needs some updates:

aptitude install nvidia-glx-173
aptitude -y purge samba
aptitude -y purge bluez bluetooth gnome-bluetooth bluez-utils
aptitude -y purge cups bluez-cups cups-driver-gutenprint foo2zjs foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine ghostscript-cups hpijs hplip openprinting-ppds pxljr splix
apt-get -y purge evolution evolution-common
aptitude -y purge openssh-server
dpkg -l | grep openoffice | awk '{print $2}' | xargs aptitude -y purge language-support-en language-support-writing-en python-uno

aptitude -y install sysstat
aptitude -y install unrar

aptitude -y install libdvdread4
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

Remote control

as root:

mkdir /var/run/lirc # it wouldn't create it and it wouldn't start without it on ubuntu

aptitude -y install dvb-utils

Cyberlink remote shows us as /dev/input/event3 according to google.

Can cat that or after installing dvb-utils, can do:

evtest /dev/input/event3

except dvb-utils has no install candidate and tells you to instead get dvb-apps which is already installed and doesn't have evtest, only the c file for it

less /proc/bus/input/devices

remote control is detected as a keyboard so a bunch of stuff just works out of the box. Should use xmodmap to add the remaining buttons to do things I want

Troubleshooting

ImageMagic error converting from Avif image format

magick: unable to load module '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/imagemagick/7.1.1-43/lib/ImageMagick/modules-Q16HDRI/coders/heic.la': file not found @ error/module.c/OpenModule/1293.
magick: no decode delegate for this image format `AVIF' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/746.

Solution:

brew info libheif

Memes

Marketing Matters

Ported from private Knowledge Base pages 2010+

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