Michael O'Keefe wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Barry Gershenfeld wrote:
I would be more likely to attend beginner sessions. This may be a
personal preference thing, especially as I like teaching as much as
learning. As I hinted above, I consider exploring the basics (the
underpinnings) more worthwhile than learning too much about this or
that new package. Rather than an in depth presentation, I think an
appropriate overview is consumable by newbies anyway.
As an example, I did learn about MythTV from the presentations, but
I really never knew anything about it until I tried it myself.
Do you think I could run MythTV on seriously older hardware (PII-350)
if I'm willing to run it in resolution just adequate enough for a
2-inch diagonal?
You mean the playback ?
The playback typically doesn't take all that much resources.
The hard work is done at compression time, but it's relatively easy
(CPU wise) to uncompress.
my old tangerine iBook was the slowest computer I used to watch my
captures on, but being a PPC CPU, there's no straight comparison to a
PII-350
Can MythTV handle CC (Closed Captions)?
The CC go way to fast for me when I'm watching a spanish novela. I
record it (VCR) to give me more flexibility. But when I hit pause, the
CC on the TV disappears. So the only advantage it gives me is the
ability to keep rewinding over and over. And in the places where I have
difficulty understanding (especially when the sentence is complex), I
rewind seemingly incessantly over the same spot. And I have to
overshoot the rewind just a little or the CC doesn't reappear for the
portion I need to see. But the VCR's rewind is too powerful and often
overshoots.
What would be nice is if I could siphon off the CC to a file. I could
study the text at my leisure, and then go back and watch the whole thing
with a much greater understanding of what's being said. I can gather
only so much from facial expressions and reactions. And the words that
I pick up just by listening are few.
Thetroublewithlisteningtoalanguagethatyoubarelyunderstandishowthewordsseemtoruntogether.
When the words are written, you can see the spaces between the words and
pick them out more easily. But spoken, there are no spaces between the
words except for pauses, like sentence breaks.
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