I’m trying to change the permissions to my key file key.pem in Cygwin 1.7.11. It has the permissions flags: -rw-rw—- chmod -c 600 key.pem Reports: mode of ‘key.pem’ changed from 0660 (rw-rw—-) to 0600 (rw——-) However: ls -l key.pem still reports key.pem’s permission flags are still: -rw-rw—- This reason why I’m asking is…
I would like to share a folder from a Linux Guest with a Windows host (with read and write access if possible) in VirtualBox. I read in these two links: here and here that it’s possible to do this using Samba, but I am a little bit lost and need more information on how to…
I need to fill an excel column with a sequential series, in this case from -500 to 1000. I’ve got a macro to do it, but it takes a lot of lines for something that seems like it should be a single function [something like FillRange(A2:A1502, -500, 1000, 1)]. But if that function exists, I…
Sometimes I need to work on EXTREMELY large text files. 200-300 megs or more. My favorite text editor on my MacBook Pro is TextMate. However, TM chokes on very large text files. Even ones around the 100MB mark. Is there a text editor that can handle such files for Snow Leopard? Thanks! Solution: Vim….
Instead of providing a fixed frame rate to FFMPEG/libx264 (-r/-framerate), I would like to specify a variable frame rate with a MAXIMUM value, and allow libx264 to down the frame rate as it sees fit. The idea here is to get extra compression when there is something like an extended still frame (which happens A…
I’m trying to create a basic 5 second zoompan to the center of an image (from the example on the ffmpeg.org website). The command below works, but jitters more than my hands after 5 cups of coffee: ffmpeg -framerate 25 -loop 1 -i island.jpg -filter_complex “[0:v]scale=-2:480,zoompan=z=’min(zoom+0.0015,1.5)’:x=’iw/2-(iw/zoom/2)’:y=’ih/2-(ih/zoom/2)’:d=125,trim=duration=5[v]” -map “[v]” -y out.mp4 Input jpg. Output mp4. I’m…
To convert an MKV to AVI, I do two things. The first thing I do is this: ffmpeg -i filename.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.avi or this: ffmpeg -i filename.mkv -sameq -acodec copy output.avi Either of these will convert the MKV to an AVI, but the problem is that the video does not play smoothly…
I am watching a Flash stream. I can watch the same stream in two different players (set up by someone else), but I don’t like any of them. Is there a way I can find/get/extract the direct link to the flash stream that those two players are playing? So that I can watch it using…
I have an avi and corresponding .srt file for subtitles. I hate having two files for this movie, so what I want to do is convert this file to mkv as I heard it can hold subtitles. I have handbrake to convert the file, but will that allow me to include the subtitles? If not,…
I have two halves of a single show in two .MP4 files, encoded in H264. I would like to join them without re-encoding. Is this possible? I managed to create a joined video as a Quicktime file (.mov) using Quicktime Pro, but then Quicktime Pro will not convert it back to .MP4 without re-encoding. This…
