Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Virtualbox and Linux

Just tried Virtualbox on Jaunty. What a surprise, the performance is a lot better than I expected. The machine I am running is a bit dated, a 2.66GHz P4. Windows is running a lot smoother than Windows running natively on my IBM Thinkpad. Okay, the Thinkpad is only with 2.0GHz Celeron, not a record breaking machine. But, come on, after all, it is running on emulation. I am more than impressed.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Virtualbox and Graphics Acceleration

Wow, just found out Compiz works now on VirtualBox setup ... cool

name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: Chromium
server glx version string: 1.2 Chromium

Jaunty

I have just upgrade from 8.04 LTS to 9.04. I have two desktop, a laptop and two virtual machines, and they all have gone through the upgrade without a problem! The new version seems a bit faster.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Joining MTS files

I have this video which come in as MTS files. I have been looking for software that I can join them together into a single HD video file so I can convert it to a more standard SD video (it is a SD TV program taped in HD. Since the film wasn't a recent TV program, it is just one of these SD program recorded in HD) Today, I finally found one, and it is called tsMuxeR from SmartLabs. I have successfully joint 90 MTS files into a single ts file, so I can use Handbrake to convert it into a MKV file.