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Why would I choose Libav over FFmpeg, or is there even a difference?

From what I've seen it looks to me like Libav's avconv is thought to become a successor of ffmpeg — is that correct? If that's true, why is that so? What exactly is libav doing better and why would I want to choose it over ffmpeg? I came to this…
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Where is SVN on OS X Mountain Lion?

I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion and found out SVN is no longer present. I use Netbeans 6.9.1 in conjunction with Apache's SVN. How can I get it back and working?
Jake
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Display list of computers on a LAN in Linux

I'm a web dev who is trying to get a better handle on security. I'm trying to figure out a way (on Linux/Debian based distros) to list all computers on the same LAN my netbook is on. I tried "arp -n" but I don't feel it's a complete list, as my…
CaptSaltyJack
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How can I change the timestamp on a file?

Possible Duplicate: How to modify timestamp in a dll or exe? Windows equivalent of the Linux command 'touch'? How can I set the timestamp for a file via the command-line to a specific date? My specific situation is Windows 7.
Joseph Hansen
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How can I get qmake on Mac OS X?

I'm trying to install QtiPlot on Mac OS X, but I can't compile it since qmake isn't known. How can I install qmake on Mac OS X?
Fábio Perez
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Start Google Chrome on Mac with command line switches

I've read you can start Google Chrome in kiosk mode in Windows by using the argument --kiosk. I know how to do this on Windows, but how can I do this on Mac OS X? And how can I run Google Chrome with the --kiosk argument on startup?
alex
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Is there windows equivalent to the .bashrc file in linux?

Just discovered doskey emacs=emacs -nw $*, but without something like .bashrc, I'll have to type that every time I start a shell, right?
herrturtur
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How does Router know where to forward packet

If several computers with local addresses (192.168.0.#) are connected to a router and each computer opens a web browser and requests a page over HTTP, when these TCP:80 packets are sent out, the router switches the local address with the static IP…
Kornelije Petak
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Turning off the cmd window beep sound

Is there a way to essentially mute the Beeping function of the Windows command shell? I'm working on a PowerShell script right now which ends up printing several lines of text to the screen. I'm working out a bug in the encoding logic. But every…
JaredPar
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How to get WYSIWYP (print what you see) in a web browser?

When I print a web page from my browser, I expect to get on paper exactly the content I'm seeing in the browser. To be precise: I expect the browser to render the same page contents the same way, except on a canvas with infinite height, and then…
reinierpost
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Is there a way to list Chocolatey packages with their install directory?

The command choco list -lo lists the installed packages. But how do I determine where a Chocolatey application installs? So far I've had to hunt around for them. Some examples: NUnit goes to Program Files (x86) WGET goes to…
antwarpes
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Why are special characters such as "carriage return" represented as "^M"?

Why is ^M used to represent a carriage return in VIM and other contexts? My guess is that M is the 13th letter of the Latin alphabet and a carriage return is \x0D or decimal 13. Is this the reason? Is this representation documented anywhere? I…
dotancohen
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Converting video from 1080p to 720p with smallest quality loss using ffmpeg

I stack with my high quality movie: 1080p with 60fps. The trouble is lags while playing. I tried to convert it to 720p with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i MyMovie.mkv -r 60 -s hd720 MyMovie_720p.mkv But I there is significant quality loss because bit rate…
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Use ffmpeg copy codec to combine *.ts files into a single mp4

I've got a bunch of ts segments described by a single index.m3u8 file: index.m3u8 segment1_0_av.ts segment2_0_av.ts segment3_0_av.ts segment4_0_av.ts segment5_0_av.ts I know they are all encoded the same way. ffprobe gives me the…
Ana
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Arrange windows within the same application in the taskbar of Windows 7

Is there a way to arrange windows within the same application in the taskbar of Windows 7? Right now we can freely adjust each application's position in the taskbar, but within the app itself the windows can't be reordered, for example multiple…
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