Re: sound / video problem
Barry wrote: What am I missing?? I have an iso of a dvd on my hd. mplayer and vlc both play the iso but without sound. However if I mount the iso the vob files all play correctly. GGR! Other iso files play ok in mplayer, vlc requires the chanel to be selected. Suggestions welcome, there has been too much midnight oil burned on this problem now. TIA Barry Answering my own query - as I have now got the answer for mplayer. From the command line, enter 'mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /path to file.iso' Still looking for what is needed for vlc to start with sound. At present it lloks like I need to separately select the audio track - 1 of 33 in 1 instance. Barry
Re: sound / video problem
Barry wrote: What am I missing?? I have an iso of a dvd on my hd. mplayer and vlc both play the iso but without sound. However if I mount the iso the vob files all play correctly. GGR! Other iso files play ok in mplayer, vlc requires the chanel to be selected. Suggestions welcome, there has been too much midnight oil burned on this problem now. The same problem occurs on 2 computers!! TIA Barry
Re: sound / video problem
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Barry wrote: What am I missing?? I have an iso of a dvd on my hd. mplayer and vlc both play the iso but without sound. However if I mount the iso the vob files all play correctly. GGR! Other iso files play ok in mplayer, vlc requires the chanel to be selected. Suggestions welcome, there has been too much midnight oil burned on this problem now. The same problem occurs on 2 computers!! what is the output of mplayer when you do this? [r...@localhost barry]$ mplayer /home/barry/Videos/CommutingByCable.iso MPlayer SVN-1.rc2.23.r28791.2mdv2009.1-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing /home/barry/Videos/CommutingByCable.iso. MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 9282.0 kbps (1160.2 kbyte/s) == Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try appending the scale filter to your filter list, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Unsupported PixelFormat -1 Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2) == == Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad... Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8274488 bytes). Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed? For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option. Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8274488 bytes). Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed? For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option. Cannot sync MAD frame ADecoder init failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8274488 bytes). Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed? For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option. ADecoder init failed :( ADecoder init failed :( Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8274488 bytes). Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed? For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option. Unknown/missing audio format - no sound -- I have no problems with .isos from other sources 1G ram inc video thanks
Re: why oh why...
Steve Holdoway wrote: ... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly? I've lost mine again... I know it works as I get a 'click' when a new window opens. But playing anything at all - forget it. System says everything's fine. Gnome sound preferences widget can see both the analog stereo and the usb headset, and is allegedly outputting, at volume 100% to both. alsamixer has all sane values next to it. Just no output on either device. Can anyone point me to a decent, up to date ( this is ubuntu 9.10 ) troubleshooting guide. Or start a project to provide a sane alternative to alsa... (: Cheers, Steve I dumped pa for alsa and had no probs since. What apps are you using? Barry
Re: Twisted Hop Evening
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:47 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 17 May 2010 12:32, Solor Vox solor...@gmail.com wrote: Are you going to have a tux on the table? =) He and I have had a wee conversation. Initially. he stated that he is feeling very shy and frightened of being exposed to public view, yet again, in a alcolhol fuelled environment. I told him to stop be so darned silly. He has therefore, very reluctantly, agreed to do his duty as a mascot. So, Yes, Tux will be on view - initially anyway, but I have compromised with him, and he will be allowed to retire to my pocket as the evening progresses. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell That's pretty wimpy behaviour from an ex IBM stress-Tux... Probably was sitting to close to windows
Re: serious X problem
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: after many failed attempts to view movies I am at a complete loss on where to search next for a cure to my problem. Every time I try to view any movie X crashes requiring a restart and sometimes locks the kbd. This happens with mplayer and vlc. It follows a clean install of Mandriva2009.1 The only msg I have is 'Unsupported pixel format' but can not find anything in the logs after restarting Checked the output of 'ldd mplayer', 'rpm -q -requires mplayer'. All dependencies appear to be in place. Google produces many replies, none work. Scrapped the original Xorg.conf, allowed X to create a new one, Then tried creating a new one with XFdrake. Have now removed as much as possible of pulseaudio - still can not play movies. The problem does not occur with an install of Mandriva one live for 2009.0 but this distro has other problems, and an upgrade to 2009.1 gives a messy system. The box is a Compac NX9040. The same distro runs fine on my other box which is one I got from Craig / Avonside High, And I think that install is an upgrade. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Barry It is very hard to tell with so little information, and that is probably because of the immediate crash which wipes out your debugging info by crashing X and any xterm you are running from. However IMHO it's likely to be a problem with the X driver. mplayer and most other video players prefer to output via xv which enables some direct interaction with hardware. It is a lot faster than using x11, to the point where many movies will not play smoothly in x11. However it is worth trying: mplayer -vo x11 moviefile.avi to see if it crashes, then the same using -vo xv to see if there is a difference. I see you are ion a notebook with presumably shared RAM between your video system and your OS. Allocate as much ram as possible to video in the bios. By the way if you are having immediate crashes and cannot read the mplayer output, try either starting mplayer from a console, where an X crash won't affect you, or redirect mplayer's output to a file so it survives the X crash. To start from a console, first of all in a terminal within X run xhost + (this is a security risk but unless you have intruders on your lan worry not) then in a console run export DISPLAY=:0 mplayer -vo xv moviefile.avi the movie should play (or crash) in your X screen, but the console will report back all the error messages. The other obvious test is to run another distro from a livecd and see if it will play a movie on your system. You'll probably need to pick a live cd that has access to a good range of codecs (probably chris' sabayon would work well, or pclinuxos perhaps), or pick a movie that has open codecs. I know a lot of first reactions were to put another version of linux on your machine. A few simple tests should isolate the problem before you do anything that radical. I am in two minds about you switching distros. It can be a pain to change and learn new tricks, but frankly I haven't seen much positive about mandrivel in recent times. Another thing to try is -vo null for mplayer, which will give no video output, but if it still craashes then we are barking up the wrong tree with the X11 stuff. There is also our old friend strace to really look into what is making it crash! There are no problems with video when running Mandriva 2009.0 either live or installed No I do not want to change distros, I want both boxes similar as possible. ram in the lappie bios appears fixed at 32k part of 512k. 'mplayer -vo null file.avi' plays the sound track ok. 'mplayer -vo x11 file.avi' plays the sound and video ok. 'mplayer -vo xv file.avi' locks up keyboard, no mouse, mplayer screen but no image. Had to restart X (from xterm login). Chris talked me into trying Sabyon once upon a time, the splash screen was yuk, and it installed every app known most of which I did not want/need. He's still trying, good on you Chris. rebooted with Mandriva 2009.0 running live, copied xorg.conf across to hd, then restarted. Got the same results as before. I also tried running a vid with mplayer by ssh from my other box displaying on the laptop screen. Again it crashed. My conclusion is that there is a fault in libxv1 which makes it misbehave with the video card in the laptop. I have just also found on the net that a very few others have had a similar problem with this particular laptop model. Have now put 'vo=x11' in my mplayer/config file but have yet to sort out vlc
Re: serious X problem
Barry wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: after many failed attempts to view movies I am at a complete loss on where to search next for a cure to my problem. Every time I try to view any movie X crashes requiring a restart and sometimes locks the kbd. This happens with mplayer and vlc. It follows a clean install of Mandriva2009.1 The only msg I have is 'Unsupported pixel format' but can not find anything in the logs after restarting Checked the output of 'ldd mplayer', 'rpm -q -requires mplayer'. All dependencies appear to be in place. Google produces many replies, none work. Scrapped the original Xorg.conf, allowed X to create a new one, Then tried creating a new one with XFdrake. Have now removed as much as possible of pulseaudio - still can not play movies. The problem does not occur with an install of Mandriva one live for 2009.0 but this distro has other problems, and an upgrade to 2009.1 gives a messy system. The box is a Compac NX9040. The same distro runs fine on my other box which is one I got from Craig / Avonside High, And I think that install is an upgrade. