Dryice Liu’s Blog

adding subtitle to video

Well this might be my last post about using IPod on FreeBSD, cause the last I concerned, for us non-English users only, how to “hard-encode” the subtitle to video files, is resolved
Most of the DVD rip tools will generate 2 files: an avi file, mostly xvid encoded, and a .srt file, which holds […]

¶ Posted 11 December 2006 § freebsd ‡ Comments (0)

emms using mplayer

Well I said I could use music play daemon to play media files within Emacs, there’s something made it uncomfortable: every time I found some new mp3 files, I’ll need to rebuild the mpd database and restart the daemon. This is boring especially when I get one from a friend and just want to play […]

¶ Posted 25 July 2006 § emacs ‡ Comments (1)

playing media files within Emacs

Well Emacs itself can’t play media files, it can call an external program to play them. I like have some music as the background when programming, so I have this (stealed from the net)
;;;; A little function that plays marked files in dired with xmms
(defun dired-xmms-play-mp3 (&optional arg)
"play mp3 files marked in dired buffer with […]