I like Kdenlive, but I can't edit most over-the-air HD content. Most of the time when I import the video clip, the video is white (effectively no video), but there is audio.
Video plays in Xine (but audio messes up) and VLC after a brief stutter at the start plays the audio and video perfectly.
Despite posting samples from videos, nobody has come up as to why Kdenlive does this. I can only guess that the software starts recording in the wrong part of a GOP, and that's what is screwing up the playback / editing of video. It's also strange because Kdenlive will edit my HD video camera footage without problem.
Having said that, Avidemux is good basic editing apart from MPEG4 footage where it cannot keep frame accuracy with audio (keeps on warning to accept or reject it's recommendations on file opening, but makes no difference).
I suppose it's easier to summarise that video editing software is still a bit of a black art.
Damn, you just beat the UK way of introducing it's so called "Digital Economy Act". The proposed law was rambling through parliament, then a general election was called (last possible moment it could have been called).
In a process called "wash up", all the proposed laws that were still going though parliament were rammed through in 2 days flat with next to no discussion, because they HAD to be rammed through. And so the UK is lumped with it's own version of the bastard DMCA, with no scrutiny of it whatsoever.
As a result of that election, the UK elected a coalition government, which is not as strong as straightforward one party win. However, the coalition love the Digital Economy Act so much, they refused to repeal it.
That's your answer to siding with consumers, brown envelopes talk for governments / politicians. The person that originally sponsored the bill was spotted multiple times schmoozing in the Mediterraniean on VERY expensive yachts, with Hollywood executives - that's how you get laws made in the UK.
More changes for changes sake. I use Linux but I had to buy Win7 for testing. It is even more annoying than WinXP in so far as something small as the file manager in Win7. You can select the files, it tells you how many you selected, but it no longer says how many MB / GB of files you selected. It's stupid little things that Microsoft have take away that have made Win7 even more maddening for ex-WinXP users.
Why can't Microsoft just fix Windows first then worry about everything else?
I am glad I have a choice and stick with Linux and KDE4.
Get the police to raid the offices of the ASA AND the homes of everyone that works for them, just to check on the copyright status of the files on their iPods, mobile phones etc..
The ASA has been a quite useless regulator, picking on crap but letting big stuff slide.
Hey, the British sent a Concorde to the USA on retirement despite Concorde being hated (mostly by environmentalists). How about sending a Shuttle to the UK for display?
.... Neither the EU nor US have actually banned incandescent bulbs - they just set efficiency standards high enough that no energy efficient light bulb can light a room without you squinting.
Fixed that for you.
Why aren't we replacing this generation of shuttles with an updated and improved "Mk.II" version?
Speaking as a non-American so looking at it dispassionately, it looks like Mr.Obama had a bigger priority of keeping whoreporations like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan rich, then keeping the Shuttle going.
Not that it's any better in other parts of the world who have also bowed down to the banking whoreporations.
ID cards help fraudsters, they provide a valid "government backed" way of proving something that is not necessarily true. How do spies have multiple identities despite these "fraud proof" ID cards? It is a scam to get people on the databases for a dark future the governments plan. Drip drip, your freedom is being taken from under your noses.
It is more worrying that they are getting at the children, so they get used to these cards and think nothing of them... then when they grow older they will blame their parents for doing nothing about the cards, and enslaving them and future generations.
I could demand FLAC, but not many people use the format or know what it is. A quick experience I had. After a system crash I decided to upgrade from WinXP to Win7 (I very rarely use Windows, and it's only there for testing). There is no default support for FLAC in Windows, in fact, the only lossless format I did find support for is WAV (PCM).
If Windows does not provide support out of the box for FLAC, and to add it to Windows Media Player needs hacking of the registry, you can see why not many people would use the format, or even know of it's existence. It also does not help that there are multiple websites that proport to add FLAC support, but which Windows package really is genuine, or spyware?
