After a fresh install of Ubuntu and media software and codecs, a little more work is required to start ripping and burning DVDs. Below is a guide to get you started using Brasero (the CD/DVD burning application included with Ubuntu) and an application called K9Copy, which is similar to the once popular program DVD Shrink

One of my recent projects required me to convert a time-lapse video of a microscope slide to a sequence of JPEGs so I could analyze these JPEGs using imageJ. To accomplish the conversion I used my iMac running OS X and FFmpeg, a freely available image and video conversion program. I ran the following command

The code below demonstrates a short Perl function that takes an array as an argument and returns the average of this array. #!/usr/bin/perl sub average { my @array = @_; # save the array passed to this function my $sum; # create a variable to hold the sum of the array’s values foreach (@array) {

The code below presents the basic structure of a Perl script that reads the columns of a tab-delineated text file and saves each column to a separate data array that can then be used to for additional processing. The code is set up to process a data file with two columns of data (x and

Ubuntu is distributed without codecs to play many of the most prevalent media formats due to license restrictions. If you want to watch DVDs (unencrypted and encrypted), run Flash (.swf and .flv extensions), play QuickTime movies (.mov ), watch Windows Media Video files (.wmv), listen to MP3s (.mp3), Windows Media Audio files (.wma), or unencrypted