Monthly Archives: May 2009

Debian: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL

Posted on 2009/05/04 Mon by rob

While building MythTV svn trunk in Debian unstable, I stumbled across this error message:
“/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL”
$ ls -l /usr/lib | grep GL showed that indeed, libGL.so was not present. I was a little confused as I had libgl1-mesa-dev installed. … Continue reading →

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New PC

Posted on 2009/05/03 Sun by rob

I recently purchased a new PC. I had been using my Apple MacBook for quite some time without any desktop PC. And no, I’m not an Apple fan boy, but it has served its purpose quite well.
For what it’s worth, … Continue reading →

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Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD 500 PCI in Linux and MythTV

Posted on 2009/05/02 Sat by rob

I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD 500 PCI to use in a Linux machine. I was planning to use Debian testing/unstable AMD64, and may still do so, but at the moment I’ve settled on Ubuntu Jaunty.
I don’t think I … Continue reading →

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bit rate, file size, quality misunderstandings

Posted on 2009/05/01 Fri by rob

It seems quite a few people have been confusing how bit rate, file size and quality are inter-related. A number of people have been using the -sameq option from the ffmpeg CLI and expecting it to output a file of … Continue reading →

Posted in ffmpeg, multimedia, video, x264 | 3 Comments