Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!
On 8/28/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:21 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: For DVDs, try this: mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd \ -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:\ vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=4/3 \ -ofps 25 -o outfile.mpeg infile Note that this is for a PAL DVD - if you want NTSC you need to change to -vf scale=720:480 and set the -ofps to 24/10001 or 30/10001 (the first for movies, second for tv shows) But: the mpeg doesn't seem to scale right. My laptop display is 1680x1050, and hence the original dv output (4:3) has black edges on each side, but the converted mpeg plays stretched, so that everybody looks fat! You could try dropping the -aspect option from the mencoder command line and let mplayer calculate the aspect itself, it's normally pretty good at that. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] very [OT] PCI-Express
On 7/24/06, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, can one of the 2 x16 slots (be they both fully x16 or sharing 16 lanes) on an SLi board be used for something other than a graphics card, while the other is used for a graphics card? If it's a real SLI board with a full 16 lanes per slot, there shouldn't be any problem sticking another card in the other 16x slot. If however, it shares 16 lanes between both slots, most will give all 16 to one slot if only one card is installed. But only way to tell is to try it, really. It almost certainly won't break anything. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 install: bootstrap failed
On 7/19/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just used the amd64(experimential) livecd to attempt an installation. Here's where it failed: Exception received during 'Performing bootstrap: Stage 1ERror: FATAL: stage1: Boostrapping failed! Should I have chosen another option other than the stage1 tarball? The gentoo developers currently reccommend that you install gentoo from a stage 3 tarball. It does install faster, and is much less likely to have problems like bootstrap failure. I'm not sure, but the gentoo installer is likely only tested properly when installing from a stage3 tarball. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [solved] xorg-x11 upgrade problems (mesa-progs-6.4.2)
On 7/1/06, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Updating module dependencies for 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 ... WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r7/video/fglrx.ko needs unknown symbol inter_module_unregister WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r7/video/fglrx.ko needs unknown symbol inter_module_get_request This error actually looks like you might not have compiled your kernel with module support, maybe? I normally only get an error with needing an unknown symbol here if i try to compile a module in portage against a kernel that isn't installed. Because the modules aren't in the module path, depmod can't check if the correct symbols are in them. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ASS/SAA in Video
On 6/26/06, Caster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. No need for fancy karaoke effects, but I hope at least colors, positioning and such stuff for translating signs will work good, and hopefully also embedded fonts in mkv files? With the current in-development patch, all of the above (including fancy karaoke) is working :) So hope to see it soon. If you feel like trying the patch right now, it's posted at http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2006-June/043996.html and needs to be applied (with -p0) to a recent subversion checkout of the mplayer source. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ASS/SAA in Video
On 6/24/06, Pavel KouĊil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, i have some anime in *.mkv, subtitles are in the file(softsub), and I can't see them in mplayer. When I open video in Xine, xine will crash. VLC doesn't have Advanced SubStationAlpha support. Do you know any player, where ASS/SAA working fine? The version of mplayer in portage should be able to play most ssa subtitles fine, but it will drop all formatting from them and display them the same as srt subtitles. There's a patch on the mplayer mailing list for adding full ass/ssa support, it should be in svn soon and hopefully into an mplayer release... If so, mplayer will be the first linux player with styled ass subtitle support. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] does anyone here speak japanese? please help in translaton
On 6/17/06, CapSel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't speak japanese at all :) I only know a bit of japanese, but I can tell you that that is in fact not Japanese. Most likely it's Chinese. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] supported mp3 players (hardware)
On 6/16/06, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What players would you recommend. My needs are modest, a few hours of MP3s would be enough. My primary goal is to listen to the teaching company lectures. What I would recommend is any of iRiver's current flash based models. Almost all of them have upgradeable firmware that can disable drm, turn them into a usb mass storage device, and add ogg vorbis support. They're really nice linux companions :) Check iRiver's website to make sure the one you get has a umd firmware available, if it does, you're on your way. (I just happen to have a rather old 128mb iriver flash player, works great. can even record 64kbit mp3 off a stereo line in, and holds ~2.5 hours of -q3 vorbis) -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] remove xorg-server to emerge nvidia-glx =Normal?
