Google Chrome has problem displaying hindi/unicode and other Indian language fonts. For example bold hindi fonts might be displayed as square boxes. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=32109 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21320 It is some kind of font selection bug. Lets try fixing it. 1. You may want to install the packages ttf-devanagari-fonts and ttf-indic-fonts. Also get that mangal.ttf thing from windows or somewhere. If that solves the problem , fine , otherwise continue. 2. Lets say for hindi , find which font [...]

To record or rip a vcd on ubuntu : 1. sudo apt-get install vcdimager 2. Insert vcd into drive. 3. run vcdxrip It will create the avseq**.mpg files in your home folder. Now the mpg files can be used with ffmpeg or to create other vcd etc. Run : mplayer vcd://1 It will show track information of the vcd : mencoder command can be used to record a particular track