Arch-KDE/MacOS/Windows scripts

linux.md

Allow root logon

1. Swap to console mode (ctrl+alt+F3)
2. Login as root
3. In /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, change AllowRootlogon = false to true

Simplest list hidden files only

ls -ld .* OR ls -ld .??*

mkv to mp4

ffmpeg -i PATH/FILENAME.mkv -acodec aac -ac 2 -strict experimental -ab 160k -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -profile:v baseline -level 30 -maxrate 10000000 -bufsize 10000000 -b 1200k -f mp4 -threads 0 PATH/FILENAME.mp4

mkv to mp4 losslessly

ffmpeg -y -i INPUT.mkv -c copy -map 0:0 -map 0:1 OUTPUT.mp4

extract subtitles

re-encode

ffmpeg -i ~/source.mkv -y out.srt

stream copy

ffmpeg -i ~/source.mkv -c copy -y out.srt

rsync-mac2windows.sh

#!/bin/bash

SOURCE=$1
DESTINATION=$2

rsync -avhP --iconv=utf-8-mac,utf-8 \
  --delete \
  --exclude '.DS_Store' \
  --exclude '.Trashes' \
  --exclude '.DocumentRevisions-V100' \
  --exclude '.Spotlight-V100' \
  --exclude '.TemporaryItems' \
  --exclude '.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent' \
  --exclude '.fseventsd' \
  --exclude 'node_modules' \
  $SOURCE $DESTINATION \
  2>rsync.err