Re: [ubuntu-uk] insurance for meetings
2009/10/5 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What are peoples experience with any requirements for personal liability insurance for things like lug events, or install days. I remember at our first lug meet at exeter uni. back around year 2000,.we just got people to sign a disclaimer, Just wondered, it may help dclug members when organising things like install days. My experience has been that the venue has provided the insurance, or we've just met informally in a public place so as a pub and so insurance wasn't needed. I guess if you were meeting in somewhere like a scout hut/church hall things might be different. I don't actually know what the law is in regards to this though. Anyone know when PLI is actually needed? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Jaunty apt segfault
Tried to install an application this morning, and kept getting segfault. Same issue whether I used apt/aptitude or synaptic. A look at the logs showed entries (first starting yesterday) of the form Oct 6 09:09:27 mac-desktop kernel: [11269.364059] apt-get[11426]: segfault at b8e8401c ip b7f6b70c sp bfb261e0 error 4 in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.7.0[b7f35000+bf000] (different entries have slight variations in the hex references, apart from the ones in square brackets after the filename, which are always the same.) The system has been restarted in the normal way a couple of times since yesterday. There have been routine updates yesterday and today. I'm out of my depth here, so I'd be grateful for any advice! TIA mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jaunty apt segfault
2009/10/6 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: Tried to install an application this morning, and kept getting segfault. Same issue whether I used apt/aptitude or synaptic. A look at the logs showed entries (first starting yesterday) of the form Oct 6 09:09:27 mac-desktop kernel: [11269.364059] apt-get[11426]: segfault at b8e8401c ip b7f6b70c sp bfb261e0 error 4 in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.7.0[b7f35000+bf000] (different entries have slight variations in the hex references, apart from the ones in square brackets after the filename, which are always the same.) The system has been restarted in the normal way a couple of times since yesterday. There have been routine updates yesterday and today. I'm out of my depth here, so I'd be grateful for any advice! TIA mac The following was posted to me when I started having this problem. I didn't have to use it, but it might help you... 2009/8/2 Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com: Likelihood is the apt cache is corrupt. $ sudo rm /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin should do it, unless you have deb-src enabled in which case you'll also need: $ sudo rm /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin HTH Cofion, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jaunty apt segfault
Neil Greenwood wrote: snip The following was posted to me when I started having this problem. I didn't have to use it, but it might help you... 2009/8/2 Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com: Likelihood is the apt cache is corrupt... Removing the .bin files from /var/cache/apt/ did the trick! Diolch yn fawr iawn! mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files
Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. And after searching for a codec with Totem, it seems to be that there isn't an xvid codec, and yet, before uninstalling Openshot, the videos played just fine! Now, I've re-installed Openshot, in the hope that my video files would play, and I've had some luck in that they play in Openshot, but still no luck in anything else - and I don't really plan on having to import a video into openshot every time I want to play a movie. I've even tried un and re-installing Gstreamer, intalling the restricted-extras package, all to no avail' ;_; Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose or solve this problem at all? If anyone does, I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks; Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files
2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. And after searching for a codec with Totem, it seems to be that there isn't an xvid codec, and yet, before uninstalling Openshot, the videos played just fine! Now, I've re-installed Openshot, in the hope that my video files would play, and I've had some luck in that they play in Openshot, but still no luck in anything else - and I don't really plan on having to import a video into openshot every time I want to play a movie. I've even tried un and re-installing Gstreamer, intalling the restricted-extras package, all to no avail' ;_; Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose or solve this problem at all? If anyone does, I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks; Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I'm running Karmic, so YMMV. This sounds like the problem I had when I added a PPA which updated libavutil49 (among others). It replaced /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 with /usr/lib/libavutil.so.50 meaning Gstreamer couldn't find the .49 version and failed (a symlink didn't fix it). The version which broke mine was svn20090924, the version I have now is svn20090706. If you run Totem in a terminal it should tell you what's wrong (and if it can't find a file). -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] FOSS and the Tories...
