1. If you don’t have the medibuntu.org sources ready, add them:
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free
deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

As the versions in hardy-proposed are newer than the medibuntu versions, we need to force and then lock the package versions to install.

2. Run synaptic and search for ffmpeg.
3. Select the ffmpeg package, press CTRL+E, select the medibuntu version and then press “Force Version”
4. Select it again and press Package -> Lock Version. This will make sure that you don’t update it to the hardy-proposed version by mistake.
5. Do the previous steps for the libavcodec1d package
6. Install both packages

You can now use the following command to convert all files in the working directory to PS3 format videos:
find . -name "*"  -maxdepth 1  -exec ffmpeg -y -i {} -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 128k -vcodec mpeg4 -r 24 -b 800k -mbd 2 -aic 2 {}.ps3.mp4 \;

You can change the -ab 128k to the audio bitrate you want and the same for the video bitrate by changing the -b 800k

Naturally, for a movie which stars Harrison Ford, is co-written by George Lucas and is directed Steven Spielberg, you would expect a really good film to continue the Indiana Jones legacy. What you get though is ET meets Star Wars with a dash of archaeology thrown in.

This film actually comes close to Armageddon’s record for most impossible scenes in one film. What with the ridiculous man-eating ants, Indy escaping from the epicentre of a nuclear blast in a lead fridge, the sword fight on two moving cars, and five people not only surviving three huge waterfalls, but staying in the same boat for two of them!

Wait there’s more, the crystal skull is magnetic and yet it attracts gold. Also the magnetic force only attracts objects when there is some tense cinematic reason for doing so…

Not only that, but for some super, all knowing, inter-dimensional, powerful alien/s, they sure were astronomically stupid to let some mere mortal go and nick their precious skull.

And please, for the love of all thats good and real, don’t even attempt to give me a reason why Dr Jones, Jr. doesn’t get sucked into the vortex that would have been created when the flying saucer takes off, or why the physical force of the Amazon river rushing into the hole that is subsequently created doesn’t cause Indy and Co to go on one big cliff-slide into the water below.

When there are so many physical impossibilities in a movie the plot really does need to be amazing to rescue the film. Unfortunately this is not the case for this one, the plot is lame, and everybody with a brain bigger than a peanut would guess the many predictable twists. Also, for a series of films where the villain is always destroyed at the end of the film by the artifact that they were trying to get, you could have at least let Indy get the bad guy (girl) in the end for a change.

To sum up, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull does nothing to deserve the title of a ‘good’ film and it was a complete waste of time to go and watch it. Average acting, a predictable script and impossible, over the top special effects completely spoil this movie.

3/10