utilities

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/511
i wrote this howto for setting up antivirus and antispam filtering mail server on debian an year back when i was learning it myself.

I'd been searching in debian packages for something which could help me to create clips from videos. The lousy linear editor `kino' insists on only working with DV files and starts filling disk space with raw video as soon as you open a file.

Little did i realize that mighty mplayer can do this also.

mencoder -ss 1284 -endpos 102 movie.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -o movie-clip.avi

where 1284 is the number of seconds from where clip starts, and 102 is length of clip in seconds.