Section: Video

The best advert for Ubuntu you probably never saw

OMG! reader Sebastian stopped by the OMG! Mailbox to drop off a link to this immensely impressive Dell/Ubuntu promotional video that, curiously, I – nor anyone I showed this to prior to posting – had […]

22 July 2010
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Canonical Talks Ubuntu on ARM

Our lovely friends over at ArmDevices.net nabbed themselves a great interview with Canonical’s ‘Partner Engineer’ Jerone Young who discusses the challenges and opportunities optimizing Ubuntu for ARM is bringing. It’s a great interview well worth […]

6 July 2010
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Online Mencoder Command Generator makes command line DVD conversion a cinch

Rip DVD’s the easy way in Ubuntu – without the need to install any extra applications – using web-based SimpleRip. SimpleRip is an online JavaScript-based command generator for Mencoder.  It allows you to generate the […]

21 June 2010
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We’re NOT Mac OS X!

Those who installed Lucid Lynx got a surprise – from pre-releases through to the full release of 10.04, Ubuntu’s windows buttons have swapped sides! Interesting how this default setup of these buttons now mirror those […]

10 June 2010
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OMG Exclusive: Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Video Review

Introducing: The best Ubuntu yet? Since its release a month ago I have been testing Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, and I have been pleasantly surprised by the improvements in this version of my favorite distribution […]

1 June 2010
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Songbird 1.5 gets Video Playback Feature

Songbrid has gained video playback capabilities in the beta for forthcoming 1.5.0 release “Led Zepplin”. Video formats/codecs supported so far are WMV, MPEG-4, Theora and H.264, though the songbird team themselves note that “support is […]

1 January 2010
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New Video Editor For Ubuntu

OpenShot is an new non-linear video editor similar in feature set to ‘Windows Movie Maker’ or Apple’s ‘iMovie’. Although currently in development, the latest release is surprisingly stable and comes with a raft of features […]

26 August 2009