My bit torrent client of choice is rtorrent, which runs from the command line. I have been using it without problems for months, but today it stopped working and gave an error instead: rtorrent: Error in option file: ~/.rtorrent.rc:4: Not a value It seems that the rtorrent developers have made some changes to the way [...]

phpMyAdmin To install the advanced features of phpMyAdmin you have to create a special control database that PMA uses to store bookmarks and relationships etc… PMA comes with a script called create_tables.sql that contains the relevant sql statements to set these tables up. Normally, when you install phpMyAdmin directly from source, this create_tables.sql script can [...]

If you already have ffmpeg installed (without mp3 support), then firstly uninstall it. MP3 support isn’t included with ffmpeg in the default Ubuntu repositories so to get it you have to enable the Medibuntu repos (assuming this is legal in your area). sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O – | sudo apt-key [...]

If you liked my last post on how to save real player streams and convert them to mpeg 4 avi files, then you might find this post useful. Today I needed to save a real player stream of last night’s 10 o’clock news from the BBC and then convert it into an xvid file. I [...]

You will need mplayer and mencoder, as well as the win32 codecs in order to convert .rm files to their mpeg equivalent. So if you haven’t already got them installed you can get them with: sudo apt-get install mplayer mencoder wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2 tar jxfv essential-20071007.tar.bz2 sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/win32 sudo mv -i essential-20071007/* /usr/lib/win32/ Next [...]