Archive for category Multimedia

How software patent broke the system

Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Linux, Multimedia, Open Source on May 18th, 2010

The issue of Software Patent has been around for a while, but unless you really  have the time and drive to try to understand all that is involved you will be left like most of us, just wondering. The guys at Patent Absurdity have made a great documentary about this issue. Patent Absurdity explores the [...]

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MovieStorm create 3D animated movies to share

Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Multimedia on December 8th, 2008

Moviestorm consists of a suite of easy-to-use movie-making tools which underpins a Web 2.0 social media service targeting both movie creators and viewers with support from major media and consumer brand owners. The Moviestorm base engine gives content creators the ability to make 3D animated movies quickly and easily, using machinima technology.  The base engine [...]

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Enable DVD & Multimedia support in Ubuntu Linux

Posted by Alex Costa in Easy Tips, Linux, Multimedia on December 4th, 2008

Full DVD support on Linux is an old issue. It has to do with the Linux distros not being shipped with the w32codecs and the libdvdcss2, for legal reasons in some countries. The users must then download and install them by themselves with no clear guidance. Here are the simple steps for installing these libraries [...]

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