JURMEY RABGAY

2013-05-03T11:38:00.003+06:00

Ripping DVD Disk/Vob files with high quality using Handbrake

1. Install:

#aptitude install handbrake-gtk

2. If you have DVD Disk, just open handbrake and do as following:

                    Click on Source and select DVD Disk (usually /dev/sr0)

3. In some cases, there will be only vob files. Since Handbrake doesn't
    seem to handle multiple vob files into one, we have to merge and make
    it a single vob file. Do as following:

    #aptitude install ffmpeg (but make sure that

    deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org squeeze main is enabled in the
    sourceslist)

Run: #cat VTS_01_1.VOB VTS_01_2.VOB VTS_01_3.VOB (etc) | ffmpeg -f mpeg -i - -vcodec copy -acodec copy merged.vob

4. Click on Source and select merged.vob file and start ripping. Keeping an orginal setting is highly recommended.

5. Hope you would enjoy it with high quality ripped video!

Five Boys - An exciting adventure

2011-12-12T13:44:00.009+06:00

The gorgeous sun was wholly covered by the thick dark clouds as if they have grudge to each other. It was midsummer of the year 2003 where one cannot predict the position of a mighty sun. The light shower was most likely to pour down.

No sooner had I took my hasty lunch, I rushed down the dormitory. I leaned my back on the folded blanket and started opening the book since only few days were left to appear for our midterm examination. Shortly, I felt bit sleepy because of my body being enfolded by a warm blanket. In order to escape away from sleep, I just got up from my bed and walked along the road towards Chamgang. I was not smartly dressed, but in simple clothes just to cover up my body.

I was walking at a snail’s pace for half an hour with all my concentration in the book. All of a sudden, somebody was calling me from the behind. When I stared at the back, it was Senegal one of my roommates. He was accompanied by another friend of mine known as Kota who shares the same cup with me. Alike me, they were also heading towards Chamgang for the sake of study.

Three of us then got united and moved ahead by teasing, joking and chatting with each other. Just before us, two of my friends called Rangdrol and Yamey were also found studying in the bush. When they saw us, they were enticed and allured to join with us. It was somewhat like an expedition, despite discussing on the subject matter for the forthcoming exam.

The group was extended. We five in total, incessantly joked and walked farther. In the midst of hilarious joy, Senegal said: “Hey! Shall we move to Wangdi?” We were all stunned and looked at each other. “Yes, why not,” I replied after a bit silence. Following me, the rest of the friends unanimously agreed to move towards Wangdue Phodrang without any plan. None of the friends had expected such things would happen in the midst of jungle.

Nevertheless, we decided to begin our adventurous journey through the dense forest, despite the unclear footpath. None of us had ever gone through that forest where other people used as shortcut to Wangdi Phodrang. Even then, we had crossed Chamgang Primary School since the sun was about to set in the west. We climbed up and up through the marshy trail and shadowy jungle.

Astoundingly, we were brightened up as if we were liberated from the torment hell. We had approached at the summit of so-called Hinglay La. It was very beautiful and fully covered with various species of flowers. There was a small stupa where the passers-by can offer some flowers and receive blessings for their safe journey. We all plucked a bunch of flowers and offered to the stupa, then prostrated for three times in exchange for blessings.

From there, we had to walk down the rift valley until village called Naahe. The journey was totally different at that time. Neither we had climbed nor hiked through the swampy dark forest as we experienced before. We moved down towards Nahe Primary School because Senegal’s father works there as a teacher. On the way, all of us were exhausted and starved, but nobody had brought anything to alleviate our hunger.

When I put my hand in my pant pocket, I found twenty bucks and said: “Hey friends! I have twenty bucks”. Upon saying this, all of them laughed and mocked at me. “What is the use of your money in the forest,” replied Rangdrol. I realized what he had said because it was of no use even if I had money.

At around 3:00 PM, we reached at Naahe village and directly went to Senegal’s house where his uncle and Aunt dwell. Since it was a monsoon season, his uncle and Aunt had just returned home from their paddy field. Notwithstanding the tiredness, his aunt prepared us food and served with generosity. As soon as we swallowed a gulp of red rice, we regained our health. On the contrary, we felt awkward because we didn’t have anything to present before them. Forget about the gift, we even didn’t have a single chocolate for their children. It was so embarrassing moment for all of us. Soon after, we left for Naahe Primary School because Senegal's father was serving there as a teacher. We met with his mom and had a hot cup of tea with some biscuits. His generous mother packed a dozen of boiled eggs for all of us.

