The PS3 has this slightly irritating flaw in that to charge the wireless controllers you need to have the playstation powered on (i.e. you can’t charge with the PS3 on standby).

To this ying there is a yang; as the PS3 is on anyway I like to donate the power to the
Folding @ Home project, what’s nice is they give me a cool stats page to follow my progress…

• LINICKX Folding @ Home Stats Page

I think the guys should configure some kind of RSS Feed for each completed work unit so we can share the love in a lifestream

I’ve recently upgraded from F7 to F10 and was surprised to see that ffmpegthumbnailer hasn’t made it into the yum repo’s yet!

As I use ffmpegthumbnailer for PS3 Video thumbnails I needed to find a solution to this.

If I had the time I’d knock up a .spec file & rpm, but for the time being I thought I’d post my bodge…. NUMBER ONE, if you’ve never typed “configure;make;make install” before you need to install the development tools.

sudo yum groupinstall “development tools”

Next pick up a couple of extra dependencies…

sudo yum install libpng libpng-devel ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

You should now find that, if you download the source, unpack it – gunzip ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.0.tar.gz;tar -xvf ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.0.tar and cd ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.0 hopefully you can complete ./configure without any errors.

If you try make at this point it’ll probably fail with errors, this is how I fixed that….


cd /usr/include/ffmpeg/
ln -s libavcodec/avcodec.h ./
ln -s libavformat/avformat.h ./
ln -s libswscale/swscale.h ./
ln -s libavformat/avio.h ./


Now you can… get back to the build


cd ~/ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.0
make
sudo make install


If all has gone well you should have a working install