The History of Frame Rate for Film

Shirley Temple - War Babies

Burning A Single Video Using DeVeVe

When burning a DVD-Video using DeVeDe and Brasero, while the disc is being burned, never ever perform a Cancel and Eject disc while the Finalizing Disc status is shown.

Always wait until the whole disc burning process has completed. When it is done, Brasero or your disc burning software will automatically Eject the finished DVD-Video.

After the disc has completed, test it out on a stand-alone DVD player, not just one connected to a PC or Mac.

Rhythmbox 3.2.1 Cannot Edit AAC Metadata

Last night I downloaded a song in AAC (Advanced Audio Codec, .aac) and they play fine in Rhythmbx 3.2.1.

But if you want to edit the tag, as was the case, it cannot be done in Rhythmbox 3.2.1 (Linux 64-bit) because the software doesn't have the function to edit .aac tags yet.
MP3 ID3 tags. Yes. AAC tags. No.

When opening AAC files, they will play, but the some of the tag metadata shows "Unknown", just like in this post to a web forum

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2180188

At this time I am not sure whether the newer Rhythmbox ver. 3.4 has added this functionality yet. I am unwilling to switch to anothe music player because I am happy using Rhythmbox since 2005.

This Weekend I Realized A 47-Year Dream

This past weekend, after 47 years, I finally realized a dream that I've had since before age 3 (1969).

/home/.cache folder

After a while of running a *nix workstation or server, the operating system will store files in the ~/.cache folder.

Some of the files stored are cover art images for Rhythmbox media player, the cache of Tracker the desktop search program for *nix.

So it is entirely OK to delete the contents of the ~/.cache folder (not the folder itself).

Afterwards I went from 64.2% of a 94 GB partition to 64%, whatever that is in Megabytes.

Recent Acomplishments

Recently I accomplished several things:

1.  Bought a Yamaha  organ for myself on 2016-08-27, something I've wanted Electone practically all of my life.
2. Bought my first audio mixer, a 4-channel Yamaha ____ so that I can combine music from the organ and play along with music from the laptop (MP3 or YouTube) and not disturb my housemates.
3. Got a 2-table relational database working in LibreOffice Base. The usual training example is to set up an order entry system, which requires 4 tables (customers, products, employees and orders). The one I set up requires but 2 (payee and cheque). It's a Cheque Register. And it works! I can locate a Payee and key in a Cheque number, Amount and Date and the database will keep them separate from one another.
4. Sending files via BlueTooth from my BlackBerry device to my laptop now works. Before this month I could send from the laptop to the phone, but it would not work the other way. I suspect it has something to do with the desktop environment I'm running. Was running MATE in 2015 and since upgrading RAM earlier this year run GNOME 3 exclusively.

Creating LibreOffice Base Reports from Multi-table Queries

When you want to build a LibreOffice Base Report sourced from two or more tables, you must use the Query in Design mode to select all the required tables.

If this is not done, when it comes time to design the database report, LibreOffice will allow you to select exclusively one table or another, but not more than one at a time.

For example, two tables in a cheque register database application:

Table 1 contains a list of Payees and their contact info
Table 2 contains a list of Cheques and details about each

In Query Design mode, select all required fields in Table 1 (Payees), then select all required fields in Table 2 (Cheques).

Each column in the Design window will be available to you in the Report Builder later on.