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Barry It is very hard to tell with so little information, and that is probably because of the immediate crash which wipes out your debugging info by crashing X and any xterm you are running from. However IMHO it's likely to be a problem with the X driver. mplayer and most other video players prefer to output via xv which enables some direct interaction with hardware. It is a lot faster than using x11, to the point where many movies will not play smoothly in x11. However it is worth trying: mplayer -vo x11 moviefile.avi to see if it crashes, then the same using -vo xv to see if there is a difference. I see you are ion a notebook with presumably shared RAM between your video system and your OS. Allocate as much ram as possible to video in the bios. By the way if you are having immediate crashes and cannot read the mplayer output, try either starting mplayer from a console, where an X crash won't affect you, or redirect mplayer's output to a file so it survives the X crash. To start from a console, first of all in a terminal within X run xhost + (this is a security risk but unless you have intruders on your lan worry not) then in a console run export DISPLAY=:0 mplayer -vo xv moviefile.avi the movie should play (or crash) in your X screen, but the console will report back all the error messages. The other obvious test is to run another distro from a livecd and see if it will play a movie on your system. You'll probably need to pick a live cd that has access to a good range of codecs (probably chris' sabayon would work well, or pclinuxos perhaps), or pick a movie that has open codecs. I know a lot of first reactions were to put another version of linux on your machine. A few simple tests should isolate the problem before you do anything that radical. I am in two minds about you switching distros. It can be a pain to change and learn new tricks, but frankly I haven't seen much positive about mandrivel in recent times. Another thing to try is -vo null for mplayer, which will give no video output, but if it still craashes then we are barking up the wrong tree with the X11 stuff. There is also our old friend strace to really look into what is making it crash! There are no problems with video when running Mandriva 2009.0 either live or installed No I do not want to change distros, I want both boxes similar as possible. ram in the lappie bios appears fixed at 32k part of 512k. 'mplayer -vo null file.avi' plays the sound track ok. 'mplayer -vo x11 file.avi' plays the sound and video ok. 'mplayer -vo xv file.avi' locks up keyboard, no mouse, mplayer screen but no image. Had to restart X (from xterm login). Chris talked me into trying Sabyon once upon a time, the splash screen was yuk, and it installed every app known most of which I did not want/need. He's still trying, good on you Chris. rebooted with Mandriva 2009.0 running live, copied xorg.conf across to hd, then restarted. Got the same results as before. I also tried running a vid with mplayer by ssh from my other box displaying on the laptop screen. Again it crashed. My conclusion is that there is a fault in libxv1 which makes it misbehave with the video card in the laptop. I have just also found on the net that a very few others have had a similar problem with this particular laptop model. Have now put 'vo=x11' in my mplayer/config file but have yet to sort out vlc Oops, hit the send button by mistake. Many thanks to all who replied with suggewstions Barry
Re: connecting 2 boxes
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: I understand it may be possible to connect 2 boxes using a usb cable instead of ethernet. Is this possible?, if so what hardware / software is required, and possible problems. TIA Barry does this help? (Google found it i haven't read it all) http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/248 Thanks Nick, I will investigate this do you really have two boxes with no ethernet ports? no! and no hair either trying to make them talk to each other. They are on 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 with no firewall. ifconfig, ifdown ifup all ok and I have internet connection as this email testifies. ping works both ways If ping works then there is a connection between the boxes. Does ssh work? When you say talk to each other what protocol are you using? Problem now solved / superceded by others, thanks
Re: serious X problem
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: after many failed attempts to view movies I am at a complete loss on where to search next for a cure to my problem. *any* movie? What codecs are you trying? Perhaps you're trying to play something you don't have any support for, and that's what's doing the actual crashing. avi files from my camera, VOB, wmv. Not sure on how to check for installed video codecs. I seem to remember a package for microsoft codecs,do I need it?? The problem does not occur with an install of Mandriva one live for 2009.0 but this distro has other problems, and an upgrade to 2009.1 gives a messy system. Well ... perhaps don't use Mandriva? If it can't upgrade itself properly, use something that can. -jim one box performing excellently, it ain't broke so I don't want to fix it. I would like both boxes on the same system.
Re: connecting 2 boxes
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: I understand it may be possible to connect 2 boxes using a usb cable instead of ethernet. Is this possible?, if so what hardware / software is required, and possible problems. TIA Barry does this help? (Google found it i haven't read it all) http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/248 Thanks Nick, I will investigate this do you really have two boxes with no ethernet ports? no! and no hair either trying to make them talk to each other. They are on 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 with no firewall. ifconfig, ifdown ifup all ok and I have internet connection as this email testifies. ping works both ways
connecting 2 boxes
I understand it may be possible to connect 2 boxes using a usb cable instead of ethernet. Is this possible?, if so what hardware / software is required, and possible problems. TIA Barry
Re: connecting 2 boxes
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: I understand it may be possible to connect 2 boxes using a usb cable instead of ethernet. Is this possible?, if so what hardware / software is required, and possible problems. TIA Barry does this help? (Google found it i haven't read it all) http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/248 Thanks Nick, I will investigate this
Re: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?
Wayne Rooney wrote: On Thursday 08 April 2010 09:42:29 Bryce Stenberg wrote: Now when booting I get: mount: mount point /dev/.var/run does not exist montall: mount /var/run [700] terminated with status 32 and mount: mount point /dev/.var/lock does not exist mountall: mount /var/lock [700] terminated with status 32 I don't think your /etc/fstab is quite right. Can you post the file so we can see it. Wayne Could you move /var to where you want it, /new_pos/var,then make a soft link to it from /var.Then alter fstab to mount the ptn, then reboot Barry
Re: OT - Sommet digital tv tuner
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Hi all, This may be off topic, but there are plenty of gurus who read this list and are interested in tv. My tuner is a Sommet, Code: SHDNZ1. It appears to be a specialised computer.The code running it is held in flash memory, and updates are available to be run from a computer connected to the unit with a serial crossover cable. So far no indication of what the underlying operating system, if any, is. Now to my problems. 1. the clock keeps getting out of sync with the real world. 2. sometimes the number buttons on the remote fail to change to another channel, this can have various effects - unable to select any channel, unable to select 1 channel only, banner showing chosen channel appears but no info and no change. 3. Sometimes the remote fails to work. (NO its not a battery problem) In general the only way to get the unit working properly again is to switch off power and allow it to reboot. Turning off and back on using the power button on the remote usually results in a tv with no channel selected and no display. BTW the tuner is 1 approved by Freeview. General performance is frustrating. Before I try to return it, is anyone else using this tuner, any comments on any of tuners on the market, or other war stories. Any comments appreciated I see this is a set top box. Have you got the latest firmware? I was told so when I bought it last October. Rang Bond and Bond who told me to take it direct to Tisco. They wanted $$$ to look at it which I refuse to pay, so they sent me back to Bond and Bond who are now looking at my problems. Their phone service left much to be desired. Also there are various forums more suited to this discussion, not that I mind it here but you might find more people wth these on, say, geekzone or the nz digital tv forum? well what firmware does it have? google points me here http://sommetdigital.co.nz/hd_digital_tv_receiver.htm and I assume you have been there. The latest firmware seems to be magello_sommeti_v1.16_080919.bin Thanks for your reply Nick. Bond and Bond, or Sommetdigital are going to replace the unit next week so problems solved - I hope. I had found the file you quote, it appears to be a compiled windows binary. Somewhere else on the web I found the specs for the development of this type of software, but of course did not keep the link and can not find it again. From memory it was to be developed in java The name 'SOMMET' is also an anacronym for Storage On-line Management and Media Error Transmission and appears to have many applications
Re: OT - Sommet digital tv tuner
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Hi all, This may be off topic, but there are plenty of gurus who read this list and are interested in tv. My tuner is a Sommet, Code: SHDNZ1. It appears to be a specialised computer.The code running it is held in flash memory, and updates are available to be run from a computer connected to the unit with a serial crossover cable. So far no indication of what the underlying operating system, if any, is. Now to my problems. 1. the clock keeps getting out of sync with the real world. 2. sometimes the number buttons on the remote fail to change to another channel, this can have various effects - unable to select any channel, unable to select 1 channel only, banner showing chosen channel appears but no info and no change. 3. Sometimes the remote fails to work. (NO its not a battery problem) In general the only way to get the unit working properly again is to switch off power and allow it to reboot. Turning off and back on using the power button on the remote usually results in a tv with no channel selected and no display. BTW the tuner is 1 approved by Freeview. General performance is frustrating. Before I try to return it, is anyone else using this tuner, any comments on any of tuners on the market, or other war stories. Any comments appreciated I see this is a set top box. Have you got the latest firmware? I was told so when I bought it last October. Rang Bond and Bond who told me to take it direct to Tisco. They wanted $$$ to look at it which I refuse to pay, so they sent me back to Bond and Bond who are now looking at my problems. Their phone service left much to be desired. Also there are various forums more suited to this discussion, not that I mind it here but you might find more people wth these on, say, geekzone or the nz digital tv forum?
