Mark wrote:
You're putting words in my mouth. I never said that. I said that they
were either Linux or Mac fanboys OR were simply targeting the most
common OS.
I don't personally disagree with Mark's statement, except for the
wording. I would have put it as:
But NOT impossible, and the
HSDPA (3.5G)? Also, was this comparing 3G to EVDO? In the UK, all the
3G that O2 provides is HSDPA and it is blazingly fast.
No offence to the people in the States, but your GSM network is in the
stone age. I'd def go for EVDO if I was in the States.
Sent from my iPhone
On 10 Mar 2009, at
Daviel ad...@triumf.ca wrote:
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Matt Emson wrote:
Andrew Daviel wrote:
Is there a Twitter client for the tablet ?
Mauku. I wrote a simple one in Mono that works up to a point on the
NIT, but Mauku is the way to go.
I just installed that, and signed up to try Jaiku
See online reply.
Sent from my iPhone
On 7 Mar 2009, at 02:08, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:37 PM, John Holmblad
jholmb...@acadiasecurenets.com wrote:
I for one would like to see Apple acquire Nokia. That would be a
great
combination.
A couple
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On 7 Mar 2009, at 16:05, Julius Szelagiewicz jul...@turtle.com wrote:
Mark,
You can substitute Motorola cell phones for Nokia tablets and
your arguments will remain valid. Hardware is easier than software.
julius
Now, that's just plain mean!! No company makes
Mark wrote:
Sure, they say it, after you've already bought the thing and are on
a mailing list and a discussion such as this comes up, but NOWHERE in
the sales literature or at any sales point that I've seen does it say
that. That little morsel is *not* freely disseminated.
I'm trying to stay
Andrew Flegg wrote:
Agreed, and fully understandable. Can we draw up a list of what -
exactly - the N8x0 fails to do out-of-the-box which it is advertised
it *can* do; and requires hacker-like skills to enable?
If I'd never owned another device (Palm, Handspring, Apple Newton, Sharp
Zaurus
Andrew Flegg wrote:
Right, so although your complaints may be valid (I'm not saying
they're not - honestly, I'd love my tablet to be faster, which is why
I'm looking forward to an RX-51/71), they're not relevant to any
discussion about Nokia mis-selling the tablets or promising they can
do
The giant stand emblazoned with Nokia N800 blurb and with an N800
attached to it was always a give away. Displayed in PC World right
next to consumer laptops and other PDA like devices. Nowhere did it
mention that consumers should avoid the device.
If there was no PR, no one would own any
On 6 Mar 2009, at 18:16, Julius Szelagiewicz jul...@turtle.com wrote:
Ognen,
I'm sorry that you took offence at my joke. This really was a
joke, but obviously poorly worded.
I find it mildly amusing that people complain about N810
functionality and the need to add application at the
Ognen Duzlevski wrote:
Hello,
I am curious to find out what people use their Nokias for. If anyone
could share their usage patterns, it would be appreciated.
Six months ago, I would have given you a long list. Now, nothing. It
sits about doing nothing. I grab it to take meeting notes around
Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
This is not the N810 fault.
I had the N800 first. But I bought the other two devices over time,
because the N800 wasn't capable of doing what I needed it to - play back
music without screwing up the gaps between tracks as Canola does, Surf
the web without
Andrew Daviel wrote:
Is there a Twitter client for the tablet ?
Mauku. I wrote a simple one in Mono that works up to a point on the NIT,
but Mauku is the way to go.
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James Knott wrote:
Does it also do metric i.e. kilometers litres?
Or, indeed, can it use a mixture of metric and imperial*? (We use metric
litres for fuel, but miles for distance in the UK.)
M
* imperial is what we call the old British system of measurement that
the US uses (with slight
Mark Haury wrote:
Matt Emson wrote:
Fernando Cassia wrote:
Which shows newer is not always better... anyone remembers the
good old PalmPilot cradles?
