Google is Cracking down on android “fragmentation”
So, I was reading a blog. The link is here. Now, the title says it all. I think it is a good idea to stop the fragmentation that android has in the cell market. I think that is wonderful and there is nothing wrong with that idea. But there is something that I am missing. As far as I know, the Android OS for cell phones is released under the BSD license. I don’t now if that has change lately. But I remember reading that it BSD.
As far as I know the BSD license allows the open source code to be used by another company and what ever is build on top of or derived from that code does not have to be return to the company, like the GPL 3 license says.
My question is: why is Google now forcing companies not to make the changes that they want if in reality the software is has the BSD license?
I don’t know a lot about this subject, I just want to know why this is happening.
ttyl.
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Bangarang Music Player
So, I was thinking about the fact that I need to give a try to a new music player. I usually use Amarok for my music needs, and I love it. but I thought that maybe, there might be something else. Then all of the sudden, I came a cross a tweet on my statusnet micro-blogging about a new project called Bangarang.I got to tell you. It is not bad at all. It is light weight, and easy to use. Although, I need to say it takes some time to get use to the control. Not because it is bad, but because it is a new learning experience. Here is a couple of pics of it: 
It can also play movies, but for that, you will need to download to see it.
TTYL. 
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WordPress and Theora video and Vorbis audio Free Software formats
Well, there is a good news for those who are Free and Open Source Lovers. WordPress has finally implemented the Free formats for audio and video. That means that it can play Theora and Vorbis files. What I like the most is that the Administrator can choose just to play the Free video and audio formats. It is located on the user’s dashboard under settings media. There is an option just to choose that.
I do not know when was the time that this was implemented. But now it is set by default.
Thanks WordPress.
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Any video files to vorbis audio.
Guys, people do not know how much power they have with free and open source software, but a neat tool is out and the name is ffmpeg2theora. I wrote a little bit about it before, but this time I am going to talk about how to convert any video file into ogg Vorbis. That is the extension that end on “OGG” Well, I usually try to find out what are the bittrate for the video and audio. There are a number of ways to do that but I usually use a tool which is call “mediainfo” if you would like to go to their website just click here.
With “mediainfo” you can find out information about any about any files out there, so, install it and take advantage. Now, going back to the subject. there are files that I download from the Internet, video files I mean, and convert them to Vorbis media that is OGG file. Any how here is the code: ffmpeg2theora –novideo –no-skeleton input.videofile -o outputmusicfile.ogg . And there you have it, the sound of the file rip from it and encoded in ogg format. There are more tricks, but for that you might want to use the man pages or do ” man ffmpeg2theora”
Now, you have the power to rip any video files into OGG audio files.
The power is users. Just like Captain Planet. 
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NSA Access into Windows
Here is an article that I found on the web. I do not know how true this article is, and I can not confirm the sources. But, If this is true, I am so happy that I am using Linux and not Windows. Back to the subject. A few cryptographic keys (probably 3) were found in Microsoft windows OS.
If you want to read the whole article you can click here:
http://xianews.com/pagecache/864/
Or here:
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html
Enjoy the reading.
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The Incredible Guide to New ubuntu (PDF)
As I was browsing the web, I discover this cool blog. It has an Ubuntu Karmic Koala Bible PDF guide and I thought most of the readers of my blog might benefit from a PDF file like that. Here is the link: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-incredible-guide-to-ubuntu-karmic-koala-linux-pdf/. If you are unable to find the PDF file, or the Link is broken you might want to click here. I hope you enjoy the PDF.
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How to convert Videos files to DVD format.
Hello everyone. I am back and I would like to answer a question that I have been asked a lot. And that is, How can I convert any video files into DVD format? I want my files to play on my dvd player. How can you do that in Linux. Well, the good news you can convert any files ( that I am aware of ) into “dvd format” burn the files in a dvd and play the dvd in the dvd player. The bad news is, I know how to do that on the command line, and I am not aware of a gui that can do the same. The command is: “tovid”. The first step is to download the tool. Since I am using kubuntu I “sudo apt-get install tovid”. If you are using an OS that comes from Debian you can do the same. After that find the file that you would like to burn and play on a dvd and do the following command: tovid -dvd -in inputvideo.file -out outputvideofilename
It has been a pleasure.
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Append videos with ffmpeg
At this moment I just append a couple of videos files using ffmpeg command. I think there is such a freedom of using free and open source software. I was able append a couple of videos that were in an mp4 container with x264 video codec and mp3 audio codec. The two files were appended and the codecs were transform into free and open source formats. Isn’t that nice. You can do the same. I download them from the you tube since it was devided in 10 minutes each one. If you would like to append any video files you will have to use the following command:
ffmpeg -i input.file -i secondinput.file -i asmanyinputfileasyoulike.file -vcodec libtheora -acodec vorbis outputfile.ogv
For audio and Video Bittrate you can always you can use the -V 600kb and -A 128kb or any other value that you want. This is everything you need to have for video files in a free and opensource way, you can redistribute the video file. Isn’t this nice.
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ffmpeg2theora
What really surprises me about the Linux and OpenSource software is the amount of, free and OpenSource software there is. Most people do not have to pay unless they want to. But there is a good tool that I have found for encoding and decoding videos and that is ffmpeg2theora.
Have any of you thought about taking a video file from any format that your computer could not read, and then transforming it to a format that your computer could read. That is just a bonus. The good thing about it is that it is free and OpenSource Software, meaning that you have the right to do what ever your want with the software including looking at the source code.
It is true that that this is a command-line converter to create Theora and Vorbis file. But there are frontend out there that the regular user can use. I just like the command-line tool better.
Any how, believe it or not the basic command is: ffmpeg2theora input.file this command will make sure that you have an outpufile.ogv. After that you just have to play the file. If for some reason your program video file can not be played, download VLC.
Here is the link if you did not find it before: http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/
Just give it a try and let me know how you like it.
Remember Play Theora/OGG
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