Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: is there a software, a tool, a something which with it is possible to print the frame numbers of those frames in a video file, which are at positions, where the aspect-ratio changes? Try mplayer -nosound -benchmark -vo null FILE the

Re: [gentoo-user] md device hda - sda

2011-07-02 Thread JD
On 07/01/2011 09:09 PM, Adam Carter wrote: What about your grub.conf (or /boot/grub/menu.lst) ? Its still running lilo, which references the meta devices; and the raid-extra-boot is just a fallback if the metadevice is down IIRC (its a mirror

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
David Haller gen...@dhaller.de [11-07-02 07:12]: Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: is there a software, a tool, a something which with it is possible to print the frame numbers of those frames in a video file, which are at positions, where the aspect-ratio changes?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: David Haller gen...@dhaller.de [11-07-02 07:12]: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: is there a software, a tool, a something which with it is possible to print the frame numbers of those frames in a video file, which are at

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
David Haller gen...@dhaller.de [11-07-02 09:04]: Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: David Haller gen...@dhaller.de [11-07-02 07:12]: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: is there a software, a tool, a something which with it is possible to print the frame

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 July 2011, at 08:31, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... Initially I wanted to know the frame numbers to navigate - guess what program ? :) - avidemux directly to the advertising parts of the video to cut that stuff out of my (visual) way :))) I didnt want to scroll through the video stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 02.07.2011 09:31, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: What is the name of the programm to cut off advertisings? ATM??? IIRC??? ATM and IIRC are acronyms metatron@Shao ~ $ wtf IIRC IIRC: if I recall correctly metatron@Shao ~ $ wtf ATM ATM: at the moment Greetings Sebastian Beßler

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 02.07.2011 09:31, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: David Haller gen...@dhaller.de [11-07-02 09:04]: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: David Haller gen...@dhaller.de [11-07-02 07:12]: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: is there a software, a tool, a something which

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:38:50 +0100, Stroller wrote: I'm extremely sceptical of a plan to reimplement a media centre / home-theatre PC in bash scripts - just install MythTV and stop trying to reinvent the wheel. I was about to post something similar. There's also a program that tries to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn off glibc's runtime error checks?

2011-07-02 Thread Ivan T. Ivanov
Hi, On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 04:18 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/02/2011 03:05 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: This is driving me nuts. Since a few days ago, glibc will abort programs with a: *** glibc detected *** program: free(): invalid pointer: ... *** or similar error

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:50:00 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote: What is the name of the programm to cut off advertisings? ATM??? IIRC??? cted from initi ATM and IIRC are acronyms If I were a pedantic old bastard (which I am) I would point out that they are abbreviations, not acronyms. An

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, Stroller wrote: On 2 July 2011, at 08:31, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... Initially I wanted to know the frame numbers to navigate - guess what program ? :) - avidemux directly to the advertising parts of the video to cut that stuff out of my (visual) way :))) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper

2011-07-02 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Neil. On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:17:01PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:39:18 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part: [ebuild N] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1 [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200

Re: [gentoo-user] md device hda - sda

2011-07-02 Thread Adam Carter
I do not use lilo. But, if it boots, then no problems :) The box is at another site - i need to know if it is likely to work before i try :)

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM filter question

2011-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
David W Noon writes: On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:05:12 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about [gentoo-user] LVM filter question: [snip] filter = [ r|/dev/nbd.*|, r|/dev/sdd|, a/.*/ ] This should reject /dev/sdd from scanning. But it doesn't, pvscan spins it up. Any idea why it is not

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn off glibc's runtime error checks?

2011-07-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/02/2011 12:32 PM, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote: Hi, On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 04:18 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 07/02/2011 03:05 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: This is driving me nuts. Since a few days ago, glibc will abort programs with a: *** glibc detected *** program: free(): invalid

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM filter question

2011-07-02 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:19:08 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] LVM filter question: David W Noon writes: [snip] So, your r.e. should read: r|/dev/sdd.*| which decodes to reject ^/dev/sdd.*$ . This suppresses the scans of

[gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Grant
My motherboard is getting flaky and it's time for a new one. I have an AMD 6000+ CPU, 4GB DDR2/800 RAM, 2TB SATA2 HD, Blu-Ray burner, PCI wireless card, 400W power supply, and ATX case. I could replace any of these components if it's worthwhile for some new feature, but I may as well keep them

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Grant
My motherboard is getting flaky and it's time for a new one.  I have an AMD 6000+ CPU, 4GB DDR2/800 RAM, 2TB SATA2 HD, Blu-Ray burner, PCI wireless card, 400W power supply, and ATX case.  I could replace any of these components if it's worthwhile for some new feature, but I may as well keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Feeding /etc/cron.dail and such into ?

2011-07-02 Thread Bill Longman
Meino, I don't know fcron but I just put cron lines in a file and do crontab filename

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: My motherboard is getting flaky and it's time for a new one. I have an AMD 6000+ CPU, 4GB DDR2/800 RAM, 2TB SATA2 HD, Blu-Ray burner, PCI wireless card, 400W power supply, and ATX case. I could replace any of these components if it's worthwhile for some new feature, but I may as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Grant
Is Nvidia still the way to go instead of ATI?  I use the nouveau drivers with my onboard Nvidia chipset now and they've been fine for the most part.  I use a threaded ffmpeg to decode HD video instead of VDPAU so I don't bother with nvidia-drivers. - Grant I don't have any experience with

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/02/2011 09:06 PM, Grant wrote: The most important thing is reliability and Linux compatibility but I also need HDMI and I figure USB 3.0 is a good idea. The system is for playing music and movies, no gaming whatsoever. If you're familiar with the current hardware scene, where would you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 02 July 2011 20:36:55 Dale wrote: I see no need in me getting a ATI card. That's just me. It's also me. NVidia has been straightforward for years: just plug it in and go. Choose the closed-source driver, or nowadays the Nouveau driver, and everything Just Works. Mind you, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Feeding /etc/cron.dail and such into ?

