June 2012 |
Apple trackpads don't have separate buttons, the entire trackpad is itself a clickable button. The default OS X behaviour is to treat clicking the pad with two fingers as the right button, and clicking the pad with three fingers as the middle button. Enabling tap to click (i.e. touching the trackpad but not actually clicking it) tends to result in false positives since the trackpad is so big. I therefore setup this behaviour under Ubuntu Oneiric. When I upgraded to Ubuntu Precise two finger clicks started registering as the left button. (Three finger clicks still worked.) It turns out that this is due to the new clickpad support in Precise. The solution is to disable the
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I recorded some presentations at work recently using a Canon Vixia HF R21 video camera, and needed to encode the videos to lower resolution. It took me longer to figure this out than I expected, so I thought that I'd document the details. InputThe camera exposes an MTP interface when plugged in using USB, and the video
files are stored under EncodingThe best codecs in terms of storage space efficient seem to be H.264 and AAC, so that's what I chose to encode the output in. I wanted a good quality version at 720p, and a lower quality version at 480p. Since these were presentations, single channel audio is sufficient. I tried using both libav (previously ffmpeg) and mencoder and had trouble with both, but eventually got libav working. Good qualityThe command I used for good quality was:
Audio is reduced to mono and encoded in AAC at 128kbps. Video is resized to
1280x720, deinterlaced, and encoded in H.264 with the default quality
settings. To adjust the quality one can use the On my Intel Core2 Duo P8600 this encoded at 10fps with a video bitrate of
700kbps and audio bitrate of 83kbps. This puts an hour of video at 339MiB.
Adding Low qualityThe command I used for low quality was:
Audio is encoded the same as above. Video is resized to 848x480, deinterlaced and encoded in H.264. Apparently codecs are more efficient when the resolutions are a multiple of 16 which is why the video is resized to 854 and then reduced to 848. This encoded at 20fps with a video bitrate of 300kbps and audio bitrate of 83kbps. This puts an hour of video at 165MiB.
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