Not only were those rock-solid, but also it was impossible to break
any connectors by pulling hard or by tripping on wires
Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote:
I sent messages via Jabber and receive them at the moment with twitter
(identi.ca post them for me to twitter) over mauku. but I hope mauku
will get native laconi.ca support...
The difference in the API is the URL base it uses. It took me about 10
minutes to
Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote:
I think that any jabber client is enough:
http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/Documentation#usageXMPP
Well, no. Mauku should be able to support identi.ca. The identi.ca back
end supports the Twitter API - as Mauku already supports that API,
should be fairly
Fernando Cassia wrote:
Which shows newer is not always better... anyone remembers the
good old PalmPilot cradles?
Not only were those rock-solid, but also it was impossible to break
any connectors by pulling hard or by tripping on wires it'd just
unplug itself without any damage.
On 27 Jan 2009, at 17:36, Rick Bilonick wrote:
I A2DP works in Maemo, it doesn't work out of the box. I have a
Motorolla S9 stereo headset. It works with my N810 but not in stereo
(I've tried).
IIRC, it was a dirty hack back in the ITOS2007 days. No idea if
ITOS2008 improved that. Never
John Holmblad wrote:
I don't own an iphone so I don't have the means to test/verify your
perception about webex on a small screen. I have to believe, however,
that Cisco would not have invested the time and effort to make a
no-cost iphone client available if they did not themselves
Java is a large install on most platforms. 12mb actually seems quite
small to me.
I can't imagine Webex being pleasant on any screen as small as the
N8x00 or iPhone.
M
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On 20 Jan 2009, at 00:29, John Holmblad
jholmb...@acadiasecurenets.com wrote:
Gary,
thanks for
John Holmblad wrote:
Having said that, and, given that there is a WIMAX
version of the N810 I don't see an inherent technical or cost reason why
there could not also be a version with a 2g/3g radio (GSM/HSDPA, or
CDMA/EVDO) as well.
I suspect it would be GSM/HSDPA based, as this is what
Marius Gedminas wrote:
3G is UMTS (or WCDMA); HSDPA is sometimes called 3.5G.
In the UK, O2 only use HSDPA for their 3G service, apparently. When
you buy an iPhone with them, they mumble about their 3G actually being
rated faster than normal 3G and make excuses about the naming convention
On 22 Dec 2008, at 11:38, Marius Gedminas wrote:
You mean the one that doesn't flat-out refuse to work with my Linux-
only
laptop?
If we're being pedantic, why would you buy a product that clearly
states it does not support LINUX? That's a bit like me buying a book
in Japanese and
On 22 Dec 2008, at 20:41, Denis Dimick wrote:
I've had both a n810 and an iPhone (Jailbroken) and ended up selling
the iPhone; I was tired of not being able to manage my Music the way
I wanted to - iTunes sucks.
I've never really had a problem with iTunes (5th gen iPod owner), but
I've
Andrea Grandi wrote:
If you try to load Facebook.com website, the situation is even worse:
it takes about 85% CPU simply doing nothing.
Use the iPhone version of Facebook (iphone.facebook.com) as it's
streamlined and doesn't have the idiotic chat enabled. If you want
Facebook chat, use Pidgin
On 19 Dec 2008, at 22:49, lakestevensdental wrote:
I can't agree with your comments ont he keyboard. The N800 on screen
is extremely flakey and the layout is really annoying. I've played
with a few iphones and found the onscreen far more precise and less
prone to odd results. The entire
Hi all,
Dunno how interesting this is, but I started to write a Gtk# based
Twitter client on Saturday evening. It runs on Windows/Linux and
probably Mac OS X too (not tried it, will do though.) It'll also run
fairly well on the N800 using the Mono 2.01 runtime.I don't have a
package yet, and
James Knott wrote:
Try removing reinstalling the battery. I find that helps, when my
N800 is out to lunch.
This is so true that actually added a tab of tape to my battery to
make it easier to get out.
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Denis Dimick wrote:
You could do a force, but your not going to like what happens.
Non bootable self destructing system by any chance? Saw that happen
trying to force an older version of gcc to install in Chinook. Ouch!