The time struck 4:30 PM. We were almost late to continue the journey. Fortunately, we heard the vehicle sound and then we rushed towards the road. The driver was so kind; he gave us lift until Wangdi Phodrang Checkpoint. It was almost dark and the weather was windy. In the town, Yamey’s sister runs a general shop. We stopped there and had a cup of tea. It seemed difficult to lodge all of us in her house since we had five in total. Nonetheless, we had decided to set off for Yamey’s village called Ruebeysa. When we were just descending from Tencholing, the moon started escorting us with humility. The chillness of the land breeze was unsolicited yet pleasant.

And when we reached at Dangchu Zampa, we took some rest and took the boiled eggs. I couldn’t see the landscape of Rubeysa but I could at least feel its beauty. I would have had enjoyed if we could have reached there early. The trail was too steep and zigzag. After few hours walk, we finally arrived at Yamey’s home. When we stepped into the kitchen, we found his parents and relatives were seated on the floor encircling before a blazing fire. No sooner did his father see us, he (Yamey) was questioned. “Why are you so late?”asked his father. “We were actually on self study, but unexpectedly we reached here,” replied Yamey. His father smiled and so did his mother. Very soon, we were served with dinner followed by tea. His mother then arranged us bed and we slept comfortably.

The next day when we woke up, it was almost 10:00 AM. Yamey’s parents left to work in the paddy field. We took our breakfast and went down to the paddy field. His dad was ploughing the field while mom was transplanting the paddy. We couldn’t bear the hardship that his parents faced due to shortage of labor. Owing to the situation, we furled our trouser and long sleeve and started helping his parents. Unfortunately, we couldn’t manage to help them for the whole day because we had to return to the school. After working for just an hour, we took our lunch and left for Wangdi Town.

Fortunately, we got bus and reached safely to the school. Upon our arrival, our friends in the hostel showed us their infuriated face instead of warm reception. Unexpectedly, one of the friends called Jambay, the eldest among us, started rebuking. “Wai, where did you all go?” asked Jambay. “We went to Wangdi. We are so sorry for not informing you all,” we responded. “Did you know how much we were worried?” he reiterated. “We also didn’t know, it happened out of the blue,” we replied. According to them, they have been searching for us since our missing.

There were speculations among the teams that we could have been convicted for crime and detained by the police or otherwise gobbled by a bear. Consequently, they had divided into two teams. One of the teams marched towards Chamgang, looked above and below the road and vainly called our names. While other team went directly to Thimphu police custody and inquired if they had detained us. HAHAHA….We all laughed. It sounded funny for us, but irritating for them because they were so worried. “Anyhow, never repeat such things in the future,” they warned. They smiled and dismissed.

2011-04-26T11:54:00.021+06:00

Wrestling Enthusiasts

“Ting Ting Ting……..” The bell started ringing at its best. The school was over. Myself and my six friends of same character looked in each other’s eyes and hastily put our books in the bag and moved down the corridor jostling through the crowd (of students). We had to move faster in Auntie’s Canteen to occupy the seat since it was first-come, first-served basis. On the way, one of my friends known as Alu Rinzin fell off the road. Luckily, he wasn’t hurt badly, but scratched his beautiful kneecap. The monks could have occupied the seat even if we were on chase. Therein, we had to squeeze our body to manage ourselves.

The room was small and cramped, even the air can’t pass through it. Soon after, someone from the corner switched on our best channel so-called ‘TENSPORT’. The volume of the TV was maximized and all of us settled down as to gain more entertainment.

No sooner did the wrestlers appear on the ring, the audience (in TV) applauded. Simultaneously, we too did the same. We (myself & my friends) ordered some tea and Juma (sliced & fried intestine) before the show was actually started. As the tea was passed to individual, the bell started ringing. The game has begun. It was a heavy weight champion’s match between Triple-H & Randy Orton on one side and their opponent Kurt Angle & Rob Vandam on the opposite side. We all cheered!

The show was entertaining and enticing. When I looked around, everyone was busy gazing at the TV without even blinking their bulging eyes. Meanwhile, even if I were crushed, I couldn't have been reacted because my consciousness level had dropped to zero. No matter whether my body got smashed by the monks - I am lifeless. My mind was like an air – I could easily enter into Triple-H and sometimes energize Kurt Angle to use his ankle swim.

