Here's how you can use ffmpeg to convert a video (an MP4 video, for example) to an MP3 that you can load on your MP3 player:

    ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -f mp3 -ab 192000 -vn music.mp3

But there's a catch: You have to have ffmpeg and the libavcode-unstripped-52 packages installed on your computer. The problem is that second package is available in the multiverse respository only. To enable the multiverse repository, select Administration from the System menu, then Software Sources.

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Warning: This MooseX::Declare program, which my server was calling as a cron job, stopped working. I'm not sure what caused the program to fail suddenly and I didn't have the time to investigate the issue thoroughly. I did, however, rewrite the program in classic Perl, which solved the problem for now. I plan to make the "classic" version available to everyone and I also plan to investigate why the MooseX::Declare program stopped working.

Mark Logic server is, unbelievably, not supported on Ubuntu 8.10. However, the server runs just fine on that distribution. The following installation instructions might save you some time.

1. Create a temporary mark-logic directory somewhere and cd into that directory
2. sudo apt-get install rpm
3. sudo apt-get install alien
4. wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lsb/lsb-base_3.2-23_all.deb

I'm using Ubuntu Linux and I've installed moto4lin using sudo apt-get install moto4lin. I have a Razr (couldn't tell you the model for the life of me, but it's not as wide as the really high-end model) that Tracy gave me for X-mas.

Note: These instructions are for installing Ubuntu 7.10 on the ML3109. Installing Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) is much easier and requires a special tweak for the wireless only.