Recently I’ve been playing most of the current Autumn series on this UbuntuStudio box I pieced together as a faster network head. Surprised I was, when I realized a couple sweet functions it has yielded.
The specs of the system aren’t weighty; Sempron 64 3000+, 1GB DDR1, and onboard video via nForce4. The amazing thing is that it is trouble-free playing 720p softsubbed mkv files (I use mplayer with the bad+ugly codecs). The fonts load, the subs are synced, the audio is sharp, etc. I have no dislikes. I have been previously playing stuff on a dual-core system in XP, but I guess it wasn’t needed. The biggest difference is that the subs render sharper in XP, but that’s not so important considering the screenshot method.
I have no clue how others do screenies, but I was using Media Player Classic and doing File->Save Image. Maybe there was a shortcut, but with this other system I just have to press the PrintScreen button on the keyboard, then enter (no filename typing). Way easier!
So with this, I’ve started snapping more frames and saving them for no particular reasons. They all save with filename Screenshot-##.png, but renaming is easy in a system that utilizes regexps, desho? Something like ‘rename s/Screenshot/minamike08/ Screenshot*’ and its done. I figure if I ever want to reference something and I want a lib of screenshots, I have it. I don’t have to fiddle with locating files, loading the player, and scanning for them.
Just a thought on methodology. I should try to post on anime today ^^
Ryan A
Linux is awesome.
I’m too lazy to read up on it and install it, though. Aside from the fact I’m busy with school, Vista’s alright. So far, that is. XD
It is fun, right now I’m only in disagreement with the fonts. I need to install a decent sans and serif, because the current ones are a fuzzy.
I’ve had the network head with linux since sometime last Autumn and I haven’t had any problems with the firewall and traffic shaping for p2p. That was the main goal shaped p2p.