I've been using Quicktime 4 Linux for almost a year without any problems. It supports motion JPEG, PNG, RAW, YUV, and audio just fine. It's output is compatible with all the Linux video software. If you want a list of files to edit just run 'dechunk' and it creates the individual JPEG files. Why should I switch to SML?
Quicktime supports arbitrary video sizes, arbitrary frame rate, compression levels, synchronization, seeking, and presumably is only patented at the codec level. It costs a lot less that writing your own library from scratch. It's the standard for DV and it's been open sourced for 9 months, just not by a slashdot sponsor.
>The audio chunks should be encoded one frame >ahead of the video chunks
Don't do this. Instead encode one second of audio data ahead of the first second of video data.
Every time a faster processor comes out, developers think of a way to saturate it in C long before the clock speed ever helps Java. What do you want to spend those clock cycles on: redrawing the GUI or signal processing?
Well integrating your project with a compositing program during the day is better than coding DB anytime. It may be good for Silicon Grail to get film support in Gimp but how many Linux hackers are going to be compositing in film? BTW film costs about $1000 for 30 minutes of stock.
Well this exemplifies how important marketing is. Even to get on slashdot you need a ton of marketing nowadays. For about $700 you can get a motherboard, dual CPU, 18 gig hard drive, video capture, and sound, plus it does a lot more than full duplex video. The only thing that's being marketed is the $1000 TiVo which just does one thing.
Clearly there's a huge gap in productivity if the fed says Americans are more productive than Asians yet Taiwanese are the only race willing to work for peanuts to get Gigabyte's business. Workers who don't need sleep sure make a cheap motherboard. They also make good test subjects for our experimental medical treatments.
Maybe the price of camcorders will go down if Intel licenses USB cheaper. Apple seemed to fix the price of Firewire well out of the range of rational thought, which drove camcorders through the roof.
Graduated in biology. Cleaned toilets for 2 months. Went back to start over in engineering. The engineering classes have 1/4 as many students as the biology classes. What's decreasing is men taking biology classes. Only people who have a choice in breadwinning or staying home flock to biology.
This is the driest article to appear on slashdot ever. As Hemos gets closer and closer to grad school the articles get drier and drier. How about doing something interesting, like teaching lab mice how to roll over.
I got a 10 pack of Mr. Data CD-RWs. They were the cheapest available at the time. One was defective out of the box. Your best defense is to diff -r your CDs.
Well that just about covers any use of GIFs in my software. Unless you're employed and can pay for your software yourself you can't even use GIFlib. Besides, GIF sucks for most anything I would use it for. As long as Unisys regards Linux as hackerware and not the real world, they probably won't sue a commercial Linux site.
Unisys people get fired if they stop thinking about their client's problems. Maybe if they weren't required to use Win NT they wouldn't have to think about their client's problems all night. That OS will break you for sure.
Which is a better way to land a job with your hobby: Writing a development library or writing an app. Together with the guy who wrote Wine, we've seen two people this year land jobs coding their development tools for income but when we look at application programmers the closest was the XMMS programmers getting free soundcards from 4Front but no jobs. Is Linux supposed to be a development platform or what?
Well the only time you need Win32 is the workplace where you've got formality, good rapport with Microsoft, and anti-hackerware mindsets to deal with. Your only use for it will be contracted work and the client pays for your libraries so open source on Win32 doesn't matter.
At home you're using Linux, trying to optimize expenses and code the best software you can. You'll want everything to be free because Linux software you must buy yourself with no clients to foot the bill.
They're trying to reduce income tax revenue while simultaneously trying to increase sales tax revenue. I always heard about the republican's knack for feeding the rich and taxing the poor. An income tax reduction proposal followed by a sales tax increase proposal is as blatantly pro-aristocracy as humanly possible. They're just using the internet's novelty to cover up yet another regressive tax.
