I've been trying to keep to the accepted norms, and not post to the list more than a couple of times a day, though I had to bite my tongue yesterday when seeing some of the things posted. I'm not going to bother replying to every line, so I've gathered together the recurring ones from various mails in Ralf's mailstorm.
On [various recent emails], Ralf Mardorf wrote: > There's a witch hunting by one person against me, on that list (64 > Studio) with the most kind people of all the Linux lists I'm subscribed > too, this isn't fun :(. First you post incessantly, then you ignore requests to restrain yourself a bit, then you make untrue generalisations, then you start name-calling when these are pointed out, and now you're trying to present yourself as the victim of a "fascist" witch-hunt. LOL! Then you put references to this thread into at least two other threads, presumably in order to inflict pain on those who may not be reading this thread because they're binning it. How wretchedly antisocial. > I wonder that one person can speak for "newbies" that might be suckers > for my FUD. He also speaks for you. He is speaking for all those people, > 64 Studio and Linux that aren't able to figure out my dangerousness. No - I'm just asking you to be a bit more temperate in your rate of posting, and in the contents of your posts. Other people on other lists (and some on this list) have asked the same of you in the past. > It's not the usual flamewar e.g. like the one > once upon a time against Raymond on LAD, the flame of this Kevin is > really a hounding with bad agitations, lies. > On LAD Fons shows interest in this SMPTE issue and you can bet he don't > like me too, but this has nothing to do with the technical facts. Have you ever stopped for just a millisecond to ask yourself why you get into these scrapes with people who are probably (like myself) otherwise generally equable? Could it *just possibly* be something to do with the way you post? > He pointed out that on another list a women that should be as evil as > I'm was banned. > Me too, maybe nobody here knows this list, this situation, only that > there might be a woman that did not obey to Kevin's rules. > Then the indication, in another forum, a woman was like me and because > people like me have the power to ruin the ideals of Linux, that's why > they were banned in some imaginary other forum. I mentioned that banning in order to bring home to you (with a specific example) that that can be the ultimate sanction if people abuse widely-accepted norms for posting to lists - I don't own this list, I don't moderate it, and I doubt whether the moderators have anything like that in mind. But it can and does happen - "free as in free" doesn't mean you have the freedom to insult people. (For the avoidance of doubt, the list I referred to (which is definitely not imaginary) was not my list, I made no posts on that or other threads where this individual had posted, and I had no hand in the list moderator taking the decision he did. But I was surprised at how suddenly the ban was applied - nobody asked for it, the moderator just did it.) > but he calls me a liar, while he is a liar and I'm not. > If I call him an agitating liar, than this simply is what he is. > A bug report is a bug report and no FUD. To take just two examples, did you say that Linux could not be used "when trying to record a Wagner opera"? Yes. Given the references I quoted, is that likely to be true? No. I don't know what you call it in German, Ralf, but in English it's called a "lie". It may have been unintentional, or based on inadequate research, but I note that in all the stuff you've posted you haven't retracted it - you are quite happy to leave that slur on the record. I count that as FUD. > There were no links about any FLOSS audio app, am I wrong? > Closed source ... [t]his isn't relevant for 64 Studio and the FLOSS community. These comments are presumably a half-hearted attempt to qualify your point after you made it. That means (a) you should have taken a few more seconds to phrase your original comment properly (as I'll say for the umpteenth time, exercise some self-discipline in writing your posts), and (b) you should now say "Gee - looks like I got that wrong. Pro, closed-source, commercial Linux apps can probably do this after all, but my main concern was open-source stuff." But you can't bring yourself to do that, can you? Did you say, in relation to Synfig, "there seems to be a bug in the 64 Studio repository"? Yes. Is that likely to be true? No. But again, you haven't retracted that. A slur that is not true is FUD. Calling you out on these untruths may annoy you, since it dents your self-perceived aura of omniscience, but it doesn't make me a liar. If I'm agitating for anything, it is for you to be a bit more responsible in what you say. This isn't rocket-science - being frustrated with a particular issue doesn't mean you can spout off about anything that comes into your head, and spew out a bunch of slurs and half-truths. And if you do, you should have the common decency to admit you were wrong when they are pointed out, and retract them. But you can't seem to grasp this concept at all. > Btw. I'm invented by Mathias and Rui to join the Qtractor dev list. Why > does he speak for Rui? I don't - but you said something about his app which was a slur. Ralf, you can't go around bad-mouthing all and sundry and expect everyone just to let it pass - you're an adult, not a child of 6; you have to use some common-sense. > Kevin said I don't regard Rui, spread FUD, while Rui invited me to > subscribe too his list ;). I'm pleased about that, but in that case I would adopt a little more loyalty to the app, and only refer to specific bugs in it when they are directly relevant to the substance of your post, ie don't consider saying things like "and another thing, that QTractor app has various bugs too - that just proves my point about the JubbleFX drivers." > What does this say about Kevin? I'm afraid I have no idea, but I have an ominous feeling that you will get around to telling us once you've got a dozen other posts out of the way. > I would like to sync stuff, not for Hollywood, even if I developed audio > equipment for Hollywood, but I like to sync Qtractor etc. to local TV > productions. I hesitate to suggest anything here, since my suggestion about the Ladish session handler did not go down well with you, but I'll try anyway. It may be that what you want to do is impossible using FLOSS - I don't know enough about your project. (And incidentally, if you could boil that down into half a page, and post it, and *keep on-topic in follow-ups*, it might spark some useful suggestions on how you might proceed.) However, it seems to me that *if* you only want to use FLOSS, and *if* QTractor won't work, you may have to look at other approaches, though these may involve more work than commercial offerings. For instance, I would look at the options in Mplayer for speeding up/slowing down the soundtrack, and advancing or retracting it in time. If this still led to mistiming on the soundtrack as a whole, I would then chop the soundtrack into chunks, and try to align each of those manually. Then I would save out the soundtrack, and mux it with the video track using something like Avidemux. This pipeline is undoubtedly not "plug and play", but given your parameters, that or something like it may be the only way forward at present (until, as I said in an earlier post, someone writes or open-sources a library for this). Another alternative might be to try the increasingly sophisticated video capabilities of Blender. There is now a Python script available that syncs Ardour to Blender: http://www.jpbouza.com.ar/ESP2/tutoriales/gnulinux/blenderardour/id/en http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=114454 I suspect you might still have to do a good bit of manual work with this too, but the track capabilites of Ardour might make things a bit easier. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.cymraeg.org.uk - Welsh-English autotranslator www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
