Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Monitors

2008-09-16 Thread Sean Miller
I'd personally buy a Samsung Digital TV, has VGA input and particularly impressive colour range. I use a 32 widescreen one for presentations and it works well (I know you don't want widescreen, but I'm sure they do other ratios too). You also have the benefit that if you're waiting for something

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Monitors

2008-09-16 Thread Philip Stubbs
2008/9/15 Ian Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Folks Being at the leading edge of the rear of the crowd, I'm starting to look at chaging out my trusty CRT monitor to one of those new fangled LCD thingys! I don't mind doing the research, but would appreciate some pointers to what people consider

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Monitors

2008-09-16 Thread Adam Bagnall
Ian Pascoe wrote: Hi Folks Being at the leading edge of the rear of the crowd, I'm starting to look at chaging out my trusty CRT monitor to one of those new fangled LCD thingys! I don't mind doing the research, but would appreciate some pointers to what people consider reliable and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD Xvid playback with zoom/crop facility?

2008-09-16 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:34:42PM +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: MPlayer, Totem and Xine do not appear to have this facility at all, although they do play back DVDs very well. MPlayer can do cropping (there are a couple of options depending on which vo you're using or using a filter - search for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD Xvid playback with zoom/crop facility?

2008-09-16 Thread HillarP
Andrew Oakley wrote: [..] MPlayer, Totem and Xine do not appear to have this facility at all, although they do play back DVDs very well. In gxine try: View - zoom in / zoom out and View - aspect ratio In Mplayer (gui) try right clic on picture area - aspect ratio there isn't smooth zooming in

[ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd filming, was:help Ubuntu/freesoftwareize the third season of the IT crowd!

2008-09-16 Thread Alan Pope
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 18:23 +0100, Gordon Allott wrote: A friend poked me towards http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/be-my-hive-brain/ today, which is the blog of graham linehan (creator/writer of the it crowd), basically the jist is that normally he designs the look of the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Monitors

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Pascoe
Gents Thanks for the pointers - any thoughts on Viewsonix or LG (I think it was) monitors? Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Douglas Sent: 16 September 2008 11:02 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Monitors On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] proggrame

2008-09-16 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 01:05:38PM +0100, Fintan Gaughan wrote: how ever logging into kids or wife account same thing happens and they have no use for it clicking cancel and it keeps coming back up. How do i disable it? There is instructions in the dropbox forum for fixing this via restricting

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD Xvid playback with zoom/crop facility?

2008-09-16 Thread Colin Wylie
Andrew Oakley wrote: I'm looking for DVD Xvid playback software with a zoom function, under Ubuntu 8.04. At minimum, the ability to zoom in to a 16:9 video which has been recorded as a 4:3 aspect ratio with black bars at the top bottom (letterbox). Ideally, the ability to zoom smoothly in

[ubuntu-uk] MIDI Writing Software

2008-09-16 Thread Andy Loughran
Guys, I could do with some help locating a MIDI writing package for Ubuntu. I'd like to be able to write music on the computer, and for that to then get played back to me by some midi engine. I'd like to be able to write multiple tracks and play them back ontop of each other. Everything