Re: New distro.

2019-07-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 02:47:35PM +0200, Peter Corlett wrote: > It's debatable whether a single ffmpeg instance could take advantage of that > many cores since Amdahl's Law will kick in as it tries to co-ordinate > everything. Split it into multiple four- or eight-thread encodes and run them >

Re: New distro.

2019-07-02 Thread Peter Corlett
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 11:38:12AM +0100, RS wrote: > [...] Does ffmpeg require more than 64 logical processors? Obviously not, since it works fine on machines with as few as one. Indeed, ffmpeg defaults to using just one unless you pass the "-threads" option. It's debatable whether a single

Re: New distro.

2019-07-02 Thread RS
On 01/07/2019 20:19, Peter S Kirk wrote: > On 30 Jun 2019 at 19:50, I wrote: >> On 24/06/2019 18:12, Vangelis forthnet wrote: >>> mainly because third party library libx265 (video encoder) >>> has been configured with NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support, >>> a feature absent under Vista+XP:

Re: New distro.

2019-07-01 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 30 Jun 2019 at 19:50, RS RS wrote: > > mainly because third party library libx265 (video encoder) > > has been configured with NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) support, > > a feature absent under Vista+XP: > > > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/procthread/numa-support > >

Re: New distro.

2019-06-30 Thread RS
On 24/06/2019 18:12, Vangelis forthnet wrote: ... Latest installer bundles a 32-bit binary of FFmpeg 4.1.1, compiled by Zeranoe... That executable won't run in either XP or Vista and has to be replaced with a compatible compile... FFmpeg vanilla code has dropped XP support in branch 4.x.x, but

Re: New distro.

2019-06-24 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Mon Jun 24 16:19:00 BST 2019, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: with someone on XP being unable to run newer versions of GiP. I haven't myself tried to run the latest Windows installer on either XP or Vista; my guess is it would run to completion, successfully installing the application

Re: New distro.

2019-06-24 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 24/06/2019 16:04, Vangelis forthnet wrote: On Mon Jun 24 11:25:50 BST 2019, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: I'm surprised it worked for you, because AFAICR I'd understood that the version of Strawberry Perl used was supposed not to support XP. ... The latest GiP

Re: New distro.

2019-06-24 Thread Vangelis forthnet
On Mon Jun 24 11:25:50 BST 2019, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: I'm surprised it worked for you, because AFAICR I'd understood that the version of Strawberry Perl used was supposed not to support XP. ... The latest GiP installer (v3.20.0) bundles a self-contained (portable) mini-package of

Re: New distro.

2019-06-24 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 23/06/2019 02:29, Peter S Kirk wrote: On 22 Jun 2019 at 22:37, MacFH - C E Macfarlane MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: On 22/06/2019 18:52, Peter S Kirk wrote: XP SP3 32bit GiP 3.14.0 FFMPEG N-76331-gf8d429e When upgrading from 2.x to 3.x, did you run a Windows

Re: New distro.

2019-06-22 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 22 Jun 2019 at 22:37, MacFH - C E Macfarlane MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > Please see below ... > > On 22/06/2019 18:52, Peter S Kirk wrote: > > XP SP3 32bit > > GiP 3.14.0 > > FFMPEG N-76331-gf8d429e > > When upgrading from 2.x to 3.x, did you run a Windows installer or just > copy in

Re: New distro.

2019-06-22 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 22/06/2019 18:52, Peter S Kirk wrote: XP SP3 32bit GiP 3.14.0 FFMPEG N-76331-gf8d429e When upgrading from 2.x to 3.x, did you run a Windows installer or just copy in new files by hand or by using git or equivalent? ___

Re: New distro.

2019-06-22 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 21 Jun 2019 at 21:42, MacFH - C E Macfarlane MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > On 21/06/2019 18:51, Peter S Kirk wrote: > > I run GiP under XP 32 with no problem. iirc all that is needed is to > > replace ffmpeg with last XP compat version# > > Which version?   My recollection is that GiP

Re: New distro.

2019-06-22 Thread RS
On 21/06/2019 21:42, MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: On 21/06/2019 18:51, Peter S Kirk wrote: I run GiP under XP 32 with no problem. iirc all that is needed is to replace ffmpeg with last XP compat version# Which version?   My recollection is that GiP support for XP died around the end of

Re: New distro.

2019-06-21 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
On 21/06/2019 18:51, Peter S Kirk wrote: I run GiP under XP 32 with no problem. iirc all that is needed is to replace ffmpeg with last XP compat version# Which version?   My recollection is that GiP support for XP died around the end of v2.x, whereas we're now on 3.2x.

Re: New distro.