OT - Sommet digital tv tuner
Hi all, This may be off topic, but there are plenty of gurus who read this list and are interested in tv. My tuner is a Sommet, Code: SHDNZ1. It appears to be a specialised computer.The code running it is held in flash memory, and updates are available to be run from a computer connected to the unit with a serial crossover cable. So far no indication of what the underlying operating system, if any, is. Now to my problems. 1. the clock keeps getting out of sync with the real world. 2. sometimes the number buttons on the remote fail to change to another channel, this can have various effects - unable to select any channel, unable to select 1 channel only, banner showing chosen channel appears but no info and no change. 3. Sometimes the remote fails to work. (NO its not a battery problem) In general the only way to get the unit working properly again is to switch off power and allow it to reboot. Turning off and back on using the power button on the remote usually results in a tv with no channel selected and no display. BTW the tuner is 1 approved by Freeview. General performance is frustrating. Before I try to return it, is anyone else using this tuner, any comments on any of tuners on the market, or other war stories. Any comments appreciated Barry
Re: Linux and xD memory card
Ross Drummond wrote: On Monday 28 December 2009, you wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 11:52 +1300, Ross Drummond wrote: I am trying to get my Gentoo Linux box with a built in card slot to recognise a Fujifilm xD memory card. Cheers Ross Drummond Not much help here, just to mention that my old Tosh lappie has a card slot that is disabled by the BIOS unless you're using MS Windows. So the first question for me is 'does it recognise anything?' as I lost a *lot* of hours trying to get that to work ): Cheers, Steve Thanks for your input. This thread suggests that my problem may be unsolvable; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=211287 The path of least resistance seems to be acquire an external card reader. Cheers Ross Drummond I have a usb card reader you can try if you are coming to Chch and you are using a lappie Barry
Re: cups lp0 problem
Christopher Sawtell wrote: 2009/12/12 Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: I have a old printer which gets used once per month and is unplugged and stored most of the time. When I plug it in cups recognises it but produces 'permission denied' messages even though I have added myself to the lp and lpadmin groups. Stopping and restarting the cups daemon does not work To get output I have to alter the permissions on /dev/lp0 from 660 to 666. who owns the file /dev/lp0? (if it is a symlink then who owns the file it ultimately points to?) lp0 is owned by root and group is lp. This is not a link The cmd to print a file is issued by the user. In cups the allowed users for this printer are set to 'root,barry'. Just a thought, users are not set for my usb printer, should users be unset? It would help considerably if we knew, definitively, the full ownerships of both the device, and that of the lpd and cups processes. Please can you execute the following commands and report what is printed. In the interest of avoiding typo errors it would be best if you could cut and paste the one-liners to and from your mail agent and a console. ls -l /dev/lp0 ps aux | egrep cups|lpd | grep -v grep imho, in actual practice, i.e. once a month, the use of the cups printing system in this case is total overkill. cd ~/the/data/dir/of//the/print/labels_file cat labels_file | lpr -Pdmp# dmp = the name of the dot matrix printer copied as requested [ba...@localhost ~]$ ls -l /dev/lp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root lp 6, 0 2009-12-03 03:50 /dev/lp0 [ba...@localhost ~]$ ps aux | egrep cups|lpd | grep -v grep root 28599 0.0 0.4 7880 1840 ?SNs Dec10 0:07 cupsd
Re: cups lp0 problem
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Barry barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: I have a old printer which gets used once per month and is unplugged and stored most of the time. When I plug it in cups recognises it but produces 'permission denied' messages even though I have added myself to the lp and lpadmin groups. Stopping and restarting the cups daemon does not work To get output I have to alter the permissions on /dev/lp0 from 660 to 666. who owns the file /dev/lp0? (if it is a symlink then who owns the file it ultimately points to?) lp0 is owned by root and group is lp. This is not a link The cmd to print a file is issued by the user. In cups the allowed users for this printer are set to 'root,barry'. Just a thought, users are not set for my usb printer, should users be unset?
cups lp0 problem
I have a old printer which gets used once per month and is unplugged and stored most of the time. When I plug it in cups recognises it but produces 'permission denied' messages even though I have added myself to the lp and lpadmin groups. Stopping and restarting the cups daemon does not work To get output I have to alter the permissions on /dev/lp0 from 660 to 666. This to me is a dirty way of fixing the problem. Is there another way, or is it a cups fault? (cups 1.3.10). There is no problem with my usb printer. The problem reoccurs after rebooting. TIA Barry
Re: Skype on Kubuntu
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Has anybody got Skype ( ver. 2.1.0.47 ) video to work on (K)ubuntu Kosmic Koala ( or what ever it is that they are callling the 9.10 version - I forget ) ? My logitech webcam used to work with earlier Kubuntus, but now all I get is a grey background. Any war stories - both good and bad - and a fix would be most welcome. Ahhh! They have released a new version. Which file did you download? My preference would be to try the static version. With the previous version running this cmd would bring up a 0 or a 1... xvattr -a XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY If you get a 0 reset with xvattr -a XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY -v 1 You need to install xvattr Barry
lp0 permission problems
I had a problem where cups would not print to lp0. I finally solved it by changing permissions from 660 to 666. since running the print job I have rebooted and find that permissions on lp0 have reverted to 660. Can someone tell me where this is (re)set on startup and/or how to fix the problem. System is Mandriva2009.1 TIA Barry
Re: qemu problems
Craig Falconer wrote: Barry Marchant wrote, On 14/09/09 23:58: When I attempt to start it from a terminal all I get is VNC server running on `127.0.0.1:5900'. this is the same whether or not I give it a win.img file to open. Google and the qemu wiki are not being helpful. The start instructions in qemu docs do not work the same image file opens without problems under qemu-0.9 Any ideas appreciated, thanks Does virt-manager tell you anything more helpful? What about /var/log/ ? No entries in any log file. virt-manager shows qemu running on localhost with no cpu or memory usage, status is active(ro) I do not understand why a vnc server is running, it was not in sight with earlier versions of qemu, it just popped up the windows splash screen and continued loading. I have never run a vnc server and have no need to link win tolinux. Barry
qemu problems
Hi All I have d/l and compiled qemu-0.11.rc1 without any errors that I noticed. When I attempt to start it from a terminal all I get is VNC server running on `127.0.0.1:5900'. this is the same whether or not I give it a win.img file to open. Google and the qemu wiki are not being helpful. The start instructions in qemu docs do not work the same image file opens without problems under qemu-0.9 Any ideas appreciated, thanks Barry
Re: Pronounce sudo
Round here, when I am already root, and want to run dolphin which for some strange reason barfs up if I forget the sudo it is pronounced 'bugger' Robert Fisher wrote: Today I came across a reminder of the meaning of sudo super user do So how should it be pronounced? soo-doo or soo-dough
Kopete 4.2 msn
Hi all, Just upgraded?? kopete to 4.2. There does not seem to be provision now to connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission? TIA Barry
Re: Kopete 4.2 msn
Robert Fisher wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:03:16 Barry Marchant wrote: Hi all, Just upgraded?? kopete to 4.2. There does not seem to be provision now to connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission? Yes it has changed its name to WLM - Windows Live Messenger plugin Rob Thank you, it would be helpful if they updated the help file!!!
Re: Kopete 4.2 msn
Barry Marchant wrote: Hi all, Just upgraded?? kopete to 4.2. There does not seem to be provision now to connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission? TIA Barry What a complete bummer etc etc etc . Kopete 0.70.4 has a bug which crashes it when trying to add a contact. Plenty on google bu no cure
Re: Kopete 4.2 msn
steve wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 10:03 +1200, Barry Marchant wrote: Barry Marchant wrote: Hi all, Just upgraded?? kopete to 4.2. There does not seem to be provision now to connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission? TIA Barry What a complete bummer etc etc etc . Kopete 0.70.4 has a bug which crashes it when trying to add a contact. Plenty on google but no cure Is pidgin a viable alternative? I use gnome, so can't actually answer that one... Steve pidgin will do the job nicely thanks. I found it a lot easier to set up as user than kopete Barry
python coding problem
Hi python experts After lots of suggestions I have as last tried programming in python. I have the following code snippet which when called displays a selected image using qiv. def file_ok_sel(self, w): print %s % self.filew.get_filename() # displays file name on xterm # create cmd to display image - qiv + filenm self.filenm = qiv %s % self.filew.get_filename() # display image os.system (self.filenm) My problem is that the python code hangs until the image (qiv) is killed whereas I wish the image to stay displayed while the python app continues running. Google produces lots of answers, none of which I can understand. What alt should I make to the code? TIA Barry
Re: python coding problem
Thanks for replies. Putting the ampersand in the 3rd line thus qiv %s % self.filew.get_filename() did the trick The exercise is to persuade a file selector to display images. I'm learning. Barry --- Hadley Rich wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 20:42 +1200, Barry Marchant wrote: My problem is that the python code hangs until the image (qiv) is killed whereas I wish the image to stay displayed while the python app continues running. Without knowing what you are trying to do, adding an ampersand to the end of your command line will work. hads
paradise having trouble????
