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Fri, Jul 05, 2024 8:57 pm
Selecting an Audio Track Language When Playing a Video with Windows Media Player
If you have a video file with multiple language audio tracks stored within it
and need to change from the default audio track, say Italian, to another track,
e.g., English, you can do so on a Microsoft Windows system, such as a Windows
11 system, using the default audio-video application that comes with
the Windows 11 operating system,
Windows Media
Player (WMP) 2022. To change the language for a video that contains multiple
language audio tracks, move the mouse pointer to the first icon on the right
at the bottom of the Windows Media Player window (it is a rectangle with a few
short horizontal lines at the bottom of the rectangle); you should see
"Languages and subtitles (Ctrl+L)" appear when you move the mouse pointer
to it.
Or you can just hit Ctrl-L, i.e., the Ctrl and
L keys simultaneously, to bring up the option to select the
language for the audio associated with the video.
The menu that appears that allows you to pick a language
also allows you to choose a subtitle file, such as a .srt
file, if you have one for the video.
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Fri, Aug 12, 2016 10:41 pm
Installing Amarok on a CentOS system
If you would like to have a
free and open
source,
cross-platform, music player for use on a Linux system,
Amarok
, which was created by Mark Kretschmann, provides the capability to play
various audio media files, such as MP3, FLAC, Ogg, AAC, etc. It also allows
you to stream online music from services such as
Jamendo,
Shoutcast, etc.
To install Amarok on a CentOS Linux system using the
yum package management utility, you will first need to
configure the system to
check the EPEL repository for packages. Once you have done that, you can
issue the command yum install amarok from the root account to
install the software.
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Wed, Apr 20, 2016 9:44 pm
QuickTime Player Crashing When Attempting to Save Recording
I recorded the audio for a talk on a subject of interest to me using
QuickTime Player version 10.4 (833.7) on my MacBook Pro laptop running OS X
10.10.5 (Yosemite). At the end of the talk, I stopped the recording
and clicked on
File and then
Save to save the audio
recording to the system's hard disk drive. When I did so, QuickTime
crashed. I sent the
report to Apple.
Looking at the details for the report, I saw the cause listed as
follows:
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'Cannot set outputURL to NULL'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called
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Sat, Feb 20, 2016 10:43 pm
Listening to Jamendo artists through VLC
The
VLC media player, which is a
free and open-source media player available for the
Windows, OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris, Android, iOS, Chrome OS, Windows Phone,
QNX, Haiku, Syllable, and OS/2 operating systems provides a
convenient means to acces free music from
Jamendo,
a community of independent artists and music lovers that bills itself as
"the world's largest digital service for free music".
As of January 2015, Jamendo listed 460,000 tracks with more than 250 million
downloads since the launch of the platform. Jamendo is a
portmanteau
of "jam session" and "crescendo".
The music provided through Jamendo is free for personal use, so you can
download songs musicians have provided through the service legally. Jamendo's
goal is to link artists who want to share their music and music lovers around
the world. Jamendo provides an opportunity for the musicians that provide
their music to Jamendo to obtain revenue from
music synchronization licensing, i.e., the licensing of the right to
synchronize the music with visual media, such as film, television shows,
advertistements, video games, website music, movie trailers, etc., and through
licensing the music to be used as
background music
for films, TV, Internet video, such as
video
logs, aka vlogs, etc.
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Tue, Nov 03, 2015 9:54 pm
Converting audio/video files to another format with VLC
The
free
and open-source (FOSS)
VLC program can be used to convert audio and video files from one format
to another. VLC is a cross-platform, audio/video (A/V) program that is
available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS systems.
VLC originated as an academic project in 1996. It was rewritten from
scractch in 1998 and released under the
GNU
General Public License (GPL) in 2001 - see the Wikipedia article
VLC media player
for further details on the development history for the application.
Steps for converting a file from one format to another, e.g., a FLAC
audio file to an MP3 audio format are provided
here.
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Sat, Oct 10, 2015 4:06 pm
ACDSee Video Converter Pro - Error opening file for writing
When I attempted to install
ACDSee Video Converter Pro 4.1 on my wife's computer, I received
the mesage "Error opening file for writing" referencing the file
CheckWinVer.exe.
The problem was due to the fact that I hadn't right-clicked on the
installation file and chosen "Run as administrator". When I aborted the
installation and started over running it as administrator, the program
installed successfully.
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Wed, May 23, 2012 7:17 pm
Creating an Audio CD from MP3 Files in iTunes
Apple's iTunes software can be used to
"
burn",
i.e., write MP3 files to an audio CD that can be played in a car CD player
or similar device. You can store up to 80 minutes of music or other audio
files on a CD that will play in almost all CD players.
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