A collection of ten sneaky MEL hints and tricks that I REALLY wish I'd known a very long time ago...

Perhaps you're fed up of having to use lots of different media players all the time (Realplayer, Windows Media Player, Quicktime, to name just a few). Perhaps you need special features in your media player that most of the others don't have, like frame by frame playback or the ability to flip the video image. Or maybe you need a way to convert between different media formats without paying for Sorenson Squeeze or Adobe Premiere. Whatever your needs, MPlayer can help you out...

 

Let's be honest, Maya is hardly the best looking program in the world, is it? That horrible shade of depressing grey can really start to get to you after a while, especially when it's the only thing you see for 12 hours straight... So how can we make it look like this instead?

This tutorial covers how to install software on Linux by compiling it, and also explains how to do this in such a way that avoids the need for administrator (root) privileges - by installing it locally into our home area...