This is the fastest way to create an ipod-playable m4b file. The “drawback” is that the codec is proprietary but this is how you’d put it, it is free and the most efficient in quality and encoding.
In Fedora 9, my DVD-ROM refused to mount automatically on inserting. Attention Fedora 11 users! The below does not refer to Fedora 11, CD mount problem refers to a kernel bug which is not fixed yet, I will update this…
There is a known dysfunction of a keyboard layout switcher in GNOME – a habit of not showing a country flag. It is so much well-known that soon it is going to be even more well-known than GNOME. UPDATED
Valid for Fedora 9:
Download the latest Nero Aac MPEG4 Encoder/Decoder binary from here. Unpack, copy neroAacDec, neroAacEnc and neroAacTag to ~/bin. The below is confirmed for Fedora 9, Fedora 10 (x86_64).
This annoyance has a long history and is really funny because the same stuff is cured with different methods in different Fedora distributions. In the same time, stuff from Zend is heavily non-free, and I personally dislike the approach of…