M
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Ryan Abel wrote:
On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Matt Emson wrote:
That someone being timeless. :)
Someone being a simple way not to have to go search for the
culprit/genius/kind individual that created the package, obviously ;-)
Unfortunately, it seems this package is stopping installation
Mark wrote:
If I understand correctly, you're expecting the update tools to
automatically pick up the latest OS image and install it.
He is using Windows, so, yeah - the tool should be picking up the latest
firmware automatically. The issue is more likely related to what Ryan
was saying
Someone on the Internet Tablet Talk Forums released a package that fixed
the Flash Player version string issue that stopped a lot of sites
recognising that the version of flash in ITOS2008 was compatible.
Unfortunately, it seems this package is stopping installation of the
latest feature
Martin Grimme wrote:
2008/9/26, Jeffrey Barish [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The N800 was
manufactured in Korea. Anyone know by what company?
Not all units were manufactured in Korea. The units sold in Europe
were manufactured in Finland (at least mine was).
Confirmed. Mine is a
John Holmblad wrote:
This makes me wonder if Nokia is hedging its bets on the success of WIMAX/
Had a meeting with a provider of microwave based internet last week. He
mentioned they were involved in the rollout of WiMax in the UK.
Unfortunately, he also made it sound like it was unlikely
How does it recognise a keyboard, anyway?
Hardware manufacturer id, device id and device class (e.g. Mass storage, input
device, etc)
Does that driver have to be installed specially?
No, nothing needs to be installed in Chinook and Diablo, it just works.
-- hendrik
This should get you started...
Get what the mode is currently set:
cat /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode)
Turn off the onscreen kbd:
gconftool-2 -t bool -s /system/osso/af/keyboard-attached true
Turn on the onscreen kbd - this is important as is sometimes doesn't happen
-though it
Just curious -- which country are you calling 'this'?
The UK, well England if you want to be pedantic. I understand it was popular
elsewhere, but the UK is all I can comment on.
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On 11 Sep 2008, at 16:24, Mark wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Matt Emson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark wrote:
You are so incredibly wrong.
About?
Pretty much everything...
Well, no. You stated that only embedded and handhelds use ARM
processors. Obviously
Mark wrote:
You are so incredibly wrong.
About? That the Archimedes uses ARM processors, um, no. Acorn designed
the original ARM processor. The A in ARM originally stood for Acorn.
That my A7000 is an embedded device in disguise? No, it's a full desktop
machine, uses standard RAM, standard
Riku Voipio wrote:
Mark wrote:
Your setup may be able to handle IMAP just fine, but it could at least
as easily handle POP3. If you're running it on an ARM system you
clearly are not leaving messages (especially with large attachments)
on the server indefinitely (there's no ARM system I
Rick Bilonick wrote:
I've been running Diablo on an N810 for several months. A few weeks ago
I used the method set up by penquinbait to clone the OS onto a 4gb
external memory card. This has worked very nicely - at least until a few
days ago. I've installed lots of apps given I had the space
Matt Emson wrote:
If I then checked my main email client, sure enough it was there
To clarify - if I check me email later on that day on my MacBook - when
no other client had attempted to download the email since the N800 has
attempted to. i.e. the email *does* exist.
M
Peter Bart wrote:
Getting the software loaded is another story. I'm
finding some of the software for Diablo won't load. Notably Leafpad and
Maemopad+.
Won't load or can't be installed? Loading is what happens after
installation. Installation is what happens when you first put the
program
Jun Xu wrote:
The PDF's hyperlink function doesn't work in N810. It seems that its
code is deformed in various ways.
Hyperlinks seem to work in Evince (just tested.) I personally use Evince
because it seems like a fuller PDF viewer (though it does seem slightly
slower.) I'd suggest looking
cedric cellier wrote:
So what ?
Does this matter ?
