PNG images are certainly better than JPEG when their quality is compared. However, when we talk about loading PNG images on a website, it takes quite some bandwidth and therefore the webpage becomes a little slow. Therefore, converting images to JPEG format is a wise solution, despite compromising the quality. In this article, we will […]
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In this article, we will be turning an old laptop into a media server with which you can stream your media files over Upnp using vlc’s network streaming. We will use Kodi’s built-in UPnP server. What is Kodi? Kodi is a free-and-opensource media player developed by XBMC. Kodi has a numerous number os add-ons that
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Wget is the command-line tool through which you can download anything from the internet using HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols. It supports IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) as well as IPv6 (Internet Protocol 6) addresses to connect to the internet. If for some reason you wish to connect with either IPv4 or IPv6 protocols, then
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The FFmpeg command-line tool has a ton of functionality, especially if you deal with a lot of media processing such as audio and video editing. There are a number of reasons why you should separate audio from a video file, especially if you are involved in multimedia editing. One can add an audio segment while
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There might be numerous reasons why you have to split a large text file into numerous smaller ones. Because of storage limit, or to amplify transfer speeds by copying the smaller parts using different thumb drives at once. Or maybe you would want to store different parts of the file at different locations due to
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WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol and is specifically designed to access the internet on older mobile devices. WAP delivers web pages written in the WML (Wireless Markup Language) to these devices. Need for WAP browsers As the older devices have very limited data, memory, screen resolution, and processing power, HTML pages that work on
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Ubuntu means “a quality that includes the essential human virtues; compassion and humanity.” It is based on Debian and comes with a lot of preinstalled software. It is perhaps the most beginner-friendly Linux distro carefully keeping in mind the various Windows users who eventually want to migrate to Linux. Let us now look at the
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ffmpeg is a command-line utility or tool which is used by various video processing applications and video editors. And because it is open source, this is used under the hood by various services such as iTunes and YouTube. Since a Jellyfin server set up on a Raspberry Pi cannot handle the workload of streaming HEVC
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In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to install CentOS on VirtualBox. CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) is a group of Linux Distribution supporting free and open-source community-supported software. It was started in 2003 and since 2014 has been backed by Red Hat. It is however discontinued, and the last release was on 16th November 2021.
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The concept of password managers isn’t new. You have to create a strong and unique password for every website, which contains a set of alphanumeric characters along with a few special characters. It is natural that you could forget a password or get confused between several passwords if you have more than one. There are
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