https://www.openspeak.net/ 2026-04-20T16:18:19+00:00 https://www.openspeak.net/ https://www.openspeak.net/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=favicon.ico text/html 2016-03-28T16:27:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.openspeak.net/doku.php?id=how-to:combine_avi_files_with_mencoder&rev=1459182468&do=diff Combine AVI Files With mencoder Since AVI is a container and not a codec a simple cat of multiple files redirected to the new output doesn't work since indexes and header information is not maintained. Here is sample mencoder syntax to take care of the task: text/html 2016-11-07T21:41:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.openspeak.net/doku.php?id=how-to:combine_mkv_files_with_ffmpeg&rev=1478554861&do=diff Combine MKV with ffmpeg This tutorial assumes you have a series of .MKV files you want to combine into a single file. They can be in a single location or various places on the file system. Create your input text file; name it InputFiles.list. The format is like: text/html 2016-03-28T16:26:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.openspeak.net/doku.php?id=how-to:combine_mp4_files_with_avidemux&rev=1459182409&do=diff Combine MP4 Files With avidemux Here is sample avidemux command to combine a series of MP4 files into a single file: avidemux2_cli --output-format MP4 --audio-codec COPY --video-codec COPY --load YourVideo_Part_1of4.mp4 --append YourVideo_Part_2of4.mp4 --append YourVideo_Part_3of4.mp4 --append YourVideo_Part_4of4.mp4 --save YourVideos-combined.mp4 text/html 2016-03-28T16:27:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.openspeak.net/doku.php?id=how-to:extract_mp3_audio_from_flv_video&rev=1459182478&do=diff Extract MP3 Audio from YouTube, or other, FLV (Flash Video) Files So, you figured out how to use Video Download Helper to download videos from YouTube and now you want to listen to the audio on your MP3 player. This simple tutorial shows how to use free software to extract the audio track from a FLV and save it as an MP3 file. text/html 2020-11-02T17:09:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.openspeak.net/doku.php?id=how-to:force_ssh_to_prompt_for_password&rev=1604336980&do=diff Force SSH to Prompt for Password If you use key-based authentication instead of passwords for your SSH hosts, good for you. While key-based authentication makes life easy, occasionally the need arises for that host to prompt you for a password. Recently I drew the password rotation straw at work for our SOX systems and needed to rotate the password on a host which my system signature is stored in the authorized_keys file. Getting to the host was not an issue; however, once I changed the passwor… text/html 2016-03-28T16:26:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.openspeak.net/doku.php?id=how-to:force_youtube_to_hd&rev=1459182397&do=diff Forcing YouTube to Play HD Videos Normal Mode, Hi-Res and HD Mode Provided that the user who's video you're watching uploaded a high quality video with the specs above, you should be able to force YouTube to display hi-def videos even though you're not logged into YouTube. text/html 2016-03-28T16:27:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.openspeak.net/doku.php?id=how-to:sandisk_video_conversion&rev=1459182431&do=diff SanDisk Video Conversion With FFMPEG The video conversion software that comes with the SanDisk line of MP3/Video players is Windows-only. For the GNU/Linux users like myself I put together this short tutorial on how to convert your favorite videos to the proper size/format using text/html 2018-09-11T14:56:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.openspeak.net/doku.php?id=how-to:secure_web_browsing_with_an_ssh_socks_proxy&rev=1536677782&do=diff Secure Web Browsing With An SSH SOCKS Proxy The cool thing about this method is that it doesn't require any special software or services to be installed or configured. As long as you have an ssh client and server to connect to, you can securely browse the web. text/html 2016-09-05T17:54:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.openspeak.net/doku.php?id=how-to:single_command-line_to_remove_old_kernels&rev=1473098057&do=diff Ubuntu: for i in `dpkg -l | tail -n +6 | grep -E 'linux-image-[0-9]+' | grep -Fv $(uname -r) | awk '{print $2}'`; do sudo apt-get remove --purge --yes $i; done; text/html 2020-11-02T16:58:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.openspeak.net/doku.php?id=how-to:start&rev=1604336298&do=diff How-To * Force SSH to prompt for password * Secure web browsing with an SSH SOCKS proxy * Combine AVI files with mencoder * Extract MP3 audio from FLV video * SanDisk video conversion * Combine MP4 files with avidemux * Force YouTube to HD * Single Command-line to Remove Old Kernels * Combine MKV files with ffmpeg