Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:18:44PM +1100, Graeme Merrall wrote: > I've spent the last few days playing with this myself. I've not got > anything down on paper but if you're interested, mail me and I'll try > and fill you in. OK, what's the deal? - --

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-28 Thread Donald Spoon
Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:35:08AM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: As I mentioned, the only problem I had initially was with sound on QuickTime, and that was fixed when I copied over the QT stuff from my previous experiments to the /usr/lib/win31/ directory. This might be fixed in t

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:35:08AM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > As I mentioned, the only problem I had initially was with sound on > QuickTime, and that was fixed when I copied over the QT stuff from my > previous experiments to the /usr/lib/win31/ directory. This might be > fixed in the marilatt

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-28 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Graeme Merrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, 01 March 2003, 12:18 PM +1100): > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:57:37PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:19:50PM -0800, nate wrote: > > > You'll probably need vcdtools, or vcdimager. Or look for tools that > > > can cre

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-28 Thread Graeme Merrall
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:57:37PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:19:50PM -0800, nate wrote: > > You'll probably need vcdtools, or vcdimager. Or look for tools that > > can create/burn .bin/.cue files, this format is what a VCD would > > come in. the .bin contains the raw d

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-28 Thread csj
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:24:45 -0800 (PST), nate wrote: > > Paul Johnson said: > > > Can you use one of those tools that convert bin/cue to get a > > disk image and expect it to work right? Well bin/cues are for cdrdao. And I know of only two free linux that make them: cdrdao and vcdimager. So I d

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-28 Thread csj
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:57:37 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > [1 ] > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:19:50PM -0800, nate wrote: > > You'll probably need vcdtools, or vcdimager. Or look for tools that > > can create/burn .bin/.cue files, this format is what a VCD would > > come in. the .bin contains the

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:35:08AM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > Since I did all of the above, I have notice debian packages at the > marillat.free.fr site for the win32 codecs and for the mozilla plug-in. > I have NOT installed these, since I already had it working from the > above. You might

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-28 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 17:46, Robert Storey wrote: > On 27 Feb 2003 11:05:05 -0500 > "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > with my options to ./configure, I can sit back and watch my business and > > news channels over the Internet 24/7, and check the vcds I'm burning of > > my parents'

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-28 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 23:19, nate wrote: > Robert Storey said: > > > > Greetings Mark. You piqued my interest when you mentioned "burning VCDs." > > Under Linux, I have not been able to either copy or roll-my-own VCDs. > > Xcdroast, for example, seems to copy VCDs fine - but the copies won't > > pl

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Donald Spoon
Marc Wilson wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:37:39PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: The only problem was that I had to grab the Quicktime win32 audio dlls to get sound going. I've fiddled and fiddled and gotten nowhere with doing this. All I was ever able to make mplayer do was segfault in various

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Paul Johnson said: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:24:45PM -0800, nate wrote: >> there used to be a program called binchunker which I used to >> use to burn bin/cue looks like that's replaced with bchunk, >> though never used it, and don't know if it's a write-only program or if >> it can read/create

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:24:45PM -0800, nate wrote: > there used to be a program called binchunker which I used to > use to burn bin/cue looks like that's replaced with bchunk, > though never used it, and don't know if it's a write-only program > or if it can read/create bin/cue too. I think bch

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:57:37PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm also having difficulty finding some decent VCD documentation. I > see plenty for Red Hat. I'll admit I'm way too lazy to go alien in > some of the tools it mentions, though...there's gotta be a Debian > solution... It's not hard

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread Michael Waters
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:46 +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Greetings Mark. You piqued my interest when you mentioned "burning > VCDs." Under Linux, I have not been able to either copy or > roll-my-own VCDs. Xcdroast, for example, seems to copy VCDs fine - > but the copies won't play. Most any Wind

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Paul Johnson said: > Can you use one of those tools that convert bin/cue to get a disk > image and expect it to work right? if you mean convert from an ISO to a bin/cue I don't think so, though never tried it. If you mean convert from bin/cue to raw mpeg that should work(for playback using a mpeg

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:19:50PM -0800, nate wrote: > You'll probably need vcdtools, or vcdimager. Or look for tools that > can create/burn .bin/.cue files, this format is what a VCD would > come in. the .bin contains the raw data, and the .cue tells the > CD software how to burn it. Can you use

