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

2008-12-28 Thread Markus Heuser
Hey guys, Today i wanted to rip one of my dvds with h264enc from AUR [1]. I updated to the latest available version (8.6.6) but couldn't get it working together with the mencoder from the repos. I'm not asking for support for an AUR package, but here is what I found out and I guess this could

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 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] silent fsck at startup

2009-01-23 Thread Markus Heuser
Hi, are you using the "quiet" parameter in GRUBs "kernel" line? This is what caused fsck to be silent in my case. The problem is that I don't wan't the extremely verbose kerneloutputs when not using "quiet". Besides, it also slows down booting since writing so much text into framebuffer isn't f

Re: [arch-general] silent fsck at startup

2009-01-23 Thread Markus Heuser
Hey Denis, > There is no information of bugreport or feature request about it, so > should it be sane to open a feature request to remove this behaviour? Well, that depends on whether the devs think it's "working as intended". Personally, I don't think that suppressing the progress bar does much

Re: [arch-general] new here and need some help, please...

2009-02-08 Thread Markus Heuser
Hey, Basically ArchLinux Repos are enabled by two lines: 1: [Reponame] 2: Where to find the repo The second line may be a bit tricky, because it be either a specific server (indicated by "Server = http://foo.bar";) or a list of servers resp. mirros (indicated by "Include = /foo/bar"). For the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Linuxtag 2009

2009-03-11 Thread Markus Heuser
Hey guys, > > > http://www.linuxtag.org:80/2009/ > > > 24. till 27. June in Berlin. I'll be there but most time hang at the FSFE-Booth. Since we have no schedule yet I can't tell, when exactly I will be there. So if you guys want have a booth and are short of manpower I can perhaps help out a b