VLC 1.1 which was released yesterday boasts lots of improvement and feature additions including:
GPU decoding on Windows Vista and 7, using DxVA2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2GPU decoding on GNU/Linux, using VAAPI for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2DSP decoding using OpenMax IL, for compatible embedded devicesImproved support for MKV HD, including seeking fixes, and 7.1 channels codecsSupport for new codecs, like Blu-Ray subtitles, MPEG-4 lossless and VP8For complete list of new features and improvements visit http://www.videolan.org
You can install VLC on your Ubuntu via PPA repository. Ofcourse, downloading from their site is an option but installing using repository is more convenient.
Execute the following commands in terminal to install the latest VLC player:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:c-korn/vlc && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc
This will install the latest version of VLC on your computer.
Cheers!
Yesterday I got the error:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2)
when I ran the command mysql through terminal in Ubuntu 10.10
This error can also be linked to error in phpmyadmin:
Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed.
I figured out it was due to mysqld not running. I simply did
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
to start mysql daemon. This solved the error.