You may have seen this... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/06/conservative_it_plans/ Talk about inducing cognitive dissonance... What will this do to your voting plans??? mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] FOSS and the Tories...
On 06/10/09 16:11, mac wrote: You may have seen this... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/06/conservative_it_plans/ Talk about inducing cognitive dissonance... What will this do to your voting plans??? It won't change mine ;-) Every political party in the UK bar the current government have been engaging with the Free Open Source Software communities for some time. George Osbourne (Shadow Chancellor) famously quoted a potential £600m saving by using Open Source Software probably 2 years ago now. Labour have been lobbied and caught hook-line and sinker by the major proprietary players and have little idea. It's time for a change... Please. It's time for a change... Al -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] FOSS and the Tories...
2009/10/6 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com: It's time for a change... Please. It's time for a change... Al Pirate Party UK? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. And after searching for a codec with Totem, it seems to be that there isn't an xvid codec, and yet, before uninstalling Openshot, the videos played just fine! Now, I've re-installed Openshot, in the hope that my video files would play, and I've had some luck in that they play in Openshot, but still no luck in anything else - and I don't really plan on having to import a video into openshot every time I want to play a movie. I've even tried un and re-installing Gstreamer, intalling the restricted-extras package, all to no avail' ;_; Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose or solve this problem at all? If anyone does, I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks; Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I'm running Karmic, so YMMV. This sounds like the problem I had when I added a PPA which updated libavutil49 (among others). It replaced /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 with /usr/lib/libavutil.so.50 meaning Gstreamer couldn't find the .49 version and failed (a symlink didn't fix it). The version which broke mine was svn20090924, the version I have now is svn20090706. If you run Totem in a terminal it should tell you what's wrong (and if it can't find a file). Well Running Totem gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. and running VLC gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. Sounds like it isn't installed, but I don't know? Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Disk Full (or nearly full) alert
Forgot to say thank you for the suggestions regarding disk space alerts. I went with the roll your own option of df, cron and Zenity for a GUI alert. Works really well. - Chris 2009/9/29 Alan Pope a...@popey.com: 2009/9/29 Chris Weaver ch...@resonancefm.com: Does anyone have a system or app in place where they get the Windows style disk is nearly full alerts? I realise it's an old bug/idea http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17590/ but there doesn't (to my limited knowledge) seem to be a viable solution. The latest version of Ubuntu (9.10) which is in development and due out at the end of next month already has this. I have had popup alerts to tell me that my built in and usb disks/sticks are getting full. Quite handy :) One revealed a bug in the printing system which causes many GB of logs to be written to /var/log. So very useful. It easy enough to manually check the disks with du but we have many here at the studio. Another option for remote monitoring is something like gkrellm. I used to use this although many now prefer tools like conky. With gkrellm you run gkrellmd on each machine you want to monitor and gkrellm (gui app) on the central machine. It can connect to the remote machines and alert you of all kinds of things - disk space included. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Chris Weaver Production Manager Resonance104.4FM resonancefm.com +44 (0)207 407 1210 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] FOSS and the Tories...