I use FLAC on my Linux setup, my PMP, and phone (it's a deal breaker with me that an "MP3" player MUST support FLAC).
To solve the problem is VERY simple, but the politicians don't like it. When you move to summer time, move the clocks 1/2 hour forward instead of 1 hour... and then LEAVE them there. No more going forwards and backwards wasting time changing countless clocks and gadgets, and no more bickering about moving the timezone multiple hours forward like the UK had recently just to please some European fascists.
For those that are in the UK, they may recall a few years ago now a terrible series called "Killer Net", about a game that was played online, where the user in this show was deciding how to bump off people in "the game", except it wasn't a game, they were really getting bumped off.
Not bad enough for a plot? Well, they had FULL frame FULL frame-rate video and high quality audio, all being delivered over a crappy 28k analogue modem.
Linux users would love to have a Skype update that would say,,, acknowledge the existence of KDE4, QT4, PulseAudio (properly), and dare I say sometime this century - 64bits!!! We don't care about Facebook or all the other garbage that has been shoved into the Windows version of Skype.
Skype users on Linux have had no update in 2 years (we don't all use that hideous brown Linux version).
I would tend to agree that software is driving down demands for brains.
I went for my very first job interview for coding, and the "human resources" interviewing me said that my knowledge of and ability to write code in a text editor was irrelevant, because "We have templates for that". Maybe they liked their bloat code?
From my point of view in the UK, streaming music is the least of the record companies problems.......
1. CD's have not got appreciably cheaper despite manufacturing costs having become so.
2. Online stores that sell individual tracks have got more expensive (and the media companies enforce their region cartels to stop shopping around for tracks).
3. CD's keep on getting remastered and the sound quality gets butchered because the record companies seem to think I like their idiotic loudness war. I return CD's like this.
4. Compilation CD's are also remastered sound (see point3 ).
5. Tracks from online stores still do not offer FLAC as default.
6. I have more important things to spend my money on.
7. These days, record companies push what is laughably described as music, more descriptive to say it's noise.
8. If your "artists" need to strip to their g-strings in videos and concerts to sell stuff, you should have figured by now your business is totally screwed.
9. Not one song I can recall from mid-1990's onwards can ever become a classic, they are just cr@p. Record companies have done this suicide without outside help.
All in all, I think it's obvious that I will continue to spend less and less on music. It is up to the illegal record company cartel to change their ways to make music attractive. Suing people for copying is NOT going to get more people to buy music.
I have no sympathy for the position the film and music companies have got THEMSELVES in.
What a mess. Ubuntu / Canonical rubbing people up the wrong way again.
Thank goodness for Amarok.... that is, when Amarok developers eventually get their fingers out of their behind and add back all the features they stripped from KDE3 Amarok 1 for the so called "improved" KDE4 Amarok 2 version.
Of course they would clear the fiddling of climate data, if they didn't, how do you think the Western governments could get away with screwing more money from taxpayers to prop up the crooked bankers and politicians?
The MPAA is optimistic about its legislative prospects this Congress
Well, at least we know the politicians will not investigate the ilegal movie and music cartels and their protection rackets. You buy our crap or else.....
I detest people who think my email address is so meaningless that they use it in CC field instead of BCC, and soon enough thanks to their ignorance and arrogance, I get spam email from the compromised Windows boxes.
Anyone that uses CC instead of BCC should be shot at dawn.
After 20 seconds they should have realised that they should have tested more, and fired the programmers for allowing such mistakes. This is nothing to do with Linux.
You'd think the LSE would have learnt from their last computer system rollout which also had massive problems. No quality control = management problem.
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Is it a bug or feature of "Open" ID?
I like Kdenlive, but I can't edit most over-the-air HD content. Most of the time when I import the video clip, the video is white (effectively no video), but there is audio.
Video plays in Xine (but audio messes up) and VLC after a brief stutter at the start plays the audio and video perfectly.
