Do you have two or more movie files, and you want to join them? Well, if you are using Linux, then this is an easy task, after knowing the right command to use that is. For example, if you are using Arch Linux, you will only need to: "pacman -S mplayer". In the case you are using another Linux distribution, just make sure to install mplayer, but you should know that some Linux distributions does not bundle mencoder with mplayer, and mencoder is the tool we need to get the job done. For example, for Ubuntu you should issue the following command: "sudo apg-get install mencoder mplayer".

Note: This article was featured in the June, 2008 edition of the Arch Linux Newsletter.

Cited from the Tremulous website, “Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS.” Sounds good? Yeah, and in my opinion, it is good. I have been addicted to this game since I started using Arch Linux full time, the fact that I have no other Operating System installed on my system makes me rely on Linux for everyday tasks and even for gaming. Tremulous is the game I have enjoyed the most so far in my Linux gaming experience, so I took on the challenge of trying to enjoy it to the maximum. Here is what I came of with:

Note: This article was featured in the July, 2008 edition of the Arch Linux Newsletter.

From the glc website: “glc is an ALSA & OpenGL capture tool for Linux. It consists of a generic video capture, playback and processing library and a set of tools built around that library. glc should be able to capture any application that uses ALSA for sound and OpenGL for drawing. It is still a relatively new project but already has a long list of features.”

My refusal to use Windows is what makes me learn to do everything using only Linux, even though it usually requires long times in front of the computer researching and tweaking the hints google.com/linux gives me. But, at least I can say that at the end the results are satisfying, I end up learning more about Linux and how powerful a command line application can be compared to a most GUI application. I must admit that I do prefer GUI in the majority of the cases, is just that from time to time I am amazed by the power of the CLI.