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abhinandh
23-03-2008, 04:17 PM
Nautilus scripts can be very useful at times as they help in saving a lot of time by allowing us to do various actions at a single click.

The location of script folder is
~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts
all the scripts mentioned below have to be extracted in the above folder.

1) AUDIO CONVERT
This script can be very handy to convert between various audio formats.
supported ones are WAV, Ogg, MP3, MPC, FLAC, APE, AAC, and WMA.
the codecs needed to be installed are
* lame: to encode/decode mp3's.
* oggenc (vorbis-tools): to encode ogg's.
* oggdec (vorbis-tools): to decode ogg's.
* mppenc: to encode mpc's.
* mppdec: to decode mpc's.
* faac: to encode aac's.
* faad: to decode aac's.
* flac: to encode/decode flac's.
sudo apt-get install lame vorbis-tools faac faad flac mppenc mppdec
execute the above command to install all required codecs in ubuntu/debain.

GET IT (http://freshmeat.net/projects/audio-convert/)

2) NSCRIPTS
NScripts is a set of nautilus scripts that does all the following basic functons.

Chkmd5:
Check md5sums
Maxfiles at once: unlimited

CopyTo:
Copy selected files/folders to ...
whereever you want. the script will
check if you have write-permissions.
Maxfiles at once: unlimited

InstallTheme:
Install a Theme to ~/.themes, or /usr/share/themes works with
both tarballs and folders
Maxfiles at once: unlimited

InstallIcons:
Install Icons/Cursors to ~/.icons or /usr/share/icons works
with both tarballs and folders
Maxfiles at once: unlimited

Mkmd5:
Create md5sums
Maxfiles at once: unlimited

MoveTo:
Move selected files/folders to ...
whereever you want. the script will
check if you have write-permissions.
Maxfiles at once: unlimited

Rootilus:
Open the current directory in nautilus, as root

RootTermInCurdir:
Open a gnome-terminal with the currentdir as workdir, as root

SetAsSplash:
set as session splash screen
maxfiles at once: one

Shredder:
Shred seleted files ... forever
if /dev/random or /dev/urandom
exists, it will be used.
Maxfiles at once: unlimited

TermInCurdir:
open a terminal with the currentdir as workdir, as the current user

SetAsWallpaper:
set the current file as wallpaper

SendShortcutTo
send links to ... wherever you want.
Maxfiles at once: unlimited

SendToMenu:
send desktop-launchers to menu ("Other"-Submenu)

GET IT (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/NScripts?content=67655)

3) AVI & MP4 CONVERTER
A video conversion script that depends on ffmpeg and mencoder which means it can encode many different formats.
mplayer,mencoder,ffmpeg,lame are required to be installed.

GET IT (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/avi+%26+mp4+converter?content=64899)

those were my favourite scripts and the possibilities are endless.a simple bash script can be used as a nautilus script.

Nautilus script directory at gnome-look (http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=188)

do share any other useful scripts...

rahimveron
23-03-2008, 04:33 PM
It certainly do. I use NScripts 2.3 & Ultimate.

T159
23-03-2008, 04:37 PM
yep using a few of em

praka123
23-03-2008, 06:46 PM
I have installed this.but confuses between nautilus-actions and nautilus-scripts :?

rahimveron
23-03-2008, 06:48 PM
I have installed this.but confuses between nautilus-actions and nautilus-scripts :?
Prakash bhai and confused? :shock:

Any script that would convert .mkv files to avi or mpg?

praka123
23-03-2008, 06:50 PM
^I aint a geek or an expert first of all :p
no, there is 2 packages in Debian-
1.nautilus-actions
2.nautilus-scripts

rahimveron
23-03-2008, 06:57 PM
^ You are so humble!!!

Hitboxx
23-03-2008, 07:03 PM
Tried some before and now to do again, thanks for the heads up abhinand :)

Vivek788
14-04-2008, 07:16 AM
nscripts is cool...btw nautilus is not..its quite buggy...