Crazed Mule Productions

The below commands will use FFMPEG to create a video suitable for playback within both iTunes and on a video iPod. You will need a source fi...

Background I've been wanting to produce some high quality, H.264 content for my bands' music for some time, but x264 had been broken...

OK. So call me stupid, but I rarely create bootable DVDs from iso images in Fedora. Here is how I created a bootable Ubuntu 7.10 disk usin...

Another reason to dump FreshRPMs. I wanted to Xine on my Fedora 7, x86-64 system and got the following error: Error: Missing Dependency: x...

Anyone who reads my blog knows that although I am a loyal Penguin, I'm all about getting the work done expeditiously and distributing my...

I received a question from a person unfamiliar with Cinelerra and I thought that my response should be shared. The person has a friend who ...

Like a lot of us who are into film and video editing, I am also a part-time musician. For Christmas, I received a very exciting present: a ...

For fault tolerance, I finally got around to upgrading my drives to a RAID1 mirror this weekend. I bought a pair of Seagate ST3500641AS-RK ...

Last night, I was putting together a presentation on my MacBook and wanted to incorporate a DVD resolution video from Cinelerra. Since the ...

For my MediaGate MG350HD wired and wireless media player: http://www.mediagateusa.com/html/mg350.html I upgraded to the latest MediaGate fir...

H a p p y 2 0 0 8 , e v e r y b o d y ! I keep forgetting the commands to create and burn DVD-ready files from Cinelerra. As the followi...

While trying to render out a DVD-ready file, I'm not sure why I got this libx264 error today: trying popen( ffmpeg -f yuv4mpegpipe -i - ...

So I've been on a quest to get a modern PCI Express card working in my new Dell SC1430. With this goal in mind, I had ordered a PCI Expr...

Folks, just in case you don't know, ATI's display drivers for Linux still suck, one year later: /2006/09/ati-opengl-20-implementatio...

I'm starting to get used to the new rig and what works and what doesn't. Here's a video describing how a render works on the new...

A couple of friends asked me about how to get started with Cinelerra. Here are a few techniques that have helped me: Download and install th...

Written for a friend, thought others might find it useful. Screencaptured and edited in Cinelerra, of course! Part I - regarding settings w...

For performance, I have my videos stored on a stripe set, using Fedora's software RAID technology. I've recently setup my Dell Octo ...