Re: Video editing help needed
On 02/21/12 13:24, Christopher Tooley wrote: On 2012-02-21, at 11:01 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/02/12 19:57, Kevin Wood wrote: Kino has captured the clip and I can see the timeline, but of course it is in .kino format. I thought that .mov might be the best bet, but kino crashes if you ask it to save to .mov. You should probably target .avi or maybe .mp4 as a good cross-platform choice. Kino should give you an option to pick your output format for final render, so it shouldn't matter if it uses .kino format internally. However, you should create a short test clip and try it out in PowerPoint etc. before getting too involved. If you get really stuck and need off-list help, send me an email directly and I'll see what I can do. I really appreciate that offer. As it turned out, I didn't need it though :-) Just to wrap up, and in case someone reads the archives, I found that the owner of the file preferred a playable DVD to use alongside her presentation, rather than embedding into it. Fortunately little editing was required, as Kino doesn't seem too able in that department. However, I found I could create an mpeg file from it, and from there I could doctor the xml file to a standard dvdauthor xml file. I did hit a bit of trouble as K3b twice burned the content then failed to write the finalisation of the disk, giving an error message. I moved the files to this laptop and burned here, testing on a stand-alone player, and all is well. :-) My previous experience of command-line use (mjpegtools) was helpful. I think if more detailed editing was required it would be best to output an .avi from Kino, and use mjpegtools to edit it. Thanks again for the offer of help, and thanks also to Chris. Anne -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9D6gsACgkQj93fyh4cnBezxgCfYudoiPKyTAi31m3s981TekDQ iCwAoIpVTeuLT0v63KJYhAb//S1UgebS =lfgL -END PGP SIGNATURE- Also for future reference, pitivi (http://www.pitivi.org/) seems to be a really good and easy to use video editor. I am unsure of whether it's available in the SL repos, but I am sure you can compile and install. ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.org/) is also a great resource for converting from one movie file to another (even audio files too!), so as long as you can output in some sort of movie format from kino (or pitivi!), you could conceivably get ffmpeg to convert it for you. -a different Chris Or upload raw video to youtube - google converts it to flash or html5 - download and/or embed result into presentation. But looks like you needed the file externally and with a little editing.
Re: [Somewhat Related] anyone get nvidia-x11-drv to work under 6.2_x64?
This site has a lot of good info regarding video drivers, both nVidia
and Catalyst, on RHEL and clones. I didn't see anything regarding v6.2
clones specifically, but there are step-by-step instructions to
installing nVidia on Fedora{16, 15, 14, 13}. Also good info on mozilla,
eclipse, oracle java, virtualbox, adobe etc.
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/
Good luck.
Chris
Re: a question on mozilla applications
On 02/20/12 13:29, Yasha Karant wrote: Before someone states that this is not a Scientific Linux issue, as it seems to be restricted to this distribution (perhaps other EL distributions as well), this issue would seem to qualify. Rather than using the Mozilla packages that exist within the distribution repository, I use the production (not testing or beta) installations from Mozilla: firefox, thunderbird/lightning, and seamonkey, currently 10.0.2 except SeaMonkey 2.7.2. My laptop and workstation are operating environment identical except that my laptop is IA-32 SL6x and my workstation is X86-64 SL6x (and there are some hardware differences reflected in driver differences). On my workstation, as root, I can update any of the Mozilla applications I have mentioned within a major release (e.g., 10.0.1 to 10.0.2) from within the application. However, on my laptop, this generally fails and I must download a new tar.bz2 file that I must unpack into the appropriate directory. Does anyone have an idea on what is the reason? Note that my mozilla configuration files between the two platforms are the same in so far as I have any control over these (e.g., visitation to different URLs from firefox or seamonkey might have different cookies, etc., loaded -- but all URLs are either mandated by my university or from clean sites). I have done a cursory check of the mozilla public lists but have found nothing of relevance. Thanks for any insight. Yasha Karant Could you start firefox from a terminal, try the internal update process, and see if any usefull information is given in the terminal? Sure sounds like a permission problem; but you said you are using root? You should be able to destroy anything as root:) Chris
