Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
I see that they are mjpg with pcm audio - in other words BIG. Try converting the sound to mp3 and the video to xvid to start with. vlc will stream On Sunday 18 March 2007 18:41, Don Gould wrote: www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0002.AVI www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0003.AVI

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Thank Nick, I'm happy to do the reading, I just had no idea at all where to start. Guess I'm off to use man now :) Cheers Don Nick Rout wrote: I see that they are mjpg with pcm audio - in other words BIG. Try converting the sound to mp3 and the video to xvid to start with. vlc will stream

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
missing bits... configure: error: transcode depends on libz, but cannot links against libz compaq-pro:~/video/transcode-1.0.2# What should I install? compaq-pro:~# apt-cache search libz libgnome-perl - Perl module for the gnome and zvt libraries libruby1.8 - Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.8

Re: paths with spaces and then extending...

2007-03-18 Thread Roger Searle
Hi Volker, no I don't mind at all, and appreciate the suggestion. I'm no dummy as a [1] - I am still coming to terms with doing things this other/better way. I say better as my equivalent windows script is dozens of lines, takes quite a lot of setting up, and is fairly difficult to maintain.

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: missing bits... configure: error: transcode depends on libz, but cannot links against libz compaq-pro:~/video/transcode-1.0.2# What should I install? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/transcode linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb7f61000)

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Christopher Sawtell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/transcode linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb7f61000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f23000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7eff000) libz.so.1 = /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7eed000) I understood I have to

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Don Gould wrote: libzvbi-common - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - common files libzvbi-dev - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - development files libzvbi-doc - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - documentation files libzvbi0 - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - runtime files Are

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sunday 18 March 2007 20:00, Don Gould wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/transcode linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb7f61000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f23000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7eff000) libz.so.1 =

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sunday 18 March 2007 20:02, Don Gould wrote: Don Gould wrote: libzvbi-common - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - common files libzvbi-dev - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - development files libzvbi-doc - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - documentation files libzvbi0 - video

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sunday 18 March 2007 20:00, Don Gould wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/transcode linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb7f61000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f23000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7eff000) libz.so.1 =

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Sorry Nick, compaq-pro is running debian sarge Nick Rout wrote: On Sunday 18 March 2007 20:00, Don Gould wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/transcode linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb7f61000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7f23000)

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: Don Gould wrote: libzvbi-common - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - common files libzvbi-dev - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - development files libzvbi-doc - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - documentation files libzvbi0 - video Blank

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Lee Begg
On Sunday 18 March 2007 19:29, Don Gould wrote: missing bits... configure: error: transcode depends on libz, but cannot links against libz compaq-pro:~/video/transcode-1.0.2# What should I install? Most likely: zlib1g and zlib1g-dev When compiling things and there are things it doesn't

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: Don Gould wrote: libzvbi-common - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - common files libzvbi-dev - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - development files libzvbi-doc - video Blank Interval decoder (VBI) - documentation

Re: How to make AVI into ...

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Will an error prevent me from installing? ERROR: option '--enable-lame' failed: cannot compile and run a test program lame.h can be found in the following packages: lame http://www.mp3dev.org/ Do I care about this error? compaq-pro:~/video# locate lame.h /root/video/lame-3.97/include/lame.h

Re: How to make AVI into ...

2007-03-18 Thread Lee Begg
On Sunday 18 March 2007 22:13, Don Gould wrote: Will an error prevent me from installing? ERROR: option '--enable-lame' failed: cannot compile and run a test program lame.h can be found in the following packages: lame http://www.mp3dev.org/ Do I care about this error? It says error, so

Re: The streaming bit, WAS How to make AVI into etc

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
Don, since you asked your question you piqued my interest in streaming servers and I am aking a look at Darwin Streaming Server, the open source version of Qucktime Streaming Server. I have it sort of running on FreeBSD (there is a port) but I am having difficulty. However I am yet to read

Re: How to make AVI into ...

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Thanks I got it installed, though don't know if it will work. I have now tracked down the avimerge thing and joined the files Cheers Don Lee Begg wrote: On Sunday 18 March 2007 22:13, Don Gould wrote: Will an error prevent me from installing? ERROR: option '--enable-lame' failed: cannot

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Ok, what should I use to do the conversions? Cheers Don Nick Rout wrote: I see that they are mjpg with pcm audio - in other words BIG. Try converting the sound to mp3 and the video to xvid to start with. vlc will stream On Sunday 18 March 2007 18:41, Don Gould wrote:

Re: The streaming bit, WAS How to make AVI into etc

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Thanks Nick, I'm also just reading the transcode site. I assume the answer to my last question might be there. Cheers Don Nick Rout wrote: Don, since you asked your question you piqued my interest in streaming servers and I am aking a look at Darwin Streaming Server, the open source version

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
Don Gould wrote: Ok, what should I use to do the conversions? Cheers Don avidemux, but hold on because most of the streaming software I am looking at handles .mp4 files it would seem. Actually i am confused, but its bed time so I will stay confused for a while.

sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Steve Holdoway
If anyone wants a copy, let me know. Steve

RE: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Brett Davidson
What're the benefits of Sabayon over other distros? No flame wars please - just interested in what it claims about itself but am too busy at present to look and also thought others might like to know. Brett.

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:35:34 +1200 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What're the benefits of Sabayon over other distros? No flame wars please - just interested in what it claims about itself but am too busy at present to look and also thought others might like to know. Brett. Eye

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
I await your unconfustion with baited fingers Nick Rout wrote: Don Gould wrote: Ok, what should I use to do the conversions? Cheers Don avidemux, but hold on because most of the streaming software I am looking at handles .mp4 files it would seem. Actually i am confused, but its bed time

RE: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 9:35 am, Brett Davidson wrote: What're the benefits of Sabayon over other distros? No flame wars please - just interested in what it claims about itself but am too busy at present to look and also thought others might like to know. Brett. Its a precompiled gentoo

RE: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Brett Davidson
Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What're the benefits of Sabayon over other distros? No flame wars please - just interested in what it claims about itself but am too busy at present to look and also thought others might like to know. Brett. Eye candy mainly. It was originally

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
What is your audience? (windows? linux? OSX? what players and codecs do you reasonably expect them to have?) What is your bandwidth to that audience? How many of that audience do you reasonably expect to stream to at one time? Have you considered youtube or any of the similar services? They have

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 9:50 am, Nick Rout wrote: What is your audience? (windows? linux? OSX? what players and codecs do you reasonably expect them to have?) What is your bandwidth to that audience? How many of that audience do you reasonably expect to stream to at one time? Have you

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Nick Rout wrote: What is your audience? (windows? linux? OSX? what players and codecs do you reasonably expect them to have?) If you'd browse www.tv3.co.nz or www.tvnz.co.nz then you're a customer and anyone with that kind of browser. What is your bandwidth to that audience? The

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Can I place a standing order for the CIA? Steve Holdoway wrote: If anyone wants a copy, let me know. Steve -- Don Gould www.bowenvale.pointclark.net/funny www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz - www.bowenvale.co.nz - www.hearingbooks.co.nz - www.crra.org.nz -

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Nick Rout wrote: And whats more anyone with a flash enabled browser (ie anyone but me on my freebsd laptop :-) ) can stream it! I don't want to rule you out just because you choose FreeBSD. -- Don Gould www.bowenvale.pointclark.net/funny www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz

Re: unsubscribe linux-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-18 Thread Roger Searle
strange, (having re-subscribed) how did that happen? certainly wasn't my request. actually i should re-state the question - why? PMDF Mailserv V6.2 wrote: The address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been removed from the linux-users mailing list by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Chris Bayley
So..if one ultimately wanted a gentoo box does it make sense to use sabyon for the install in order to cut down on the time required ? Does saby use the std gentoo repos ? ChrisB Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, March 19, 2007 9:35 am, Brett Davidson wrote: What're the benefits of Sabayon over

Re: unsubscribe linux-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-18 Thread Jim Cheetham
Sounds like Brendan the new list-looker-after has manually tried to help you out. From Zane's recent posting regarding the mailing list Brendon Wyber has very kindly agreed to look after things now. What's the betting that his email address is BWY13? (and now exposed to google!) -jim On

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: Ok, what should I use to do the conversions? http://www.pymedia.org/ You should also look at:- http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ -- CS

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 10:07 am, Chris Bayley wrote: So..if one ultimately wanted a gentoo box does it make sense to use sabyon for the install in order to cut down on the time required ? Does saby use the std gentoo repos ? ChrisB It would make sense if you wanted the whole install, ie

Re: unsubscribe linux-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-18 Thread Roger Searle
can't get rid of me that easily ;-) automated subscribe works well :-) brendon you may have been trying to get rid of someone else perhaps? so it appears this box didn't update it's clock for daylight saving, better go investigate. and hijack my own thread... Jim Cheetham wrote: Sounds

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 10:07 am, Don Gould wrote: Nick Rout wrote: And whats more anyone with a flash enabled browser (ie anyone but me on my freebsd laptop :-) ) can stream it! I don't want to rule you out just because you choose FreeBSD. You won't, FreeBSD users can generally use

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 10:07 am, Don Gould wrote: Nick Rout wrote: And whats more anyone with a flash enabled browser (ie anyone but me on my freebsd laptop :-) ) can stream it! I don't want to rule you out just because you choose FreeBSD. You won't, FreeBSD users can generally use

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: Can I place a standing order for the CIA? Don. Take care, Sabayon is way _way_ off the Linux mainstream. imho it's highly debateable whether it's suitable for your CIA. -- CS

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 10:45 am, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: Can I place a standing order for the CIA? Don. Take care, Sabayon is way _way_ off the Linux mainstream. imho it's highly debateable whether it's suitable for your CIA. -- CS What do you

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 9:58 am, Don Gould wrote: Nick Rout wrote: What is your audience? (windows? linux? OSX? what players and codecs do you reasonably expect them to have?) If you'd browse www.tv3.co.nz or www.tvnz.co.nz then you're a customer and anyone with that kind of browser.

Re: unsubscribe linux-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-18 Thread SAFFRON.8MOON
Hi Jim I am trying to get of the email list of the linux user group. What is the easiest way to do this please? Thanks Errol J Hitt - Original Message - From: Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:16 AM Subject: Re:

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, March 19, 2007 10:45 am, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: Can I place a standing order for the CIA? Don. Take care, Sabayon is way _way_ off the Linux mainstream. imho it's highly debateable whether it's

Re: unsubscribe linux-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 11:37 am, SAFFRON.8MOON wrote: Hi Jim I am trying to get of the email list of the linux user group. What is the easiest way to do this please? Thanks Errol J Hitt Errol, look in the headers to any list message and follow the instructions OR take a look here

Re: unsubscribe linux-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, SAFFRON.8MOON wrote: Hi Jim I am trying to get of the email list of the linux user group. What is the easiest way to do this please? From the message headers: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Click on above. Could we have this as a visible footer? -- CS

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, yes, sabayon is off the mainstream, because mainstream linux distros do not come with mpg3, avi readers/players in built by default. Quite a bit can be witheld on mainstream distros. I was stunned to discover that Centos-4.4, which is a derivative of redhat, does not do ntfs file systems.

Re: unsubscribe linux-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-18 Thread Jim Cheetham
On 19/03/07, SAFFRON.8MOON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jim I am trying to get of the email list of the linux user group. What is the easiest way to do this please? Thanks Errol J Hitt The easiest way would be to just stop using email :-) Instant satisfaction. That gets *you* off the list, but

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 11:49 am, Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, yes, sabayon is off the mainstream, because mainstream linux distros do not come with mpg3, avi readers/players in built by default. Quite a bit can be witheld on mainstream distros. I was stunned to discover that Centos-4.4,

Mediaserver was RE: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Brett Davidson
On Mon, March 19, 2007 9:35 am, Brett Davidson wrote: What're the benefits of Sabayon over other distros? No flame wars please - just interested in what it claims about itself but am too busy at present to look and also thought others might like to know. Brett. Its a precompiled gentoo

Re: unsubscribe linux-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-18 Thread Carl Cerecke
On 19/03/07, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could we have this as a visible footer? I'd prefer an automatic once-a-month posting. Carl.

Re: Mediaserver was RE: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 1:16 pm, Brett Davidson wrote: On Mon, March 19, 2007 9:35 am, Brett Davidson wrote: What're the benefits of Sabayon over other distros? No flame wars please - just interested in what it claims about itself but am too busy at present to look and also thought others

Re: unsubscribe linux-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 1:56 pm, Carl Cerecke wrote: On 19/03/07, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could we have this as a visible footer? I'd prefer an automatic once-a-month posting. Carl. I too support the Campaign for Footerless Mailing Lists. If we do need a footer just

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
By 'standing order' I mean that I would like a copy of anything that is being offered up so that I can put it on the nodes that Neil and I have been building. I'm not proposing that we use it on the machines at cia. I'm proposing that software be avalible from here for free. Cheers Don

Re: unsubscribe linux-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-18 Thread Robert Fisher
On Monday 19 March 2007 2:04 pm, Nick Rout wrote: I too support the Campaign for Footerless Mailing Lists. Footerless and Fancy Free?

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 2:07 pm, Don Gould wrote: By 'standing order' I mean that I would like a copy of anything that is being offered up so that I can put it on the nodes that Neil and I have been building. I'm not proposing that we use it on the machines at cia. I'm proposing that

Re: unsubscribe linux-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-03-18 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, I think the campaign should be for better email readers. To illustrate, Pine displays a link at the bottom, [ Note: This message contains email list management information ] which you can select and read the info... Derek. On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, March

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Swafford
I've been playing with a copy on my Dell Inspiron 2200 .. a pretty basic lappie .. I have Xandros on it currently .. Sabayon 3.3 is pretty nice .. the graphics acceleration seems to work well. All the peripherals and networking no issues. I'll try an install on something else and report back.

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Nick Rout wrote: Don you can't expect help if you won't give us some realistic info about what you want to acheive. At present I'm simply trying to learn about the technology. As I said previously, my Dad expressed interest in it the other day. He talked about an idea that I think is

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Nick Rout wrote: CIA is in Riccarton No? Yes. See the poster in the opening sequence of that AVI I posted yesterday... www.bowenvale.co.nz/video/DSCF0002.AVI Cheers Don -- Don Gould www.bowenvale.pointclark.net/funny www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz -

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Don Gould wrote: Ok, what should I use to do the conversions? http://www.pymedia.org/ That looks very useful. I'm off to try and dl it tonight and get it running. You should also look at:- http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ I've

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 2:31 pm, Don Gould wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Don you can't expect help if you won't give us some realistic info about what you want to acheive. At present I'm simply trying to learn about the technology. As I said previously, my Dad expressed interest in it the other

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Carl Cerecke
On 19/03/07, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reminds me of a shop that used to be in the Windmill Centre. Computers In Action. I bought a retrospectively very expensive laptop there around 1992. It was a 386sx with 2MB Ram and some piddly hard drive. It had a 2400 modem which would connect

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Nick Rout wrote: No you don't. It depends on the player. With mplayer those videos of yours start to play when the cache is approx 50% full. Really, so to make them useful I just have to sort out the compression then host them just as files. No streaming required at all? Can people skip

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Don Gould
Carl Cerecke wrote: There's been a few come and gone bust. Yes. This isn't a business though. It's a resource for the community. I launched www.crra.org.nz last year. People told me they didn't have internet access so it wasn't any use to them. When they've got more gray hair than CS,

Re: How to make AVI into ... These are the files I'm looking for help with - they are family

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, March 19, 2007 2:51 pm, Don Gould wrote: Nick Rout wrote: No you don't. It depends on the player. With mplayer those videos of yours start to play when the cache is approx 50% full. Really, so to make them useful I just have to sort out the compression then host them just as