I have waited about 5 mins for 1 of telstras own sites to come up! sending speed +- 23 B/s av Receiving speed abt 200 B/s av Is this normal / what should i expect? from telstra cable Are all the kiddies playing causing problems Barry
Skype video problem solved!!!!!
A tip here for those, like me , frustrated users of skype If your camera does not produce an image check 'xvattr -a XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY' in a xterm. Options are 0 or 1. If the result is 0 rerun the cmd with -v 1 on the end to reset it. Some dirty apps, mplayer is 1 of them reset the attribute to '0'. It is an instant fix if you are looking at a black rectangle in the options-video menu! of course this could be easily fixed in skype - if it was open source Barry
OT Press co hogging cpu usage
Hi All, has anyone looked at the press co website today? I am having trouble with it hogging cpu usage, in excess of 95% at times, and being unable to scroll the site because the scrollbar is locked up. Last time i tried over 130 images were d/l. Mouse response when trying to change apps is also appauling. Barry
Re: OT Press co hogging cpu usage
Thanks for the replies, I fixed my problem by turning off every optional extra in opera. Perhaps someone with greater knowlege than me should tell them?? Barry Barry Marchant wrote: Hi All, has anyone looked at the press co website today? I am having trouble with it hogging cpu usage, in excess of 95% at times, and being unable to scroll the site because the scrollbar is locked up. Last time i tried over 130 images were d/l. Mouse response when trying to change apps is also appauling. Barry
Re: dodgy hd
oops, 120 gig from dove Craig Falconer wrote: Barry Marchant wrote, On 15/06/09 16:30: had 1 ptn on a 6 mth old 12G hd go belly up. 12 GB and 6 months old? Did you get it from a time warp or something?
Re: dodgy hd
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 07:19 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: SAMSUNG HD753LJ s/n S13UJ1NQB01779 was the one that failed. Failure was more than just the filesystem, I was unable to read or write to the partition table. That comment was aimed at Barry, the OP who restored his filesystem using an alternate superblock and has had no problem since... I have had no problems since, because I have done nothing with the faulty ptn apart from copying everything on the ptn to a external hd. It has been returned to Dove and I await their response. BTW the drive was a WD1600AAJB. The superblock failed and running 'cp /dev/hda6 /dev/null' reported at least 2 unreadable sectors. It still managed to boot on another ptn after I deleted the faulty 1 from fstab, but with many complaints. THanks for all the replies Barry
dodgy hd
Hi all, had 1 ptn on a 6 mth old 12G hd go belly up. Of course it was my main bootable ptn. All data was on other ptns and backed up so no major problems there. The crap ptn was recovered using fsck -b 32something and produced lots of inode an size problems. It now boots, I have not discovered anything missing yet, what further checks should I do, or should I just return it as being faulty? Barry
Re: Not sure if anyone has seen this already.
works for me using opera but slow to get started. Its on BBC radio4 Barry David Lowe wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Payne, Owen owen.pa...@ccc.govt.nz wrote: Covering a lot of safe ground and nothing out of the ordinary, but good coverage http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kp806/Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill _Open_Source_Means_Business/http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kp806/Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill%0A_Open_Source_Means_Business/ ummm so do I need to install some closed source proprietary software to view a presentation about open source? Is this irony day? - D
Re: Not sure if anyone has seen this already.
an interestin 29 minutes listeming, has anyone saved it? Barry David Lowe wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Payne, Owen owen.pa...@ccc.govt.nz wrote: Covering a lot of safe ground and nothing out of the ordinary, but good coverage http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kp806/Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill _Open_Source_Means_Business/http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kp806/Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill%0A_Open_Source_Means_Business/ ummm so do I need to install some closed source proprietary software to view a presentation about open source? Is this irony day? - D
A firefox addon by ms
Some might find this item about ms addons interesting http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/01/ms_firefox_extension_row/ Barry
Re: ekiga not creating sockets
Andrew Errington wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 12:56, Derek Smithies wrote: On Sun, 31 May 2009, Andrew Errington wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 06:04, Derek Smithies wrote: The most surefire way of fixing this? Use skype. Seriously, you can fiddle for hours getting this to work. Except that Skype is proprietary and closed. SIP is the Right Answer, so it's worth persevering. Yes, you are right in one sense.. Picture yourself in a hotel, far away from home, and keen to ring the wife and family. A skype call will (well, most often) get through snip Or a telephone, or a mobile phone. I hear these are capable of sending txt msgs too. Yes, you can fiddle with sip like phones. However, in my jaundiced experience, they are filled with gobbledygoodk like words that make them hard to setup. Look at Barry's problems. He is not a voip developer, but he is capable enough to do many linux like things. And he had trouble getting Ekiga to work. Skype, on the other hand, is sufficiently easy to setup that people with the minimum of computer skills can make voip calls. Or you could use Gizmo, the (proprietary) gateway drug to SIP. Drug here: www.gizmoproject.com (about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmo_Project) Using Ekiga discussion: http://grokbase.com/topic/2006/02/24/ekiga-and-gizmo-project/wGgMcx-duioKMhOEDSZxS840zlM It is only on linux that Skype gets hard to setup - mainly cause of the Welcome to the jungle phenomenon talked about on slashdot recently. Which was (effectively): linux sound is a mess. Hmm. apt-get install skype, and, err, that's it. I have no more problems with software on my Linux systems than I do with Windows. Specks of sawdust and wooden beams come to mind. Chris I have tried skype. There is no problem with text, only a little with speech, but video is a different beast. Sometimes the camera will be activated but I get no picture, other times my image will be split in two only the top half respnding to movement. This split image is transmitted to Chris. skype sometimes does not grab the xv port because another app has grabbed it. I can shut down every running app without freeing the port, when this happens the only option left is to reboot, even restarting X fails to cure the problem. I have found some aspects of skype ok, others decidedly flakey, and a call to skype and their offer of a reply within 2 days or so was ignored. Barry
ekiga not creating sockets
Hi All, I have been trying for some days to get ekiga-2.0.12 to operate. Iget connected to the Ekiga OK but test calls to 5...@ekiga.net fail with an error msg reading ' STUN could not create RTP/RTCP socket pair;'. google reports plenty of instances of this but I have not found asolution yet. Camera works OK, sound test in setup works ok. Running Mandriva 2008 with 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv kernel 512 M memory. Any ideas how to fix the problem welcome. TIA Barry
Re: ekiga not creating sockets
Derek Smithies wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2009, Barry Marchant wrote: Thanks for the replies, it now works. The problem was in the original configuration druid which set NAT to STUN when it was not required. I have just altered it to None and now get a test reply. now to test it with Chris. Barry
text sizing
Hi All, I am playing with kde and ekiga but am having trouble reading the miniscule serif text of the ekiga help file. I have looked at text sizes set by kcontrol to no avail, and anyway all text is set up as sans-serif fonts so it does not follow kcontrol fonts. Any idea how I can change the font size used by ekiga help? TIA Barry
Re: text sizing
Replying to myself . I have now solved the problem!!! Barry Marchant wrote: Hi All, I am playing with kde and ekiga but am having trouble reading the miniscule serif text of the ekiga help file. I have looked at text sizes set by kcontrol to no avail, and anyway all text is set up as sans-serif fonts so it does not follow kcontrol fonts. Any idea how I can change the font size used by ekiga help? TIA Barry
Re: text sizing - Ekiga Help
To change the display font in ekiga Help.. 1. open ekiga 2. select Help -- Contents 3. select Edit -- Preferences 4. unselect 'Use System Fonts' 5. make your choice Barry Nick Rout wrote: For posterity you should tell us how. On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Barry Marchant barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Replying to myself . I have now solved the problem!!! Barry Marchant wrote: Hi All, I am playing with kde and ekiga but am having trouble reading the miniscule serif text of the ekiga help file. I have looked at text sizes set by kcontrol to no avail, and anyway all text is set up as sans-serif fonts so it does not follow kcontrol fonts. Any idea how I can change the font size used by ekiga help? TIA Barry
Re: Linux Meetup Groups near Christchurch
Gold wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Gold g...@evolved.net.nz wrote: And wifi? I dunno, but we are talking about a SOCIAL gathering! _Without_ wifi? ;) How do you function without a net connection? ;) Verbally -- face2face?
Re: OT: I can haz cheezburger
Craig Falconer wrote: http://icanhascheezburger.com/ http://icanhascheezburger.com/about/ Anyone else having problems with the 2 links above? From netscape messenger the browser opens but will not go full screen or shut down. I have had to use xkill to get rid of the on screen display then separately kill the netscape process. Quick test on opera, the site appears to work ok Barry -- Another source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat Adrian Mageanu wrote, On 20/05/09 09:24: This message's link with Linux is that the expression in the subject has been used in another thread in this list. Although in the context of it's original thread the meaning was quite obvious, I was intrigued enough by it to try to find it's origin. However Google, Wikipedia, Answer, Wolfram, all came up with a lot of references about cats (as in pet animals) and one reference to a wireless network named as such, but nothing to explain it. Andrew, where is the expression I can haz cheezburger coming from, and what is its original meaning please, so I can take it off the spot is currently occupying rent-free in my left brain hemisphere.
grub problen
I am trying to set up grub, 2 of the entries in /boot/grub/menu.1st being... title linux-2008 kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2008 root=UUID=21f45c8c-0029-4450-bc80-9c8de0584966 append=resume=/dev/hda11 vga=788 initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img title linux-2007 kernel (hd1,6)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2007 root=UUID=6f1868a0-99b7-11db-96d0-cd1076410762 vga=788 initrd (hd1,6)/boot/initrd.img The 1st entry boots no problems, the 2nd crashes with msgs mount error 6 mounting ext3 flags default pivotroot failed 2 kernel panic not syncing no init found Both ptns are ext3. All appropriate files appear to be present The 2nd will boot using a system rescue dvd but of course this has its own kernel Any ideas why the 2nd fails will be welcome TIA Barry
skype
Has anyone any experience of running skype for windows in an emulator? Why do it you ask? In order to run the latest version tia Barry
ms docx files
Could someone please advise what readers are available for ms docx (xml) files. Barry
Re: testing...
John Rye wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:04:18 +1300 Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Eliot Blennerhassett li...@blennerhassett.gen.nz wrote: one... two, buckle my shoe. Three four, kick in the door five six, I live in the styx
skype video
anyone out there using skype? Currently when testing video under options the webcam activates but i only get a black, or white screen, no image. If i kill skype, then try mplayer -fps 14 tv:// i get a green screen and the camera is not activated. Something seems to block Xv but no msgs to indicate what. Only answer to the problem is to reboot. All suggestions welcome TIA Barry
Movies from a still camera (was: Remove a watermark ...)
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Stephen Irons stephen.ir...@tait.co.nz wrote: Canon have shown themselves to be pretty moronic Or perhaps other movie player software pretends that the audio sample rate is 11025, and adjusts the frame rate to 30.0027 fps by repeating one frame every 368 (12s)? /OT_RANT On the other hand, the camera plays with Linux very nicely over USB... Stephen Irons I'll check the video on my Canon S2IS. What is your camera Stephen? My camera is a Canon S1IS. I have made several short videos with it. Just tested 2. VLC reports the video codec as MJPG, frame rate 30.000300 and the audio at 22050 hz, 16 bits/ sample and bitrate 325 kb/s mplayer vlc play them quite nicely, xine is a dead loss. For a friemd I made 3 movies into a dvd (pal) using kino. It works ok [1] Does anyone else read instruction manuals cover to cover? For pleasure? For my camera I browse from time to time, it still intrigues me with its capabilities. Barry
locale problem
HI all, Whenever I open a terminal now I get the following 3 msgs locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory This happens for both root and user. It does not happen before I login. Google has a ton of try this type suggestions, none of which have worked. Running 'locale' repeats the msgs then adds LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=en_US LC_NUMERIC=en_NZ LC_TIME=en_US LC_COLLATE=en_US LC_MONETARY=en_NZ LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER=en_NZ LC_NAME=en_NZ LC_ADDRESS=en_NZ LC_TELEPHONE=en_NZ LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_NZ LC_ALL= I can not find any thing relevant in the logs. The only thing I note is that there are no profile files for the users, are they needed? The rpms for locales, locales-en are not installed, and appear to not be installable (glibc problem?) All ideas to fix the problem welcome. Barry
Re: locale problem
Thanks Steve, looks like the problem started with the installation of updated glibc. I reverted to the old one, installed the locale files and the problem has disappeared. Barry - Steve Holdoway wrote: I did of course mean set LANG to C, not LOCALE in my previous message. With the previously mentioned locales installed into /usr/lib/locale, LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 is my default. This is a 'master' definition, and the LC_* variables are for more fine-grained control, which is rarely necessary... Steve On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:05:29 +1300 Barry Marchant barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote: HI all, Whenever I open a terminal now I get the following 3 msgs locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory This happens for both root and user. It does not happen before I login. Google has a ton of try this type suggestions, none of which have worked. Running 'locale' repeats the msgs then adds LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=en_US LC_NUMERIC=en_NZ LC_TIME=en_US LC_COLLATE=en_US LC_MONETARY=en_NZ LC_MESSAGES=en_US LC_PAPER=en_NZ LC_NAME=en_NZ LC_ADDRESS=en_NZ LC_TELEPHONE=en_NZ LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_NZ LC_ALL= I can not find any thing relevant in the logs. The only thing I note is that there are no profile files for the users, are they needed? The rpms for locales, locales-en are not installed, and appear to not be installable (glibc problem?) All ideas to fix the problem welcome. Barry
Re: Kubuntu local feedback
I tried kubuntu out of queriosity about a month ago, ended up scrambling x while trying to change the colours of kde4 and have yet to reinstall. For your movies I recently used kino for the 1st time, very pleased with the result but would like to add a menu to the next one. There are however some tricks needed to include jpegs (for headings etc) Barry Robert Fisher wrote: I have recently bought a video camera which can save AVCHD files (High definition). I have found what looks like a very good Video Editor for Linux - kdenlive. Unfortunately my current distro does not have the latest version which is redesigned for KDE4. I have installed Kubuntu in Virtualbox and upgraded to KDE 4.2 and tested kdenlive successfully but before I switch distros I wondered if there are any pros and cons from this list (about Kubuntu). War stories? Any better ideas? Rob
mandriva2009 kde4
Got it off apc dvd for jan. It looked very impressive as a live cd. I installed it tonight on a new ptn... BUT No root login.(mandriva setup?) How do I get root access to dolphin/konqueror to do some customising? (kde problem I think) Only sees an ethernet card, not the usb connection to the bb modem (package missing?) I can not unpack the .gz file on the cd i burnt for the install, which contains the pkgs, with what has been installed. Any help will be appreciated Barry
help with mencoder/kino
Hi all, I wish to create an avi file which kino will fully recognise. the following code mencoder -o ./intro2.avi -noidx -ovc copy -oac copy -audiofile ./trambell5sec.wav ./intro002.avi creates intro2.avi which plays correctly with mplayer and xine but the sound portion does not reproduce in kino. Both the avi and wave files are 5 seconds long mencoder reports Video stream: 28800.000 kbit/s (360 B/s) size: 1800 bytes 5.000 secs 125 frames Audio stream: 352.800 kbit/s (44100 B/s) size: 220500 bytes 5.000 secs Kino reports Impossible frequency?? Impossible frequency?? Impossible frequency?? Any ideas welcome TIA Barry
Re: help with mencoder/kino
Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Lee Begg l...@paradise.net.nz wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:42:16 Barry Marchant wrote: mencoder reports Video stream: 28800.000 kbit/s (360 B/s) size: 1800 bytes 5.000 secs 125 frames Audio stream: 352.800 kbit/s (44100 B/s) size: 220500 bytes 5.000 secs Kino reports Impossible frequency?? Impossible frequency?? Impossible frequency?? Any ideas welcome Kino is fairly specific to DV video (ie, video from Digital Video Cameras). One thing about the audio in DV is that it is not 44100 Hz, but is 48000 Hz (16bit @ 48kHz). Try using a higher sampling rate for the audio. Barry Hope this helps. Regards Lee Begg What he said, but also kino converts on import of .avi file. How about importing the original avi into kino and then adding the sound file as soudtrack, and let kino do the muxing? Thanks Nick, problem solved, I have now learnt a lot more about the ability of kino Barry
skype video problem
I have a problem in that the video in side will not work after i have viewed a wmv file even though 2 Xv ports are available. To fix the problem it is necessary to restart X. Is there a way to monitor X or reset Xv or to find out what has blocked or not released its connection? top does not show any processes running which may require video and anyway it is video in which is affected, not video out. Xv uses port 62 with XShm support enabled. Barry
Re: Newest Penguinista
A!! So you've got a little gnome, nuff sed. Congratulations to you both. Barry --- yuri wrote: On 2008-11-15 at 14:53 the newest Penguinista arrived: Marijke Aroha Anne de Groot 3.47kg (don't ask about lbs and Ozes - ~$ man units) Mother and baby are both happy. I reckon she'll probably chose kwrite over both vi and emacs. She definitely looks like a kde user. Yuri
Re: CLUG meeting
Next years fine Barry - Zane Gilmore wrote: There did not appear to be a reply to my suggestion the other day for the meeting next Tuesday. Steve and Roger... Are you guys going to be able to do your thing? Derek and Barry... do you have any objection to doing your talks next year?