Re: a question on mozilla applications
On 02/20/12 18:07, Mark Stodola wrote: On 2/20/2012 5:37 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: On 02/20/2012 02:32 PM, Chris Pemberton wrote: On 02/20/12 13:29, Yasha Karant wrote: Before someone states that this is not a Scientific Linux issue, as it seems to be restricted to this distribution (perhaps other EL distributions as well), this issue would seem to qualify. Rather than using the Mozilla packages that exist within the distribution repository, I use the production (not testing or beta) installations from Mozilla: firefox, thunderbird/lightning, and seamonkey, currently 10.0.2 except SeaMonkey 2.7.2. My laptop and workstation are operating environment identical except that my laptop is IA-32 SL6x and my workstation is X86-64 SL6x (and there are some hardware differences reflected in driver differences). On my workstation, as root, I can update any of the Mozilla applications I have mentioned within a major release (e.g., 10.0.1 to 10.0.2) from within the application. However, on my laptop, this generally fails and I must download a new tar.bz2 file that I must unpack into the appropriate directory. Does anyone have an idea on what is the reason? Note that my mozilla configuration files between the two platforms are the same in so far as I have any control over these (e.g., visitation to different URLs from firefox or seamonkey might have different cookies, etc., loaded -- but all URLs are either mandated by my university or from clean sites). I have done a cursory check of the mozilla public lists but have found nothing of relevance. Thanks for any insight. Yasha Karant Could you start firefox from a terminal, try the internal update process, and see if any usefull information is given in the terminal? Sure sounds like a permission problem; but you said you are using root? You should be able to destroy anything as root:) Chris There is no problem in downloading from Mozilla the entire update as a tar.bz2 package followed by the manual installation ( tar -vxjf ) as root into the appropriate directory. However, there is a mechanism, for minor release updates (e.g., 10.0.1 to 10.0.2) within firefox, thunderbird/lightning, and seamonkey without the manual unpacking -- the files are updated within the running application and the updated instance is invoked at the next initiation (restart) of the application. This mechanism needs to be as root if the files are installed in a systems, as contrasted with an ordinary end-user, directory. However, the mechanism fails on one SL6x box but succeeds on another; when the mechanism fails, then I must used the manual installation method from the tar.bz2 file as explained above. Yasha Karant I believe Chris is well aware of that. He instructed you to start firefox from a terminal and attempt the update process from within firefox (meaning _not_ the tar.bz2) and see if it has any errors written to stdout or stderr in the terminal. It helps if you read the email you are replying to. -Mark What he said:) Perhaps some of this could be useful: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/install-firefox-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/ Note: I have not tested it. I have no affiliation with said site. YMMV Chris
Re: Video editing help needed
On 02/19/12 07:36, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have some camcorder recording that I need to get into a cross-platform-readable format - included eventually into a Powerpoint presentation (the owner of the file uses only Windows). Kino has captured the clip and I can see the timeline, but of course it is in .kino format. I thought that .mov might be the best bet, but kino crashes if you ask it to save to .mov. What format should I be aiming for, and what tool will help me get there? Thanks Anne -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9A+uUACgkQj93fyh4cnBecJACeJPg/0njjRzFIAo1GgboH1FRX tdwAniHa+HhSj3gR1cMLM5NCPl4xbD/m =3o0g -END PGP SIGNATURE- If you just want to convert video, I'd try handbrake or perhaps vlc. If you want to edit, I'd try Ubuntu or Windows (in a VirtualBox perhaps). No kidding: having Ubuntu or Windows handy in a VirtualBox is a life saver somtimes. What is the raw footage format? What are you converting to? Chris
Re: How to install VLC player/Chrome/VirtualBox on Scientific-Linux 6.1?
