Category Archives: Notes For Myself

How to install Xapian 1.2.5 PHP bindings on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Posted on June 27, 2011 by admin

Starting from version 1.2.x, Xapian repository on Ubuntu does not contain php5-xapian package apparently due to the license incompatability between GPL and PHP license(great…) Issue is discussed somewhat at length here. But in the meantime, folks suggesting to build PHP … Continue reading →

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Auto-splitting video file in equal chunks with ffmpeg and python

Posted on April 15, 2011 by admin

Recently I needed to upload a whole bunch of long video files. Maximum allowed length for each video was just few minutes, while the actual length of files I tried to upload were about an hour each. FFmpeg is really … Continue reading →

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Build OpenLDAP 2.3.x from sources on Ubuntu

Posted on April 12, 2011 by admin

It happened so that I needed to build a particular version of OpenLDAP on Ubuntu and use that instead of the one in Ubuntu’s repository. Here is a quick guide as to how it worked for me: 1. Get BDB … Continue reading →

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Getting around open_basedir restriction on Plesk

Posted on March 19, 2011 by admin

Almost every time I do a deploy on Plesk-based hosting server, I hit the same roadblock: PHP Warning:  realpath() [<a href='function.realpath'>function.realpath</a>]: open_basedir restriction in effect. Since I tend to keep my app-code outside of webroot, this restriction is somewhat a … Continue reading →

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HTML5 Video Encoding with FFmpeg

Posted on March 10, 2011 by admin

Encoding Ogg video ffmpeg -i SOURCEFILE.avi -vcodec libtheora OUTFILE.ogg Encoding MP4 ffmpeg -i SOURCEFILE.avi -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow OUTFILE.mp4 Encoding WebM ffmpeg -i SOURCEFILE.avi -vcodec libvpx -acodec vorbis OUTFILE.webm Resizing video: ffmpeg -i SOURCEFILE.avi -s WIDTHxHEIGHT OUTFILE.ogg WIDTH, HEIGHT new … Continue reading →

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