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[SOLVED] VLC does not support the audio or video format “h.264″ on Ubuntu

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:56:23 +0000

I got the following error in VLC today while trying to play some media file: VLC does not support the audio or video format “h.264″. Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.” All other media files game same error with different codec names. I couldn’t play anything in VLC. To fix the [...] Related posts:

[SOLVED] “undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load” error in GNOME applications

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:45:28 +0000

In all GTK apps I used to get the following warnings when run from terminal: `menu_proxy_module_load': /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load (<unknown>:23888): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load type module: (null) This error was received while running Virtualbox. Though, it seems just a warning and doesn’t really change anything in the application, it does make the [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Save all flash video files being played in Chrome/Chromium to Home directory

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:22:44 +0000

After watching a video on youtube in chrome, I felt like saving it. I couldn’t find the flv in ~/.cache or in /tmp. So I dug around and found this link: http://superuser.com/questions/235535/in-google-chrome-on-linux-where-is-the-flv-if-not-in-tmp. The solution by omab worked for me. So I wrote this one line command which would save all the currently playing files in Chrome [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Stop phpmyadmin from asking username, password in localhost

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:22:32 +0000

Yesterday, I showed you how you can keep local installation of phpmyadmin from logging you out every few minutes. I took one more step and edited configuration to not ask me username, password at all. Now phpmyadmin never asks me for mysql username and password. Keep in mind if you follow this tutorial anyone would [...] Related posts:

[SOLVED] Error “undefined reference to `libiconv_open’” while compiling

Deepak Mittal — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:09:37 +0000

I was trying to compile sphinx server from source but I go the following errors on executing make undefined reference to `libiconv_open’ undefined reference to `libiconv’ undefined reference to `libiconv_close’ To fix the error, you can compile without iconv (multiple encoding support) support. Use the following commands to compile. You can add more parameters as [...] Related posts:

[SOLVED] kernel_thread_helper+0×7/0×10 during Ubuntu boot process

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:24:44 +0000

Recently, I tried installing Ubuntu on my friend’s computer. I used Maverick’s Live CD but the boot process stuck at kernel_thread_helper+0×7/0×10. I noticed a huge list of acpi errors above this message and figured it was somehow related to ACPI. To solve the problem I simply turned of ACPI. Solving the problem in Live CD: [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Use locate command and updatedb to search all partitions

Deepak Mittal — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:59:35 +0000

Updatedb command by default does not include /media path for updating its database. You can change the settings in /etc/updatedb.conf so that it starts indexing other partitions too. sudo gedit /etc/updatedb.conf In the PRUNEPATHS setting, remove /media. Save the file and run sudo updatedb This will index all your files from /media folder. Make sure [...] Related posts:

[Solved] apt-get “is to be installed” errors in Ubuntu

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:27:28 +0000

This class of error means the dependency is of different version than required. I tried to install deluge-console but it gave me the following error: deluge-console : Depends: deluge-common (= 1.3.0-0ubuntu1) but 1.3.0-1~getdeb1 is to be installed The error is not that self-explanatory. Here the deluge-common version required by deluge-console is 1.3.0-0 but 1.3.0-1 is [...] Related posts:

[Solved] Mp3 not playing on Amarok

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:24:03 +0000

After upgrading to Maverick, somehow Amarok stopped playing Mp3. Same thing happened when I upgraded to Lucid from Karmic. To fix it, install libxine1-all-plugins: sudo apt-get install libxine1-all-plugins That fixed it for me! Cheers! Related posts:[SOLVED] Media Playing issues in VLC in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat [SOLVED] Error ‘dpkg: error processing <filename> (--unpack) trying to [...] Related posts:

[HowTo] Suspend Ubuntu from terminal or keyboard shortcuts

Deepak Mittal — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 05:25:27 +0000

When learning to make bash scripts, at one point or other you’d like to know how to suspend your computer from terminal. Well, there are quite some methods available for Ubuntu. You can choose whatever suits your needs. I prefer method 3 (look below). Method 1: sudo sh /etc/acpi/sleep.sh force Method 2: sudo pm-suspend This [...] Related posts: