Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Step-by-step installation
tutorial with screenshots

Ubuntu 9.10, also known as the Karmic Koala, arrived exactly on October 29, 2009 and is the eleventh release of Ubuntu OS. We’ve created the following tutorial to teach Linux newcomers how to install the Ubuntu 9.10 operating system on their personal
computer. Therefore, it is addressed to people who have just heard about Ubuntu, those who have never installed Ubuntu before and want to test it, but don’t know how.

The tutorial will make things very simple for you, but if you get stuck somewhere in the middle of the installation and you need help, do not hesitate to use our commenting system at the end of the article!

Requirements:

You will need the Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop ISO image that corresponds to your hardware architecture (i386 or amd64), and which can be downloaded from here. When the download is over, burn the ISO image with your favorite CD/DVD burning application (Nero, CDBurnerXP, Roxio) on a blank CD at 8x speed.

Reinsert or leave the CD in your CD/DVD-ROM device and reboot the computer in order to boot from the CD. Hit the F8, F11 or F12 key (depending on your BIOS) to select the CD/DVD-ROM as the boot device.

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Today I got a copy of Ubuntu 9.10 and installed one of my friends PC.

Then he asked me to install compiz & compiz fusion plugins in his pc.

I check the network ( Internet )and it was working fine.

first I updated.

$sudo apt-get update

the update worked fine.

then install ccsm

$sudo aptitude install simple-ccsm

He had a Nvidia AGP graphics card, so installed Nvidia drivers

$sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-173 nvidia-173-kernel-source nvidia-glx-173-dev nvidia-settings

After installation went to System/Administration/Hardware Drivers

Then the system searched for available drivers and i choosed the recommended Nvidia accelerated graphics driver (version 173) option from the list and then activated the driver by clicking Activate button.

Restart the system, so that the new nVidia graphic display driver will be ready for use.

Then enabled the desktop effects by clicking System/Preferences/Appearance and on the Visual Effects tab, selected Normal .

Run Compiz :

To run Compiz for the current session, hold Alt, then press F2, then enter the command

compiz –replace

Configure :

To configure Compiz and associated plugins, hold Alt, then press F2, then enter the command

ccsm

My friend become very happy after using Desktop Effects in Ubuntu 9.10.

After reading this you too will be enjoy using Desktop Effects in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala).

Dr. Oliver Diedrich
30 October 2009

It’s been a long time since the developers made so many changes in Ubuntu: With Karmic Koala, they have unleashed a whole host of innovations on Ubuntu users.

While recent Ubuntu releases have been more about careful enhancement and distribution maintenance, the current version 9.10 offers a new look as well as a whole range of new technical features – the developers have restructured the distribution’s standard filesystem, boot system and hardware maintenance, and they have introduced new software. Not everything is completely new; many changes were introduced into Ubuntu as part of a gradual development process and have now reached the maturity required for general use.

Changes start at the filesystem level: Ubuntu 9.10 now installs itself on Ext4 by default; in previous versions, users still had to access the text-based installer on the Alternate Installation CD and partition manually to use the Ext3 successor. A tip for those who like to experiment: While Btrfs is available in Ubuntu 9.10, it hasn’t yet made it into the installer – if you want to play around with the “next generation filesystem” for Linux, you have to install it manually.

With the switch to Ext4, the Ubuntu developers also updated the default boot manager, which is now Grub2. The new boot manager in Ubuntu 9.10 is visually the same, but offers several extended features: For instance, it can start the Linux kernel not only from Ext4, but also from LVM and RAID partitions. However, the installation of the latter two is still not supported in the graphic installation wizard of the standard desktop CD, and has to be done via the text-based installer on the Alternate CD.

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I received a comment on my post “How to play YouTube Video in Ubuntu 9.04?” from jaleshd@gmail.com on August 26, 2009.

The Comment was -
when i click on a video to view it, it says -’could not open location. you may not have permission to open the file. ‘

Then I had doubt it could be due to the wireless network, because now a days most of the people started using Laptops rather than using a Desktop PC. Most of the laptops have In-build wireless, which makes people easy to access network where ever they go.