Despite posting samples from videos, nobody has come up as to why Kdenlive does this. I can only guess that the software starts recording in the wrong part of a GOP, and that's what is screwing up the playback / editing of video. It's also strange because Kdenlive will edit my HD video camera footage without problem.
Having said that, Avidemux is good basic editing apart from MPEG4 footage where it cannot keep frame accuracy with audio (keeps on warning to accept or reject it's recommendations on file opening, but makes no difference).
I suppose it's easier to summarise that video editing software is still a bit of a black art.
Damn, you just beat the UK way of introducing it's so called "Digital Economy Act". The proposed law was rambling through parliament, then a general election was called (last possible moment it could have been called).
In a process called "wash up", all the proposed laws that were still going though parliament were rammed through in 2 days flat with next to no discussion, because they HAD to be rammed through. And so the UK is lumped with it's own version of the bastard DMCA, with no scrutiny of it whatsoever.
As a result of that election, the UK elected a coalition government, which is not as strong as straightforward one party win. However, the coalition love the Digital Economy Act so much, they refused to repeal it.
That's your answer to siding with consumers, brown envelopes talk for governments / politicians. The person that originally sponsored the bill was spotted multiple times schmoozing in the Mediterraniean on VERY expensive yachts, with Hollywood executives - that's how you get laws made in the UK.
So they have now created a new invention, a house to act as a microwave oven. Quick, where are the patent lawyers.
More changes for changes sake. I use Linux but I had to buy Win7 for testing. It is even more annoying than WinXP in so far as something small as the file manager in Win7. You can select the files, it tells you how many you selected, but it no longer says how many MB / GB of files you selected. It's stupid little things that Microsoft have take away that have made Win7 even more maddening for ex-WinXP users.
Why can't Microsoft just fix Windows first then worry about everything else?
I am glad I have a choice and stick with Linux and KDE4.
Get the police to raid the offices of the ASA AND the homes of everyone that works for them, just to check on the copyright status of the files on their iPods, mobile phones etc..
The ASA has been a quite useless regulator, picking on crap but letting big stuff slide.
Hey, the British sent a Concorde to the USA on retirement despite Concorde being hated (mostly by environmentalists). How about sending a Shuttle to the UK for display?
.... Neither the EU nor US have actually banned incandescent bulbs - they just set efficiency standards high enough that no energy efficient light bulb can light a room without you squinting. Fixed that for you.
Why aren't we replacing this generation of shuttles with an updated and improved "Mk.II" version?
Speaking as a non-American so looking at it dispassionately, it looks like Mr.Obama had a bigger priority of keeping whoreporations like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan rich, then keeping the Shuttle going.
Not that it's any better in other parts of the world who have also bowed down to the banking whoreporations.
I predict a dark future for Michio Kaku's new book.... namely, the bargain bin.
Where's Jullian Assange when you need him?
ID cards help fraudsters, they provide a valid "government backed" way of proving something that is not necessarily true. How do spies have multiple identities despite these "fraud proof" ID cards? It is a scam to get people on the databases for a dark future the governments plan. Drip drip, your freedom is being taken from under your noses.
It is more worrying that they are getting at the children, so they get used to these cards and think nothing of them... then when they grow older they will blame their parents for doing nothing about the cards, and enslaving them and future generations.
I could demand FLAC, but not many people use the format or know what it is. A quick experience I had. After a system crash I decided to upgrade from WinXP to Win7 (I very rarely use Windows, and it's only there for testing). There is no default support for FLAC in Windows, in fact, the only lossless format I did find support for is WAV (PCM).
If Windows does not provide support out of the box for FLAC, and to add it to Windows Media Player needs hacking of the registry, you can see why not many people would use the format, or even know of it's existence. It also does not help that there are multiple websites that proport to add FLAC support, but which Windows package really is genuine, or spyware?
