Sridhar Dhanapalan said:
> A major caveat wrt 7zip is that it does not store the owners and groups of
> files. I wouldn't use this format if storing correct permissions is of
> importance.
True; the p7zip man page (man 7z) details how to use tar to do that, in
conjunction with p7zip. See the "B
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Andrew Shugg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to hang on to your originals you can fit them onto smaller
> media by creating multi-volume archives (set volume size to around
> 4480mb) with a file compression program such as p7zip (you turn file
> compression off though
Matthew Rossi said:
> Hi. Currently I am in the process of burning my files onto blank dvd-r's as
> i will have a new computer arrive in the new year. I have a set of videos
> that I dubbed from a miniDV tape using firewire and kino (you need to run
> kino in root to capture using firewire). I h
I concur, Mencoder is excellent.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mencoder_Introduction_Guide
On Dec 19, 2007 8:52 PM, Matthew Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi. Currently I am in the process of burning my files onto blank dvd-r's
> as i will have a new computer arrive in the new year. I have
look into mencoder
On Dec 19, 2007 8:22 PM, Matthew Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. Currently I am in the process of burning my files onto blank dvd-r's as
> i will have a new computer arrive in the new year. I have a set of videos
> that I dubbed from a miniDV tape using firewire and kin
Hi. Currently I am in the process of burning my files onto blank dvd-r's as
i will have a new computer arrive in the new year. I have a set of videos
that I dubbed from a miniDV tape using firewire and kino (you need to run
kino in root to capture using firewire). I have burnt the first disc, bu