Ubuntu

Extract Audio from an MKV File with ffmpeg (No Re-encode)

April 14, 2022

ffmpeg can pull the audio track out of an MKV container without re-encoding the video, which is faster and avoids any quality loss on the video stream. This is useful for isolating a podcast-style audio track from a screen recording, or grabbing narration from a tutorial video. Extract to AAC ffmpeg -i inputfile.mkv -vn -acodec

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Taking Screenshots on Linux with scrot (Keybind Setup)

November 2, 2021

Ubuntu (and Linux generally) lets you wire a shell command straight to a keyboard shortcut, and scrot is a small, scriptable screenshot utility that’s a natural fit for that. Bound to a key, the command below captures the screen, names the file with the current date/time, and moves it to the desktop: scrot ‘%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%s.png’ -e

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