The fine art of converting letters into numbers. ASCII, ISO Latin-1, Unicode, EBCDIC… There are dozens of currently used encodings and converting between them is now a witch craft.
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What's wrong with `(add-to-list 'process-coding-system-alist '(“zsh” . utf-8))`?
In Emacs, I routinely use an inferior shell, invoked with M-x shell. I often need to specifically set its coding system, which I do with C-x RET p followed by utf-8 (twice).
I want to do this once ...
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What is the best method for ripping DVD to stream to Xbox 360?
What is the best method to rip/encode a standard definition DVD, to be streamed to a Xbox360 from a Vista Media Center pc (preferably using free software). I’ve found tons of tutorials on the web ...
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Vim upside down question marks on whitespace
I've installed spf13-vim on my Vagrant machine with Ubuntu.
The issue is that when I log into Vagrant with vagrant ssh and run Vim then I get all these upside down question marks on either making a ...
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Converting Filename Encoding
my operating system is Arch Linux. I am trying to extract a .zip archive that contains CJK characters in its filenames. It was most likely created on a Windows machine.
I tried the unzip utility and ...
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Set filename character encoding in Putty's PSFTP
I am using PuTTY's command line utility psftp.exe to transfer files between a UTF8-configured linux server and a MS Windows PC.
File names containing non ASCII characters (e.g., Japanese kana) are ...
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Error encoding with ffmpeg
I kept having trouble encode videos. I can encode the video to mpg but the size is 10+x bigger (no joke).
So i thought i'd do something simple. Strip the sound, copy the video
ffmpeg -i 5.flv ...
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Convert ANSI text file(s) to UTF8 on Windows command line
I would like to convert (an) ANSI-encoded text file(s) (Win 1252) to UTF8 without BOM, ideally via a command-line call. My use-case: I export .tex files from Stata which I want to compile with ...
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Automated script to change page encoding after page has been downloaded in Google Chrome
guys!
My Chrome doesn't properly recognize page encoding of our local TWIKI site.
So, every time i enter the site i have to set suitable encoding manually (Settings -> Tools -> Encoding -> Cyrillic ...
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DVDfab encoding error
I'm trying to use the DVD ripper that comes with DVDfab 8.1 to encode .mp4 video with single pass. I selected the first chapter, which is about 2 minutes long.
When the conversion starts and gets ...
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How bitrate changes with screen size
I'm trying to DVDrip a 320x240 screen .m4v video. Is there some way to mathematically know the bitrate for the required screen size so that there will be no distortions and you can know the closest ...
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Good programs for adding hardsubs
What are some good programs for adding hardsubs to an avi file? I've tried mencoder, and it's pretty good, but I can't figure out how to change the color of the subtitles. So I'm looking for another ...
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Why does Komodo edit not open files on doubleclick due to some path encoding error?
When I double click a file in finder to open in Komodo edit, it displays an error message saying it can't find the file and the path is displayed, but with wrong encoding, such that special characters ...
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.VOB files editing, converting and showing with right software
please Audio and video editing and encoding help me!
My problem is that:
last week with my camera (Panasonics VDR D160) i have filmed one of my company clinics.
Coming home, i move all the .VOB files ...
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How do I remove the green line in Adobe Media Encoder?
I'm trying to resize a Flash video (F4V) and in the media encoder, there is a green line along the left edge of the screen. This green line is visible in the Adobe Media Encoder, but not in the ...
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EGit (Eclipse) wrongly interpreting file names with non-ASCII characters?
I recently switched to using a Git repository within Eclipse (Juno SR2), using EGit. In our project, some file names contains umlauts and other special non-ASCII-characters. On the command line, git ...
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7zip filename encoding problems
I have problems extracting files from 7zip archive with non-ascii symbols in filenames.
I have identical versions of 7z on two computers, which differ only by the system locale. If I compress on one ...
