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Kannada Videocast and Podcast: Science writing in Kannada
Videocast and Podcast of the interview with G T Narayana Rao (in Kannada language)
When almost everyone seemed to have thought we were done with podcasts at [:http://sampada.net|Sampada], we've done it again. This time, we have an episode which marks the first of several podcasts about writing…
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A Jumbo Hundred
Anil Kumble gets his maiden hundred - Cricinfo
Photo: Cricinfo
It was a jumbo hundred and no Cricket fan in India would have missed watching it today. The [:http://content-ind.…
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ffmpeg on Ubuntu
[:http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg/|ffmpeg] is a very useful tool for conversion between various video encodings. If you build it with all the supported libraries, you can convert almost all kinds of video files to the desired encoding. Recently a video that we recorded was handed over to me in VCD format (!). Feisty doesn't seem to like VCDs much: Opening audio decoder: [libdv] Raw DV Audio Decoder Unknown/missing audio…
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