Unfortunately, I didn't find any satisfying editing tool for my HD videos under Ubuntu -- Kino is a good tool, but it's not HD ready. There are some others, but none reaching the stability and features of say, Pinnacle Studio under Windows. I'd love to be proven wrong. However, for the time being […]
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How to Reinstall NVidia Drivers on Ubuntu
I messed up my nvidia drivers quite a bit while trying to enable vdpau, to the point openGL was not working anymore and the display was suffering from many bugs. I decided to remove and reinstall the nvidia drivers. sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg select "nv" for the first screen and […]
(Trying to) Enable VDPAU on Ubuntu
I tried to enable VDPAU, which is a NVDIA API providing hardware video decoding. The key is to use up to date drivers and VDPAU enabled software. MPlayer provides VDPAU compatibility in the latest versions. However, the Ubuntu repository only has an outdated version of mplayer. I used a 3rd party […]