Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:17:28 +1300
Robert Fisher wrote:
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:10, Douglas Royds wrote:
Microshaft's grip on my hard-drive is starting to look tenuous.
Happy, happy.
Douglas.
I'm glad the workshops have a point, Douglas. :)
There's no harm in distro sub-groups forming, to pool & deepen OS
knowledge. The more there are, & the better they work, the more
effective our software movement is at delivering the necessary user
support overall. So whereas friendly inter-distro rivalries may rankle
some, the bigger picture is more options for newbies to find something
(& a group) that works for them.
Report: Despite the fact that bumping the trolley my AMD box is on locks
Ubuntu's Gnome solid (as happened under RedHat 9 too) - as many as three
times per session if done soon after boot :-/ (stabler having run a few
minutes) - I'll stick with it. Ubuntu is rock-solid on my P4, & that's
a laptop - no lock ups at all. The ease-of-update negates any pain. It
just gives the impression of clean simplicity, having less that can go
wrong (than the flasher KDE, which has more to learn from the beginning
- my limited experience only). New Ubuntu release out this month :-)
My son suggested that I try VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ) when one of
his downloaded movies did not seem to play on any of my players.
It worked a treat and seems to play anything I can throw at it.
xine, mplayer and vlc seem to form the basis of all other linux video
playing software.
As far as I can tell they will all play pretty much anything you throw
at them PROVIDED they are compiled and installed properly, with suport
for the codecs and formats you want to play.
Apparently gstreamer has been overhauled in the new Gnome, so switching
Totem to xine may become redundant. Prompted by Douglas, I've got Totem
playing clips properly too now. It involved adding some non-default mpeg
libraries/plugins, one of which brought the success.
Cheers, Rik