On 6/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.99 (is blocking media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762) [ebuild N] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.8762 USE=-dlloader 0 kB Is this normal... is nvidia-glx a replacement to xorg-server? Actually, this is because the nvidia driver officially doesn't support xorg-server 1.1, only 1.0 (1.1 is xorg 7.1, 1.0 is xorg 7.0) Many people (myself included) find that it mostly works - some minor problems with bitmaps fonts in my experience. Unfortunately, if you've already installed xorg 7.1, it's really hard to downgrade. Perhaps you can find some help from someone else on doing that, I've make a local overlay ebuild without the block because it was working for me. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags question
On 5/31/06, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I correct in thinking that USE flags in /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc are global flags and should be placed in /etc/make.conf whereas those in use.local.desc are only local flags and should only be placed in /etc/portage/package.use with the appropriate package? Tony To tell the truth, you can put either kind of use flag in either file. The difference is what you want to apply the flag to. If you want only a single package to have a global use flag set differently from the rest of the system, you put it in package.use. If you see a local flag that might later be used by other packages, or is used by multiple packages, you might want to put it in make.conf. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cursor shape fo X.org ?
On 5/30/06, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now what I can't work out is why my laptop says core too, but all I get is a triangle default icon (on my desktop a more pretty one). I have to keep manually changing it to another theme. Any ideas what this core points to, as there is no core folder on either machine? Greetings, Ralph core simply tells X to use the built-in default cursors, black with white borders. Because they are built-in, there are no theme files for them. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] desktop settings
On 8/29/05, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my gnome desktop in the default panel I currently have gaim and an xterm. I tried to open a mozilla browser at an empty page (default), but when I close and save settings, I get a message telling me that it cannot save mozilla and closes it. Is there a way to have mozilla available when I login to a gnome session? Mozilla unfortunately doesn't have complete session support. The epiphany browser, which is also based on mozilla does. You can also manually add mozilla to your session, like the other reply suggests. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard
On 6/15/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Trouble with Alsa drivers on a 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 kernel. I did not have ALSA set up before, but in make.conf 'alsa' is listed as a USE flag. the kernel is configured with: devicedrivers -sound -sound card support -alsa -pci devices * VIA 82C686A/B, 8233/8235 AC97 Controller * VIA 82C686A/B, 8233 based Modems but this does not seem to do the trick. Upon reboot it complains that the ALSA drivers are not found. I have an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. My lspci has the following: :00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio Processing Unit (rev a2) :00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1) I'm fairly certain that it used to say it had a via chip, same message as yours, but upgrading to the 2.5.12-rc4-mm kernel seems to have changed the message. Anyways, the card I have actually uses the intel8x0 driver, and appears to have 5.1 support using this driver (I can't confirm this - don't have the speakers) The via driver loads on my board, as well, but doesn't appear to provide any functionality. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA Drivers on A7V8X-X Motherboard
On 6/15/05, Calvin Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/15/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V8X-X Motherboard I have an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. Ok, sorry, my blurry vision at this time of night has stopped me from realizing that you had a motherboard that actually does have a via chipset. It might still be worth it to try the intel8x0 driver, but i'm not so certain any more :) -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption
On 5/31/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When will Reiser4 be added to the Gentoo kernel? I can emerge reiser4progs, but I can't mount the volumes nor use them in /etc/fstab. -- Colin Although reiser4 is not in the main gentoo kernel, it is in sys-kernel/mm-sources. Note that using this kernel and asking for support will probably get developers mad at you - it's not supported :) I'm using it atm, and reiser4 seems to be working quite well. -- Calvin Walton -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
