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(on Wikipedia)
http://mplayerhq.hu/
The official frontend for MPlayer.
Quite good.
- GUI M_Player
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Can use .Xmodmap for volume control at least.
Linux software
All posts tagged Linux software
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https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/slpkg/
https://dslackw.gitlab.io/slpkg/
https://git.slackbuilds.org/
SlackBuilds.org
A Slackware source-based package manager.
Easy to use.
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NOTE – you don’t have to have slpkg installed to compile a SlackBuild-supported program from source.
- Instructions are below.
slpkg
Don’t mistake this for the movie Alien – (1979 movie)
(on Wikipedia)
https://joeyh.name/code/alien/
A tool to convert between package management types.
Mandatory for getting software working which does not have a maintainer for one’s current distribution.
- ~ 2015-02 – alien is no longer maintained
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https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Isohybrid
Though it can do other stuff, I use this to edit ISO images meant to be burned to a CD or DVD, to make them appropriate for copying to, and booting from, a USB stick.
Phenomenal. I wish I knew about this a long time ago. I’ve ignored many Linux distributions because of the very issue this tool solves.
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Linux distributions + Debian >
https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntu/+archive/ubuntu/boot-repair
https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/
Automagically repairs a boot loader.
This is something I wish I had/knew about a long time ago. I’ve had bootloader misadventures that really stressed me out.
I’ll accept this, even though it uses systemd.
See also:
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
A ubiquitous byte-copying tool.
I use this for copying disks, partitions and ISOs.
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Part of GNU’s “coreutils”
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.rarlab.com/
An archival utility.
I’ve been using this for a hell of a long time.
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aka WinRAR, for its Windows versions.
https://www.jwz.org/hacks/youtubedown
Given a YouTube or Vimeo URL, downloads the underlying video file, with a sensible file name. It downloads the highest resolution version of the video available: first it tries HD MP4, then regular MP4, then WebM, and finally FLV. It also works on playlists, and works as a bookmarklet to download the video you’re watching.
I liked it well enough.
