Rs 100 ISSN 0974-1054 VOLUME: 06 ISSUE: 11 January 2009 116 PAGES ISSUE# 72 T H E C O M P L E T E M A G A Z I N E O N O P E N S O U R C E Published by EFY—ISO 9001:2000 Certied India INR 100 Singapore S$ 9.5 Malaysia MYR 19 Roll Out a DVD Movie | Coding an Android Phone Dialler Free DVD Fedora 10 fire it up! Fedora Localisation Project 80 languages, and there's room for more Exclusive Interviews Paul Frields, Fedora Project Leader & Max Spevack of Community Arch team An Effortless Upgrade but is it really worth it? Fedora India Sneak-peek into India-based community PackageKit A distribution-neutral software manager Vulnerability Assessment Get started with OpenVAS How Secure is a WEP Key Hah! I can crack it within minutes Network Troubleshooting Some handy tools to get the job done Python Scripts for your home network Graph Your Network Cacti makes it oh-so-easy! [...]... with: yum install kino For my favourite tutorial you can view www yourmachines.org/tutorials/kino.html It will teach you everything that you need to know, including how to add titling to your movie ( for credits, etc), how to add black video to segregate various portions of your footage, how Let's Try  |  For U & Me Figure 4: An example menu You might also just want to make a VCD from your home movie (Maybe... the second xvid)  -oac defines the output audio format (mp3 in both cases)  -o specifies the output file name You might need to change some settings depending on your software set-up For example, you might try driver=v4l2 if it is supported on your system Your input device might be different from /dev/video0 (unlikely 20  |  January 2009  |  LINUX For You |  www.openITis.com This really is a part... restart you computer Try entering single user mode and see the Grub prompt you for a password now urpmi wvdial After installing it you can configure the /etc/wvdial.conf file as given below, but first, remember to check your dmesg to confirm your modem settings In case your computer does not recognise your device as modem, then check the dmesg for the ‘Product ID’ and ‘Vendor ID’ of the card Once you know... you would need to export a few smaller files For the DVD disc creation we would be using a small but power-packed member of the FOSS world, namely DeVeDe The following command should do the trick: DVD video has its own specific audio and video formats Before you can create a DVD that you can view on a standalone player or on your computer software, you need to encode your finished project to this format... Afterthoughts Before I leave you with dreams of your movie, let me point out some things that you could explore further Kino is capable of Firewire capture, so if you have a Firewire port and a similarly enabled video camera, you could get your footage straight from your camera to Kino DVD compatible video can be created through Kino and DeVeDe as well I’ll leave that exercise to you, if you haven’t noticed... for either would provide better quality at the cost of a bigger output file tv:// is to instruct mencoder to take the input from the TV card I suggest you experiment a little with short captures (let’s say between 10 and 20 seconds; you need to press Ctrl+C to stop the encoding) with different parameters, to see and decide for yourself what works for you before jumping headlong into a big project You. .. our edited video footage to DVD compatible video Once you are done allotting video files to all your titles, you are ready to create the DVD ISO Click the Forward button in the window from Figure 1 You will be asked for a place to store the DVD image Please heed the warning of not saving to a FAT32 partition A 22  |  January 2009  |  LINUX For You |  www.openITis.com FAT32 cannot store any file over... higher vbitrate so that you have a decent trade-off between hard disk usage and quality You ll have to run one of these commands and simultaneously play back the tape on your camcorder After that you should have your output file on your hard disk This will be your raw footage If you are uncomfortable with one large file you can manually pause the camcorder from time to time and start encoding in a different... preconfigured for easy use; and GSM multiplexing preconfigured (that is, you can have calls and SMSs coming in during a GPRS session) The distro comes as a tarball and you can download it from www.hackable1.org/hackable1/ ?C=M;O=D In order to get started, you ll require a 2 GB SD card and a card reader for your PC/ laptop Partition and format the SD card, and then simply untar the tarball onto it Your Flash... format For this you need to use the following commands: mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts \ format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 \ -af lavcresample=48000 -lavcopts \ vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:\ vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:\ aspect=4/3:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 \ -ofps 25 -o output.mpg input.format If you want output for the widescreen format, you ll have . JANUARY 2009 | LINUX FOR YOU | www.openITis.com Dear Readers, First, let me wish you all a Very Happy New Year on behalf of the entire LINUX For You team. To. the tape on your camcorder. After that you should have your output file on your hard disk. This will be your raw footage. If you are uncomfortable with