Back to the topic, finish installing the packages and some required setting (timezone, hostname, ip, username and yada-yada), reboot and voila !! Ubuntu is using Gnome as desktop, the system requesting for autoupdate for various packages. There a popup message that give instruction for enable the sytem to install my graphic card driver. I follow the instruction "click System -> Administration -> Hardware driver -> Enable restricted driver". Then the driver automatically installed.
This is good, I dont need to make my hands dirty at the 1st day of using Ubuntu.
I'm playing around the desktop to make myself familiar with the interface.
I open up the terminal
sudo ps ax
to checked the default process and wow !! compiz is run by default. This is good. I googling around to find how to setting up and manage the compiz (I'm crazy about the 3D desktop thingy). I need to install compiz config setting manager.
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
And then I click System > Preferences > Advanced System Effects Settings. There are several plugins installed and running, I just need to add Desktop Cube and Rotate Desktop. By googling around I found a keyboard shortcut for compiz fusion
| Desktop Effects | Keyboard Shortcuts |
|---|---|
| Rotate Cube | Mousewheel on Desktop |
| Switcher | Alt + Tab |
| Shift Switcher | Super + Tab (2 modes: flip and cover) |
| Ring Switcher | Super + Tab - overrides Shift Switcher |
| Expo | Super + E (toggle) |
| Film Effect | Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow4 |
| Rotate Cube Manually | Ctrl + Alt + Left Mouse Button |
| Scale Windows | Alt + Shift + Up Arrow |
| Show/Clear Desktop | Ctrl + Alt + D (toggle) |
| Snapping Windows | Move a window across workspaces5 |
| Screenshot | Super + Left Mouse Button |
| Zoom In/Out | Super + Mousewheel |
| Transparent Window | Alt + Mousewheel |
| Resize Window | Alt + F8 |
| Move Window | Alt + F7 |
| Add Helper | Super + P |
| Widget Layer | F9 (toggle) |
| Water Effects | Shift + F9 (toggle) |
| Fire Effects: On | Super + Shift + Left Mouse Button |
| Fire Effects: Clear | Super + Shift + C |
| Annotate: Draw | Super + Left Mouse Button |
| Annotate: Start | Super + 1 |
| Annotate: End | Super + 3 |
| Group: Select Window(s) | Super + S |
| Group: Group Windows | Super + T |
| Group: Ungroup Windows | Super + U |
| Group: Flip Windows | Super + Right or Left Arrow |
After playing around with the effects, I'm entering my previous NTFS partitions (Note: This machine is dual boot with WinXP and got 2 NTFS partition) and tried play HD Movie with default movie player which is Totem. Wow no problemo !! MP3's file running with Rhytmbox Music Player. What I love is I can preview the MP3's sounds by pointing the mouse pointer to the MP3 files at File Browser !!
Then I tried play 3gp files. Video is ok but no sound. Hmm ... tried using command line to find out what's the problem and this is the output
watthafxk@watthafxk-pc:~$ totem watthafxk.3gp
** Message: don't know how to handle audio/AMR, codec_data=(buffer)0000001164616d72533630200081800005, rate=(int)8000, channels=(int)1
** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) decoder|decoder-audio/AMR (Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) decoder)
no application found
** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found.
watthafxk@watthafxk-pc:~$
** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. This is not good. Googling around to find other 3gp's compatible player. Yeah !! RealPlayer will be my saviour. I downloaded the installation file and run the command as in instruction at several forums and blogs
watthafxk@watthafxk-pc:~$ chmod a+x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
watthafxk@watthafxk-pc:~$ ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
bash: ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin: No such file or directory
watthafxk@watthafxk-pc:~$ sudo ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
[sudo] password for watthafxk:
sudo: unable to execute ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin: No such file or directory
watthafxk@watthafxk-pc:~$
What the fxck !!
Then I googling around about mplayer, still problem with amr ... what the fxck
Trying to get info about vlc player then I found this
samr is the FourCC for AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) audio. It is not supported in VLC due to licensing issues. VLC can be compiled with AMR (using FFmpeg compiled with it) however this is not compatible with the GPL due to software patents. - Source
WHAT THE FXCK !!
to be continued ?
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