Re: [PLUG] CentOS 6 to 7 migration

2018-02-11 Thread Galen Seitz
Thanks to everyone for the feedback. The migration is far from complete, but at least I have my email running. Here are a few random things I've learned thus far: I used Clonezilla to copy my old CentOS 6 install to another disk so I could keep it as a backup and reference. I thought Clone

Re: [PLUG] VLC 3.0

2018-02-11 Thread Rigel Hope
(Hopefully this is not a repeat) Avi and mkv are not formats, exactly. They are container standards. An avi can be encoded with any number of algorithms, from mpeg2 to indeo to h264. Same with mkv, but mkv has a lot more payload options, is my impression - so that you can have multiple audio track

Re: [PLUG] VLC 3.0

2018-02-11 Thread Russell Senior
Color me snap-skeptical. -- Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > Regarding you Snap container not playing .avi. - This is equivalent to not > having compiled VLC with .avi support. > > There is nothing you can do, short of compiling it

Re: [PLUG] VLC 3.0

2018-02-11 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 12:31:30 -0800 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >Regarding you Snap container not playing .avi. - This is equivalent to >not having compiled VLC with .avi support. It also wouldn't play .mkv files. And .avi and .mkv are the two most popular formats for movies and other videos. What were th

Re: [PLUG] VLC 3.0

2018-02-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Regarding you Snap container not playing .avi. - This is equivalent to not having compiled VLC with .avi support. There is nothing you can do, short of compiling it yourself and creating own .snap or .deb I'd wait to Ubuntu guy to make standard .deb that should fix it. Alternatively, check if Ubu

Re: [PLUG] TONIGHT PLUG Meeting: Municipal Broadband in Portland

2018-02-11 Thread Russell Senior
Someone asked me today for the link to the video I showed at my talk. Here it is: https://youtu.be/vELWXp3OOUA On Thursday, February 1, 2018, Michael Dexter wrote: > > Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement > > Who: Russell Senior > What: How to get a Municipal Broadband network