Tag Archives: multimedia

HPR: Shot of Hack – Changing the time offset of a series of photos.

The problem: You have a series of photos where the time is offset from the correct time but is still correct in relation to each other.   Here are a few of the times that I’ve needed to do this: … Continue reading

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Wikipedia text to speech

A do it yourself Wikipedia text to speech tool from the command line using wget, html2text, espeak and ffmpeg. Continue reading

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faster: a bashpodder plugin

I’ve been asked to supply the script that I use to speed up podcasts. So here it is: #!/bin/bash # v0.3 20080919 https://kenfallon.com if [ -d “${*}” ]; then cd “${*}” ls -1 2>/dev/null | while read FILE;do FILENAME=${FILE##*/} sox … Continue reading

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HPR Episode 3 tips posted.

Three bash tips from HPR 185. Progress updates with a bash loop, speeding up podcasts and copying directories with tar. Continue reading

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DVD to mp4 (h264) conversion

Following on on from what’s becoming a mini series on data archiving from the Linux command line, I want to talk about backing up DVD’s via the command line. I’m not going to insult your intelligence with the lecture about … Continue reading

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