Re: [arch-general] x264, mplayer, ffmpeg rebuild?

2008-12-28 Thread Markus Heuser
Hi, > Making a binary mplayer package is very difficult and the result can't be > perfect for everybody because you have to make choices about what will be > enabled in it (and add deps) and what will not (but some users might want > it). It's the prototype of the package that should stay source-b

Re: [arch-general] x264, mplayer, ffmpeg rebuild?

2008-12-28 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Scott Horowitz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Pierre Chapuis > wrote: >> >> To me, the only way to use an up-to-date mplayer is to compile it yourself >> on your machine (by using one of the AUR packages). >> >> Making a binary mplayer package is very d

Re: [arch-general] x264, mplayer, ffmpeg rebuild?

2008-12-28 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Scott Horowitz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Pierre Chapuis > wrote: >> >> To me, the only way to use an up-to-date mplayer is to compile it yourself >> on your machine (by using one of the AUR packages). >> >> Making a binary mplayer package is very d

Re: [arch-general] x264, mplayer, ffmpeg rebuild?

2008-12-28 Thread Scott Horowitz
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Pierre Chapuis wrote: > To me, the only way to use an up-to-date mplayer is to compile it yourself > on your machine (by using one of the AUR packages). > > Making a binary mplayer package is very difficult and the result can't be > perfect for everybody because yo

Re: [arch-general] x264, mplayer, ffmpeg rebuild?

2008-12-28 Thread Pierre Chapuis
Le Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:09:23 +0100, Markus Heuser a écrit : > Well, I'm not to familiar with the development procedures of mplayer but what > I mean by stable is "stable enough to be packaged" ;) To me, the only way to use an up-to-date mplayer is to compile it yourself on your machine (by usi

Re: [arch-general] x264, mplayer, ffmpeg rebuild?

2008-12-28 Thread Markus Heuser
Hi, > Have you tried mplayer-svn? Mplayer will probably not have a stable > release ever anyway. Yeah, I'm using the mplayer-svn package from AUR right now, with some adoptions regarding the configure flags (like support for x264 and mencoder of course...). Well, I'm not to familiar with the d

Re: [arch-general] x264, mplayer, ffmpeg rebuild?

2008-12-28 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
ns > which > is obviously not suitable for the repos. But I'd be very thankful to see a > rebuild of x264 and mplayer/ffmpeg as soon as the changes in ffmpeg and > mplayer > are in the stable branches and you guys can afford the time to do so :) > > Greetings, > Marku

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hi Ota, > it is possible to set gkrellm not to show on the panel. just go to > configuration, and in section general, under properties are options like "Do > not include on taskbar" and "Do not include on pager". I think you misunderstood me -- I wanted it to act like something in the panel, e.g.

[arch-general] x264, mplayer, ffmpeg rebuild?

2008-12-28 Thread Markus Heuser
are in the stable branches and you guys can afford the time to do so :) Greetings, Markus [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12121 [2] ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264- snapshot-20081228-2245.tar.bz2 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15774 [4] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61858

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Otakar Truněček
On Sunday 28 of December 2008 17:46:55 Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hi Nigel, > > > Unless you particularly want a KDE app, you could always install gkrellm. > > I've used it for a long time, and it's very user configerable. > > Thanks a lot! That is very close to what I'm looking for, but is there > a

Re: [arch-general] KDE 4.2 and AUR Upgrading

2008-12-28 Thread Andrea Scarpino
2008/12/28 Leonid Grinberg : > 1) Once 4.2 is released, how soon is it reasonable to expect that it > will be in the repositories (not AUR). Pierre is working on this [1] > 2) If one installs a package from AUR, and then it is moved to the > main repositories, does Pacman know that the two package

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Leonid Grinberg
> I somehow doubt it, as it's not a KDE app, but I could well be wrong. I've > always had it up on the desktop, on all my distros. I have a whole bunch of > distros on my 3 machines, and use static IP addresses for them. There is a > nice plugin "gkrellmip", that displays the IP address of the curr

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 28 December 2008 17:46, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hi Nigel, > > > Unless you particularly want a KDE app, you could always install gkrellm. > > I've used it for a long time, and it's very user configerable. > > Thanks a lot! That is very close to what I'm looking for, but is there > any wa

[arch-general] KDE 4.2 and AUR Upgrading

2008-12-28 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, I am currently running a vanilla KDE 4.1.3. There are a number of problems that I am having, all of which, I am told, are fixed in 4.2 None of the problems are incredibly serious, but they are annoying enough that I am considering upgrading to 4.2. I thus have a few questions: 1) Once 4.2

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hi Nigel, > Unless you particularly want a KDE app, you could always install gkrellm. I've > used it for a long time, and it's very user configerable. Thanks a lot! That is very close to what I'm looking for, but is there any way to have it act as a widget in the panel? -- Leonid

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 28 December 2008 17:16, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for your replies. > > > Maybe this would be alright? > > http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+System+Monitor?content=86 > >664 > > The download link seems to be broken (the .skz file is missing most of > the so

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hi all, Thanks for your replies. > Maybe this would be alright? > http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+System+Monitor?content=86664 The download link seems to be broken (the .skz file is missing most of the source). >> plasma has a system monitor applet for some time now. >> You shou

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday 28 December 2008 20:08:32 Charly Ghislain wrote: > plasma has a system monitor applet for some time now. > You should check kdeplasma-addons package, although it might still be in > playground, thus not packaged in standard repos. I have kdeplasma-addons 4.1.3-1 installed and there is no

Re: [arch-general] vnc on display:0

2008-12-28 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:23:46 +0530 "sagar n" wrote: ... > I want to connect to display:0 of a headless box remotely. If it's PHYSICALLY headless, what is the reason to use namely :0 anyway? > In any case, is there an alternative way to connect > to display:0 remotely? Personally I use nomachine [

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Charly Ghislain
plasma has a system monitor applet for some time now. You should check kdeplasma-addons package, although it might still be in playground, thus not packaged in standard repos. Unfortunately, this set of monitor applets lacks memory usage. Youll find network, cpu, disk space, temperature and infor

Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE

2008-12-28 Thread Allan Lavell
Maybe this would be alright? http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+System+Monitor?content=86664 On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if anyone knows of a good KDE applet for monitoring > system activty, similar to the GNOME one. > I'd real