Power Management With Video & Handbrake

[fauxpas]

Let me start by saying that LM12 is the closest I've been to experimenting a linux distro and am starting to feel no need to keep dropping back into windows to do stuff I can't do, or is too hard to do in linux...

Only a couple of issues I need resolved now...

Firstly, handbrake... Can someone steer me to a newb-centric install guige for a newb who rarely types into console? What I've got from google so far mentions something about ppa... What the? K9Copy works well for copy but I need handbrake...

Secondly, when watching vids more than a few minutes long, how do I get the power management to know I'm watching a video and nor dim display, hibernate etc?

Cheers for a grouse distro...

[veggen]

Regarding Handbrake. You have a 32bit portable version here. It's super-easy to get started.
If you want the 64bit one, check this thread out. Especially my post that is the fourth from the bottom.

[fauxpas]

How do you make it executable? And how do you run it?

I get a error 404 on adding the ppa

[veggen]

From Nautilus, you can right-click, go to Permissions and tick "allow executing this file as program". After that you should be able to just double-click to execute.

[fauxpas]

This worked...

ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases

Fan-frikkin-tastic

Any help with power management and videos?

[veggen]

Can't help with that one... All I know is that you can control when the screen locks in System Settings -> Screen and power options are in System Settings -> Power but I don't think there's a way to tell the system that playing videos is not the same as being idle. Maybe there's some app that can handle it.