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I’ve written a script that dumps the audio and video from an mkv file, encodes the audio into a two channel AAC stream, and remuxes the audio/video into a MP4 wrapper so it’s playable on the Xbox 360. The script is Linux-only, obviously, written in bash using mplayer, normalize-audio, mencoder, MP4Box, mkvinfo, and mkvextract [...]

Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Phil Dufault
Filed under: Gentoo, Linux, Ubuntu | 13 Comments »

I’ve got to say, I’ve wanted to know this command for a good 3 years.
The ability to know what BIOS version you’re using without rebooting the computer is invaluable to the lazy — at last I’ve found my grail:
dmidecode -s bios-version
dmidecode appears to be a handy command for probing around in hardware, coupled with lshw, [...]

Posted on October 16th, 2007 by Phil Dufault
Filed under: Linux | No Comments »