Re: [OT] Telstra Clear cable usage meter unobtainable?
4.20 pm Just checked my usage using Brett's suggested url, no problems Barry Brett Davidson wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Anyone else having problems with this page: http://telstraclear.co.nz/customer-zone/internet-usage-meters/usagemeter/ which is pointed to here http://telstraclear.co.nz/customer-zone/internet-usage-meters/ Been down for me all day. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3584 (20081105) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com Use this link - https://www.telstraclear.co.nz/tools/usagemeter/index.cfm?s=t
Condolences
Hello cluggers, Those of you who know Chris and Caleb Sawtell will be saddened to hear that Chris lost his Partner of 20 years, and Caleb his Mother last Saturday. I am sure all cluggers will join with me in offering you both our sincere sympathy. Barry
Re: laptop blanking
Thank you, that fixed the problem. But is the change persistant between sessions or does it revert when I shut down? Barry --- Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, when the gui fails, just open a console on the display and type xset -dpms which disables DPMS (Energy Star) features. This approach is moderately brutal, but it was effective on another distro. Derek. = On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Barry Marchant wrote: Hi all, I have a compaq nx9040 which I wish to use for a continuous slide show this weekend but I can not stop the screen blanking. I am using kde, running on mains power, Display power control not enabled, blank screen saver selected set to start after 500 mins (over 8 hrs) What have i missed which is permitting screen blanking TIA Barry
laptop blanking
Hi all, I have a compaq nx9040 which I wish to use for a continuous slide show this weekend but I can not stop the screen blanking. I am using kde, running on mains power, Display power control not enabled, blank screen saver selected set to start after 500 mins (over 8 hrs) What have i missed which is permitting screen blanking TIA Barry
Re: CLUG meeting
Listening to a speaker with practical experience (and horror stories?) is more interesting than pure theory Steve. Anyway the pre meeting meeting at Salas Thai Cuisine is on at 6.00 pm. Please let me know so I can make a booking. Barry - Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:27:42 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] ok no way can i commit to organising meetings, but i can offer my apalling presentation skills at short notice at the moment. Skillset is system/database/network admin - from practical rather than theoretical experience, and oldschool systems analysis and design. I've spent the last 4 years fighting spam. Let me know if i can be of any use and when the meeting is... as ever political correctness is not an option (: Steve
Krita
HI, is anyone using krita for image manipulation? The handbook says it can import xcf images, the import options will not permit [EMAIL PROTECTED] An alternative for me will be any lossless format which is common to krita gimp and saves layers, or do I have to save each layer as a separate file? Tia Barry
Re: Krita
Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Barry Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, is anyone using krita for image manipulation? The handbook says it can import xcf images, the import options will not permit [EMAIL PROTECTED] An alternative for me will be any lossless format which is common to krita gimp and saves layers, or do I have to save each layer as a separate file? Tia Barry What it actually says on the home page is Other image formats, like xcf, can be imported and sometimes exported through the GraphicsMagick import/export plugin, - do you have that plugin installed? Thanks Nick, I have now found various references to the plugin, but not the plugin itself. Looks like it is still in development, can read the format only, and is not supported. I will try saving layers as separate files Barry
gimp scrollbar colors
Hi all, Can anyone tell me how to change the scrollbar colors so that the are readily visible? Tried gimp 2.3.14, 2.4.0-rc2. No response to changes in kde or icewm changes google no help. TIA Barry
Re: network problem
Hi, I use firestarter without any problems. It runs as a service which has a gui frontend which may or may not be displayed. I have dhcp-client dhcp-common pkgs installed only. The service runs continuously unless you stop it using the gui. If you are swapping the 1 ethernet port between laptop and internet this could be causing your problem I have 2 boxes the main one on 10.0.0.1 and the lappie on 10.0.0.2 and I connect them with a xover cable as required. The main box is connected permanently to the internet using a usb connection, (saves much swapping of cables) the lappie only connects to the main box as required. firestarter setup files are in /etc/firestarter. I do not appear to have a file /etc/network/interfaces I suggest you start the firestarter gui again, and run the wizard. Uncheck the box 'ip address is assigned via DHCP' check 'start firewall now' then save and quit. With the lappie connected ifconfig shows me 3 connections - eth0, eth1, and lo so I need to run ifup and ifdown to select the connection i want HTH Barry --- Steve Holdoway wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:16:25 +1200 Aidan Gauland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a really weird problem with my laptop. What I've been doing that has worked up until now is connect my laptop and desktop via a loopback ethernet cable, and giving each a static IP address using the network manager GUI (I'm using GNOME), and we're off. When I try to do that now, the laptop's IP address changes to 169.254.93.80 within a few seconds of connecting (I can see this only with ifconfig, but not the GUI). Looking at the system log, I see a bunch of messages about DHCPDISCOVER and eventually a message from NetworkManager saying No DHCP reply received. Automatically obtaining IP via Zeroconf. And goes on to say that it's using IP address 169.254.93.80 I don't have the zeroconf package installed, and I can use the laptop on my school's LAN with no problems. The only recent change I have made to my system is installing Firestarter, but I turned all that off to try and solve this problem. Thanks, Aidan Looks like there's a dhcp client running on this box, and it's failing to find a dhcp server. Modify /etc/network/interfaces... ( change eth0 to the relevant one, and the IP addresses... ) iface eth0 inet dhcp to ( as a minimum ) iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.0.0.254 Then run ( as root ) ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add default gw 10.0.0.254 If you don't modify the config file as well as reconfiguring the interface, then it'll work for a while, then the system will try to reset the interface, and networking will fail again. hth, Steve
Re: Mandriva questions
Hi Tom, I sent an earlier reply to mysellf! Oops What I meant to say follows. Sorry, I missed the fine print. Looks like the matching qt4 version has been pulled.Try a query to mandrivaclub with the problem Barry Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant wrote: WHAT is wrong with the reference I gave you Its what you asked for. Barry Here is what I get when I search on rpm.pbone.net as you suggested: You have chosen search in content of rpms. Display 1 - 1 hits of 1. Search took 0.34 seconds. Search results for qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib : Mandriva 2008 carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrakelinux/official/2008.0/i586/media/main/release/qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib-4.1.1-3mdk.i586.rpm --- This is an old version of the package and it doesn't work with Qt4 4.3.4 Tom
Re: Mandriva questions
Just found this. Looks like its distro qt version independent. http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/qt-st-plugin-ibase.html?hl=comcba=0:Q:80:::3 No dates though Barry Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, John Rye wrote: as root: urpmi qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib John If only it was that simple - that package doesn't exist, at least not in any media I can find. There is an old package qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib-4.1.1-3mdk.i586.rpm I located somewhere but this doesn't work with the current release of Qt4. So unless you know where I can get a current qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib package I think I'm stuck with building Qt Tom
Re: Mandriva questions
It is available on this page, I just d/l it http://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/PLD/i686/PLD/RPMS/ lots of broken links,changed names addresses etc Barry Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant wrote: Just found this. Looks like its distro qt version independent. http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/qt-st-plugin-ibase.html?hl=comcba=0:Q:80:::3 No dates though Barry Thanks again for your help Barry - I followed the download link from your URL but it just took me to an empty directory. It does look like support has been pulled for this plugin and I will attempt to find out why and see if I can get it reinstated - Firebird is a good database and it would be a loss if Qt support disappeared. Thanks also to everyone else who contributed to this thread. Tom
Re: Mandriva questions
You may need a different version of qt etc to run it Barry Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant wrote: Just found this. Looks like its distro qt version independent. http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/qt-st-plugin-ibase.html?hl=comcba=0:Q:80:::3 No dates though Barry Thanks again for your help Barry - I followed the download link from your URL but it just took me to an empty directory. It does look like support has been pulled for this plugin and I will attempt to find out why and see if I can get it reinstated - Firebird is a good database and it would be a loss if Qt support disappeared. Thanks also to everyone else who contributed to this thread. Tom
Re: Mandriva questions
