• Try this updated post instead… AMV files in Linux – revisited

    !STOP PRESS!
    I’ve also created an online version of this conversion script that handles YouTube URLs as well as files uploaded from your […]

  • Try this updated post instead… AMV files in Linux – revisited

    Please also read this update, thanks.

    ***If you just want conversion software without the story click Linux avi-amv Converter to get to the […]

  • ThumbnailI just did a re-write of one of my most popular hits on this blog. It was all documented in the comments of the script’s page but it’s a bit of a mess so here’s the definitive step-by-step walkthrough to […]

  • billy commented on the post, PHP Unzipper, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 2 months, 2 weeks ago

    would be simple to modify, just alter the line (I think line 18)

    system('unzip -o ' . $file);

    so that it reads

    system('tar -zxvf ' . $file);

    Then, so it presents a list of tar.gz tarballs in the […]

  • billy commented on the post, PHP Unzipper, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 3 months, 4 weeks ago

    Hi Makarand, as per the response above this is sometimes the case. If you’re on shared hosting or something where you’re unable to access your php ini settings you’ll be unable to turn this function on I’m afraid. […]

  • billy commented on the post, iTeddy Stuff, on the site Billy's Blog of Geekery 4 months ago

    Heh, glad to have helped, the (bakelite style)plastic they used to make that component is of really brittle poor quality, if you’ve not already found out this is probably a temporary fix I’m afraid… My […]

  • billy commented on the blog post Linux Video Converter 4 months, 1 week ago

    Heya, no you’re quite right about the spaces in the filename thing, if you’re doing only single files you can put quotes around the %M thus: “%M% and that should deal with it, this won’t allow multiple files to be converted tho. :o ( I did a re-write of all this to hopefully make a clearer [...]

  • billy commented on the blog post Linux Video Converter 4 months, 1 week ago

    hi richard, check out my replies below… Thanks for getting me onto this. It’s been so long since I did any multimedia stuff I’d even lost the amv ffmpeg build from my own machine… glad I wrote this post tbh! ;oP Hopefully what I have below will do you nicely… (skip the first bit of [...]

  • billy commented on the blog post Linux Video Converter 4 months, 1 week ago

    #!/bin/bash for uri in $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_URIS; do INFILE=$uri FORMAT=${INFILE:(-4)} OUTFILE=${INFILE/$FORMAT/.amv} if then cd ~/amv-codec-tools/AMVmuxer ; ./ffmpeg/ffmpeg -i "$INFILE" -f amv -r 16 -s 160x120 -ac 1 -ar 22050 -qmin 3 -qmax 3 "$OUTFILE" ; zenity --title "$FORMAT to .amv File Conversion Complete" --info…[Read more]

  • billy commented on the blog post Linux Video Converter 4 months, 1 week ago

    ah, xdialog was dropped from ubuntu…

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1476889

    I’ll need to do a re-write for zenity eh…

  • billy commented on the blog post Linux Video Converter 4 months, 1 week ago

    try… open ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts create a new file, call it whatever you like, I suggest “convert to amv” or something type in the following lines and make it executable, then right click on a file and you should have “convert to amv” listed under scripts, click it and wa-hey… #!/bin/bash for uri in $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_URIS; do…[Read more]

  • billy commented on the blog post NT News 4 months, 1 week ago

    yw! ;o)

  • billy wrote a new blog post: NT News 4 months, 1 week ago

    ThumbnailIn a similar vein to my last post I’ve had a request from my very dear friend @Rantz to do something along the same lines for the Northern Territory’s favourite chip-wrapper. So I did… If anyone else would like their own piss-take re-branding of a site they like/loath feel free to drop me a line but for now [...]

  • ThumbnailI’ve created a quick tongue in cheek user script to help folks remember what the P&J is all about. Install it and navigate to any P&J page Download (Downloaded times) The download link should ask to install it on Chrome. In Firefox with Greasemonkey installed it should show the script with a button on the top right to install. [...]

  • billy wrote a new blog post: Custom smilies 5 months ago

    Thumbnail{EAV_BLOG_VER:6e99e91f183f7014} I use my own smilies around the web but I always forget the full link to the pics whenever I’m posting to a forum or whatever. I don’t need to remember them though as a long time ago I made the script below, saved it as index.php and put it in the folder where I [...]

  • billy commented on the blog post PHP Unzipper 5 months ago

    Hi Seth, this error is due to a security setting, in the php.ini file you can set a list of functions to be disabled. By coincidence I only recently turned this on in my own servers too. Many hosts will not permit the system() function to be executed as this can give PHP access to [...]

  • ThumbnailI recently tried to follow this link and was met with the equivalent of a 403! I was like, “I’m not having that!” and was about to turn on my VPN when I thought, “my webserver’s located in the states, why not just make a proxy?” So I did a very, very, simple web proxy… <!doctype html> <html [...]

  • A recent update to firebug moved the icon to open the console to the top right of firefox. Everyone hates it as far as I am aware and there’s no setting to alter it. However you can do the following… Right-click in the bottom bar or near the firebug icon to get a menu Select “Customise…” Ignoring the [...]

  • billy commented on the blog post PHP Unzipper 5 months, 2 weeks ago

    Oh, I just realised what you asked wasn’t exactly what I answered. The answer is still ‘yes’ but I’m not sure I’d like to make such a script. Immediately I can see issue with overwriting and accidental extraction littering a server. Also many files are kept as zips on a server and only expanded at [...]

  • billy commented on the blog post PHP Unzipper 5 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hi James, thanks for the praise! Yes I don’t see why this wouldn’t be possible. Instead of a radio button we could have a checkbox system, then an array of selections would be passed to the script and we could loop through, running the command for each file(zip). I’ll have a look at this. Incidentally [...]

  • Load More