Well, maybe, or not. Depends how you view their questions. I find them
odd, and slightly annoying. Buy that's my problem, obviously. At any
rate, I think they are asking technical programming questions on the
wrong list. Given their
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That wsa on Debian. I imagine things may be worse on maemo.
It uninstalls everything until the daemon that watches for crashes
reboots the OS and it then fails to start because the fundamental OS is
no longer bootable. It does make you type in a long phrase to confirm
John Holmblad wrote:
Log in as root (install becomeroot deb and type sudo gainroot in
terminal.. or do the ssh trick, whatever you find easier.)
apt-get install wget
All,
has anyone been able to install wget on OS2008/Diablo?
If so can you share how you did it? I thought I saw wget on
Kalle Valo wrote:
ext Matt Emson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As Maemo doesn't use C++ that much (if at all?)
The browser is written in C++ AFAIK.
But this will not affect the compiler ABI issues I meant to allude to,
well, unless you need to link to the browser in some way
Karl Kobel wrote:
Yes, I see now...
I here alot about flash what is it?
I assumed he was refering to 'flash', the noun.
Did you try to flash the 770 again?
Andre was referring to 'flash', the verb.
I haven't been reading all the threads that Jeff posted, but to be
honest I read his
Forrest Sheng Bao wrote:
Hi dudes,
Do we have a shell on N810 like the one on OpenMoko?
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/open-moko-software.media/om2term.png
Yes. The only bad part is how it handles control coded with the pop up
keyboard on the N800, but the N810 should be okay.
Does
Ryan Abel wrote:
Yes. The only bad part is how it handles control coded with the pop up
keyboard on the N800, but the N810 should be okay.
It was fixed in Diablo. . . .
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2392
So it WAS! Woo, that's neat ;-)
When I get round to upgrading my SD to
One more quesiton, I had to charge device and when chargong I was not
able se boot menu... is thi snormal?
I don't think so.
If I reboot on power, I go straight in to the FLASH image with no hint
of the bootmenu. Or at least, this happened when booted to FLASH and
attempting to
Quim Gil wrote:
http://maemo.org/news/announcements/view/os2008_feature_upgrade-reflash_your_tablet-for_the_last_time.html
SDK announcement to land soon
Cool! Downloading this *now* and hoping to avoid the rush that
happened last time round ;-)
If only I had my N800 with me today! Luckily, I
Hal Vaughan wrote:
So any recommendations on [...] external keyboards since the
Stowaway seems to have been taken off the market?
Yes, buy a OTG dongle and go USB. Bluetooth is a PITA. USB works really
well. The adapter will cost you less than $10 is you shop around, the
keyboard - well,
Mike Wright wrote:
Anyone tell me why this might be?
Try clearing the browser cache. That worked for me. It you go in to the
prefs for the browser, there is a way of doing it. I left my N800 at
home today, so I can't say for sure what it is.
Do you have Modest installed? Latest version
Transmission works flawlessly for me. Didn't realise the other one existed.
- Original message -
I would suggest asking on the forum on Garage for this one ... unless
someone here has a suggestion. Or try Transmission which came through
after my email.
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:56 AM,
Giacomo Tufano wrote:
After installing the last revision of OS2008 (I don't really know why
I did it, because I had no problem on startup) battery life is very,
very short. I go from full battery down to automatic shutdown in a
night...
One thing comes to mind : metalayer-crawler... This
Giacomo Tufano wrote:
The 'metalayer-crawler' is, apparently, idle (bad, I'd like a simple
solution). :-(
Even though it often doesn't look like it is the metalayer-crawler,
killing it always makes a big difference for me. Honestly, I had my
first week of N800 ownership with the battery
Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:09 +0100, ext Matt Emson wrote:
Even though it often doesn't look like it is the metalayer-crawler,
killing it always makes a big difference for me. Honestly, I had my
...
You could check it with strace -p PID of metalayer-crawler
Eero Tamminen wrote:
It is. Sitting on poll().
In that case crawler is not the issue.