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:37:39PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > The only problem was that I had to grab the Quicktime win32 audio dlls to > get sound going. I've fiddled and fiddled and gotten nowhere with doing this. All I was ever able to make mplayer do was segfault in various interesting ways

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Robert Storey said: > > Greetings Mark. You piqued my interest when you mentioned "burning VCDs." > Under Linux, I have not been able to either copy or roll-my-own VCDs. > Xcdroast, for example, seems to copy VCDs fine - but the copies won't > play. Most any Windows burner program I've used can at

VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Storey
On 27 Feb 2003 11:05:05 -0500 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > with my options to ./configure, I can sit back and watch my business and > news channels over the Internet 24/7, and check the vcds I'm burning of > my parents' home movies (they converted 8 mm film that had broken > numero

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 06:16, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:54:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > mplayer is quite slick. I really like how the GUI is optional in > > mplayer, and fail to grasp how people coming from Windows see this as > > a bug. Media players don't need 40,00

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:16:07AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > In fact I don't think I've ever even got mplayer's GUI to work. I guess > if I had to I'd figure it out, but there's really so little incentive to > do so ... Go paruse /etc/mplayer.conf...you might want to change the vo and ao option

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:54:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > mplayer is quite slick. I really like how the GUI is optional in > mplayer, and fail to grasp how people coming from Windows see this as > a bug. Media players don't need 40,000 pounds of chrome over them > about as much as they need

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:37:39PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > I d/l the tarball from sourceforge.net as soon as I saw this & installed > it. It IS "neat"! The only problem was that I had to grab the > Quicktime win32 audio dlls to get sound going. With this addition, > mplayer is now funct

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-26 Thread Donald Spoon
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 06:44, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:19:14PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- may choose to use, however, are non-free. And there is actually an mplayer plugin available that works pretty well. http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 06:44, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:19:14PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- > > may choose to use, however, are non-free. And there is actually an > > mplayer plugin available that works pretty well. > > > > http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net > > >

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:19:14PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 03:16, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Not a plugin for it, but mplayer will play them. It's non-free and > > only in unofficial packages. > > > > Actually, mplayer proper is free (GPL'd). Some of the codecs that yo

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:17:04PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:32:34PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > > Another site I frequent uses streaming Windows Media. Am I totally out > > of luck there? I know there's this Crossover package that will run WM, > > but it's definitel

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:32:34PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > Another site I frequent uses streaming Windows Media. Am I totally out > of luck there? I know there's this Crossover package that will run WM, > but it's definitely non-free. As a couple of other people mentioned, mplayer can han

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 03:16, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:32:34PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote: --snip-- > > Another site I frequent uses streaming Windows Media. Am I totally out > > of luck there? I know there's this Crossover package that will run WM, > > but it's definitely n

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:32:34PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > newbie like me to be able to get it working under Mozilla (I had a hard > enough time figuring out how to symbolically link the Java stuff to > Mozilla to get it working--mind you I had no idea what a symbolic link > was until doing th

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-22 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 02:32, M. Kirchhoff wrote: [...] > Another site I frequent uses streaming Windows Media. Am I totally out > of luck there? I know there's this Crossover package that will run WM, > but it's definitely non-free. I haven't run into needing RealPlayer > support yet, but I wo

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-22 Thread Sharninder
> Hello, howdy !! new convert !! i'm sure u'll never go back to microshit again ... > I am a newbie to both Linux and Debian, so let me immediately > apologize for my ignorance in my statements! I've tried many > distributions, everyone of us was a newbie at one point of time ... don't be sorry

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-21 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:32:34PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > Another site I frequent uses streaming Windows Media. Am I totally out > of luck there? I know there's this Crossover package that will run WM, > but it's definitely non-free. I haven't run into needing RealPlayer > support yet, but

(Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-21 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Hello, I am a newbie to both Linux and Debian, so let me immediately apologize for my ignorance in my statements! I've tried many distributions, including Red Hat, Mandrake, Lycoris, Lindows, Elx, SuSe, and Vector, and so far I've found Debian to be most to my liking in terms of its excellent philo