mplayer – find all the installed codes for audio and video

2011-11-09 2 min read Fedora Linux

MPlayer
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Some time back, I was trying to find out all the codecs that are installed for my mplayer. These could be the ones that came with mplayer or the ones that I downloaded from the site and installed in the various directories.

I could not find a direct way to do this, until I found this:

mplayer -ac help -vc help

And here is the output of the command:

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Panini – pano viewer.. new way to look at your photo.

2010-04-28 2 min read Linux

Some information on Panini:

Panini can load most common photo and <a class="zem_slink" title="Panorama" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama">panoramic formats from image
files such as those created with hugin or QuickTimeVR (<a class="zem_slink" title="QuickTime VR" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/qtvr/">QTVR <a class="zem_slink" title="QuickTime" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/">.mov)
files.  Like all pano viewers, it then shows a <a class="zem_slink" title="Perspective (graphical)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_%28graphical%29">linear perspective
view that can be panned and zoomed. But Panini can also display a
range of <a class="zem_slink" title="Wide-angle lens" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-angle_lens">wide angle perspectives via the stereographic and
&#8221;Pannini&#8221; vedutismo families of projections, and shift, rotate, and
stretch the image like a <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software <a class="zem_slink" title="View camera" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_camera">view camera.

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