I had never received such a error because I was using wired Internet connection.

Then I started Google, relating to that of wireless network and then found it is a bug and it has been resolved.

just refer : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/323649

How did the problem solved ?

Download Patch to totem-plugins-2.26.1-0ubuntu5/youtube.py (565 bytes, text/plain) to desktop.

Copied the patch to /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube

$ cd /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube

$ sudo cp /home/user/Desktop/totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch .

Then patch the file youtube.py with totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch

$ sudo patch /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube/youtube.py totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch

Thus the patch fixes the error
”Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file.” .

Now it works fine.

* I Thank all comments and credit for all my efforts to keep going.
For more info refer : How to play YouTube Video in Ubuntu 9.04?

GNU is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. Its name is a recursive acronym for GNU’s Not Unix.

It was chosen because its design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and by not containing any Unix code.

The logo for GNU is a gnu head

GNU Head logo originally created by Etienne Suvasa.

GNU is developed by the GNU Project and the development of GNU was initiated by Richard Stallman and then publicly announced as GNU operating system on September 27, 1983, which was the original focus of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

Richard Stallman wanted computer users to be “free”, as most were in the 1960s and 1970s — free to study the source code of the software they use, free to share the software with other people, free to modify the behavior of the software, and free to publish their modified versions of the software.

The goal was to bring a free software operating system into existence.

To Know more about GNU

Today I’m going to write about some of the best Video editing tools for Ubuntu Linux and there are tens of third party software for Linux you can use to add effects to your videos and do a lot more.

AvideMUX

AvideMUX is one of the most widely used Video application for Ubuntu Linux. It allows you to easily cut, filter and encode your tasks. It supports all the major video formats including AVI, DVD compatible MPEGfiles, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs.

These tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.

Download Avidemux

CinePaint

CinePaint is an easy to use Ubuntu Video application that has a support for 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit color channels of deep paint. It offers High Dynamic Range that allows images to go brighter than white.

It is often used to retouch feature films and in pro photography. It can also be used for motion picture for frame-by-frame retouching, dirt removal, wire rig removal, render repair, background plates, and painting 3D model textures.

Cinelerra

A Video editor and compositor for Ubuntu Linux that offers 3 major features including capturing, compositing,  and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy.

Download CineLerra

Kino

Kino features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capturing videos, VTR control and recording back to the camera. It allows you to load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list.

Also, Kino can export the composite movie in a number of formats: DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. Still frame import and export uses gdk-pixbuf, which has support for BMG, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PPM, SVG, Targa, TIFF, and XPM. MP3 requires lame. Ogg Vorbis requires oggenc. MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 require mjpegtools or ffmpeg. MPEG-4 requires ffmpeg.

Key features include

• Capturing
• Editing
• Export
• special effects
• video filters
• Video transitions
• Audio filters and
• Audio Transitions

Download Kine

Jahshaka

A video editor with the ability to edit with flexibility and speed. Jahshaka allows you to create effect in real time and animate with unlimited features.

Download Jahshaka

Slideshow Creator

With Slideshow Creator and dvd-slideshow you can transform your pictures in a beautiful dvd-quality slide show rich of fascinating effects like ken burns, pan and  animated transitions. Adding a musical soundtrack too you will have a really cool result!

Key features include

• Slideshow Time and Audio Time
• Music Prelistening in every Row
• Subwindow Zooming Preview
• Direct Create slide show and Preview
• Selection only Create and preview

Download Slideshow Creator

LiVES

LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non linear editing in one application. It allows you to start editing and making your videos right away without having to worry about formats, frame sizes and framerates.

It offers tons of features and offers you to record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away as a new clip.

Download LiVES

Vivia

Vivia is a video editing program for Linux and Windows that offers very user-friendly editing of DV video materia. It allows you to arrange your clips for your movie using TimeLine feature. ou can add a clip to your movie by dragging a file from the Files window onto the Timeline. You can edit a clip directly on the Timeline with the tools that appear when a clip is selected.