I use FLAC on my Linux setup, my PMP, and phone (it's a deal breaker with me that an "MP3" player MUST support FLAC).
To solve the problem is VERY simple, but the politicians don't like it. When you move to summer time, move the clocks 1/2 hour forward instead of 1 hour... and then LEAVE them there. No more going forwards and backwards wasting time changing countless clocks and gadgets, and no more bickering about moving the timezone multiple hours forward like the UK had recently just to please some European fascists.
Recent campaign for UK to be on Berlin Time
Portugal wants to move back to GMT
For those that are in the UK, they may recall a few years ago now a terrible series called "Killer Net", about a game that was played online, where the user in this show was deciding how to bump off people in "the game", except it wasn't a game, they were really getting bumped off.
Not bad enough for a plot? Well, they had FULL frame FULL frame-rate video and high quality audio, all being delivered over a crappy 28k analogue modem.
Killer Net.
Why videogames "struggle" with sex?
Because the games are written by nerds, who don't get any, so have nothing to compare with real life. Just my guess. :)
Linux users would love to have a Skype update that would say,,, acknowledge the existence of KDE4, QT4, PulseAudio (properly), and dare I say sometime this century - 64bits!!! We don't care about Facebook or all the other garbage that has been shoved into the Windows version of Skype. Skype users on Linux have had no update in 2 years (we don't all use that hideous brown Linux version).
I would tend to agree that software is driving down demands for brains.
I went for my very first job interview for coding, and the "human resources" interviewing me said that my knowledge of and ability to write code in a text editor was irrelevant, because "We have templates for that". Maybe they liked their bloat code?
Surely a masochist for putting his system through so many reboots!
From my point of view in the UK, streaming music is the least of the record companies problems.......
1. CD's have not got appreciably cheaper despite manufacturing costs having become so.
2. Online stores that sell individual tracks have got more expensive (and the media companies enforce their region cartels to stop shopping around for tracks).
3. CD's keep on getting remastered and the sound quality gets butchered because the record companies seem to think I like their idiotic loudness war. I return CD's like this.
4. Compilation CD's are also remastered sound (see point3 ).
5. Tracks from online stores still do not offer FLAC as default.
6. I have more important things to spend my money on.
7. These days, record companies push what is laughably described as music, more descriptive to say it's noise.
8. If your "artists" need to strip to their g-strings in videos and concerts to sell stuff, you should have figured by now your business is totally screwed.
9. Not one song I can recall from mid-1990's onwards can ever become a classic, they are just cr@p. Record companies have done this suicide without outside help.
All in all, I think it's obvious that I will continue to spend less and less on music. It is up to the illegal record company cartel to change their ways to make music attractive. Suing people for copying is NOT going to get more people to buy music.
I have no sympathy for the position the film and music companies have got THEMSELVES in.
What a mess. Ubuntu / Canonical rubbing people up the wrong way again.
Thank goodness for Amarok.... that is, when Amarok developers eventually get their fingers out of their behind and add back all the features they stripped from KDE3 Amarok 1 for the so called "improved" KDE4 Amarok 2 version.
Of course they would clear the fiddling of climate data, if they didn't, how do you think the Western governments could get away with screwing more money from taxpayers to prop up the crooked bankers and politicians?
The MPAA is optimistic about its legislative prospects this Congress
Well, at least we know the politicians will not investigate the ilegal movie and music cartels and their protection rackets. You buy our crap or else.....
I detest people who think my email address is so meaningless that they use it in CC field instead of BCC, and soon enough thanks to their ignorance and arrogance, I get spam email from the compromised Windows boxes.
Anyone that uses CC instead of BCC should be shot at dawn.
It is CC that should be killed off.
An attempt to rubbish Linux.
After 20 seconds they should have realised that they should have tested more, and fired the programmers for allowing such mistakes. This is nothing to do with Linux.
You'd think the LSE would have learnt from their last computer system rollout which also had massive problems. No quality control = management problem.