Hi I have been running Mandriva since before mandrake 8. 1st question ... what is the app, is the src in a .mdk package? If so, install the pkg as per normal, it will go into /usr/src/whatever. If it is a tar or similar pkg unpack it to /usr/src/... Konqueror is excellent for this. Open 2 panels, unpack in 1 panel, goto usr/src in the 2nd panel, then drag n drop the appropriate dir across. From there it is a normal compile but test before you install. You will need the src package for your kernel installed before you compile. If the compile bombs there may be other pkgs you need to install also. HTH Barry --- Tom Munro Glass wrote: Do we have any Mandriva experts on the list? I have some questions about how to install a source package and do a custom build, but thought I'd check first if there is someone here who can help me. Cheers Tom Munro Glass
Re: Mandriva questions
What version of Mandriva are you running, The package is available for 2007 and 2008. looks like 2008.0 and 2008.1. Go to rpm.pbone.net advanced search select mandriva2008 and enter 'qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib' HTH Barry - Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, John Rye wrote: as root: urpmi qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib John If only it was that simple - that package doesn't exist, at least not in any media I can find. There is an old package qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib-4.1.1-3mdk.i586.rpm I located somewhere but this doesn't work with the current release of Qt4. So unless you know where I can get a current qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib package I think I'm stuck with building Qt Tom
Unwanted popup
Hi all, I keep getting a popup (fromkde?) which says Could not find mime type application/octet-stream It started when i loaded dolphin, also with a jpg file. Any ideas what is missing please Barry
Re: MythTV links
Thanks Nick for a very interesting evening Barry Nick Rout wrote: I will put my slide show on the wiki later but thought I would put the list of links from the last couple of pages here on the list for those who want a quick information fix: General: MythTV Homepage http://www.mythtv.org Wiki http://wiki.mythtv.org (read the Manual pages to get an idea of general usage, in particular http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User_Manual:Daily_Use ) Mythtv-user mailing list http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users/ Knoppmyth http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Mythbuntu http://www.mythbuntu.org/ Mythdora http://www.mythdora.com/ Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video NZ: Mythtv-nz mailing list http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz Myth TV pages (openmedia) http://www.mythtv.co.nz/ Knoppmyth Wiki NZ page http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=NZMythConfig PVR wiki http://pvr.geek.nz/ Nice (epgsnoop and tv_grab_xml-py) http://nice.net.nz/tools Reven (xmlTVNZ.exe) http://reven.co.nz/ Wlug wiki http://www4.wlug.org.nz/FreeViewMythTvSetup (Not on the slides) Archives of the mailing lists (incl mythtvnz) http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
Re: HP nx9040 s-video out
Someone would need to bring a TV as well. After all the browsing testing I have done I do not think this is worth persuing further . Thanks for your thoughts. Anyway Nick your presentation is going to be far more interesting. Barry
Re: HP nx9040 s-video out
Nick Rout wrote: do you mean VGA to Composite? I thought you had S-Video. Now I am confused. Anyway this one seems to do both: http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/XH8624 xrandr -q tells me I have 3 ports... vga discollected LVDSconnected TMDSdiscollected The last 1 is the s-video port. Dse item looks promising or i might get a new tv with vga in Barry
Re: HP nx9040 s-video out
Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Barry Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on Barry tell us some more info. What video card is it? What driver dies it use? lspci (part) gives... 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02) 00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02) 00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) Knoppix5 gives basically the same info except that the 1st, 4th 5th above are all listed as Processor to I/O Controllers It only appears to have loaded video module?? See above, What Driver Does It Use? Try looking at xorg.conf to see if some setup program has specified a driver. If not then the driver is probably being automatically started after a probe, so look through /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see what driver is being loaded. Its *probably* the i810 driver, in which case your first port of call is man i810 followed by googling 855M tvout and other combinations of the chipset name and/or xorg and/or TV and/or tvout and/or svideo Thanks for the replies Nick. I tried 2 tvs, dmesg says driver is i915 . Web searches only found problems not solutions. Is vga to rca a possibility? Barry
HP nx9040 s-video out
Hi All, Can someone tell me the magic incantations needed to get a signal out of the the s-video port on my new box please. I presume alts are needed to xorg.conf followed by a reboot. I have had a 2nd monitor running as a clone so far I am running mandriva2008.0 on this box. TIA Barry
Re: HP nx9040 s-video out
Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Barry Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Can someone tell me the magic incantations needed to get a signal out of the the s-video port on my new box please. I presume alts are needed to xorg.conf followed by a reboot. I have had a 2nd monitor running as a clone so far I am running mandriva2008.0 on this box. TIA Barry Come on Barry tell us some more info. What video card is it? What driver dies it use? lspci (part) gives... 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02) 00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02) 00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) Knoppix5 gives basically the same info except that the 1st, 4th 5th above are all listed as Processor to I/O Controllers It only appears to have loaded video module?? I tried setting xrandr but could not make any sense of it. xranrdr -q only shows screen 0 And why would changes to xorg.conf need a reboot? you only need to restart X. True if you know what you are doing, new toy, 1st trial so start at the beginning Barry
Re: Next talk MythTV 8 July 2008
Ross, Didnt someone in your territory make a dish out of a warehouse frypan? That would be an interesting demo! Barry Ross Drummond wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Nick Rout wrote: For once CLUG does not clash with my Board of Trustees so I will present about MythTV on 8 July 2008. I am hoping to demo it actually working on a live TV feed, and/or setting up from scratch, but I am open to suggestions of what people actually want to see. My own setup is freeview via DVB-S (satellite) which is probably the best way to get a reasonable amount of digital TV in NZ at present. However to demo that I will need a satellite to connect to. So ... We can either 1. set up a temporary satellite dish if anyone has one lying about; or 2. find a venue with a sky dish that we can plug into for the night; or 3. Just demo the software without any live TV. If anyone has any brilliant ideas, or something they particularly want to see, let me know. I will also need a projector and screen, dunno what the drill is with this these days, but I understand it has presented a problem recently. I can supply a DVB-T(digital video broadcast - terrestial) decoder if required. This set would work best through a standard UHF TV aerial which I do not have on hand. I can also supply a satellite finder if required. If someone can supply the dish I can set it up for you. A SKY dish is OK but would require a LNB(low noise balun) of recent vintage. A LNB is the thing on the end of the arm where the dish focuses. A dish does not have to be mounted on a roof. Any position with a good view of the northern horizon is OK. I have had a temporary dish set up on my lawn. Cheers Ross Drummond
Re: dolphin crash - date problems
Thanks Chris, the problem was solved by deleting the file .dolphinview, size 0 in the affected directory. Barry Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2008 09:57:49 Barry wrote: Hi all, what is going wrong with dolphin causing it to crash when I select a bookmark? Goodness only knows. Is the crash repeatable? the error msgs are: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dolphin [2] 21862 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ QDate::setYMD: Invalid date -53328--528--528 QTime::setHMS Invalid time -528:-528:-528.000 dolphin: viewproperties.cpp:275: ViewProperties::PropertiesNode::PropertiesNode(QFile*): Assertion `readBytes = 0' failed. KCrash: Application 'dolphin' crashing... Interesting to note that 512 + 16 = 528 I wonder if this indicates that the little battery which keeps the crystal clock alive while the machine is turned off has met its maker? Entering date gives [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date Sun Jun 15 09:49:26 NZST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ This was after setting the date/time with kcontrol as root. Remember that there are two time setting mechanisms in Unix. You have set the System Time, which is held in software. The other is the Hardware Clock which uses the crystal clock as the source of the time data. The reason for having a System Time as well as a crystal is that the crystal oscillators in PCs are not really of 'time-piece' quality. So I'd suggest that you check both the System Time and the Hardware Clock. You should see something akin to:- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date; hwclock -r Sun Jun 15 10:50:57 NZST 2008 Sun 15 Jun 2008 10:50:58 NZST -0.451311 seconds For further entertainment you might find:- http://www.ntp.org/ man date man hwclock man ntpdate of more than just of passing interest. You might also care to set up an automatic ntp correction each time you connect to the internet. Explore the files in /etc/ppp/
dolphin crash - date problems
Hi all, what is going wrong with dolphin causing it to crash when I select a bookmark? the error msgs are: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dolphin [2] 21862 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ QDate::setYMD: Invalid date -53328--528--528 QTime::setHMS Invalid time -528:-528:-528.000 dolphin: viewproperties.cpp:275: ViewProperties::PropertiesNode::PropertiesNode(QFile*): Assertion `readBytes = 0' failed. KCrash: Application 'dolphin' crashing... Entering date gives [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date Sun Jun 15 09:49:26 NZST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ This was after setting thd date/time with kcontrol as root. Thanks, Barry
networking..............