Humour me. Kill the crawler, stop it form respawning (rename the file),
fully charge your tablet, leave it over night. If it is dead as per
usual, yes it is another issue. What is there to lose,
From: Jon Dodson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make sure your internal memory card is inserted, recognized and has
enough room to hold the install files. This is the usual cause of issues
like that for me.
for some strange reason i have been unable to install any software a few
days after
Jac Kersing wrote:
Hmmm,
Nokia just lauched the Nokia Music Store, however when trying to access it
using a N800 I'm getting a page stating:
Nokia Music does not support Mozilla Firefox (Linux) on your operating
system
Yep, same here. I was in Waterloo Station in London and the Cloud
Tuomas Kulve wrote:
Media Player doesn't allow you to open ogg files directly but when the
Metalayer Crawler adds your oggs to the Library then you can play the
oggs from there with the Media Player.
Metalayer-crawler is the first thing I disable and remove after
reflashing my N800. It is
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To: Matt Emson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Twine Tie it all Together http://www.twine.com:4242/
Dear Twine user,
There was a problem sending your email: The message was not from an
email address of a Twine user. Click here
http://www.twine.com:4242/account
Henrik Frisk wrote:
I just received my new phone, a SE W890i but with this I'm not
able to connect.
My SE K800i is the same. UK Vodafone. Will pair etc, even goes through
the motions of connecting, but no traffic.
M
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Jerry Van Baren wrote:
Luca Olivetti wrote:
En/na Kip Warner ha escrit:
Thank you, I think I will do that. I haven't been to Europe, but is
there just one standard plug across the EU, or do they vary?
The do vary but generally only the earth plug, so if you use a 2 prongs
Theodore Tso wrote:
This is all true, but those plugs take up a huge amount of space in
laptop bags... and the number of times that I've had my equipment
blow up due to grounding problems or power surges is nil. And a fuse
doesn't protect against voltage spikes.
Size is relative. Depends
Luca Olivetti wrote:
I find US and European outlets scary as heck, because they usually
have no on/off switch. It's fairly rare to find an outlet int he UK
without a on/off switch.
Maybe that's because your huge plug it's too difficult to unplug we
just unplug them ;-)
Our pugs are
Mark Haury wrote:
Public answer (as I replied privately too)
Install becomeroot. Google for it.
Matt
I've searched the site, and the root password on my N800 with OS2008
2.2007.51-3 is *NOT* rootme. How the heck do I get root access on my
own @#!$%^ machine!?!?
They should at *least*
Mark wrote:
That really is a huge pain. What if you're out somewhere away from
your desktop and need to be root? And all these other workarounds may
work, but we shouldn't be having to jump through these hoops to gain
root on our own personal devices.
Installing becomeroot solves this issue
Vladimir wrote:
Hi all.
I want to be able to connect Nokia N810 using Bluetooth to my PC and
use PC network connection to connect to internet. I found a howto:
http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto-bluetoothnetworking-dun-ppp/
If you can set up a Bluetooth PAN (Private Area Network) in
Nils Faerber wrote:
I would like to see PAN being used for that - using DUN from Linux
device to Linux device seem pretty brain dead to me, sorry.
But PAN is ont integrated in Maemo - well I guess the modules are there
and pand exists but it is not integrated into the framework and UI..
Well,
Tim Ashman wrote:
Anyone know of a twitter client for the n810. I can use the website directly
to tweet and the RSS Reader to watch but I'd like to have an interface that
didn't use the web for creating the tweets?
Also does anyone know of a way to decrease the RSS feed update time on the
- Original message -
So can you IM into twitter?
Yeah, but it's not as slck as something like thwirl or tweetr.
M
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Paul Gear wrote:
I experience this issue as well sometimes when i use my Thinkoutside
Bluetooth foldable keyboard. Like you, i've found no workaround.
I updated to the second release of OS2008 (51-3 is it?) and tried again.
It seems to work for me if I just yank the USB connector out now, but
Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote:
Is there a way to get audible notification when email arrives?
Modest flashes the D pad light and I'm sure it also pings. Chat
messages ping. Claws did too in OS2007.
