What tool can I use to to rip DVD movies? I have used “Dr. DivX” long back. Is there any better tool to rip DVDs? Solution: Handbrake HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Input: Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD…
I want to encode a video file to H.265. The last version of ffmpeg should be support H.265 (Source). However, I could not find any information about the exact command. I do not know, which library I should indicate after -vcodec. I use the lastest Zeranoe FFmpeg Build (git-c78a416 (2013-10-26)). Solution: Background FFmpeg supports encoding…
New with Windows 10 seems to be the Notification Area. Now, I’ve seen a few notifications (in the Action Center). The problem is that I haven’t understood any of them (actively using computers for 30 years now), and once I click them they are gone. Is there any way to view these past user notifications…
How can I navigate to a file or folder in NERDTree and change the working directory to that folder (or the folder containining the file I’m on). I know it’s possible to keep NERDTree in sync with the NERDTree root (nerdtree and current directory), but I’m looking for a macro or something that would change…
I’m surprised to still NOT see a build in feature to be able to utilized more then one desktop! I mean every popular OS has it build in! Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and I’m pretty sure many others… that’s really sad! any suggestions what would be a good suggestion for that? Solution: There…
My co-worker has an old Mac, and needs to test something on Windows. His Mac is not powerful enough to run a VM, so he needs the ones I have. I have a few VMs that fit his needs.The solution I thought of was for me to host the VMs, and for him to connect…
I have a live image of ubuntu, and I will be using it for programming. It came with a book, and the book mentions that it has to be used on a x86 based-processor. I have an AMD64 processor, so my question is will this difference affect any of my programming if I run the…
I would like to make a VirtualBox .vdi image out of my hard drive. I’ve found howto’s online that describe doing this by first usind DD to create a .raw image, then using VBoxManage to convert the .raw to a .vdi. SO if my HD is 1 TB, this process (temporarily) requires 2TB of space,…
I’d like to provide a guest OS with multiple CPUs in VirtualBox. My host machine is a quad core HP Compaq and uses the Intel Core 2 vPro hardware. However, when I try to enable the setting in vbox, I get an error that VT-x is not available. Is this something that I can enable…
In a nutshell, i have a VM that ran out of space. I increased the size of the VM’s harddrive to be 4 times bigger but the OS partition is still only using 1x the space. I need to change the LVM partition to take up the extra 4x space but I don’t know how…
