RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:25:47 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Matthew, Is there a chance I can download your ISO image? And the version of the Daemon tools you are using? Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 October, 2007 7:01 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:01:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this a W2K vanilla or one upgraded with Service Packs? It could be very well that this bug was introduced in a later version. I slipstreamed SP4 into a copy opf W2K SP3 a while back, and have been using that to set up W2k on the L110 as a fresh installation. Care to share with me the version of: stream.sys: 5.0.2195.5200 and ks.sys: 5.0.2189.1 Are you playing DVD's using a ISO image or ripped MPEG2 files? I'm using DVDShrink to shrink DVDs to ISO files that DAEMON Tools mounts as a drive. Margi pops up right after mounting the image. I do have a lot of MPEG2 vidoes captured with a Hauppage card from the TV cable Haven't tested them recently. Hope that helps. I'll try to answer whatever you can toss me, and I can understand. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 18 October, 2007 5:20 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:17:54 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video I'll leave my system playing video over the weekend and will report back on what the BSODs say. Well Avi... I've got good news and bad news. The good news (for me) is that after 3 days of playing 3 ~2 hour DVD images in W2K, I didn't get a single BSOD. The bad news (for you) is I didn't come up with any data that might help diagnose your setup. I did experience a couple of problems, but I wasn't able to determine the causes. Day 1: Played a 2 episode DVD. Each episode ~2 hours. 1st episode played through and returned to the title menu unattended. The 2nd episode was playing for more than an hour, but at some point before I checked in the next couple of hours, the system had rebooted for some reason. But that's happened from time to time with the L110 just playing MP3s in W2K through my Echo Indigo. Maybe heat. It just shut down today because of heat. Day 2: Played the same DVD. 1/2 way through the 1st episode 1st episode I pulled the power cord and brought the L110 with me on a drive. That episode ended on the drive, and I started episode 2. Somewhere along the way the system shut down when the battery got low. Day 3: Everything went flawlessly. I played 2 different ~2 hour DVD images, one of them twice making about 6 hours of flawless playback. They were concert videos, and I actually paused playback several times. Now I didn't do any fast forwarding/reversing, navigating chapter and extra menus. It seems that's where I've run into playback problems in the past. But the only BSOD I've seen since you told me to set the screen resolution to 16 bit was when after doing that, I reinstalled and ran Margi. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it several more times since then, and everything has been working darned well. I was having a problem with my mouse, which was why I tried uninstalling Margi. But I'm sure the mouse problem was unrelated. My case is broken at the right hinge, and I think the ribbon cable is the source of the mouse problem, as I wiggled things and the problem went away. I'm also pretty sure that the colored vertical lines on the edge of the screen that Librettos are famous for are due to faulty connections through that ribbon cable. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:42:52 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card John wrote: Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:44:05 -0700 (PDT) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:50:56 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] speed gain using flash card snip I use this for real work (number crunching etc virtualisation), a Lib snip What is virtualisation? I notice linux 2.6 has a section called that in the kernel. Is it the same? Things like VirtualPC, VMWare, VirtualBox, SVista, QEmu, Bochs, . where you can run -say- Windows 2000 inside another operating system. Sometimes I got three of four of those running simultaneously. As these virtual guest operatings systems take their share of RAM from the host's RAM, a lot of RAM is needed. I use it for shielding my employers remote call-in stuff from my own PC (because otherwise the remote stuff takes over the entire desktop), for trying out network stuff, testing of new Linux distros, you name it. As far as the 2.6 kernels are concerned: I suppose you refer to Xen, indeed some kind of virtualisation. See http://www.xen.org/ Philip
RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 20:35:53 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Hmmm I tried Daemon Tools. But those MF's still didn't remove their anti Kernel debugger thingy. Not workable for a hacker like me... I'm switching back to old copy of Fathom CD. Or are there other alternatives...? Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 October, 2007 7:01 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:01:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this a W2K vanilla or one upgraded with Service Packs? It could be very well that this bug was introduced in a later version. I slipstreamed SP4 into a copy opf W2K SP3 a while back, and have been using that to set up W2k on the L110 as a fresh installation. Care to share with me the version of: stream.sys: 5.0.2195.5200 and ks.sys: 5.0.2189.1 Are you playing DVD's using a ISO image or ripped MPEG2 files? I'm using DVDShrink to shrink DVDs to ISO files that DAEMON Tools mounts as a drive. Margi pops up right after mounting the image. I do have a lot of MPEG2 vidoes captured with a Hauppage card from the TV cable Haven't tested them recently. Hope that helps. I'll try to answer whatever you can toss me, and I can understand. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 18 October, 2007 5:20 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:17:54 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video I'll leave my system playing video over the weekend and will report back on what the BSODs say. Well Avi... I've got good news and bad news. The good news (for me) is that after 3 days of playing 3 ~2 hour DVD images in W2K, I didn't get a single BSOD. The bad news (for you) is I didn't come up with any data that might help diagnose your setup. I did experience a couple of problems, but I wasn't able to determine the causes. Day 1: Played a 2 episode DVD. Each episode ~2 hours. 1st episode played through and returned to the title menu unattended. The 2nd episode was playing for more than an hour, but at some point before I checked in the next couple of hours, the system had rebooted for some reason. But that's happened from time to time with the L110 just playing MP3s in W2K through my Echo Indigo. Maybe heat. It just shut down today because of heat. Day 2: Played the same DVD. 1/2 way through the 1st episode 1st episode I pulled the power cord and brought the L110 with me on a drive. That episode ended on the drive, and I started episode 2. Somewhere along the way the system shut down when the battery got low. Day 3: Everything went flawlessly. I played 2 different ~2 hour DVD images, one of them twice making about 6 hours of flawless playback. They were concert videos, and I actually paused playback several times. Now I didn't do any fast forwarding/reversing, navigating chapter and extra menus. It seems that's where I've run into playback problems in the past. But the only BSOD I've seen since you told me to set the screen resolution to 16 bit was when after doing that, I reinstalled and ran Margi. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it several more times since then, and everything has been working darned well. I was having a problem with my mouse, which was why I tried uninstalling Margi. But I'm sure the mouse problem was unrelated. My case is broken at the right hinge, and I think the ribbon cable is the source of the mouse problem, as I wiggled things and the problem went away. I'm also pretty sure that the colored vertical lines on the edge of the screen that Librettos are famous for are due to faulty connections through that ribbon cable. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