On 09/30/2011 11:18 AM, lancebaynes87 wrote: Using other distribution's repositories is a bad idea, because ex.: Fedora doesn't has 6 years support of a given version of the OS. What is the best-practise for Scientific-Linux? What are the to-do's after a Minimal Desktop install? So the real Question: How can I install a fresh version of these apps on Scientific-Linux 6.1/64bit?: * VLC player (it's not in the default repositories and all I can find is an outdated VLC in rpmforge) * Chromium/Google Chrome? * Flash Player * VirtualBox * microsoft paint alternative :D http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21785/to-dos-after-installing-scientific-linux-6-1-for-desktop-purposes/ Or it is advised to use another media player other then VLC? there are many AVI/WMV/MP4/FLV/etc. videos with many codecs. VLC has many codecs (built-in?) that's why we need it. but fixme if there is a better media player for Scientific-Linux. There are some good tips here: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/ Chris
Re: .xps files on SL5
On 09/15/2011 01:33 PM, Stephen Isard wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Christopher Tooley wrote: Thanks very much, Christopher. Ghostxps did the job for me. Sounds like you've found a free solution. I tried evince 3.0.2 compiled with libgxps (latest git) and it would open xps documents but the pages were blank. Tried this commercial app and it seemed to work great: http://www.sana-tech.com/xps.html
Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop
You need to disable the nvidia graphic co-processor first; and then use the intel integrated graphics. (Because your bios gives no method to disable it there) # yum groupinstall Development Tools # yum install git $ cd /tmp $ git clone https://github.com/mkottman/acpi_call.git $ cd acpi_call $ make $ sudo insmod acpi_call.ko $ lspci -vnnn | grep VGA $ ./test_off.sh $ lspci -vnnn | grep VGA $ startx(make sure you have no old xorg.conf being used) Did the nvidia card get turned off? If so, install the acpi_call module. Write a script that loads the module, disables the nvidia card, and starts X, gdm or whatever. Hope this helps. No, I didn't test it; I don't have the hardware. I did build and load the module and ran the script on my machine and nothing blew up. Good luck Chris
Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop
On 09/10/2011 04:49 PM, Andrew Z wrote: Try switching to other consoles once it hangs on atd. (Alt-f2, etc). Let us know Andrew -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Kevin Thomas axel2...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I jujst got a brand new Dell XPS laptop a few days ago. I managed to install Windows 7 and SL 6.1 side by side in a dual boot setup. This laptop has the core i7 processor, which means it has integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics, but it also has a 2GB Nvidia GT540M (with optimus) discrete card as well. I know that optimus is not natively supported yet, but according to the SL forums, the generic nvidia driver can be installed instead (kmod-nvidia). The instructions said to just do yum install kmod-nvidia. This installed the drivers for me and when I rebooted, I saw the plymouth-rings splash screen for the first time ever, but the system hung. I restarted again and pushed ESC to see the messages and the screen flickered a few times and it stopped on registering binary handler for windows applications Some googling info rmed me that this was due to the wine service being enabled, so I disabled it and restarted. This time, it got hung on starting atd: and the screen flickered a few times. I have a feeling that if I disabled atd, it would just hang on the next service. I had to uninstall the kmod-nvidia package just to boot my system again. There has to be a way to get the nvidia driver working. Any help would be appreciated. Kevin Some good info over at the archlinux forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=881549 http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspot.com/ To test the nvidia driver: blacklist the nouveau and intel graphic modules, disable kernel mode-setting, and boot to runlevel 3 (all via the kernel command line args below). Then run nvidia's xorg creation tool (nvidia-xconfig). Give X a try and see if it works. nouveau.disable=1 intel.disable=1 nomodeset 3 --append this to grub kernel line If that wont work, black list nouveau and nvidia, and try the intel module (delete the xorg.conf made by nvidia-xconfig) nouveau.disable=1 nomodeset 3 -- append this to grub kernel line Hope that helps. Chris
Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop
On 09/11/2011 10:04 PM, Kevin Thomas wrote: I forgot to answer your question as to which intel driver is being loaded. I ran lspci and grepped for intel and the result is below. It's a very vague vga reference, but according to Intel, the core i7 processor has integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics, if that helps at all. I'm certainly no expert with hybrid graphics; but perhaps you'll need a more bleeding edge distro for bleeding edge hardware? Perhaps download an ubuntu 11.11 beta or fedora 16 beta live dvd and see if it can boot cleanly? Just a thought... Chris
Re: Standard Mpeg-1 Video player
On 09/06/2011 03:14 PM, Jordan Dean wrote: Has anyone found a player / codec that is in the standard SL repositories that will playback mpeg 1 encoded video. (Totem does not have the codec in the two sets of gstreamer plugins that are provided). Thanks, Jordan Dean Can you provide a link to an example mpeg-1 encoded file to test? Chris
