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November 25th, 2007
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Anime on Ubuntu: Codecs buzz
July 28th, 2007
Trying to keep the quality of the video, I’ve noticed a growing popularity of Matroska codec pack for anime releases. Most of the video players do not support mkv format from the box, however you can download VLC player which can do it.
Otherwise, for not creating a mess in your “video & sound” category, it’d be easier just to apt-get few extra packages needed for playing most of anime movies:
sudo apt-get install libebml-dev
sudo apt-get install libmatroska-dev
sudo apt-get install libmp4v2-0 libmp4v2-dev
sudo apt-get install libmatroska-dev
sudo apt-get install libmp4v2-0 libmp4v2-dev
So you can easily run your matroska files on MPlayer or Movie Player. For VLC compilation of Matroska codecs, you can check out a full installation guide. However, the quality of playing the videos on VLC in Windows platform was better then in VLC under Linux.
Maybe, someone can advice some other solutions except writting own video drivers? 
Video Editing with Ubuntu
July 18th, 2007
I haven’t thought that it’s going to be such a headache to find some good software for Video and Audio Editing on Linux platform! At this type of software fields, you realize how much work should be done in future for Unices to reach Mac/Win multimedia platforms.
Win/Mac haters can take a deep breath, because there are no good alternatives for:
- Abode Premier
- Sony Vegas
- Sound Forge
However, I’ve managed to find the combination of Kinovd and Cinelerra. The last one appeared to be a nice video editor, even though some minor bugs arise (which were solved right away with Cinelerra helper). Here are some Ubuntu repositories for Cinelerra editor.
Enjoy editing!