I am trying to test a Linux Mint system to see whether it delivers on promises to "just work" with respect to video codecs.
Anybody want to suggest useful test videos? I've found a couple of places including some disappointments. I thought nasa.gov would be a good one, but I think they must not have paid their internet bill or something, I seem to be getting terrible feeds from there. - Or maybe that's a Linux Mint failure? Except that I also get rotten behavior on an XP box I tried. One video must actually be corrupt or something -- try the "Hubble Operations control Center" on http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html JPL stuff seems pretty good http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/ (and anything under -- I think I've seen flash, quicktime and mpeg4) None of these following seem to work -- are they supposed to? http://index.apple.com/~singer/sequences/testseq.html It seems to download a bunch but then does nothing. Ohwait, I seem to have stunmbled onto an experimental codec .. nevermind. The video things at plugger all work -- but they seem kind of dated http://fredrik.net/plugger/test.html These next _all_ seem to work, maybe I'm getting warmer? http://www.cybertechmedia.com/samplevideos.html Are all these different formats? ==> Hmmm, this is the most complete looking demo site so far, but I'd like to hear if there are gaps in their sample range. Aside: only a small handful of samples fail to work -- one interesting failure is at http://www.cybertechmedia.com/vid1aqt.html. I also found some info (that I didn't dig into) and a few examples at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316992 that mostly worked ok. The most problems were with some sound formats. Then I found more things that worked at http://www.apple.com/quicktime although I suspect most of the stuff here is all one format. Well, maybe I didn't do so bad finding things myself, but I'd still like to invite suggestions of other test samples. Linux Mint seems to do remarkably well, but I'd like to know what I may have overlooked. Also: I wonder if anyone has seen this curious behavior. Sometimes firefox will freeze and get dim all-over (which turns out to be a nice alert mechanism, I suppose). I can click the X (close) icon, and (usually) get a "..not responding..force quit?" dialog. Sometimes it seems I have to manually issue a kill. --Ohwaitaminuteagain, I think this dimming is an indication that the cpu is maxed out during some javascript (or java) operation.. It eventually comes back to normal colors after the operation finishes -- it seems. Or maybe not always. A real hang does seem to occasionally occur. I also played around at http://visiblehuman.epfc.ch and found that Linux Mint does alright with java applets, too. That's where I noticed the dimming of firefox during a lengthy applet-load. That is the neatest place!! Thanks for any suggestions, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
