On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:16:47PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote: > I'd looked there, but missed that particular note. > Of course; something on that laptop's hardware went last night, and > now > it will run WinXP, but the X server fades slowly to white on > boot. <sigh> > > Hey, my old ThinkPad used to pull that trick occasionally. Usually a > reboot fixed it; setting a different video mode (bit depth or > resolution) sometimes fixed it too.
I suspect a bit flipped in the CMOS... and there's a password on this (used) laptop that I don't know. I'll try the bit-depth thing, though; I can get into the text consoles ok -- even in frame-buffer mode. Interestingly, the text-modem stretch turned off at the same time... > Here's an interesting idea, BTW: have we thought about, instead of > ripping to MP3 and CDG files, ripping and then rendering to an MPEG > or > XVID monolithic file and playing that back? Clearly the rendering > would take time; would we save space in addition to complexity? > > I've given it some thought; once we get pykaraoke switched over to a > different playback engine (so we can play with the audio stream as it > heads to the sound card), it'd be a matter of getting synced frames > (audio and video) to an encoder. That might be a tad on the difficult > side :) I've never written an encoder before :) And, come to think of it, the pitch and tempo shifting stuff is probably made *harder* by that... > (Obviously, my preferred target would be Vorbis/Theora...) > > Yeah, that'd rock. > I've got a few modifications to make to cdgrip.py, actually. I already > modified it weeks ago to compress ripped audio to Ogg instead of MP3, > but never made it "clean," so I intend to fix that, and I figured > since people like distributing CDG+Audio pairs in archives (.zip, > etc.) and cdg2bin supports extracting them already, the rest of the > toolchain might as well support it too (creating .zip/.tar.bz2 > archives during rip, extracting during playback, etc.). Probably couldn't hurt. Sounds like we're building a library. Incidentally: Kelvin; I've been through much of your python code the last 24 hours; please let me compliment you on your *insanely* good coding and commenting style. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "Space is called 'space' because there's so much *space* there." - John Walker, of Fourmilab, on Trek's End ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Pykaraoke-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pykaraoke-discuss