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FFmpeg streaming: problems with device name
I'm trying to stream web camera and microphone in Windows using FFmpeg. First, I get my devices names (to specify -i parameter in streaming command) using a command like this:
ffmpeg -list_devices ...
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How to exporting html from emacs org-mode that can be opened in Microsoft Word
I created an HTML file using Emacs (org-mode export), which I want to open in Microsoft Word. However, Word says it cannot open the file. In the details of the error message, it says:
Reference ...
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A less cumbersome way to specify encoding when opening encoded text files
In order to open an encoded text file with the correct encoding in OO Writer, the user goes through File>Open, then selects 'Text Encoded' from a long list of file types, which causes a dialog to pop ...
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How can I use a password with special characters in desktop programs?
At the moment I am concerned about the security of my Facebook account. I have taken advantage of Facebook's ability to accept very long passwords with special characters, and created a password that ...
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Fix encoding of German umlauts in directories and filenames (ü = u╠ê and so on)
I have many zip-files where there are encoding errors for the German umlauts (äüöÄÜÖß). They show up in both the filename.zip as well as in the included directories and files like this:
Fünf = ...
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Change text encoding into Filelocator Pro?
i have a problem to show cyrillic characters into FileLocator Pro. There isn't a menu option in the setting's program. Is there a solution?
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Why do some PDF document appear garbled and unreabable in OS X Preview?
I occasionally come across some PDF documents which are unreadable on a Mac when using the standard OS X Preview. They work OK in Adobe Reader, but not in Preview.
Does anyone know what the cause of ...
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Compiling x264 with mp4 support
I need x264 for my project.
I have one at /opt/local/bin/x264, but when I execute the following command:
x264 --qpfile cuepoints.qp --output output.mp4 input.mp4
it says:
x264 [error]: not ...
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opensource vp6a encoding
I am looking for a way to encode a movie with vp6a. I was hoping I would be able to do this with ffmpeg using this command:
ffmpeg -i test.flv -loop 1 -i bg.tga -vcodec vp6a -vframes 1037 -b:v 1024k ...
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How does the Java VM determine its default file.encoding?
I'm running a Java program on Mac OS X 10.8 (from the Terminal), and the Java VM's file.encoding is defaulting to "SJIS". I even tried a tiny Java program that does nothing but print out the system ...
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Converting correctly a .mov to .swf
I have a .mov (h264/AAC) and I want a .swf file with loop.
My ffmpeg line:
ffmpeg -i in.mov -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 -s 600x338 -vcodec flv -r 25 -f swf -qscale 0 -f out3.swf
The video part is ...
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Encoding over SSH Issues
I have a Linux machine and a Windows machine, both using Vim with the Powerline plugin. They both work great with patched fonts. Next, I want to SSH onto an OSX 10.6 machine and also use the Powerline ...
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Extracting a tar file containing files with Chinese names will make the filenames illegible
On my Mac OS 10.6.8 I had a directory full of files that had Chinese filenames. I proceeded to run tar czf mydir.tar.gz mydir
Now when I untar it with tar xzf mydir.tar.gz, the extracted filenames ...
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Email text encoded with ASCII+1 scheme?
Something extremely strange is happening to me. I receive an email newsletter (about film news) and recently most of its text has suddenly begun to look like gibberish.
The corresponding article, ...
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Media Encoder w\ Merge Files & SandyBridge Hardware Encoding Support
So i have a Z68 chipset that allows Quick Sync encoding on my i7 processor.
I want a media encoder that supports both Hardware encoding and allows me to "merge files".
My problem is Fraps breaks my ...
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Fonts and encoding in windows live mail
Sometimes I have non-english emails (arabic for example).
When I try to open them with windows live mail, it doesn't show them correctly..
for example such this:
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Is it possible to change the font encoding for a Windows GUI application?
I have an application to watch TV on the screen (ComproDTV) installed on a Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit Russian edition.
The app is localized and supports channel names, teletext etc. in Russian. However, ...