The show was almost finished; one of my friends woke me up. I regained my consciousness. When I stared on the table, I found a cup of tea which was cold and untouched. “Whose tea is this?” I asked my friends. “It is yours,”they responded. We all laughed!

The evening prayer had been started. We were delayed by fifteen minutes. Fearing that the prayer in-charge would punish us, we ran to the prayer hall as if we were on race. As soon as we entered into the prayer hall, everybody stared upon us. The prayer in-charge fiercely appeared before us and commanded to prostrate hundred times before the altar. Thank God! This was not a punishment, but a virtuous way of accumulating merit. Our prayer in-charge was good at heart! We came to know his true characteristics. “Never judge the book by its cover…” I realized ironically.

Enumerations

2011-04-07T16:26:00.015+06:00

Six Perfections(phar phyin drug)
1.Perfection of giving
2.Perfection of morality
3.Perfection of patience
4.Perfection of effort
5.Perfection of concentration
6.Perfection of wisdom

Two Division of Truth(bden pa gnyis)
1.The conventional truth
2.The ultimate truth

Four Noble Truth(bden pa bzhi)
1.The truth of suffering
2.The truth of origin of suffering
3.The truth of cessation
4.The truth of path

Five Paths(lam lnga)
1.Path of accumulation
2.Path of preparation
3.Path of meditation
4.Path of seeing
5.Path of no more learning

Ten Grounds(sa bcu)
1.The extremely joyous
2.The stainless
3.The luminous
4.The radiant
5.The difficult to overcome
6.The approaching
7.The goneafar
8.The immoral
9.The good intelligence
10.The cloud of dharma

Eight Leisures/Freedoms(dal wa brgyad)
1.Not holding wrong views
2.Not born in the barbaric land
3.Not born in a place where has not appeared
4.Not born as mute/fool
5.Not born as a hell-being
6.Not being a hungry ghost
7.Not being an animal
8.Not living a long living god

Ten Endowments('byorpa bcu)
1.Being human
2.Being born in buddhist land
3.Having sound sense
4.Being free from extreme actions
5.Having faith in dharma
6.Buddhas having appeared
7.Buddhas having taught dharma
8.Flourshing of his teachings
9.Being followed his teachings
10.Compassionate feelings towards other

Six Realms('gro ba rigs drug)
1.Human being
2.God
3.Demi-god
4.Hell
5.Hungry
6.Animal

Three/Five Evils(dug gsum mam lnga)
1.Attractions
2.Anger/impatience
3.Laziness
4.Haughtiness
5.Jealousy

WIFI CONFIGURATION IN DEBIAN

2011-02-28T13:59:00.017+06:00

Configuring Wireless in debian lenny on HP Compaq nw8240/Mobile Workstation

I have a(HP Compaq nw8240/Mobile Workstation) laptop having dual operating system(Windows & Linux). For linux, I have installed Dzongkha Debian Lenny 2.6.26 version and tried to setup wireless but didn't work unless I found out the following procedure:

1. Add to sources.list

#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free

#aptitude update

* Need to check Wireless Card with the following command:

# lspci

*The wireless card I found was Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG(ipw2200)

2. Install

#aptitude install firmware-ipw2x00 wireless-tools

2. As the driver may already be loaded, reinsert the relevant driver module to access installed firmware:

#modprobe -r ipw2100 ; modprobe ipw2100

 (OR)

#modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200

3. Verify your device has an available interface:

#iwconfig

4. Raise the interface to activate the radio, for example:

#ifconfig etho/eth1/eth2 up

Having done all the above, the wireless button didn't blink. The following code solved my problem.

#echo options ipw2200 led=1 >> /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200.conf && modprobe -r ipw2200 ;

modprobe ipw2200

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Configuring Wireless in debian lenny on DELL LATITUDE | E5500

* Need to check Wireless Card with the following command:

# lspci

 *The wireless card I found was Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

 1.Install the build-essential, debhelper, module-assistant, quilt and wireless-tools packages:

$ su

# aptitude update
# aptitude install build-essential debhelper module-assistant quilt wireless-tools

2.Manually acquire the squeeze/broadcom-sta-source package from http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/broadcom-sta-source/download. For example:
#wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/b/broadcom-sta/broadcom-sta-source_5.60.48.36-2_all.deb (optional)

