This escaped my attention, but a user by the name of tudo75 left a comment mentioning they have created a cool GUI for vcs, in case you want to check it out. I haven't checked it thoroughly but it seems useful.
vcs-creator, Small gui for the VCS (Video Contact Sheet *NIX) script: https://github.com/tudo75/vcs-creator
Prompted by a couple reports, here's a new bugfix release of VCS. It most importantly fixes an incompatibility with Bash 5.0 which made the script put all the captures in a single row.
A couple minor bugs are also fixed, where using mawk would produce some errors and print the wrong file sizes, and the evasion offsets (which are used to avoid blank screengrabs) weren't really being used.
See the full changelog for more details.
The latest version of VCS is available to download.
It's been a good while since the last release, but there aren't a lot of changes this time around, apart from the usual bugfixes there's better handling of errors and unsupported files.
The most important bug fixed is obviously the one I already previewed some days ago. The header was being cropped with current-day ImageMagick, and that problem should be gone.
See the full changelog for more details.
For anyone interested, Thomas has contacted me to let me know he wrote a "Video Contact Sheet Ruby" which reuses part of VCS' code and outputs contact sheets in the same style.
Being written in Ruby, its code will be less of a mess and, even more interestingly, it can run on Windows with less hackery than VCS.
So you're invited to take a look at his project at https://github.com/FreeApophis/vcs.rb.
En este post explico cómo he conseguido reproducir contenidos de Nubeox Premium protegidos con DRM en Linux.
El mismo método debería servir para otros servicios problemáticos basados en Flash, como Wuaki o TotalChannel aunque no lo he probado.
Como tantas otras veces, el Wiki de Arch Linux ha sido de lo más útil. El problema parece ser que el DRM en Flash requiere HAL. Pero HAL hace años que está en desuso y desaparecido o reducido a la mínima expresión en la mayoría de distribuciones.
La solución pasa por instalar una versión especial de libhal, que internamente usa el sistema más moderno udisks, pero que proporciona los elementos necesarios para que el DRM de Flash funcione.
Se puede encontrar en https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash, y una vez descargada habrá que compilarla y reemplazar el libhal del sistema si es que aún sigue ahí. Ojo, otros programas que aún dependan de HAL podrían tener problemas. Por suerte en mi caso (Debian Sid) libhal ya no era necesario.
En sistemas basados en Debian (Ubuntu, Mint…) se puede crear el paquete deb fácilmente:
$ sudo apt-get install devscripts build-essential $ unzip hal-flash-master.zip $ cd hal-flash-master $ debuild -us -uc -b $ sudo apt-get remove libhal1 $ dpkg -i ../libhal1-flash_*.deb
Además hay que eliminar la caché del plugin Flash:
$ cd ~/.adobe/Flash_Player $ rm -rf NativeCache AssetCache APSPrivateData2
Tras seguir estos pasos, la reproducción de contenidos de Nubeox empezó a funcionar, tanto los canales en directo como las películas y episodios de series. No he probado los alquileres aunque imagino que funcionarán.
Referencias:
A new update of VCS with a couple bugfixes is available to download. Once again, if you had problems with the previous versions there's nothing new.
It fixes a bug when using MPlayer as capturer that could produce one more capture than expected. Thanks to Miya for reporting it.
See the full changelog for more details.
A minor update of vcs is available to download. In short, if you don't use Arch and you had no problems running it there's no need to update.
It fixes an uncommon bug and updates the build script for Arch Linux. Thanks to Eris Belew for reporting these.
See the full changelog for more details.
This article is about rooting a Minix set top box (a Neo X5 mini in my case), although it may be applicable to similar hardware, either from Minix or simply running on a Rockchip RK3066.
These devices are problematic simply because the default android tools won't detect them. Most solutions I've come across are reduced to "install Moborobo" or "run this fine one-click solution", which is of little help when you're running on a different OS or when something fails.
So this little guide is a lot more barebones, I've collected what steps should be followed and what ADB commands must be run instead of providing a script. Although it is written for Linux systems, most steps and all ADB commands will be the same on other systems.
Some of these steps might be unnecessary, but they will do no harm.
By default the Minix won't even be visible by a computer, but that's easy to enable.
Just go into Settings → USB → Connect to PC.
Note this option will be re-disabled on each reboot.
You should also enable USB debugging:
Settings → Developer options → USB debugging
Now, plugging the device to the computer will make it detectable but ADB won't recognise it just yet.
This section is tailored to Linux. Source: [1]
Check that the device is detected:
$ lsusb [...] Bus 003 Device 025: ID 2207:0006 [...]
