for x264.
There are no such relations between audio and video codec. The only
considerations are quality and compatibility with the intended player(s).
> Check the video vs audio bitrate - try with fixed bitrate
This is not relevant, frame dropping or duplicating is done before the
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> unless there's a way to
> protect against that in the ssh configuration file, which I did look
> for but have not found.
Search for "chroot" in sshd_config(5). Also, search the web for "chroot
sftp".
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the state of hardware support we
had in the early 2000s, with a few differences.
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Le septidi 7 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :
> I repeat : the point is not MBR/MSDOS vs GPT. It is that the GRUB
> installer handles *specially* one type of partition which exists only in
> GPT style : "BIOS Boot" aka "bios_grub".
>
> Are you talking about the installer code run by gr
Le septidi 7 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :
> *Cough*
> At least it was supposed to. The more I mess with UEFI implementations,
> the more I feel dubious about its real advantages.
Six messages ago, I wrote "or would be if it was correctly implemented by
vendors"; you read it since y
Le septidi 7 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :
> There was nothing confusing in Sven's message until you mentionned UEFI
> in response to "I love the GPT". Why did you start talking about UEFI ?
For the early stage of booting, there is no difference between MBR-style
partitions (it is m
Le septidi 7 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :
> You are confusing GPT (partition table format) and UEFI (firmware and
> boot interface).
Quite the contrary, I am trying to de-confuse by using exactly the correct
terms.
> Can you tell more ? AFAIK, there is no equivalent to the "BIOS b
egacy BIOS to boot.
Then you confirm what I wrote: you could have done exactly the same with
legacy MBR partitions, GPT was not needed for that operation.
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ng half of the
> RAID, let the RAID resync, repeated the whole procedure with the other
> disk, installed GRUB to its new home, rebooted while hoping/praying and
> ... tadaaa ... the system came right up.
The same thing would have worked with without GPT. Especially if you use a
b
ecause they have decided they have the right to
do so, or because they have a bug.
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Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, John Hasler a écrit :
> Think about multiboot home user systems.
Multiboot or no multiboot, once the system(s) is/are installed, nobody
writes outside the partitions.
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Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, John Hasler a écrit :
> "Unused" is the problem with this design. The space is unused on by
> accident. There is no standard (even an informal one) that reserves it.
This is theoretical. In practice, it works pretty well, because people (at
least competent sysadmins
UB instead of
LILO and be done with that kind of trouble.
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Le decadi 20 frimaire, an CCXXIV, Morten W. Petersen a écrit :
> Hm. But how would I go about setting up a locale that is in fact UTF-32?
You do not.
Locales are a bad API, do not use it except for the most basic tasks, and
this is not a basic case.
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Le tridi 13 frimaire, an CCXXIV, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit :
> Yeah, agreed, that's quote-worthy. Nicolas: can I put that into my
> quotations book? With attribution, of course!
No problem. I am flattered.
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frame, that would probably make an interesting waste of time for a competent
hacker. It would probably not be possible for Opus, though.
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s char type 16-bits and strings
UTF-16. This is another case of headdesk, or possibly headwall, although
entirely unrelated to the wchar_t issue. For those who do not know,
basically UTF-16 manages to combine almost all the drawbacks of UTF-8 with
almost all the drawbacks of UCS-4, plus a whole
e, and that is only right. I am still writing about steering oar.
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nce "Previously
in $series" and the full rerun of the last episode?
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i confess that this is nearly a moot point.
> Important is to explicitely control the byte sequence on both sides
> - writer and reader.
Indeed.
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f operator
#
# [#3] When applied to an operand that has type char, unsigned char, or
# signed char, (or a qualified version thereof) the result is 1.
Furthermore, C does not, but POSIX does mandate that chars are exactly
octets (C only mandates they are at least 8 bits).
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0xFF);
putc(f, (c >> 16) & 0xFF);
putc(f, (c >> 8) & 0xFF);
putc(f, (c >> 0) & 0xFF);
}
Note: I hereby place this code under the terms of the GNU GPL. And correctly
handling errors is left as an exercise to the reader.
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entirely.
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he getty program. The getty program run as root.
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L'octidi 8 frimaire, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> $USER doesn't appear to need root rights to access a different VT.
Can you explain how you came to that conclusion?
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ure what you are intending to say
> here.
I am saying that looking for that kind of license is a waste of time. It
will not prevent bad guy from using the work, at worse force them to make a
little effort to twist the license. And it will severely annoy people who
insisting on respecting the licenses, like Debian packagers.
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preciated
Uninstall anything related to PULSE that you can (libraries can stay, the
server must absolutely go), and then use aplay -D hw:X,Y to make your tests,
it gives the error message without muddling things with automagic
workarounds.
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the language of the quoted mail, adapt the attribution language accordingly,
and set the Vim spell check language too.