Key features include

• Efficient and easy editing of clips and transitions
• “Multi-cam” edit mode: support for natural editing of scenes that were recorded by multiple cameras simultaneously, as is typical in music videos and interviews
• Support for multiple “scenes” in a single movie project

Download Vivia

KDEnlive

KDEnlive is a free open source video editor for Linux that is also available for various desktop managers in Linux. It supports a wide variety of file formats, as well as a wide range of camcorders and cameras.

Just like LiVES, it allows multitrack editing of unlimited video and audio tracks.

Download KDEnlive

FFmpeg

FFmpeg is another open source video editor for Linux that allows you to record, convert and stream audio and video. FFmped is a command line tool that is composed of a collection of open-source libraries. With these sets of libraries, one can easily record, convert and stream digital audio/video in numerous formats.

Download FFmpeg

Thanks to techcity

There are a lot of tutorials out on “t3h 1nt3rw3bZ” that show various different filter effects in GIMP and specifically how to do cartoon-like effects. That said, none of the ones that I came across on my search, nay trek, bore visually pleasing fruit … at least not for me.

So, as I usually do when I’m waisting time when I should be marking student assignments or more importantly, spending time with my wife and new daughter, I decided to start playing in GIMP and after many failed attempts I came across what I deemed to be a sort of graphic art-like effect; it’s not necessarily cartoon-like, but it is cartoony and I liked the effect and decided to write it down.

Of course I realized that I would probably lose the sheet of paper I wrote these set of steps down onto and so decided that I would use Linus Torvalds’ philosophy which is:

“Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it “

This isn’t FTP, but it’s the same idea no doubt.

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Thanks to arron-ferguson

Audio / Video Encoding Guide

This is a guide on how to encode audio / video in which you will find some tips & tricks for using FFmpeg and other tools.

Video Size and Aspect Ratio

iPhone:

DV NTSC video

Upload to Youtube and Vimeo

HD, Blu-Ray, AVCHD

Frames Per Second

Video encoding with FFmpeg

Config for X264

Location of presets in Windows:

C:\usr\share\ffmpeg

Location of presets on Linux:

\usr\share\ffmpeg

High Quality 2 Pass

ffmpeg -y -i INPUT -r 30000/1001 -b 2M -bt 4M -vcodec libx264 -pass 1 -vpre fastfirstpass -an output.mp4ffmpeg -y -i INPUT -r 30000/1001 -b 2M -bt 4M -vcodec libx264 -pass 2 -vpre hq -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 48000 -ab 192k output.mp4

iPod iPhone-width 320

ffmpeg -i INPUT -s 320x240 -r 30000/1001 -b 200k -bt 240k -vcodec libx264 -vpre ipod320 -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 48000 -ab 192k output.mp4

iPod iPhone-width 640

ffmpeg -i INPUT -s 640x480 -r 30000/1001 -b 200k -bt 240k -vcodec libx264 -vpre ipod640 -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 48000 -ab 192k output.mp4

High quality, 2 pass without preconfiguration

ffmpeg -y -i input -r 24000/1001 -b 6144k -bt 8192k -vcodec libx264 -pass 1 <i>-flags +loop -me_method dia -g 250 -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -bf 16 -b_strategy 1 -i_qfactor 0.71 -cmp +chroma -subq 1 -me_range 16 -coder 1 -sc_threshold 40 -flags2 -bpyramid-wpred-mixed_refs-dct8x8+fastpskip -keyint_min 25 -refs 1 -trellis 0 -directpred 1 -partitions -parti8x8-parti4x4-partp8x8-partp4x4-partb8x8</i>-an output.mp4
ffmpeg -y -i input -r 24000/1001 -b 6144k -bt 8192k -vcodec libx264 -pass 2 <i>-flags +loop -me_method umh -g 250 -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -bf 16 -b_strategy 1 -i_qfactor 0.71 -cmp +chroma -subq 8 -me_range 16 -coder 1 -sc_threshold 40 -flags2 +bpyramid+wpred+mixed_refs+dct8x8+fastpskip -keyint_min 25 -refs 4 -trellis 1 -directpred 3 -partitions +parti8x8+parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8</i>-acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 128k output.mp4

