720p movie with black bars

Check the aspect ratio

1.78:1 - fill the entire screen

1.85:1 - small black bars at the top and bottom of the screen

2.35:1, 2.39:1, or  2.40:1 - black bars on the top and bottom of the image (common for cinematic movies) 

Examples:

MOVIE

Starting playback...

Movie-Aspect is 2.39:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.

VO: [xv] 1280x536 => 1280x536 Planar YV12 

TV SHOW

Starting playback...

Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.

VO: [xv] 1280x720 => 1280x720 Planar YV12 

Install ttf fonts in Fedora

Exit the app that you want to use the font in (Libreoffice, Gimp, etc)
Copy TTF file(s) into /usr/share/fonts directory (as root - but they need to be world readable).

As root run

fc-cache -v

Then open LibreOffice/Gimp and you'll see the font in the list.

Download youtube audio

dnf install youtube-dl

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0  

Fedora 23 rpmfusion gpg check

Navigate to rpmfusion gpg listing

http://rpmfusion.org/keys?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-23

Download the appropriate gpg files (Fedora 23 in this example)


rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-23

rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-23

or use dnf install "whatever" --nogpgcheck   <--- bad="" div="">

Add the date to Gnome 3 menubar (gnome-tweak-tool or dconf-editor)

New Way

Install gnome-tweak-tool

dnf install gnome-tweak-tool

In the Top Bar section, enable show date, show seconds. Restart gnome (logout, login).


Old Way

Install dconf-editor
In Fedora 23 its using DNF,

dnf install dconf-editor

navigate to org.gnome.desktop.interface

Enable:

clock-show-date
clock-show-seconds
clock-format

Convert from flac to mp3 with ffmpeg

for FILE in *.flac;
do
    ffmpeg -i "$FILE" -ab 320k -map_metadata 0 "${FILE%.*}.mp3";
done

Fix for lftp - Fatal error: Certificate verification: Not trusted

lftp

[dwills@fedora ~]$ lftp -u ftpuser1 192.168.0.19
Password:
lftp ftpuser1@192.168.0.19:~> ls -l
ls: ls -l: Fatal error: Certificate verification: Not trusted


edit /etc/lftp.conf

append the following



set ssl:verify-certificate no

Bash padding with zeroes

example, 5 digit padding (printf formatting)

for i in $(seq -f "%05g" 1 100)
do
  echo $i
done

MadCatz Madcatz FightStick TE in Fedora

[root@fedora-m91p ~]# dmesg |tail
[282938.508349] input: MadCatz Madcatz FightStick TE as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0/0003:0738:8838.0004/input/input15
[282938.508593] hid-generic 0003:0738:8838.0004: input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.10 Gamepad [MadCatz Madcatz FightStick TE] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3/input0
[283624.503845] usb 2-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 4
[283650.985736] usb 2-1.3: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[283651.072699] usb 2-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0738, idProduct=8838
[283651.072704] usb 2-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[283651.072706] usb 2-1.3: Product: Madcatz FightStick TE
[283651.072709] usb 2-1.3: Manufacturer: MadCatz
[283651.075144] input: MadCatz Madcatz FightStick TE as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0/0003:0738:8838.0005/input/input16
[283651.075449] hid-generic 0003:0738:8838.0005: input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.10 Gamepad [MadCatz Madcatz FightStick TE] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3/input0

[root@fedora ~]# yum install joystick-support kernel-modules-extra

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

 * fedora: mirror.metrocast.net

 * rpmfusion-free: mirror.nexcess.net

 * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.nexcess.net

 * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.nexcess.net

 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.nexcess.net

 * updates: less.cogeco.net

Resolving Dependencies

--> Running transaction check

---> Package joystick-support.noarch 0:1.0.0-13.fc21 will be installed

--> Processing Dependency: kmod(joydev.ko) for package: joystick-support-1.0.0-13.fc21.noarch

--> Processing Dependency: kmod(analog.ko) for package: joystick-support-1.0.0-13.fc21.noarch

--> Running transaction check

---> Package kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 0:3.18.3-201.fc21 will be installed

--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

====================================================================================================================================

 Package                                Arch                     Version                            Repository                 Size

====================================================================================================================================

Installing:

 joystick-support                       noarch                   1.0.0-13.fc21                      fedora                    5.4 k

Installing for dependencies:

 kernel-modules-extra                   x86_64                   3.18.3-201.fc21                    updates                   2.2 M

Transaction Summary

====================================================================================================================================

Install  1 Package (+1 Dependent package)

Total download size: 2.2 M

Installed size: 2.1 M

Is this ok [y/d/N]: y

Downloading packages:

(1/2): joystick-support-1.0.0-13.fc21.noarch.rpm                                                             | 5.4 kB  00:00:00     

(2/2): kernel-modules-extra-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64.rpm                                                       | 2.2 MB  00:00:00     

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Total                                                                                               3.2 MB/s | 2.2 MB  00:00:00     

Running transaction check

Running transaction test

Transaction test succeeded

Running transaction (shutdown inhibited)

  Installing : kernel-modules-extra-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64                                                                      1/2 

  Installing : joystick-support-1.0.0-13.fc21.noarch                                                                            2/2 

  Verifying  : joystick-support-1.0.0-13.fc21.noarch                                                                            1/2 

  Verifying  : kernel-modules-extra-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64                                                                      2/2 

Installed:

  joystick-support.noarch 0:1.0.0-13.fc21                                                                                           

Dependency Installed:

  kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 0:3.18.3-201.fc21                                                                                     

Complete!

[root@fedora ~]# ls -l /dev/input/

total 0

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     160 Jan 30 16:55 by-id

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     160 Jan 30 16:55 No package kernel-modules-extras available.by-path

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 64 Jan 27 10:07 event0

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 65 Jan 27 10:07 event1

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 74 Jan 27 10:07 event10

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 75 Jan 27 10:07 event11

crw-rw----+ 1 root input 13, 76 Jan 30 16:55 event12

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 66 Jan 27 10:07 event2

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 67 Jan 27 10:07 event3

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 68 Jan 27 10:07 event4

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 69 Jan 27 10:07 event5

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 70 Jan 27 10:07 event6

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 71 Jan 27 10:07 event7

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 72 Jan 27 10:07 event8

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 73 Jan 27 10:07 event9

crw-rw-r--+ 1 root input 13,  0 Jan 30 16:55 js0

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 63 Jan 27 10:07 mice

crw-rw----  1 root input 13, 32 Jan 27 10:07 mouse0

This installs the kernel module, and you'll then see the /dev/input/js0 for the MadKatz joystick in Fedora