[ubuntu-uk] DVD

2008-01-08 Thread davisjo
Many thanks for the posts on DVD software. I have tried the DeVeDe software in all it's guises and when I do a preview, the sound is totally distorted. So much so, that it is not worth transcoding the film. Has anyone dragged a film off Ubuntu and used some other software, i.e Nero and

[ubuntu-uk] Burning videos

2008-01-07 Thread davisjo
Hi Group, I have downloaded a film in NTSC format using aMule. The film plays really well on the download computer. The film is just under the 700 megabyte limit for a normal cd. I have tried burning the film to disc in order to play it on a conventional dvd player without much

[ubuntu-uk] Spoke too soon!

2007-12-30 Thread davisjo
Hi All, I installed the sound as Tom's suggestion and all worked perfectly. Today no sound again. Any ideas as to what is wrong ? Also for the last few day upon switch on I have had to restore the bios settings. I replaced the battery but this does not seem to have cured the problem.

[ubuntu-uk] No Sound

2007-12-30 Thread davisjo
Hi to the group, Sorry to post again before receiving a reply. I have spent some time trying to restore the sound but to no avail. I must have every codec going but still nothing. I expect I will have to remove all the sound application and try to rebuild it but I am not too sure how to do

[ubuntu-uk] DVD no sound !

2007-12-29 Thread davisjo
Hi to All, I would like to thank you Tom for your reply to my post. What you suggested worked a treat! Also the tip about Amule was just right and now I have all the downloads on the desktop. So much easier to see and manage; Thank you very much, A Good New Year to all, John

[ubuntu-uk] DVD sound

2007-12-28 Thread davisjo
Hi Everyone, I have tried to play a DVD and also a film on the hard drive but alas no sound. I have downloaded most of the video players and selected all sources to include all the codecs but still no sound. If I remember right, out teacher enabled the codecs via the terminal

[ubuntu-uk] Learning Ubuntu

2007-12-21 Thread davisjo
I am early 60 and thought I should learn something new. Being an avid night schooler I saw a course of evening class tuition in Ubuntu and enrolled. It was a good start to my transition but by the end of the course, had more questions than answers. This is because I want to configure things my

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu courses

2007-12-21 Thread davisjo
Hi Stephen the group, The course I attended was at the Université Populaire in France. Ubuntu and Linux in general is very strong here. It is also used on business machines and commerce. They run course for that too and web site design. I am in the department 68 and we have an

[ubuntu-uk] Real Player

2007-12-05 Thread davisjo
Morning All, I had similar problems trying to install real player. My only need here in France is to hear the BBC listen again service. Because of problems with Windows, I did a clean install (wrote zeros to the disc and then started again) I installed Ubuntu and went to the

[ubuntu-uk] Bin.gz files

2007-12-04 Thread davisjo
Afternoon All, I have had some limited success installing bin. downloads. I have also installed Wine. This is a far cry from the wine I used to know. This is in the repository and is now amazing.(I found Wine difficult to run on early distro's) I have deleted the morse

[ubuntu-uk] Ham Radio Fldigi

2007-12-02 Thread davisjo
Morning All, I have down loaded the Fldigi program from a web site. This is a digital radio decoder for radio hams. The file is a bin.tar.gz file, now resident on my desktop. I have unzipped it using the tar -xvzf filename bin tar .gz I have used the cd filename and the

[ubuntu-uk] Netgear Pci Adapter

2007-11-20 Thread davisjo
Hi to the group, I have written to the group a few times about the Netgear PCI adapter. I worked really hard to install this card with Ubuntu but to no avail. I researched forums, posted questions. I also did a clean install after mixing up the software. The only distro I

[ubuntu-uk] Netgear PCI adapter

2007-11-11 Thread davisjo
Hi to the group. I posted to the group a couple of weeks ago about wi-fi and Ubuntu installation. I have an AMD 1100 mhz K7 Athlon processor 60 hard drive Maxtor Dual boot with Windows The board is Amercan Mega trends NVIDIA Gforce 4mx4000 graphics card I am using Gutsy Gibbon and

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu profile

2007-10-29 Thread davisjo
Hi, Renjith Nair has described exactly my feelings on installing hardware in Linux. I know my problems are caused by lack of experience, something shared by many others. Once installation issues are eased, Ubuntu will sell itself. Regards John-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com