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Moovida – Adavanced Media Centre in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 16th June 2009

Moovida, previously known as Elisa is a free open source media player for Linux and Windows. Moovida brings together all your movies, music, TV shows, tunes and photos , internet videos/music/images etc in one simple innovative interface making it more a feature rich Media Centre than a simple Media player. You can play all your media on your PC, Laptop or even your HDTV.
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PeaZip – Crossplatform File Archiver Manager in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 16th June 2009

PeaZip is a free flexible opensource File and Archive Manager for Linux and Windows. PeaZip can create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP archives and can extract upto 87 types of archive including all the mainstream popular archive formats.

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Create thumbnails from your videos using ffmpegthumbnailer

Posted by admin on 16th June 2009

ffmpegthumbnailer, as the name suggests, is a free opensource command line utility licensed under (GPL v2) to create thumbnails in JPG or PNG format for your video files of formats that are supported by ffmpeg. The thumbnailer uses ffmpeg to decode frames from the video files, so supported videoformats depend on the configuration flags of ffmpeg.

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Capivara – Twin panel advanced File Manager

Posted by admin on 16th June 2009

Capivara is a two pane file manager with remote synchronization support using SFTP and FTP. Capivara  synchronization adds features like comparing timestamps or SHA-1 hash values and has a preview mode to shos which files are going to be deleted or copied. Because Capivara is Java based and all it requries is a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) it can run on multiple platforms like Linux, Solaris, Unix, Solaris, Mac OSX and windows.

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openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 step by step install procedure

Posted by admin on 11th June 2009

While openSUSE 11.1 has settled down, the development has gathered pace with the openSUSE 11.2 MileStone 2 already released out to the public testing. Sorry, just couldn’t catch the Milestone 1 in time for your readers.

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