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out of sync video output from adobe media encoder
What do I do? The video is ahead of the audio after encoding it using adobe media encoder.
I used the default settings and the video is also monster size(11Gb)
The original video is not out of sync, ...
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Encode DVD in Adobe Live Encoder 3.1
Noob question: Can I encode DVD in Adobe Live Encoder 3.1 ? If so, how?
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How much MCPS a Video Decoder on target can consume if the clock speed at which the target runs is know?
Assume there is a hardware board having RISC CPU(e.g. ARM Cortex processor), and associated peripherals, Data cache/Instruction cache, DRAM, and some OS running on it (Say embedded linux) roughly what ...
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Preserve text readability while encoding game screencasts
I have a bunch of (almost lossless) 3d game screencasts which now occupy considerable amount of my hdd space. I would like to reduce their size. Overall image quality isn't of great concern, except ...
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File transfered with TeamViewer Loses Line Endings
I am trying to transfer a CSV file, encoded UTF-8, to a remote machine using TeamViewer. After the transfer, when I open the file on the remote machine, line endings have been stripped from the file, ...
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Pasting Periods into Putty Instead of Apostrophes (from MS Word)
When I'm trying to paste text from Word (or even other MSFT applications) that use an apostrophe (') or double-quotes (") into a PuTTY session, the apostrophes or double-quotes get turned into periods ...
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Arabic Filenames messed up after backup. How to retrieve?
I needed to back up a computer with mixed Arabic and English (Roman) filenames because the computer hard drive was about to fail. The files copied over successfully, or so I thought.
When I went to ...
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FFmpeg MPEG-4 encoder quality factor 32 not working
I'm testing all possible qualities of the MPEG-4 encoder to compare them with the H.264 and MPEG-2 codecs. I want a constant quality factor, so I forced the quality with -q:v n -qmax n -qmin n where n ...
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PHP exec iconv doesn't work
I have an .sh script and an iconv command inside. I can't use the PHP iconv function. I don't knwo why but with my script the iconv command doesn't do anything.
It's creating an empty file without ...
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importing text strings with “+” in them to excel from sql query
Any version of Excel, in Windows 7. if I import a string such as 90003/6+3AQx-z it imports as
I would love to substitute characters to simplfy this, but they are product ids I didn't create
I ...
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Excel csv encoding default
Ok here's the deal
I exported a csv in UTF-16 format via PHP and open it in excel...All the encoding works perfectly.
My question is, suppose I edit this csv and then just hit save in excel and ...
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Keep formatting while pasting to Visual Studio 2012
I'm having trouble keeping special formatting while copying from Notepad++ to Visual Studio 2012.
I can't paste it here either, so I've made some images.
Notepad++
Notepad
The characters in ...
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Encoding Problems with dropbox on fat32 used on Windows and Debian
I am using an encrypted (Truecrypt) data-Partition (fat32), on which my Dropbox folder is located. This Partition is mounted on Windows 8 as well as Crunchbang (Debian wheezy) and Ubuntu 12.10. When ...
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Editing ASP files in mac
I have problem while editing asp classic files on mac or linux. It messes the asp file, so instead of executing statements, it outputs all asp code to browser.
What I've tried:
in vim: set ff=dos but ...
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Convert jpeg to H264 stream on Android
I'm trying to use libx264 and/or ffmpeg to encode a bunch of jpeg images to an H264 stream so I can send it from my Android to a server.
Can anyone tell me what are the methods I need to use in order ...
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FFMPEG Multistream WMV
I need a program for Ubuntu Lucid that can covert a video file to a multistream WMV. I have been looking into FFMPEG, but I can cannot figure out how to do several streams in a single WMV. Currently ...
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Encoding and decoding in ffmpeg
I need to convert a rtp stream to a mp4 file. After reading the ffmpeg tool documentation and the encoder guideline Itried this:
ffmpeg -re -i sample.mp4 -c:v libx264 -c:a libfdk_aac -f rtp ...