mac wrote: You may have seen this... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/06/conservative_it_plans/ Talk about inducing cognitive dissonance... What will this do to your voting plans??? mac Won't change my voting plans. I support them for a number of their policies, including reductions of government spending, encouragement of marriage and family values, harder prisons to discourage crime... the list goes on. Their pledge to ensure an open IT procurement process is just sugar on top. It isn't an issue that would solely obtain my vote however. There are far more important issues to consider when voting. Daniel Drummond -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Disk Full (or nearly full) alert
2009/10/6 Chris Weaver ch...@resonancefm.com Forgot to say thank you for the suggestions regarding disk space alerts. I went with the roll your own option of df, cron and Zenity for a GUI alert. Works really well. - Chris As Alan pointed out though, Ubuntu 9.10 already has a low disk space alert so you won't need to roll your own if you decide to upgrade to this version when it is released. The alert that you should see in Ubuntu 9.10 looks like this: http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=137491 (apologies for the large image). The Examine button opens baobab disk analyzer. Regards Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files
2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. And after searching for a codec with Totem, it seems to be that there isn't an xvid codec, and yet, before uninstalling Openshot, the videos played just fine! Now, I've re-installed Openshot, in the hope that my video files would play, and I've had some luck in that they play in Openshot, but still no luck in anything else - and I don't really plan on having to import a video into openshot every time I want to play a movie. I've even tried un and re-installing Gstreamer, intalling the restricted-extras package, all to no avail' ;_; Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose or solve this problem at all? If anyone does, I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks; Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I'm running Karmic, so YMMV. This sounds like the problem I had when I added a PPA which updated libavutil49 (among others). It replaced /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 with /usr/lib/libavutil.so.50 meaning Gstreamer couldn't find the .49 version and failed (a symlink didn't fix it). The version which broke mine was svn20090924, the version I have now is svn20090706. If you run Totem in a terminal it should tell you what's wrong (and if it can't find a file). Well Running Totem gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. and running VLC gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. Sounds like it isn't installed, but I don't know? Liam. Have you double-checked you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse installed? Plus check the output of vlc, you emailed totem output twice. :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. And after searching for a codec with Totem, it seems to be that there isn't an xvid codec, and yet, before uninstalling Openshot, the videos played just fine! Now, I've re-installed Openshot, in the hope that my video files would play, and I've had some luck in that they play in Openshot, but still no luck in anything else - and I don't really plan on having to import a video into openshot every time I want to play a movie. I've even tried un and re-installing Gstreamer, intalling the restricted-extras package, all to no avail' ;_; Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose or solve this problem at all? If anyone does, I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks; Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I'm running Karmic, so YMMV. This sounds like the problem I had when I added a PPA which updated libavutil49 (among others). It replaced /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 with /usr/lib/libavutil.so.50 meaning Gstreamer couldn't find the .49 version and failed (a symlink didn't fix it). The version which broke mine was svn20090924, the version I have now is svn20090706. If you run Totem in a terminal it should tell you what's wrong (and if it can't find a file). Well Running Totem gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. and running VLC gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. Sounds like it isn't installed, but I don't know? Liam. Have you double-checked you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse installed? Plus check the output of vlc, you emailed totem output twice. :) Aah, so I did! Yes, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse is installed, and the output for VLC is: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ vlc VLC media player 1.0.2 Goldeneye [0x9583140] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): found Chunk fourcc:28dd5416 ( [0xb7607a50] avcodec decoder error: cannot open codec (MPEG-4 Video) [0xb7607a50] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `XVID'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format. Hope this helps a little; Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files