3.Manually acquire the squeeze/broadcom-sta-common package from http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/broadcom-sta-common/download. For example:
#wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/b/broadcom-sta/broadcom-sta-common_5.60.48.36-2_all.deb

4.Install the squeeze/broadcom-sta-common and squeeze/broadcom-sta-source packages via dpkg:
$ su
# dpkg -i broadcom-sta-*deb

5.Build and install a broadcom-sta-modules-* package for your system, using Module-Assistant:
# m-a a-i broadcom-sta

6.Blacklist the brcm80211 module, to prevent it conflicting for support of BCM4313, BCM43224 and BCM43225 devices:
# echo blacklist brcm80211 >> /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf

7.Rebuild your initial ramdisk, to blacklist modules defined at /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf within initramfs:
# update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r)

8.Unload conflicting modules:
# modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcm80211 (optional)

9.Load the wl module:
# modprobe wl

10.Verify your device has an available interface:
# iwconfig

Note: However, the wireless icon didn't appear even after doing all the above commands. The solution I got was:

Run application by pressing left Alt+F2
Command "nm-applet --sm-disable" without quote and click on run
Reboot (optional)

To know detail about configuring wireless in different version, click on Here.

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Configuring Wireless in Debian Wheezy for DELL VOSTRO

1. Check wireless card with the following command:

#lspci

The wireless card found was Centrino Wireless-N 1030

2. Add to sources.list

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free

3. Update & Install

# aptitude update && aptitude install firmware-iwlwifi wireless-tools

4. Run the command to appear icon

#modprobe -r iwlwifi ; modprobe iwlwifi

5. Check interface

#iwconfig

Converting AVI to DVD

2010-11-29T14:03:00.006+06:00

#aptitude install mencoder

1. Locate your avi file(s).

#mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf \
-vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:\
keyint=15:vstrict=0:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=16/9 -ofps 25 \
-o movie.vob movie.avi

(Change output file as movie.vob and keep input as an existing name.

2. Install dvdauthor

#aptitude install dvdauthor

3. Paste the following code in Text Editor/Notepad and save it as movie.xml.

After converting to dvd, rename movie.vob to movie.mpg as above.

Note: All your files including movie.xml and movies should be in a single folder. It will be best if you could change the destination folder to /home in the xml.

4. Now, run dvdauthor

#dvdauthor -x movie.xml

Enjoy watching dvd movie from a single (avi) file!

Converting DVD/AVI to VCD

2010-11-29T12:47:00.005+06:00

Creating VCD from various video sources using mplayer/mencoder, vcdimager and a CD burning software

#aptitude install vcdimager

1. Converting DVD file format to VCD format

mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=xvcd -vf scale=352:288,harddup -srate 44100 -af lavcresample=44100 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video:keyint=15:vrc_buf_size=327:vrc_minrate=1152:vbitrate=1152:vrc_maxrate=1152:acodec=mp2:abitrate=224:aspect=16/9 -ofps 25 -o movie.mpg inputvideo.vob

Where movie.mpg will be the output VCD format file and inputvideo.avi is the input video of any format that can be read by mplayer including DVD vob files.

PROBLEM: How do I split up a big avi to fit many svcd's?

Determine the duration of the movie and use the "-ss" start switch and the "-t" time duration switch to chop the source video into portions.

The following splits up a big avi (2 hours, 14 minutes and 51 seconds long) into three different svcd's(depending on their size) (45 minutes each):

ffmpeg -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:45:00 -i <movie.avi> -target svcd ./m1.mpg
ffmpeg -ss 00:45:00 -t 00:45:00 -i <movie.avi> -target svcd ./m2.mpg
ffmpeg -ss 01:30:00 -t 00:44:51 -i <movie.avi> -target svcd ./m3.mpg

Chop them one by one!

2. Create VCD image

vcdimager movie.mpg ....

vcdimager will take one or more .mpeg files already created in step 1 above and creat a VCD image file. The output of this will be a .cue and a .bin file.

3. Writing the VCD image to CD-R/RW

Use any CD writing application (Gnomebaker in Debian) to write the VCD image to CD-R/RW. While writing, use "Write CD Image" option and then chose the .cue file.