iPod, iPhone 320 off, without preconfiguration

ffmpeg -i INPUT -s 320x240 -r 30000/1001 -b 200k -bt 240k -vcodec libx264 <i>-coder 0 -bf 0 -flags2 -wpred-dct8x8 -level 13 -maxrate 768k -bufsize 3M</i>-acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 48000 -ab 192k output.mp4

iPod, iPhone 640 off, without preconfiguration

ffmpeg -i INPUT -s 320x240 -r 30000/1001 -b 200k -bt 240k -vcodec libx264 <i>coder 0 -bf 0 -refs 1 -flags2 -wpred-dct8x8 -level 30 -maxrate 10M</i> -bufsize 10M-acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 48000 -ab 192k output.mp4

iPod, iPhone, custom 2 pass

ffmpeg -y -i input -r 30000/1001 -s 480x272 -aspect 480:272 -vcodec libx264 -b 512k -bt 1024k -maxrate 4M -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -me_range 16 -g 300 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -rc_eq "blurCplx^(1-qComp)" -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -coder 0 -refs 1 -bufsize 4M -level 21 -partitions parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -subq 5 -f mp4 -pass 1 -an -title "Title" output.mp4
ffmpeg -y -i input -r 30000/1001 -s 480x272 -aspect 480:272 -vcodec libx264 -b 512k -bt 1024k -maxrate 4M -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -me_range 16 -g 300 keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -rc_eq "blurCplx^(1-qComp)" -qcomp 0.6 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 -coder 0 -refs 1 -bufsize 4M -level 21 -partitions parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -subq 5 -f mp4 -pass 2 -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 128k -title "Title" output.mp4

DV Video

To DV

ffmpeg -i input -target ntsc-dv -aspect 4:3 -y output.dv

Audio

AAC Stereo High Quality

-acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 48000 -ab 192k

AAC Stereo Standard Quality

-acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 128k

High Quality AAC 5.1

-acodec libfaac -ac 6 -ar 48000 -ab 448k

Low Quality AAC 5.1

-acodec libfaac -ac 6 -ar 44100 -ab 224k

AAC AC3 (Recommended: use AviSynth for mapping channel)

ffmpeg -i intput.aac -vn -acodec ac3 -ac 6 -ar 48000 -ab 448k

AC3 to M4V (Mux to be open in another application)

ffmpeg -i input.ac3 -vn -acodec copy output.m4v

AC3 to AAC (does not work as expected)

ffmpeg -i input.ac3 -vn -r 30000/1001 -acodec libfaac -ac 6 -ar 48000 -ab 448k output.aac

Eac3To

AC3 5.1 channel mapping correction

eac3to true_hd.ac3 fixed_true_hd.ac3 -blu-ray -448

AAC to AC3

1. Open AAC in Audacity or SoundBooth

2. Export To Wav

3. Remux the Wav to Wav using FFmpeg:

   ffmpeg -i audio.wav –vn -acodec copy audio-out.wav

4. Convert to AC3 using EAC3to

   eac3to.exe audio.wav Main.ac3 -448

Other FFmpeg options

Windows builds:

http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.com/autobuilds
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205275&package_id=248632

X264 encoding guide in English by Robert Swain:

http://rob.opendot.cl/index.php/useful-stuff/ffmpeg-x264-encoding-guide

Thanks to webupd8

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One of my friend was unable to mount a 250 GB external hard disk and the disk which has NTFS file system.

With help of my friend google, I found a driver called NTFS-3G which supports read/write NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems.

it provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 file systems.

The ntfs-3g packages comes pre-installed with the newest versions of Ubuntu, but you still need to install ntfs-config

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config (or) ntfs-3g

sudo mkdir /media/sdb1

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1

ls -la /media/sdb1

that’s it.

Now you can start 250 GB external hard disk and the disk which has NTFS file system.