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Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote:
Is email received by a standard fetchmail mechanism? Is arriving email placed
in a standard location like /var/mail/user or /var/spool/mail/user? I noticed
that the directories /var/mail/ and /var/spool/mail/ exist but they are empty.
I thin that is 100% dependent
Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote:
Change the .desktop file to run a script that ensures you have the
correct user and environment and cwd/pwd or whatever. This is a common
problem with launching apps outside of the commandline I think - for
example BeOS would do the exact same thing, including
Eero Tamminen wrote:
This is a localization package, I don't see why RSS would need that to
build. Does it build if you just remove that dependency from the
debian/control file?
In fact, it looks like it is only there because the developer is an
Indian - it's a translation package for
Alberto Garcia wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:16:25AM +, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
Maemo platforms [...] Maemo will continue to be based on Gnome
[...] and S40 and S60 will evolve with Qt
Okay, but can you assume Nokia wont step by step drop Maemo?
Of course
DrFredC.com wrote:
Randall wrote:
I've tried Canola and UKMP, but the built-in player is the only one that
will see my TVersity server.
Is it me or am I missing something?
Perhaps I'm missing something -- If the built-in player works, what's the
problem?
In OS2008, the
Steve Yelvington wrote:
Now, this is interesting.
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-28.4605718236
Okay, usually I don't post FUD, bet here goes:
About 8 months ago, I was working for a company that wanted to utilise
RFID with locational reporting. Nokia
Kevin T. Neely wrote:
This is quite timely, since the FCC spectrum auction just went up today:
https://auctionsignon.fcc.gov/signon/index.htm
So don't look backward to 20th Century technology, look forward to ubiquitous
wireless access, making VOIP a reality and ditching those SIM cards
Michael R. Head (N810) wrote:
- Original message -
Michael R. Head wrote:
Hi, now that I've got Skype installed on my N810, I'm wondering if
there's a way to enable video (the n810 has a nice little camera for
video conferencing, why not use it?). I haven't found anything in
Andrew Barr wrote:
Access is in the business of selling to OEMs, not end users. I find it
highly doubtful that they are going to charge for this, because it's more
of a technology demo than an actual marketable end-user product.
I suspect that the emulator is based on POSE or their other
Frank W. Kooistra wrote:
after reflash : no restore backup :
for the menu: only .finger layout
No stylus layout
This is the expected behaviour now, isn't it? OS 2008 always has the
large menu layout now, doesn't it? Certainly, that was my impression.
The annoying thing is the lack of
Piotr Zagorowski wrote:
I stopped fmradio home aplet and it was gone. I don't think it caused
my battery lasting only one day, but it may explain how fmradio
'knows' whether headset is connected or not.
Off topic - so changed the subject line.
The following is probably a potential cause of
Frantisek Dufka wrote:
Matt Emson wrote:
Does anyone know if this has been reported as a bug? Last version of
the OS2007 firmware seemed to do the same thing for me. I applied the
same fix and got the same results.
There may be more bugs reported, here is one I've seen just few
minutes
If I kill the Metadata Crawler process to extend battery life to usable
terms, the media library does not get updated - fair enough, this is to
be expected. However, if I go to my SD or MMC card in File Manager and
delete files in the Media library, I can not remove those files from the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Dirk,
Modest is an extremely nice application, nice work!
Not without changing the source code and recompiling, no. (the change
isn't too hard, search for the places where MODEST_DIR is used).
Anything particular reason you want to have your ~/.modest elsewhere?
Jonathan Greene wrote:
Don't you think you make a good case for using imap
Maybe, however my ISP doesn't/hasn't provided me with an IMAP account
(to the best of my knowledge - they have been taken over 3 times and
rebranded at least twice.) Also, this solution has worked for over 10
years
Josh Z wrote:
Thanks for the hint, drfredc!
Unfortunately RM VBR is not included in the supported formats of handbrake.
Still looking... Please advise on.
If you are using Windows, take a look at Super :
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
The web page is overly confusing, but I have
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