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com [11-07-02 23:57]: Meino, I don't know fcron but I just put cron lines in a file and do crontab filename Hi Bill, sorry for the confusion, Bill, my English screws the things up. Problem has solved itsself... Best regards, mcc

[gentoo-user] Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-02 Thread Grant
After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the number of Gentoo systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. What can be done to make the management of multiple Gentoo systems easier? I think identical

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Grant
The most important thing is reliability and Linux compatibility but I also need HDMI and I figure USB 3.0 is a good idea.  The system is for playing music and movies, no gaming whatsoever.  If you're familiar with the current hardware scene, where would you go from here as far as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Feeding /etc/cron.dail and such into ?

2011-07-02 Thread Bill Longman
On Jul 2, 2011 3:12 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com [11-07-02 23:57]: Meino, I don't know fcron but I just put cron lines in a file and do crontab filename Hi Bill, sorry for the confusion, Bill, my English screws the things up. Problem has solved

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: Is Nvidia still the way to go instead of ATI? I use the nouveau drivers with my onboard Nvidia chipset now and they've been fine for the most part. I use a threaded ffmpeg to decode HD video instead of VDPAU so I don't bother with nvidia-drivers. - Grant I don't have any

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-02 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the number of Gentoo systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. What can be done to make the management of multiple Gentoo systems easier? I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the number of Gentoo systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. What can be done to make the management of multiple Gentoo systems easier? In

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com [11-07-03 01:12]: The most important thing is reliability and Linux compatibility but I also need HDMI and I figure USB 3.0 is a good idea.  The system is for playing music and movies, no gaming whatsoever.  If you're familiar with the current hardware scene,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Grant
Is Nvidia still the way to go instead of ATI?  I use the nouveau drivers with my onboard Nvidia chipset now and they've been fine for the most part.  I use a threaded ffmpeg to decode HD video instead of VDPAU so I don't bother with nvidia-drivers. - Grant I don't have any experience with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [11-07-03 03:08]: Grant wrote: Is Nvidia still the way to go instead of ATI? I use the nouveau drivers with my onboard Nvidia chipset now and they've been fine for the most part. I use a threaded ffmpeg to decode HD video instead of VDPAU so I don't bother with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread JD
On 07/02/2011 06:26 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Grantemailgr...@gmail.com [11-07-03 01:12]: The most important thing is reliability and Linux compatibility but I also need HDMI and I figure USB 3.0 is a good idea. The system is for playing music and movies, no gaming whatsoever. If you're

[gentoo-user] smplayer and kmplayer only works (almost) OK as root

2011-07-02 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi, All, I am trying to use smplayer or kmplayer as a regular user. They both don't work: kmplayer keeps saying that it is waiting mplayer buffering and smplayer reports Mplayer has finished unexpectedly. Exit code:1. Running both as root from a terminal, the following message appeared:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com [11-07-03 03:08]: Grant wrote: Is Nvidia still the way to go instead of ATI? I use the nouveau drivers with my onboard Nvidia chipset now and they've been fine for the most part. I use a threaded ffmpeg to decode HD video instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: I bet that's just old stock. I can't find a single motherboard with Nvidia graphics and an AM3+ or FM1 socket on newegg.com. - Grant I didn't see a AM3+ either. May have to buy a mobo and a separate video card. At least that way, you can get what you really want. This

[gentoo-user] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier?

2011-07-02 Thread Walter Dnes
Fortunately, I do emerge -pv... otherwise I wouldn't be able to send this email, asking what the bleep is going on. I'm trying to do a regular update on my desktop and laptop. Apparently the update wants to replace ssmtp with courier on both machines. equery shows courier to be a dependancy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread Grant
I bet that's just old stock.  I can't find a single motherboard with Nvidia graphics and an AM3+ or FM1 socket on newegg.com. - Grant I didn't see a AM3+ either.  May have to buy a mobo and a separate video card.  At least that way, you can get what you really want.  This is one reason I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
JD jd1...@gmail.com [11-07-03 05:57]: On 07/02/2011 06:26 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Grantemailgr...@gmail.com [11-07-03 01:12]: The most important thing is reliability and Linux compatibility but I also need HDMI and I figure USB 3.0 is a good idea. The system is for playing music

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier?

2011-07-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Saturday, July 2 at 23:15 (-0400), Walter Dnes said: Fortunately, I do emerge -pv... otherwise I wouldn't be able to send this email, asking what the bleep is going on. I'm trying to do a regular update on my desktop and laptop. Apparently the update wants to replace ssmtp with courier

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier?

2011-07-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 11:15:04PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote Fortunately, I do emerge -pv... otherwise I wouldn't be able to send this email, asking what the bleep is going on. I'm trying to do a regular update on my desktop and laptop. Apparently the update wants to replace ssmtp with

[gentoo-user] [OT] Difficulties to use scripts from openbox menu.xml

2011-07-02 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, a weird problem hit me... ;) I have a script, which cd into a certain directory and starts a program from there with ./program. This scripts works fine from the commandline. But when I use the same script inside the ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml, I does not work: No program start. My setup: