Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:04 +0900, Chris White wrote: > On Thursday 15 December 2005 13:51, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > 3. with a video file recorded from my digital still camera[1], I can't > > fast forward or re-wind (on the device). Is this a "feature" of AVI, or > > probably of the device? (A

[gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly

2005-12-14 Thread Justin Krejci
I have a system with a 1.33Ghz Athlon-XP with a decently fast IDE hard drive I have a system with a 1.80Ghz AMD64 with a decently fast IDE hard drive When I run "emerge -s whatever" or "emerge sync" or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD6

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and fstab

2005-12-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2005 17:18 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > udev handles the creation of the device nodes, mounting is handled by > hal. hal normally creates its own mount points in /media, but if the > device is listed in /etc/fstab, it will use whatever is in there. How do you know that m

Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 12:59 +0900, Chris White wrote: > > mencoder / transcode > > DivX > > > DivX-5.x > > Resolution : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Bit Rate : 4Mbps > > Audio : MPEG-1 Layer III, AAC, ADPCM > > Format :.AVI , > > Remark:DivX-3.x/4.x unsupported > > Pick this hmm,

[gentoo-user] Slow internet connection

2005-12-14 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I recently upgraded gcc and to KDE 3.5. I have a dial-up connection and a serial modem. I did a emerge -e system twice and a emerge -e world during the gcc upgrade. I then upgraded KDE. Since I did this my modem connection has been really slow. It connects at the same speed but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Crawford
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 19:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Isn't /etc/package/provides the proper way to do this as inject is > >> deprecated? > > > > It's: > > /etc/portage/profi

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

2005-12-14 Thread Matan Peled
Matthias Langer wrote: Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet connection suffers greatly, allthogh i've 384 kbit/s up and 3072 kbit/s down. I know that there are some approaches to solve this kind of problem by categorizing packets and assign different priorit

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