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there is little room for originality in function names; and it is easy to
circumvent. The more restrictive you make your license, the stronger the
incentive to circumvent it.
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/dev/fd, for commands that like real files.
HTH.
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ittle
more to the point when writing your messages?
I found this page which seems to summary the point rather well:
http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
I suggest everyone who read this thread and was not already perfectly clear
on this notions peruse it, it is quite short.
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ize this is only useful for debugging purposes.
The memory used by the cache and buffers is already free, or more precisely
immediately available for applications that need it. By flushing the caches,
you just prevent the system from making use of it while nobody else does,
and therefore reduce the
s more significant, I experience it every day. Not even mentioning the
shutdown time.
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me Linux
> users.
You may want to read a little bit to avoid appearing completely clueless on
this list:
https://www.debian.org/intro/free
You may notice that some people in this discussion have carefully put
capitals to "Free Software", and even used Libre (from Latin ascent t
lish modifications in
a certain way, but I do not remember the specifics.
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) and typing Ctrl-+
> magnifies the console fontsize.
So you tested with konsole? Did you test with the Linux console and XTerm?
Missing features in whizzbang tools would not be surprising.
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> "AltGr" + ")" gives nothing.
For me, Ctrl-AltGr-) gives ^] = 0x1D as expected, both with XTerm and the
Linux console.
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l level. I myself find it too complex over-engineered.
But still, the old init system was completely braindead (more on that on
demand), and systemd is the only revamp that managed to get traction while
getting in the right direction of having an init system with an actual
brain.
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would have
been a valid complaint against it, because anyone can make something they
use shorter and more accessible, but once something is in the way, it stays
there.
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su is not.
What are you talking about? The command to start the shell, or the key
sequence to exit it?
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xit" or by sending the EOF code (usually
Ctrl-D), just like su.
Actually, AFAIK neither sudo nor su support an emergency exit sequence. If
that has not bothered you until now, it should not bother you from now on
either.
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gion did not match. I do
not know of any specific case for Blu Rays.
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er side of town where the shops
that have discrete network cards nowadays are, and finally after you ruined
six months uptime to shutdown and install the newly-bought card, editing a
small config file is really the straw that broke the camel's back.
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Le septidi 7 fructidor, an CCXXIII, bri...@aracnet.com a écrit :
> recording doesn't work,
Dos your "Audioengine 2+" device even have recording capabilities?
> and there is not mixer in set-up.
I do not understand what it means.
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ing $ALSA_CARD or the order of the modules, and observe it just works,
including playing strange formats, playing several sounds at once and
recording.
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with:
arecord /tmp/dummy.wav
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on audacious in the background.
If you do not disable plugins with a ill-thought ~/.asoundrc, the default
configuration adds a dmix plugin that allows several applications to share
the device.
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card.
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that's unnecessary since i'm now using "card A2" in my
> .asoundrc file.
You should show the resulting .asoundrc file, because it is very easy to
break things in it.
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>
> pcm.!default {
> type hw
> card 2
> }
Get rid of that.
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mation on how to use aplay to investigate sound trouble in
this mail:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/07/msg00648.html
You also could have searched "sample format" in the man page for aplay(1).
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secrets, etc.
Sure, corrupting the system may be a way of accessing the users' files, but
the real value is in the users' files.
(Well, that and the bandwidth, to use the zombie box in DDoS and to
distribute prOn and warez.)
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if the only difference is between a drive
that can read CDs and DVDs and a drive that can read CDs, DVDs and BDs, the
second is a better choice.
If there are other differences (price? quality? burning capability?), we can
not give advice unless we know about it.
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si
n see that, at the very least, having pulseaudio installed will affect
the ALSA configuration. In the past, the result was making it completely
unusable without running the daemon.
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oo, the only difference is that the crypto in the DRM
for DVD is terribly broken.
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ce between several processes without a server. If some process happens
to keep the sound device open, it blocks any other process from playing
sound.
You also are bypassing the plug plugin responsible for converting the input
into a format acceptable by the hardware.
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e-alsa.conf"
]
errors false
}
]
pcm.!default {
type pulse
hint {
show on
description "Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server"
}
}
The "pulse_load_if_running" guard was not always present.
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ault config
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other means of distribution.
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hat mechanism is sheer elegance in its simplicity, isn't it?
(I wonder how many readers will catch that reference without looking it up.)
> key { [ space ] };
In other words, at the XKB level, the space key is the most boring key
ever. The conversion to non-break-
suffering
from that old design as much as anybody else.)
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27;Git' version control
system at:
git://git.debian.org/pkg-opt-media/dvd+rw-tools.git
I guess cloning that tree would be the best way of having the same work
environment as the maintainers.
That makes two stacked revision control system, which is a bit clumsy, but I
guess there is no way around it for
es?
That is not even enough, one of the internal wire carrying the signal could
be cut or the amplifier electronics dead. The only way to be sure is to
manage to get sound out of them. Fortunately, nowadays, devices with jack
sound output that work are quite easy to find.
