The second bug-fix release for HandBrake video transcoder 1.0 series has been released one days ago with various video, audio, subtitles fixes, and Linux, Windows, Mac platforms fixes. HandBrake 1.0.2 changelog: Video Fixed point to point encoding end point when using frames as the unit Improve error handling for libdvdread and libavcodec decoders Audio Fixed an issue where fallback encoder ...
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The SMPlayer media player has reached the 17.1.0 release one day ago with new feature experimental support for Chromecast. Just play a video in SMPlayer, then click the ‘Play on Chromecast’ option from the Play menu. A web page will be opened in your web browser, which will get the URL of the video. This web page can communicate with ...
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NVIDIA Driver for Linux has reached the new short-lived 378 series by releasing NVIDIA 378.08 Beta a few days ago. Here’s the changes since NVIDIA 375.26: Added support for the following GPU(s): Quadro M1200 Quadro M2200 Added support for the ARB_parallel_shader_compile extension to allow multi-threaded compilation of GLSL shaders. Updated the X driver to ignore any Virtual Reality Head Mounted ...
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Converseen, a free open-source batch image processor for Windows and Linux, has reached the 0.9.6 release with ImageMagick 7 support, though Ubuntu still offers 6.x in its main archives. Converseen allows you to convert, resize, rotate and flip an infinite number of images with a mouse click. Moreover, it is able to transform an entire PDF file into a bunch ...
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VidCutter is an open-source app for quick and easy video trimming / splitting and merging / joining for simple quick edits. The software is written in Python3 with the PyQt5 GUI framework, and based on FFmpeg multimedia framework. How to install VidCutter via PPA in Ubuntu: The developer offers the latest packages via a PPA repository, which so far supports ...
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For the new Unity 7 low graphics mode, Ubuntu will soon made it easy to enable or disable this feature using unity-control-center (System Settings -> Appearance -> Behavior). The desktop team improved the Unity 7 low graphics mode a few months ago by reducing the amount of visual effects that are seen while running in low gfx. Now a toggle ...
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Avidemux, a free and open-source video editor written in C++, has reached the 2.6.18 release a few days ago with some fixes. Avidemux 2.6.18 is the first release in 2017 that features: Fix auto resize when video has ~ same dimension as screen * Fix multiple preview breaking navigation Fix slider and tooltips Mp4/Mp4v2: Allow E-AC3 How to install Avidemux ...
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Inkscape, a free and open-source vector graphics editor, has reached the 0.92 release a few days ago with exciting new features. The Inkscape project announces a new version 0.92 of its popular vector drawing software. New features include mesh gradients, improved SVG2 and CSS3 support, new path effects, interactive smoothing for the pencil tool, a new Object dialog for directly ...
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The latest KDE Plasma Desktop 5.8.5 was finally made into Kubuntu Backports PPA several hours ago, available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10 and derivatives. Plasma 5.8.5 is a bug-fix release for the 5.8 LTS series that features: Notice when the only screen changes. Revert ‘Do not ask for root permissions when it’s unnecessary’, it caused problems with adding a new ...
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HandBrake, an popular and open-source video transcoder, has reached the 1.0.0 release after more than 13 years of development. HandBrake 1.0.0 brings a huge list of changes. Here are some of them: New online documentation at https://handbrake.fr/docs Completely overhauled the official presets New JSON-based preset system including command line support New JSON-based API for interacting with libhb Improvements to audio/video ...
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