Watching the Movie

You can then watch your VCD on a VCD Player or using softwares like mplayer, totem or vlc on a computer

Installing Startup Manager

2010-11-24T14:54:00.005+06:00

If you are using dual operating system(Windows & Linux), you always need to choose grub boot order. By default, the Linux will be always in first sequence. If you need to go to Windows, you have to select Windows using PageUp and PageDown button. Otherwise if you are late, the machine will automatically boot for Linux. To avoid such problem, you have to install StartUp Manager.

1. Open terminal and run the following command.

#aptitude install startupmanager

2. Go to System>Adminstration>StartUp-Manager as shown below.

3. In the default operating system under boot options, you can choose your default system. This is best for those who frequently uses Windows.

Merging, extracting and squeezing of pdf files

2010-11-24T14:45:00.003+06:00

1. Merging

It is very useful to combine multiple PDF documents into one file. This is useful especially if you accumulate many PDFs (newsletters, bills, etc.) over time.
Preparing Your system

#aptitude install gs pdftk

Now we will see one example how to combine pdf files let us assume we have 1.pdf,2.pdf,3.pdf files and now we need to cobmine this files using the following command:
#cd /home/bhutan/pdf_files
#ls
1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf
#gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=combinedpdf.pdf -dBATCH 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf

In the above command after “-sOUTPUTFILE=” type whatever name you want for the merged file (don’t forget to append .pdf to the end of the file name). Rename “1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf” to whatever your file names are (separate your file names with a space).
After you run the above command, a new PDF file called combinedpdf.pdf will be created with your individual files merged according to the order you list.
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2. Extracting

(a) To extract (suppose page 24-30) use the following command:

#pdftk temp.pdf cat 20-30 output new.pdf

(b) To extract a particular page:

#pdftk temp.pdf cat 21 25 28 output new.pdf

#convert input.pdf input.jpg

(d) Splitted jpeg - pdf pages:

#convert input.jpg input.pdf
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3. Squeezing

#gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf example.pdf

Mounting NTFS file system

2010-11-24T14:18:00.007+06:00

In order to mount NTFS file system automatically everytime you log in into your system we have to do the following:
1.Install ntfs-3g in terminal or Synaptic Package Manager

#aptitude install ntfs-3g

2. Check the device for NTFS

#fdisk -l
# Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6630 9728 24892717+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 3825 6629 22531162+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 6757 9728 23872558+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 6630 6756 1020064+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

3. Add NTFS in static file system information and do the following:

#gedit(vim) /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
file system | mount point | type | options | dump | pass
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda5 /media/common vfat user,rw,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/WINDOWS ntfs-3g rw,user,uid=1000 0 0
~
~

4. Finally, run in terminal:

#mkdir /media/WINDOWS or any name
#mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/WINDOWS/

Hope it will work!

Installing fonts in Debian

2010-11-24T14:13:00.003+06:00

1. In root system
By default, there are limited fonts in the debian system. Install whatever fonts you like from the terminal.

# mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/my_fonts
# scp -r /media/JRABGAY/IMPORTANT\ DATAS/SOFTWARES/fonts/Promocyja096.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/my_fonts
#cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/my_fonts/
# mkfontscale && mkfontdir
#fc-cache

Restart your Openoffice!

2. Single User
- Create directory and name it .fonts(name optional) in home.
- Copy and paste the fonts in it.
- Restart Openoffice!

Installing Mohegan

2010-11-24T14:05:00.005+06:00

In order to have a beautiful login theme as depicted below, you need to download and install the package.

Go to Mohegan Lock-Dialog Theme and click on download button provided at the bottom.

INSTALLATION:

1. Unpack files to /usr/share/gnome-screensaver/
(only the folder Mohegan-images and the files : lock-dialog-mohegan.glade, lock-dialog-mohegan.gtkrc)

2. Open gconf-editor (Alt+F2, type 'gconf-editor' and press enter), change the entry /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme from 'default' to 'mohegan'

3. Enjoy!

To enjoy this theme fully, I recommend using a picture of your choice. You could change your current one by going to System > Preference > About Me and click on the button besides your name.
If you want to get back you old theme you should do step 2 in reverse: replace 'mohegan' with 'default'

Configuring Clock & Date

2010-11-24T13:53:00.004+06:00

1. Configuring Clock
It is observed that few Debian Linux doesn't show correct time even after configuring from the panel. There is a solution to fix it.

#vim(or gedit) /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh

Scroll down your mouse until you find "HWCLOCKPARS= " - edit this to HWCLOCKPARS="--directisa" and save it.

