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Howto: Filter out vuvuzela noise on your PC
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Hi everybody,
I came across the following instruction how to filter out the annoying vuvuzela noise on your computer.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2010/06/14/vuvuzela_buzz_ruining_your_world_cup_get_rid_of_it
It describes it for Windows, Mac and Fedora. For Ubuntu I found this thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1509409
In short, if you use mplayer, start it with these options
Still not ideal, but at least you can hear the chants from the crowd.
For MythTV there is a patch available, but it will not find it's way into the repos. I will try this one later...
http://www.avenard.org/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Ubuntu_Repository.html
Happy watching ;-)
I came across the following instruction how to filter out the annoying vuvuzela noise on your computer.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2010/06/14/vuvuzela_buzz_ruining_your_world_cup_get_rid_of_it
It describes it for Windows, Mac and Fedora. For Ubuntu I found this thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1509409
In short, if you use mplayer, start it with these options
Or you could use the pulseaudio equalizermplayer -af pan=1:0.5:0.5,sinesuppress=233:0.01,sinesuppress=466:0.01,sinesuppress=932:0.01,sinesuppress=1864:0.01,sinesuppress=232:0.01,sinesuppress=465:0.01,sinesuppress=931:0.01,sinesuppress=1863:0.01,sinesuppress=234:0.01,sinesuppress=467:0.01,sinesuppress=933:0.01,sinesuppress=1865:0.01
and copy and paste this in ~/.pulse/presets/vuvuzela.presetsudo add-apt-repository ppa:psyke83/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer
Then open the PulseAudio Equalizer and select the vuvuzela preset, enable and apply.mbeq_1197
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Still not ideal, but at least you can hear the chants from the crowd.
For MythTV there is a patch available, but it will not find it's way into the repos. I will try this one later...
http://www.avenard.org/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Ubuntu_Repository.html
Happy watching ;-)
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Also, I heard that BBC was planning to offer a Red Button service that shows the matches with the noise removed.
Hmm maybe they were only 'thinking about' the idea:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286406/WORLD-CUP-2010-Vuvuzela-faces-ban-noise-complaints.html0
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