Monday, October 27, 2008

Extract audio stream from a video file by "mencoder"


mplayer -vc null -vo null -ao pcm -benchmark test.avi


Thursday, October 23, 2008

Skype crashes in VitualBox


This is a bug in skype (or maybe intentional by skype people). However using an older version saves the day :: http://www.filehippo.com/download_skype/4090/

latest version that works :: Skype 3.8.0.115


Wednesday, October 22, 2008

X forwarding problem on Debian/Etch


  1. check /etc/ssh/sshd_config : X11Forwarding yes
  2. apt-get install xbase-clients

ssh -X username@hostname should forward X applications properly now ;)