2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. And after searching for a codec with Totem, it seems to be that there isn't an xvid codec, and yet, before uninstalling Openshot, the videos played just fine! Now, I've re-installed Openshot, in the hope that my video files would play, and I've had some luck in that they play in Openshot, but still no luck in anything else - and I don't really plan on having to import a video into openshot every time I want to play a movie. I've even tried un and re-installing Gstreamer, intalling the restricted-extras package, all to no avail' ;_; Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose or solve this problem at all? If anyone does, I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks; Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I'm running Karmic, so YMMV. This sounds like the problem I had when I added a PPA which updated libavutil49 (among others). It replaced /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 with /usr/lib/libavutil.so.50 meaning Gstreamer couldn't find the .49 version and failed (a symlink didn't fix it). The version which broke mine was svn20090924, the version I have now is svn20090706. If you run Totem in a terminal it should tell you what's wrong (and if it can't find a file). Well Running Totem gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. and running VLC gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. Sounds like it isn't installed, but I don't know? Liam. Have you double-checked you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse installed? Plus check the output of vlc, you emailed totem output twice. :) Aah, so I did! Yes, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse is installed, and the output for VLC is: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ vlc VLC media player 1.0.2 Goldeneye [0x9583140] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): found Chunk fourcc:28dd5416 ( [0xb7607a50] avcodec decoder error: cannot open codec (MPEG-4 Video) [0xb7607a50] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `XVID'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format. Hope this helps a little; Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Ah ha, just looked at the Openshot PPA to see what else it installs and it is indeed likely to be an issue with the shared av libraries (it's part of the ffmpeg stuff). You'll probably need to to remove libavutil49 or libavutil50, remove the Openshot PPA from your sources.list, then reinstall libavutil49. It will want to automatically remove things like VLC and mplayer but nothing important; you can then reinstall them. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. And after searching for a codec with Totem, it seems to be that there isn't an xvid codec, and yet, before uninstalling Openshot, the videos played just fine! Now, I've re-installed Openshot, in the hope that my video files would play, and I've had some luck in that they play in Openshot, but still no luck in anything else - and I don't really plan on having to import a video into openshot every time I want to play a movie. I've even tried un and re-installing Gstreamer, intalling the restricted-extras package, all to no avail' ;_; Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose or solve this problem at all? If anyone does, I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks; Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I'm running Karmic, so YMMV. This sounds like the problem I had when I added a PPA which updated libavutil49 (among others). It replaced /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 with /usr/lib/libavutil.so.50 meaning Gstreamer couldn't find the .49 version and failed (a symlink didn't fix it). The version which broke mine was svn20090924, the version I have now is svn20090706. If you run Totem in a terminal it should tell you what's wrong (and if it can't find a file). Well Running Totem gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. and running VLC gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. Sounds like it isn't installed, but I don't know? Liam. Have you double-checked you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse installed? Plus check the output of vlc, you emailed totem output twice. :) Aah, so I did! Yes, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse is installed, and the output for VLC is: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ vlc VLC media player 1.0.2 Goldeneye [0x9583140] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): found Chunk fourcc:28dd5416 ( [0xb7607a50] avcodec decoder error: cannot open codec (MPEG-4 Video) [0xb7607a50] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `XVID'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format. Hope this helps a little; Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Ah ha, just looked at the Openshot PPA to see what else it installs and it is indeed likely to be an issue with the shared av libraries (it's part of the ffmpeg stuff). You'll probably need to to remove libavutil49 or libavutil50, remove the Openshot PPA from your sources.list, then reinstall libavutil49. It will want to automatically remove things like VLC and mplayer but nothing important; you can then reinstall them. Yaaay! It worked! I could kiss you right now, but I can't, because that would be probably wrong on a lot of levels :) Thanks a lot Jonathon. Liam :D -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Random lock ups in Jaunty
Has anyone experienced random hard lock ups since upgrading to Jaunty? I am running Jaunty on an elderly Toshiba S1800 laptop (1GHz P3 with 512M of ram)and since upgrading to Jaunty last August I have been getting random hard lock ups; the cursor vanishes off the screen and the laptop becomes completely unresponsive. It can happen after five minutes or five hours, once or several times per day. I have not been able to find a key combination (Ctrl+Alt+Del etc) that will do anything; the mains button is the only option. The problem does not seem to be linked to any particular software as I have had two lock ups while only the desktop has been active. The common factor is that they only occur while I am moving the cursor across the screen. I do not think it is a hardware problem as the laptop ran Intrepid for six months with no problems, except for the traditional Toshiba over heating which always resulted in the machine shutting itself down rather than locking up. I have Googled this but have not found anyone with exactly the same symptoms. I am hanging on to see if Karmic will solve the problem before reverting to Intrepid. Does anyone have any suggestions? Barry -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 54, Issue 4