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e correct -D option for
your card), someone may spot something not correctly routed.
I assume, of course, that you re-re-checked the speakers and tried to plug
them in all sockets?
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in the kernel code.
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convenient: start it, hit enter
a few times to make space, plug the device, and you see the corresponding
messages directly.
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1: I did not found a proper idiomatic English translation; it means making
things deliberately worse (or refusing easy ways of making them better) in
order to convince people they must change and make things better.
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r Nemesis' unfilfilled ESMTP
> expectations which cause an error 503.
That is exactly the reason I wrote "and much more". Do try strace, and if
you know a bit of SMTP, which seems the case, you should be able to spot the
problem in a few minutes.
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Le nonidi 9 thermidor, an CCXXIII, David Wright a écrit :
> OK. It would be nice to know which port numbers alpine is trying to
> use.
strace can tell you that and much more, especially if the encryption is done
by a separate program.
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e as the external reference clock as is done by both ntp and
> ntpdate, approx computes an estimate of *rate* of ticking of the local
> clock.
Unless I am mistaken, nowadays the kernel does that by itself, provided the
NTP client uses adtime() or a variant and not a brutal settimeofday().
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ted in BIOS compatibility ("lecacy") mode rather than with a UEFI
bootloader.
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UEFI boot menu or the GRUB menu.
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Le sextidi 6 thermidor, an CCXXIII, Erwan David a écrit :
> I thiink you should dd the .iso to the stick, not cp
Both work, and dd will give terrible performance without extra options.
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the block device, not a corruption of the
filesystem: fsck will not really help you.
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h stable names.
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to lower the frequency. But
if your laptop is very old, it probably can not do that; in that case,
"killall -STOP ffmpeg" would probably work.
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nd, and everything goes as fast as sequential reads.
I gave the example with a very slow device, but the effect is quite
noticeable even with internal hard drives. Of course, SSD drives do not
cause this problem.
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l that work with ANY shell?
Ditto.
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the screens' resolutions is xrandr. In
hindsight, I should have recommended it instead of xdpyinfo: the output is
more complete and more readable, and to get the current resolution it would
have worked even if the driver was not correct.
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suggestions given
in the dark, Gene would need to help himself a bit more, starting by looking
up the native resolution of his screen, then querying the actual resolution
used by X11 (xdpyinfo) and checking which driver was selected by X.org
(/var/log/Xorg.0.log).
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antiquated
encoding to the Unicode code point and use it for display.
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Le nonidi 29 messidor, an CCXXIII, Andrew McGlashan a écrit :
> Not sure if this is relevant enough, but I have a method to keep
> "source" files -- in this case .forward files in a controlled directory;
> if any of these differ from the target locations, then I save the target
> location file with
tion. If it can not, then use a raw PCM format as
intermediate format; the obvious choice is WAVE.
Also, you say that normalize-audio is lightning fast, this is bad sign,
because computing the volume of a clip accurately is expensive.
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e card. And of course, it is
possible to edit ~/.asoundrc to change anything, but that is tricky.
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tial font path of the server, it
does not reflect updates made later.
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MPlayer does not use GNU-style long options, so it's "-ao alsa".
> One the main benefits of pulse audio is the convenience
> of having a separate volume control for each audio application.
ALSA is working on that right now.
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L'octidi 28 messidor, an CCXXIII, Brian a écrit :
> There is /var/log/Xorg.0.log. What does it say the FontPath is set to?
Or they could use the correct command: xset q.
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L'octidi 28 messidor, an CCXXIII, D. R. Evans a écrit :
> The links are not broken. I can happily look at, for example, the contents of
> the file sfxc1000.pfb by way of the link.
Did you check your fontpath?
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of PulseAudio entirely and try getting it working with pure ALSA. Only when
it works with pure ALSA is there any point in considering reinstalling
PulseAudio.
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ibasound API is more verbose than OSS, but not much more complex. You
can have a look at the ALSA device implementation in FFmpeg (libavdevice)
for a reasonably simple and self-contained example.
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the audio's dynamic range"
https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#ebur128
(NOT present in avconv) -> measure the volume
https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#volumedetect
(NOT present in avconv) -> same as previous, but less accurate and much
faster
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Obviously, Martin is capable of reading the output of ps and grep and the
messages in syslog. Reading the output of aplay and the kernel messages is
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the output, we can deduce that the non-working sound
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l give you hints.
If you do not manage to get sound out of aplay, there is no point in trying
anything else. If you do get sound out of aplay, then sound works.
If anything fails to work and does not print any useful error message, try
looking at the end of the "dmesg" output.
Good l
Hi,
I've had some weird problems with central hostname management. After a
week of pulling out my hair, I can say definitely that I've found a bug.
I'm fiddling with two different Debian sandbox PC's. They don't have any
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