Do the same thing for:

#vim /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh

Hope, this will work for you all!
2. Configuring Clock and Date
To fix both date and time at once, run in terminal:

#date 030216302010

The color red is for month; blue for date; brown for time and white for year.

Installing gDesklets on Debian

2010-11-24T10:59:00.007+06:00

1. Install in terminal the GNOME program which provides the architecture for small applets (desktop widgets) to be placed on top of the user's desktop.The applets placed on the desktop are meant to be quick ways for the user to retrieve information and not get in the way of normal activity..

#aptitude install gdesklets

2. Gdesklets is available in the GNOME applications menu.

3. This is the gdesklets shell - here you can enable your preferred desklets and adjust some settings.

It's very easy to enable a desklet. If you've found a desklet that you want to use simply double-click on it, move the mouse cursor out of the gdesklet shell and drop the desklet on your desktop.

Each desklet has its own configuration options - right click on a desklet on your desktop and click on "Configure desklet" as shown above. We can also remove desklet by right clicking on "Remove desklet".

4. In order to start gDesklets automatically everytime you log in into your system we have to add gdesklets to the session-startup-programs. The session settings are available in the GNOME system menu.

Choose gDesklets and click on "Add" button. Fill the fields as shown on the screenshot below. Click on "OK" to apply the settings.

Making DVD movies in Linux

2010-11-24T10:06:00.010+06:00

(1.0) Generally, people never used to copy the whole DVD files while copying from an orginal DVD disc. In such case, playing in the computer is fine but an error is likely to occur while writing to disc. So, what we have to do is, install dvdauthor as root:

#aptitude install dvdauthor

Then, open Text Editor and copy the following html codes and give any name as following.
For instance: movie.xml

Note: Keep all your DVD files and movie.xml in one folder.

Its always recommended to save in root partition(home folder) rather than FAT32 file system. Therefore, we have to change destination to /home/username at the top of your xml.
All DVD files will be in .vob format(vts_01_1 etc.), so we have to change that into .mpg for all the files as given above. After doing these, run dvdauthor in terminal.
Locate the source:

#cd /media/common/DVD_Project/
#ls
movie.xml vts_01_0.vob vts_01_1.vob vts_01_2.vob

Run dvdauthor:

#dvdauthor -x movie.xml

Finally, the new DVD(VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS) will be created. Put these in one folder and name it dvd or any.

Now make a DVD ISO file

Run in terminal--

#mkisofs -o /tmp/image.raw -dvd-video /data6/video/Sheffield6 (If mkisofs doesn't work, try using genisoimage)

(Change destination /temp to other. /data6/video/Sheffield6 to /home/bhutan/dvd)

Finally, we can see a file called image.raw. (If .raw doesn't work properly, rename it to .iso)
This we can burn directly as an iso file in k3b(or any linux burners) and play in the movie player.

Note: Without making an iamge.raw the movie can't play. Its not necessary to put background and all. Just try simple!

(1.1) Exceptionally, some DVD files can't work though their formats are in .vob. This is because the files are not compiled in a correct format. What we have to do?

Install mencoder (there are many mencoders but I prefer PAL DVD) as below:

#aptitude install mencoder

Run mencoder with the following commands:

#cd /media/common/DVD_Project/
#ls
movie.xml vts_01_0.vob vts_01_1.vob vts_01_2.vob

Change output movie.mpg to movie1.mpg and input movie.avi to vts_01_1.vob. When it is completed, go for the second file with the same method by just changing its name(like, movie2.mpg for vts_01_2.vob)

Then, do the same thing as stated in index 1.0.

Running acidrip in Debian Linux

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Debian Linux has a ripper called acidrip. This application can squeeze the whole DVD files into a single file without losing its quality. Firstly, install acidrip if not installed by default. Run in terminal as root:

#aptitude install acidrip

After installing the package, open it by pressing left Alt+F2, the run in terminal screen will pop out.
Then, type acid rip and run.

In order to function smoothly, all necessary DVD files should be intact. Otherwise, we have to compile DVD files first. To start, give clear path(Video_ts location) in the video source box and click on “Load” button. If it is fine, you will see a dialogue saying “DVD OK” at the end of the screen.

If you are done, give track title; choose file extension; change file size and number of files as your wish. For your convenience, always save your output file in root(home)system.

Finally, click on "Start" button and start ripping.