Hi all, I've just bought a laptop, and for the 1st time have to get networking sorted out. Progress so far - using a crossover cable each machine can transfer files to other using fish in dolphin, I can open a ssh run apps from the other box, and I can log on to the web (kppp) However I can not then go to a remote site from a web browser from either box. I have to unplug the cable before starting ppp and going on the web. I am then restricted to the box I log on from. What setup changes need to be made to fix this problem? TIA Barry
Re: eject /dev/cdrom
A bit late replying but I have an item set up which works directly on the cdreader, 'Eject CD1 - eject /dev/hdc' HTH Barry -- Roger Searle wrote: Hi, I make good use of the eject command which up to gutsy would work on it's own without specifying a device, however on upgrading to hardy fails: eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom' seemingly because there is no /dev/cdrom file in hardy. There is a cdrom1, cdrw1, dvd1, dvdrw1 etc, which are links to scd0. I can create the cdrom link easily enough and then eject works fine. The problem is that the link will not survive a reboot and I am wondering if anyone could indicate why, or how I might resolve this. Cheers, Roger
Re: Recommendation for printers
I have the 1600 Chris refers to. It has a usb port cups 1.3.0 did not do a good job of setting it up. Getting the uri correct was the problem (my lack of knowledge?) I also have it running under cups 1.2.9 and it just goes. the 2600 version has an ethernet port and I think usb as well. It prints reasonable photos as well as great text. Barry Christopher Sawtell wrote: I have two friends who have HP-1600 coloured laser printers. One has a built-in network print-server, the other a USB connection. The one with the print-server was an immediate plug-in and go situation on Ubuntu, The USB connection was a bit of a pain for the user to get going on Mandriva. While not as good as a modern ink-jet, the colour rendering is pretty good, especially when you take the cost of the printer into account. HP make their money on the cost of the inks and toners.
Printing woes...
If I bring my box etc tonight would there be a guru who could sort out cups for me, I just about went around the bend with it last week. The printer is a HP colour laserjet 1600, cups recognises it and it appears to be properly set up, jobs get passed to cups queued and there they stay until cancelled. Any ideas anyone please? Barry
Re: Printing woes...
Problem now solved, the device uri set up with cups was wrong. I compared printers.conf with the similar file from another distro, copied the appropriate line across and restarted cups = problem solved. Thanks for the replies, see you tonight. Are you joining us @ 6.00 pm Nick? Barry - Barry wrote: If I bring my box etc tonight would there be a guru who could sort out cups for me, I just about went around the bend with it last week. The printer is a HP colour laserjet 1600, cups recognises it and it appears to be properly set up, jobs get passed to cups queued and there they stay until cancelled. Any ideas anyone please? Barry
Re: Dates? Re: Printing woes...
Thanks, Please check that its ok now. Its the result of a new install which caused me a lot of grief Barry Craig Falconer wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-14 at 05:18 -0400, Barry wrote: ^ Your clock is one day fast, and you're in the wrong timezone. So your emails are dated 10 hours in the future. Just thought you'd like to know...
Re: modem woes
Many thanks for the replies, I think the modem is now sorted. After reinstalling it works. Looks like something went wrong with the 1st install, and the 2nd Barry -- Barry wrote: Hi Folks, I recently did a new install of Mandriva 2008.0 on a spare partition. No problems to speak of with the installation but the modem is a different story. The current score is 'no modem = useless installation.' Its a winmodem has been running for 4 yrs and is fine with Mandriva 2007.1. The src driver is martian-full-20061203( the latest), an update of what I have been using. It compiles and installs with no error msgs. Then I run depmod -a = no msgs Running 'modprobe martian_dev' gives the following FATAL: Error inserting martian_dev /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv/other/martian_dev.ko): Invalid module format. I have checked and appear to have the correct kernel sources installed. Copying files from the earlier compile does not work. Google has not helped. After 3 days I have run out of ideas, any suggestions please Barry
modem woes
Hi Folks, I recently did a new install of Mandriva 2008.0 on a spare partition. No problems to speak of with the installation but the modem is a different story. The current score is 'no modem = useless installation.' Its a winmodem has been running for 4 yrs and is fine with Mandriva 2007.1. The src driver is martian-full-20061203( the latest), an update of what I have been using. It compiles and installs with no error msgs. Then I run depmod -a = no msgs Running 'modprobe martian_dev' gives the following FATAL: Error inserting martian_dev /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv/other/martian_dev.ko): Invalid module format. I have checked and appear to have the correct kernel sources installed. Copying files from the earlier compile does not work. Google has not helped. After 3 days I have run out of ideas, any suggestions please Barry
compiling avidemux 2.4.1
Hi all, has anyone successfully compiled this app from the avidemux_2.4.1.tar.gz source file? I am getting the following msg; [ 89%] Building CXX object avidemux/ADM_libraries/ADM_utilities/CMakeFiles/ADM_utilities.dir/ADM_imageLoader.o /root/.local/share/Trash/files/avidemux_2.4.1/avidemux/ADM_libraries/ADM_utilities/ADM_imageLoader.cpp: In function 'ADMImage* createImageFromFile_png(const char*)': /root/.local/share/Trash/files/avidemux_2.4.1/avidemux/ADM_libraries/ADM_utilities/ADM_imageLoader.cpp:341: error: 'decoderPng' was not declared in this scope /root/.local/share/Trash/files/avidemux_2.4.1/avidemux/ADM_libraries/ADM_utilities/ADM_imageLoader.cpp:341: error: 'decoder' was not declared in this scope make[2]: *** [avidemux/ADM_libraries/ADM_utilities/CMakeFiles/ADM_utilities.dir/ADM_imageLoader.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [avidemux/ADM_libraries/ADM_utilities/CMakeFiles/ADM_utilities.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 Am I correct in assuming that the file 'ADM_imageLoader.cpp' is faulty? The first time I tried to compile it a ; was missing in the same line 341 which I inserted. Barry
Re: jpg to avi
Thanks Guys, This is looks like the info I need to experiment with Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:13:57 +1200, Lee Begg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Barry wrote: Sorry, I did not explain what I want to do very well I have some short avi clips which I have combined/modified and put on a vcd. I now wish to start the process again but insert into the movie some jpeg images as well as the avi files. How do I convert the jpg files and set the period for which they are displayed in the movie? mjpegtools has the tools you need. Basically, you convert the correct size jpg to pnm, then feed it into ppmtoy4m, then mpeg2enc to encode it to the correct format, then use mplex to multiplex sound (or silence) and you have a dvd ready mpeg file. It is the same process for the background of a dvd menu. See http://www.tappin.me.uk/Linux/dvd.html#menus for details. Set the -n parameter to ppmtoy4m to the number of frames you need (ie, number of seconds times 25 (frames per second)). Use mencoder on the result if you need something other than mpeg2. Hope this helps Later Lee Alternatively use something like what Barry was doing, except you need to have a series of files, one for each frame. Something like take the first frame and rename it frame001.jpg Say you want 5 second view, you need 25x5=125 frames (assuming PAL frame rate). Now make 124 soft link files all pointing to frame001.jpg and consecutively numbered so you end up with: frame001.jpg frame002.jpg ... frame125.jpg That step is tedious to do by hand but of course you can script it. You now have 125 frames to feed to mencoder. Alternatively use a simple editor like avidemux to add in the 125 frames. You can also use a more sophisticated editor like kino or cinelerra to add the jpg once, and specify the number of seconds it should be inserted for. If you are wanting to add to an existing video you will first need to resize the frames to the same dimensions as the frame size in the existing video. This may involve cropping/resizing.
Re: jpg to avi
Sorry, I did not explain what I want to do very well
I have some short avi clips which I have combined/modified and put on a vcd.
I now wish to start the process again but insert into the movie some
jpeg images as well as the avi files.
How do I convert the jpg files and set the period for which they are
displayed in the movie?
Barry
---
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf fps=0.1 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4
view with:-
mplayer -fs
Seems to work for me giving 10secs per picture.
ps It's much simpler to use gwenview in slideshow mode.
alternatively:-
* media-gfx/pornview
Available versions: 0.2.0_pre1 0.2.0_pre1-r1 {jpeg mplayer nls
static xine}
Homepage: http://pornview.sourceforge.net
Description:Image viewer/manager with optional
support for MPEG movies.
But I'm not sure that the trams would approve. :-)
Also, please be aware that many reasonably modern DVD players will do
slide-shows of jpegs on CD/DVD discs via the TV.
On 4/17/08, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'mencoder mf://~/photos/bdtram/dcp_0092.jpg -mf fps=25 -o output.avi
-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4'
will produce a avi file with but a single frame. How do I alter the cmd
to produce a avi file with many frames of the same jpg so it wil display
for a set period of time eg 1sec, 2sec etc?
TIA
Barry