So congress wants to lower income taxes and enstate a sales tax on the internet. The income tax reduction would benefit rich and employed people while the regressive sales tax would hurt the poor and unemployed. That sounds like something a republican congress would do. Wait a second. The congress is republican.
I noticed bttv locks up when capturing over 10fps and all software has one workaround or another to defeat this bug. Is this a hardware problem or a driver problem that you've given up on?
What if RedHat put their money into funding applications instead of the basic system services like they've been doing for 3 years? How much more do they benefit from improving the development libraries and utilities than they would from using those development libraries and utilities to do something? An SCO kernel isn't much more useful either.
An 80 gig network would never pass in the USA. Maybe in the Werner Von Braun age we would spend $billions on government projects but you can't even get $1 million for a satellite nowadays. In a way we're a lot more careful than other countries. The problem is that the CS majors who write internet software are more interested in the high bandwidth itself, seeing 1Meg/sec on their downloads, than devising any novel uses for it.
Remember in 1998 when Microsoft invented the acronym OSS to stand for Open Source, but thanks to Microsoft we all started calling it OSS for Open Source Software. Now we're starting to go back to just Open Source. Now DynDNS has been around for several years but now that Microsoft has called it DDNS we can expect everyone to start throwing around the DDNS acronym. Where would we be without the innovation of Microsoft?
They're just offering $2 million of credit, not actual money for writing software. I'm getting ready for a bankruptcy settlement but have been more productive as a Linux hobbyist than I could have ever been answering WinNT service calls for a living. Don't take on a project unless you can pay for it yourself.
Ever since RMS had the cow about not wanting anyone to use the LGPL, they've been making the C libraries binary incompatible while just changing the minor number. Upgrading to Glibc-2.1 just to run this unfinished Mozilla means losing virtually all the software on my system. I actually run stuff besides Netscape, believe it or not.
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I've been using Quicktime 4 Linux for almost a year without any problems. It supports motion JPEG, PNG, RAW, YUV, and audio just fine. It's output is compatible with all the Linux video software. If you want a list of files to edit just run 'dechunk' and it creates the individual JPEG files. Why should I switch to SML?
Quicktime supports arbitrary video sizes, arbitrary frame rate, compression levels, synchronization, seeking, and presumably is only patented at the codec level. It costs a lot less that writing your own library from scratch. It's the standard for DV and it's been open sourced for 9 months, just not by a slashdot sponsor.
>The audio chunks should be encoded one frame >ahead of the video chunks
Don't do this. Instead encode one second of audio data ahead of the first second of video data.
Every time a faster processor comes out, developers think of a way to saturate it in C long before the clock speed ever helps Java. What do you want to spend those clock cycles on: redrawing the GUI or signal processing?
Well integrating your project with a compositing program during the day is better than coding DB anytime. It may be good for Silicon Grail to get film support in Gimp but how many Linux hackers are going to be compositing in film? BTW film costs about $1000 for 30 minutes of stock.
Well this exemplifies how important marketing is. Even to get on slashdot you need a ton of marketing nowadays. For about $700 you can get a motherboard, dual CPU, 18 gig hard drive, video capture, and sound, plus it does a lot more than full duplex video. The only thing that's being marketed is the $1000 TiVo which just does one thing.
Clearly there's a huge gap in productivity if the fed says Americans are more productive than Asians yet Taiwanese are the only race willing to work for peanuts to get Gigabyte's business. Workers who don't need sleep sure make a cheap motherboard. They also make good test subjects for our experimental medical treatments.
Maybe the price of camcorders will go down if Intel licenses USB cheaper. Apple seemed to fix the price of Firewire well out of the range of rational thought, which drove camcorders through the roof.
Graduated in biology. Cleaned toilets for 2 months. Went back to start over in engineering. The engineering classes have 1/4 as many students as the biology classes. What's decreasing is men taking biology classes. Only people who have a choice in breadwinning or staying home flock to biology.
It's called high definition TV, the main purpose being higher resolution.
