Re: [Hampshire] Netbook LCD brightness (Tony Wood)

2011-04-06 Thread Tony Wood
On 05/04/11 19:08, Ian Grody wrote: I had this issue, the Fn keys need to be mapped to setpci commands (do-able in xorg.conf somewhere) However; setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=xx Where xx is the desired brightness in HEX will allow you to adjust the hardware brightness factor. Hope it helps On Tue,

Re: [Hampshire] Netbook LCD brightness (Tony Wood)

2011-04-06 Thread Tony Wood
On 05/04/11 19:04, kish wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM,mattham...@aol.com wrote: Any ideas on how I could control the display backlight please? I do it like this: sudo echo 3/sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness pretty dumb but gets the job done. Thanks Kish See

[Hampshire] [Re-pitch] Free ebook for all HLUG members

2011-04-06 Thread Damian Brasher
Hi List Some of you may recall that I wrote and self-published an ebook last year. The process has been experimental, however I have finally got round to improving the website, graphics, pricing and most importantly of all the pitch - which I felt did not match the ebook contents well. Now

[Hampshire] Video processing library recommendations

2011-04-06 Thread Chris Smith
Hi all, Can anyone point me at a simple library that allows me to do basic image manipulation of video frames? Basically I just want something that takes an AVI file, feeds me the pixel data frame-by-frame, lets me manipulate the pixels and stuffs the modified frame back into an AVI file (the

Re: [Hampshire] Video processing library recommendations

2011-04-06 Thread Benjie Gillam
You could use ffmpeg to turn the movie into jpgs, process the jpgs and then convert back again: http://www.ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC15 http://www.ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC14 Would use a lot of disk space I guess, but you could process the videos 100 frames at a time or whatever? I think mencoder

Re: [Hampshire] Video processing library recommendations

2011-04-06 Thread Chris Dennis
On 06/04/11 16:26, Chris Smith wrote: Hi all, Can anyone point me at a simple library that allows me to do basic image manipulation of video frames? Kino allows effects to be applied to video. I thinks it's designed for editing a whole sequence, or doing fades from one scene to another, but

Re: [Hampshire] Domestic ADSL ISPs

2011-04-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi John, On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 10:28:11PM +0100, john lewis wrote: Apart from one small niggle, the fact I have to pay extra for my wife to have a personal email address which some ISPs allow for free I believe, I am another very happy zen customer. I would recommend not hosting your email

Re: [Hampshire] [Re-pitch] Free ebook for all HLUG members

2011-04-06 Thread Keith Edmunds
Damian, would you like critique of the pitch, either privately or here? -- You can have everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want - Zig Ziglar. Who did you help today? -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: