Alternate way to compile AMR Codec Libraries for GNU-Linux into ffmpeg

This is a home page or amrnb and amrwb libraries, based on the reference implementation. I created it to prevent ugly embedding of the same code to many Open Source projects and to maintain patches and fixes for it.

Alternate way to compile amrcode libraries
is to download the scripts from bellow and then add the copile flags for ffmpeg from svn (or you can install it all in /usr and add no extra flags)

--enable-libamr-nb --extra-cflags=-I/opt/libamrnb/include --extra-ldflags=-L/opt/libamrnb/lib

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=178455


I will modify my compile scripts and see how it works
cat ffmpeg_checkout.sh
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
cat ffmpeg/configure.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-libogg --enable-libvorbis --enable-libgsm --enable-libxvid --enable-liba52 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libtheora --enable-libfaad --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-swscaler
 cat mplayer_checkout.sh
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer

mplayer is configured with --prefix=/usr

also don't forget to install the full code pack
http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
into /usr/lib/codecs

mkdir /usr/lib/codecs/
wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf all-20071007.tar.bz2
cd all-20071007
mv * /usr/lib/codecs/

cd mplayer
./configure --prefix=/usr
make install

AMR Codec Libraries for GNU-Linux

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lazarus 0.9.24 released

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Using Git for Samba Development - vs OOPS i deleted the svn server

In the future (at reea maybe)
we can use  an true distributed VCS like GIT/Bazaar/Mercurial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29
http://bazaar-vcs.org/
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/

http://ianclatworthy.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/dvcs-why-and-how3.pdf

Many projects like samba and mozilla are switching from svn to something better and distributed (no SPOF)
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Using_Git_for_Samba_Development


ps: SPOF = single point of failure or OOps i deleted the SVN server


Using Git for Samba Development - SambaWiki

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lighttpd 1.4.18 - speeding up a bit

# compile and upgrade lighttpd to latest stable version

wget http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.18.tar.gz
tar -zxvf lighttpd-1.4.18.tar.gz
cd lighttpd-1.4.18
./configure --prefix=/opt/lighttpd
make; make install
/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart


lighttpd 1.4.18 - speeding up a bit

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2nd Russian Firebird and Interbase Conference, Moscow, November 23

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firebird optimizer paper in czech

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how to use DDEX provider for Firebird in VS2008

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Git on Windows

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Flash RAM instead of harddisks

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Intel Core 2 "Penryn" and Linux

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XCache - Boost PHP Performance - Installing from source

http://xcache.lighttpd.net/wiki/Release-1.2.1#Downloads
lynx http://xcache.lighttpd.net/pub/Releases/1.2.1/xcache-1.2.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf xcache-1.2.1.tar.gz
cd xcache-1.2.1
/opt/php/bin/phpize
chmod +x configure
./configure --with-php-config=/opt/php/bin/php-config
make install

add to php.ini
extension=xcache.so

[xcache.admin]
xcache.admin.auth = On
xcache.admin.user = "admin"
; xcache.admin.pass = md5($your_password)
xcache.admin.pass = "21212f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3"

[xcache]
; ini only settings, all the values here is default unless explained

; select low level shm/allocator scheme implemenation
xcache.shm_scheme =        "mmap"
; to disable: xcache.size=0
; to enable : xcache.size=64M etc (any size > 0) and your system mmap allows
xcache.size  =                128M
; set to cpu count (cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep -c processor)
xcache.count =                 2
; just a hash hints, you can always store count(items) > slots
xcache.slots =                8K
; ttl of the cache item, 0=forever
xcache.ttl   =                 0
; interval of gc scanning expired items, 0=no scan, other values is in seconds
xcache.gc_interval =           0

; same as aboves but for variable cache
xcache.var_size  =            0M
xcache.var_count =             1
xcache.var_slots =            8K
; default ttl
xcache.var_ttl   =             0
xcache.var_maxttl   =          0
xcache.var_gc_interval =     300

xcache.test =                Off
; N/A for /dev/zero
xcache.readonly_protection = Off
; for *nix, xcache.mmap_path is a file path, not directory.
; Use something like "/tmp/xcache" if you want to turn on ReadonlyProtection
; 2 group of php won't share the same /tmp/xcache
; for win32, xcache.mmap_path=anonymous map name, not file path
xcache.mmap_path =    "/dev/zero"


; leave it blank(disabled) or "/tmp/phpcore/"
; make sure it's writable by php (without checking open_basedir)
xcache.coredump_directory =   ""

; per request settings
xcache.cacher =               On
xcache.stat   =               On
xcache.optimizer =           Off

[xcache.coverager]
; per request settings
; enable coverage data collecting for xcache.coveragedump_directory and xcache_coverager_start/stop/get/clean() functions (will hurt executing performance)
xcache.coverager =          Off

; ini only settings
; make sure it's readable (care open_basedir) by coverage viewer script
; requires xcache.coverager=On
xcache.coveragedump_directory = ""

move admin to the /var/www
mv admin /var/www



Release-1.2.1 - XCache - Boost PHP Performance - Trac

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Firebird events in Czech Republic

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$60 board runs gOS (Linux, Google Apps)

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eLiberatica 2008 opportunities & business by using Open + Free Technologies

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Firebird seminar in Prague, Czech Repuplic

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The Jonney Machine [or Why Windows was Rejected for Linux]

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Asynchronous database event notifications

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building midori - Webkit browser

i assume webit is installed on /usr already
wget wget http://software.twotoasts.de/media/midori/midori-0.0.10.tar.gz
tar -zxvf midori-0.0.10.tar.gz
cd midori-0.0.10
sudo apt-get install libsexy-dev

./configure --prefix=/opt/midori
make
make install

ps: the back and forward buttons don't work yet but in the rest is quite fast and memory
resident is about 40M compared to 300M for firefox ...

midori - Web browser - toastware: Open Source software for GTK+ 2 on Linux and Unix

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