This is the driest article to appear on slashdot ever. As Hemos gets closer and closer to grad school the articles get drier and drier. How about doing something interesting, like teaching lab mice how to roll over.
I got a 10 pack of Mr. Data CD-RWs. They were the cheapest available at the time. One was defective out of the box. Your best defense is to diff -r your CDs.
Well that just about covers any use of GIFs in my software. Unless you're employed and can pay for your software yourself you can't even use GIFlib. Besides, GIF sucks for most anything I would use it for. As long as Unisys regards Linux as hackerware and not the real world, they probably won't sue a commercial Linux site.
Unisys people get fired if they stop thinking about their client's problems. Maybe if they weren't required to use Win NT they wouldn't have to think about their client's problems all night. That OS will break you for sure.
Which is a better way to land a job with your hobby: Writing a development library or writing an app. Together with the guy who wrote Wine, we've seen two people this year land jobs coding their development tools for income but when we look at application programmers the closest was the XMMS programmers getting free soundcards from 4Front but no jobs. Is Linux supposed to be a development platform or what?
Well the only time you need Win32 is the workplace where you've got formality, good rapport with Microsoft, and anti-hackerware mindsets to deal with. Your only use for it will be contracted work and the client pays for your libraries so open source on Win32 doesn't matter.
At home you're using Linux, trying to optimize expenses and code the best software you can. You'll want everything to be free because Linux software you must buy yourself with no clients to foot the bill.
They're trying to reduce income tax revenue while simultaneously trying to increase sales tax revenue. I always heard about the republican's knack for feeding the rich and taxing the poor. An income tax reduction proposal followed by a sales tax increase proposal is as blatantly pro-aristocracy as humanly possible. They're just using the internet's novelty to cover up yet another regressive tax.
So congress wants to lower income taxes and enstate a sales tax on the internet. The income tax reduction would benefit rich and employed people while the regressive sales tax would hurt the poor and unemployed. That sounds like something a republican congress would do. Wait a second. The congress is republican.
I noticed bttv locks up when capturing over 10fps and all software has one workaround or another to defeat this bug. Is this a hardware problem or a driver problem that you've given up on?
What if RedHat put their money into funding applications instead of the basic system services like they've been doing for 3 years? How much more do they benefit from improving the development libraries and utilities than they would from using those development libraries and utilities to do something? An SCO kernel isn't much more useful either.
Unisys dropped out of R&D back in 1993 like everyone else and switched to consulting. They have no interest in a GIF patent.
An 80 gig network would never pass in the USA. Maybe in the Werner Von Braun age we would spend $billions on government projects but you can't even get $1 million for a satellite nowadays. In a way we're a lot more careful than other countries. The problem is that the CS majors who write internet software are more interested in the high bandwidth itself, seeing 1Meg/sec on their downloads, than devising any novel uses for it.
Remember in 1998 when Microsoft invented the acronym OSS to stand for Open Source, but thanks to Microsoft we all started calling it OSS for Open Source Software. Now we're starting to go back to just Open Source. Now DynDNS has been around for several years but now that Microsoft has called it DDNS we can expect everyone to start throwing around the DDNS acronym. Where would we be without the innovation of Microsoft?
Ever hear the news story about the Fl*rida lawyer who sued her husband for not winning the bread? You're not missing much by being unmarried.
Ever hear the news story about the Fl*rida laywer who sued her husband for not winning the bread? You're not missing much by being unmarried.
They're just offering $2 million of credit, not actual money for writing software. I'm getting ready for a bankruptcy settlement but have been more productive as a Linux hobbyist than I could have ever been answering WinNT service calls for a living. Don't take on a project unless you can pay for it yourself.
Ever since RMS had the cow about not wanting anyone to use the LGPL, they've been making the C libraries binary incompatible while just changing the minor number. Upgrading to Glibc-2.1 just to run this unfinished Mozilla means losing virtually all the software on my system. I actually run stuff besides Netscape, believe it or not.