Tag: Command-line interface

  • Axel, the Accelerated Wget

    When downloading large files in Linux, wget gets the job done but isn’t very fast. When speed is of the issue, a multi-connection tool is needed. That is where axel, a simple command-line based download accelerator, comes in. Axel is as easy to use as wget, it may not have the advanced features such as…

  • UPDATE: Run ffmpeg On Mac Without Compiling Anything

    This is going to be a update to a post I did a few days ago, “Run ffmpeg On Mac Without Compiling Anything”. I did get some good and skeptic response. They solution I posted does indeed work, but it’s a very old binary and you don’t get ffplay, ffserver etc. And a nice fella…

  • Run ffmpeg On Mac Without Compiling Anything

    So you may be thinking, how on earth am I going to install ffmpeg on Mac OS X, do I compile it myself? Install it trough macports? NO, There is a perfectly fine and stable ffmpeg binary out there that someone else has compiled for us, and that someone (or he/she) is “FFmpegX”. FFmpegX is…

  • Mac OS X: How To Open The Terminal

    So you have just found a great article online that requiers you to have access to the Mac OS X terminal, but where is it? No worries, i’ll show you. Open “Finder” Open “Applications” Open “Utilities” And finally, open “Terminal”