2019-06-21 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 20 Jun 2019 at 13:39, MacFH - C E Macfarlane MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > > I think we all have our methods, and I'm not convinced that mine or > anyone else's is better than other possible methods, but in the > confusion of suggestions, there is the possibility of important >

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 12:49:10PM +0100, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: > When I used to run get_iplayer under Windows, I used to install the > perl of my choice, then ran > > cpan cpanminus > > to install 'cpanminus', then used that to install the perl modules > that the g_ip documentation

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Charles Johnson
On 20/06/2019 12:22, Nick Payne wrote: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer Best solution if you don't want to be solving dependency problems. Personally i find it better to use git to fetch the latest version and then solve them. But ... why (someone must know) has gip

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 12:49:10PM +0100, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: >How is a perl user supposed to know whether to go to cpan/cpanminus route or >expect their distro's package manager to deal with this? The standard approach is to use the system-packaged modules if they're available, and

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Jim web
In article <9e149f35-ac18-8321-525a-5fb0a4bec...@gmail.com>, Nick Payne wrote: > But I still think the command line is easier: FWIW for some items - gip and ffmpeg being the main examples - I prefer to fetch and make/put them in my 'user' space, not as system installs. Makes it easier for me to

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Please see below ... On 20/06/2019 12:49, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: On 2019-06-19 09:34, Jim Lesurf wrote: I've just installed the current xfce mint long-term-support distro on my main 'work' machine. Having transferred my own programs, data, etc, I find that gip now doesn't work. This

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
On 2019-06-19 09:34, Jim Lesurf wrote: I've just installed the current xfce mint long-term-support distro on my main 'work' machine. Having transferred my own programs, data, etc, I find that gip now doesn't work. This seems to be because at least some of the relevant perl modules aren't

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Nick Payne
On 20/06/2019 6:19 pm, Jim web wrote: > In article , Nick Payne > wrote: >> Using the PPA and apt will only install the needed dependencies. You're >> far more likely to be "spraying things you don't actually need into your >> install" by trying to do it manually. And apt will give you an exact

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Jim web
In article , Nick Payne wrote: > Using the PPA and apt will only install the needed dependencies. You're > far more likely to be "spraying things you don't actually need into your > install" by trying to do it manually. And apt will give you an exact > list of the additional packages that need to

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Nick Payne
On 19/06/2019 10:38 pm, Jim web wrote: > In article , Alan C. > Foster wrote: >>> Install the PPA from here >>> >>> >>> https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer >>> >>> I've been doing that in Linux Mint for years. It gets updated >>> automatically by the Mint update

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Jim web
d, partly to avoid spraying things I don't actually need into > my install in the hope they'll work. Having experimented with getting gip working on another machine running the new distro I can say that the only package I need in addition to those installed by default by the distro is t

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Jim web
In article , Alan C. Foster wrote: > > Install the PPA from here > > > > > > https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer > > > > I've been doing that in Linux Mint for years. It gets updated > > automatically by the Mint update manager when appropriate. > Jim, > Why don't

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:38:48PM +0100, Jim web wrote: > Following up one of my own emails. I've looked at > > https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/unix > > and that says: > > "For example, to install the packages for get_iplayer in Debian 9+/Ubuntu > 18.04+/Mint 19+: > > apt

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Alan C. Foster
On 19/06/2019 11:06, michael norman wrote: On 19/06/2019 09:34, Jim Lesurf wrote: I've just installed the current xfce mint long-term-support distro on my main 'work' machine. Having transferred my own programs, data, etc, I find that gip now doesn't work. This seems to be because at least

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Jim web
Following up one of my own emails. I've looked at https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/unix and that says: "For example, to install the packages for get_iplayer in Debian 9+/Ubuntu 18.04+/Mint 19+: apt install libwww-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libmojolicious-perl

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Jim web
In article <20190619103730.gb28...@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk>, David Cantrell wrote: > libxml2 is a C library that the perl code wants to use. libxml2-dev is > the headers for that C library so that the perl code knows how to link > it. > You'll need both of those in addition to the perl code.

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:52:58AM +0100, Jim web wrote: > In article , MacFH - C > E > Macfarlane wrote: > > AFAICR, LibXML is a dependency of XML::Simple, and, as you suggest, on > > Ubuntu systems you install a module using apt-get. I setup and > > configure Ubuntu using a bash script, and

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread michael norman
On 19/06/2019 09:34, Jim Lesurf wrote: I've just installed the current xfce mint long-term-support distro on my main 'work' machine. Having transferred my own programs, data, etc, I find that gip now doesn't work. This seems to be because at least some of the relevant perl modules aren't

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:52:58AM +0100, Jim web wrote: >I installed libxml2-dev as well, but, alas, it still doesn't work. :-/ In my Debian system, LibXML.pm (note the capitalisation) is provided by libxml-libxml-perl. This is a dependency of libxml-simple-perl so should have been installed

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Geoff Smith
It's a while since I installed get_iPlayer on Mint 18, but I found this useful : https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/unix#perl-packaged Geoff Smith On 19/06/2019, Jim Lesurf wrote: > I've just installed the current xfce mint long-term-support distro on my > main 'work' machine.

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Jim web
In article , MacFH - C E Macfarlane wrote: > AFAICR, LibXML is a dependency of XML::Simple, and, as you suggest, on > Ubuntu systems you install a module using apt-get. I setup and > configure Ubuntu using a bash script, and its module list contains > libxml2 and libxml2-dev, so most probably

Re: New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
Hi Jim ... On 19/06/2019 09:34, Jim Lesurf wrote: I've just installed the current xfce mint long-term-support distro on my main 'work' machine. Having transferred my own programs, data, etc, I find that gip now doesn't work. This seems to be because at least some of the relevant perl modules

New distro.

2019-06-19 Thread Jim Lesurf
I've just installed the current xfce mint long-term-support distro on my main 'work' machine. Having transferred my own programs, data, etc, I find that gip now doesn't work. This seems to be because at least some of the relevant perl modules aren't installed by default. However I can't work out