I sincerely hope this list will not again be used to spout party political propaganda points. On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 19:48 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: Won't change my voting plans. I support them for a number of their policies, including reductions of government spending, encouragement of marriage and family values, harder prisons to discourage crime... the list goes on. Their pledge to ensure an open IT procurement process is just sugar on top. It isn't an issue that would solely obtain my vote however. There are far more important issues to consider when voting. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] insurance for meetings
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 10:17 +0100, Lucy wrote: 2009/10/5 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What are peoples experience with any requirements for personal liability insurance for things like lug events, or install days. I remember at our first lug meet at exeter uni. back around year 2000,.we just got people to sign a disclaimer, Just wondered, it may help dclug members when organising things like install days. My experience has been that the venue has provided the insurance, or we've just met informally in a public place so as a pub and so insurance wasn't needed. I guess if you were meeting in somewhere like a scout hut/church hall things might be different. I don't actually know what the law is in regards to this though. Anyone know when PLI is actually needed? Hi all, PLI is primarily for a business/organisation and public gatherings should be covered. If one or more persons gathers at a public place i.e. a pub or other host which is a business; even a scout hut or church hall etc., it is the business/organisation that should have such coverage where applicable. Regards Phil signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 54, Issue 4
Rowan Berkeley wrote: I sincerely hope this list will not again be used to spout party political propaganda points. On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 19:48 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: Won't change my voting plans. I support them for a number of their policies, including reductions of government spending, encouragement of marriage and family values, harder prisons to discourage crime... the list goes on. Their pledge to ensure an open IT procurement process is just sugar on top. It isn't an issue that would solely obtain my vote however. There are far more important issues to consider when voting. Question asked, question answered. I mentioned no political party name. No party political propaganda points at all. My point in fact was that whether *any* party supports free and open source software would not sway my vote. What a typical British attitude. Any mention of politics and it causes an immediate lock up. Thank goodness no one mentioned religion! (btw you seem to have replied to the digest - makes it quite hard to track the actual thread you were referring to. Top posting didn't help that issue either) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] OT: Electric Dreams on BBC Four
Hi folks, Just wondering if anyone has been watching the great series 'Electric Dreams' on BBC Four? Just finished watching the 80's episode and now feel all nostalgic (since I grew up in the 80's/90's). I got really excited pointing out the ZX81 to my wifey. I've got a real urge to dig out the Speccy from the loft. By the way, Dianne might be able to answer this, was the computer museum they featured the one and the same in Swindon? Ta, Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 54, Issue 4
Question asked, question answered. I mentioned no political party name. No party political propaganda points at all. My point in fact was that whether *any* party supports free and open source software would not sway my vote. What a typical British attitude. Any mention of politics and it causes an immediate lock up. Thank goodness no one mentioned religion! (btw you seem to have replied to the digest - makes it quite hard to track the actual thread you were referring to. Top posting didn't help that issue either) +1 for Daniel, As long as the politics is related to Ubuntu, or FOSS, All good with me :-) For me however, my vote may be swayed by proper support for Open source software! --Michael _ Michael Fletcher Interested in Linux? Then visit - http://www.ilovemylinux.com Follow me at - http://twitter.com/big_fletch -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Media Center
Hey All, I want to build a media center type Ubuntu system to hookup to my amp and speakers HD tv and Sky HD box through a TV card as one of the uses will be as a PVR it might be Mini-ITX or might have low profile cards I just want it in a nice case that fits in the TV cabinet I want it to have a wireless keyboard with touch pad and possibly a remote control as well I would just like a bit of advice with choosing the most suitable compatible components for use with Ubuntu. If anyone has any hints, tips, advice, links I would be very greatfull. -- Regards Peter Adam Kelly -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Media Center
On 07/10/09 04:00, Peter Adam Kelly wrote: Hey All, I want to build a media center type Ubuntu system to hookup to my amp and speakers HD tv and Sky HD box through a TV card as one of the uses will be as a PVR it might be Mini-ITX or might have low profile cards I just want it in a nice case that fits in the TV cabinet I want it to have a wireless keyboard with touch pad and possibly a remote control as well I would just like a bit of advice with choosing the most suitable compatible components for use with Ubuntu. If anyone has any hints, tips, advice, links I would be very greatfull. I haven't tried this board myself, but I would have thought that the ideal media pc mobo is currently one based on the nvidia ion chipset with an Atom processor. Popey bought a Aspire Revo from eBuyer IIRC for about £150 (naked) that is based on that board. HTH PS: Punctuation helps greatly with readability. ;-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