Devices like 2207:xxxx with no description are the ones this guide is about.
Add an udev rule to allow normal users to access the device:
Create a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ named {SOMETHING}.rules with the contents:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="2207", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
And reload udev rules:
# udevadm trigger
You'll need to add the vendor id to the list of known android devices.
Simply add a line containing 0x2207 to the file ~/.android/adb_usb.ini:
$ echo 0x2207 >> ~/.android/adb_usb.ini
And stop ADB:
$ adb kill-server
It should now be able to recognise the device:
$ adb devices * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 * * daemon started successfully * List of devices attached ABCDE12345 device
You'll need the following:
su and busybox binaries
SuperSu apk
You can download a handy archive containing them from this thread on xda (post #2, file X5 Mini v4.2.2 Root.rar).
You might try running the included BAT if you're on Windows or continue with this guide for the dissection of it. The BAT contains commands you can copy-paste directly in the command-line, what follows are equivalent commands.
Note that, at least on the Minix, you'll already have root shell access. What's lacking is allowing "scalation" of privileges outside the shell.
$ adb shell android# mv /data/local/tmp /data/local/tmp.bak android# ln -s /data /data/local/tmp android# reboot
The device will reboot. You'll have to re-enable "Connect to PC" in settings.
$ adb shell android# rm /data/local.prop android# echo "ro.kernel.qemu=1" > /data/local.prop android# reboot
The device will reboot. You'll have to re-enable "Connect to PC" in settings.
$ adb remount $ adb push su /system/bin/su $ adb push busybox /system/bin/busybox $ adb push SuperSU.apk /system/app $ adb shell android# cd /system/bin android# chown root.shell su android# chmod 6755 su android# chown root.shell busybox android# chmod 0755 busybox android# cd /system/app android# chown root.root SuperSU.apk android# chmod 0644 SuperSU.apk android# cd /data android# rm local.prop android# rm tmp android# mv tmp.bak tmp android# reboot
The device will reboot and you should have root access.
Launch the SuperSU app to check. It will probably want to update the su binary, let it do so.
If SuperSU doesn't seem to find the su binary, check it's there and that it has the appropriate permissions:
$ adb shell android# cd /system/bin android# ls -l su -rwxr-xr-x root shell 91980 2012-06-27 21:50 su # ← Incorrect permissions android# chmod 6755 su -rwsr-sr-x root shell 91980 2012-06-27 21:50 su # ← Correct permissions
And re-run SuperSU
¡Por fin! Una solución para poder usar sitios que requieren Silverlight en Linux sin problema (en la mayoría de casos, al menos).
Hace tiempo que Moonlight está abandonado, muerto y enterrado. Moonlight era el engendro de Novell y Microsoft que implementaba Silverlight (pero no todo) en Linux, y que nunca fué una solución demasiado buena. Microsoft como casi siempre no tiene ningún interés en soportar Linux (aún gracias que soportan Mac OS X, aunque sea por poder decir que .NET y Silverlight son multiplataforma).
Tras el telón usa Wine y unos cuantos hacks para poder correr el plugin para Windows. Funciona tanto en x86 como en amd64 y dentro de lo que cabe no es demasiado difícil de instalar, hasta proporcionan paquetes binarios para multitud de distribuciones.
Como comparación, la versión "usable" de Moonlight que tenía instalada corría el test Balls Animation entre 30 y 60 fps mientras que pipelight me lo mueve a 200.
La reproducción de video en Yomvi, cuyo cambio de Flash a Silverlight me había desesperado, es bastante fluída.
Las instrucciones de instalación están en inglés, aunque son bastante fáciles y casi todo consiste en ejecutar los comandos que muestran.
An updated version of vcs is available to download. Shame on me for the long wait since this has been pretty much completed for months.
The biggest change this time is the "blank frame avoidance" feature, with which (mostly) blank frames will not be captured, if possible, this is one of the cool features found in mtn and worth stealing 🙂
Also worth noting is the ability to load profiles automatically. E.g. adding "profiles=white,mosaic" to your ~/.vcs.conf file will use both profiles. A new profile ("compact") is added, and a list of installed profiles can be obtained with
The manual page is finished too.
Of course you'll have to download and install the full package instead of just the script to get the profiles and man page installed.
Other minor additions are the identification of captures from FRAPS and of course the usual batch of fixes and scheduled changes. FreeBSD users, and hopefully Mac OS X too though I can't check, can again use the script too.
Finally, please read «Features to be removed from VCS» if you have any interest in VCS' future versions.
See the full changelog for more details.