These are some of the image i took in Maihar , The screenshot from marble show the the travel route
For more info on Maihar go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maihar

This post follows part-I of Downloading youtube videos

I tried using Ankoder for converting .flv videos to other formats but it’s not only a time involving but also a hefty concept.  Besides supporting a limited number of source websites you can convert to only few of the available file formats. You first need to login as a registered member. Yes! The registration isn’t easy at all. After the registration and logging formalities, I compared the time taken by this Ankoder as well as from some other websites that the other users use. Fetching and converting takes much of your otherwise precious time ;)  I was thus not much satisfied so thought of posting some of conversion tips in LINUX. Hail open source!

FLV -> AVI using the mencoder

mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -o video.avi video.flv

mencoder input.flv -ofps 15 -vf scale=300:-2 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:acodec=mp3:abitrate=64 -o output.avi

FLV -> MPG using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i old-file.flv new-file.mpg

ffmpeg -i videotoconvert.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320×240 output.mpg

-b bitrate: set the video bitrate in kbit/s (default = 200 kb/s)

-ab bitrate: set the audio bitrate in kbit/s (default = 64)

-ar sample rate: set the audio samplerate in Hz (default = 44100 Hz)

-s size: set frame size. The format is WxH (default 160×128 )

Ripping MP3s with mplayer

mplayer -dumpaudio old-file.flv -dumpfile new-file.mp3

You can convert the FLV files into other format too. In order to do that, install w32codecs, add this line in your repository to enable w32codecs installation (assuming you use Ubuntu Edgy Eft).

deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ edgy free non-free

deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ edgy free non-free

Here are the many e-books links, thousands of books can be found here. Most of them contain computer related e-books. I have tried to write a short description for each of the website so it’s easy for anyone to browse them easily according to their interests. All links contains download links except for the last one which has online material.

1. http://www.flazx.com // you can find almost all the computer related books , a must visit for Computer Science students.
2. http://www.giuciao.com/ //again a must visit e-books website.
3. ftp://anonymous:email%40notset.com@194.44.214.3/pub/e-books/ // again computer related books can be seen here.
4. ftp://ftp.runnet.ru/BOOKS //many computer related books + some computer certification books + one bio info book (Bioinfomatics for Geneticists).
5. http://www.linuxi.de/ebooksprogramm.html // many computer related books.
6. http://www.bridgeport.edu/sed/projects/cs503/Spring_2001/kode/os/ course on Operating Systems.
7. http://www.click-now.net/ebooks.htm // e-books on many topics like programming , novels, management, pd, etc.
8. http://www.arab-team.com/files/ebooks //many computer related books.
9. http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html //books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc.
10. http://www.geocities.com/dorothyewolfgang/Free_E-Books.html // contains many links for ebooks websites.
11. http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/index.html //Free On-line Linux Technical Books and Tutorials.

Here is excerpt of the interview..for complete interview go to http://www.kde.in/index.php/Shashank_Singh

Don’t forget to look at other interview’s too ..

• Akarsh Simha
• Gopala Krishna

Shashank Singh

• Name: Shashank Singh

• Age: 22

• Occupation: student (ex-student, if that qualifies as a valid occupation)

• IRC Nick: ShashankSingh

• Email: shashank [dot] personal [at] gmail [dot] com

• Destkop Config with OS:

OpenSuse11.0, Ubuntu 6.0.6 LTS , 945gm Intel Compaq Laptop

Contents 1 History 2 Present FOSSy activity 3 Opinions 4 Personal

History

• How did you get into GNU, Linux and FOSS in general?

I was introduced to FOSS through a friend who had been using Fedora since core 4

• Share your first encounter with FOSS (Installation, setup, etc.)

My first encounter was a complete disaster, I took upon the task of installing/using Debian on my desktop, everything went well except due to a misinterpretation on my part i lost my Windows partition and after some time i even forgot “root” password :D, it would suffice to say i was back to being a Windows user by next hour.

• What lead to a sustained continuity in FOSS after you stepped in?

Community :), that’s really what gets me attracted to any FOSS project. After my debacle with Debian I tried Open Suse [after travelling via ubuntu, fedora, Redhat 7 :)], and ever since I have been using it.

• A funny instance during your initial days of computing with FOSS / computers (complimentary to second question)

My first encounter could be actually considered funny, [specailly forgetting root password]

Google Summer of code is nearing it’s end at least for us student’s
august 18 is final pen down date , and after that our mentors would be busy reviewing and stuff..
so i am working on final phase of my work , wikipedia integration . I have a telephonic interview today for Job Position in Geodesic . Let’s see what comes out this job interview so wish me luck .
for other news i have started studying Linux Kernel 0.0.1 ,, yeah you heard me correct total 10,000 lines code of pure coding ecstasy , okay okay that was a hyperbole :).
In any case i will review the code and put what i can decipher from it in a Blog post , so wait for that grand post marking my first foray into kernel land from user space ; though i am unable to find linker “gas” for it ..and don’t think i would be able to compile it but surely i would try.
do drop comment if you know how i can compile it successfully..keeping in mind i have gcc 4.3.1 which complains about some flags while compiling kernel 001,,which are now non existent and “Gas” is also missing .