Have a look at gstreamer. It's a media framework just like xanim wants to be, but it has these advantages:
Open source (xanim is not)
Fuctioning code in cvs (xanim only has a webpage)
Can do advanced stuff like autoplugging (ie. give it a file, video window, and a audio output and it does the rest of the connections. Give it a video input, a audio input, a codec muxer and a network connection, instant video confrencing)
Currently it supports about a lot of the input/output options that xanim says it will support. There are just a few developers working on it. If you can lend a hand I'm sure they would love it.
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Ok, so what? It's just like FreeNet but smaller, and it doesn't have micropayments like MojoNation. This is boring, the state of the art is already one upped it. --
Check out the mailing list. I just asked the same question.
From: Monty Subject: Re: [vorbis-dev] Metadata, file signatures, and extentions
I need to get this one into the FAQ.
> I've been working writing some tools that deal with id3v2 tags on mp3 > files. id3v2 is this really, really long specification with places for > all kinds of metadata for media. > I've looking at the sample vorbis encoder and a file I made from it I > noted that you have some a comment field, and I was wondering if you had > any plans to support more metadata, and if you would consider adding > id3v2 as your metadata format.
id3v2 will not be a part of Vorbis. Ogg bistreams allow mixing streams of any type, and there will be an XML stream type defined for metadata. This is a better solution than id3 in just about every technical sense. The Ogg bitstream code to support this already exists.
The comment fields in the Vorbis header are only for text comments, not arbitrary metadata.
At the top of my wish list (after a really good file manager) is a Mac style menu bar that lives at the proper place, at the top of the screen. As you move between windows and programs the menu bar would change to those program's menu. Will we ever see this in GNOME? --
Not really. You could come up with a patch that looks at the win32 binary and replace the ip address with a new one. It wouldn't take long for that to spead around once people knew about it. --
Easy solution to this: don't build the shared.dat file. I don't know about the Windows version of this but since you have to run a special command to have the list of files it gives to the server you have a very easy way of deciding not to share your bandwidth --
Not very. Granted they have an X server you can download and the glx.so module which lets you play q3test, they havn't released specs for their cards so that stuff like agp support, or even dma texture copies can be done. This means that your framerate in linux is about half of what you get on Windoze (I think, don't have windoze on my machine).
They have released a kernel mod that is supposed to be an interface (they call it a resource manager) to the function I mentioned above, but a) the important code is preprocessed, b) it's for 2.0.34 not 2.2.x and I can't get it to compile even for 2.0.34, c) this is not the way graphics are handled by any other card. This really should be a library or something like that.
The other real open graphics card maker is Matrox. They have released an API that is being used in the glx project . They are getting much higher framerates on a G200 than I get on my TNT2.
From all that I can gather this also means no one as started to work on the XFree 4.0 DRI implementation for Riva cards.
Hopefully this news will get Riva to open up a little more.
Perhaps the demand for a low-end Unix Graphics Workstation with Linux and a GeForce 256 to replace some SGI's will get them moving. --
*.brandeis.edu are slow as heck... I guess they are getting/.ed --
A little story about a 3rd world country...
on
Ask Bruce Sterling
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I spent my teenage years in Papua New Guniea (the 2nd largest island in the world, right above Oz (If you're from there send me a message, love to talk)). One day I was browsing thru a rare bookstore that soon when out of business. I'd only heard a little bit about cyberpunk (mostly thru the infamous Time article) and when I saw a book with Bruce Sterling on the cover I knew it was important for some reason. Unfortually I didn't have the $$ to buy it right then, but when I got home and thought about it I was kicking myself. The name of the book? _Involution Ocean_, Bruce's first book (I think). I'm sure the fact that a rare copy of his first book being found in a 3rd world country right next to 4th class romance novels, and with guys selling newpaper cigarettes, wooden artifacts, and live chickens would bring a smile to his face. I think I'll go kick myself somemore... --
John Bucy at CMU is working on it. I've met John once at a Nashville 2600 and he's pretty cool (if all the 2600 groups were as cool as the 615-2600 group, 2600 would kick a**. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~bucy/IM/ --
Budding Geeks read it. People in HS (me and a whole bunch of others) picked this up and realized there was a big world out there that was more to their taste.
One note: the Time cyberpunk article came out about when the first issue of Wired did. I found that infamous issue of Time in my house and just dropped to the floor and read it. Devoured it. I knew just by the fact that it was in Time the story wasn't totally 100% fact, that didn't ever bother me (besides everyone knows the cyberpunks were a front to get all the yippies spending $$ on net/vr tech, just trying to make it sexy (like Bruce Sterling's Viviran's (sp?) are to the greens). Picked up the 2nd issue of Wired a few weeks later just before I moved overseas. I read it so many times my dad got me a subscription. I learned so much from it.
I have a recent issue of Wired: they may as well have printed "Internet = money" on every page. Sorry wired "Internet = freedom"... --
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Have a look at gstreamer. It's a media framework just like xanim wants to be, but it has these advantages:
Currently it supports about a lot of the input/output options that xanim says it will support. There are just a few developers working on it. If you can lend a hand I'm sure they would love it.
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Ok, so what? It's just like FreeNet but smaller, and it doesn't have micropayments like MojoNation. This is boring, the state of the art is already one upped it.
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Can someone who got this before they were /.'ed please put up a mirror?
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Check out the mailing list. I just asked the same question.
From: Monty
Subject: Re: [vorbis-dev] Metadata, file signatures, and extentions
I need to get this one into the FAQ.
> I've been working writing some tools that deal with id3v2 tags on
mp3
> files. id3v2 is this really, really long specification with places for
> all kinds of metadata for media.
> I've looking at the sample vorbis encoder and a file I made from it
I
> noted that you have some a comment field, and I was wondering if you had
> any plans to support more metadata, and if you would consider adding
> id3v2 as your metadata format.
id3v2 will not be a part of Vorbis. Ogg bistreams allow mixing streams of
any
type, and there will be an XML stream type defined for metadata. This is a
better solution than id3 in just about every technical sense. The Ogg
bitstream code to support this already exists.
The comment fields in the Vorbis header are only for text comments, not
arbitrary metadata.
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At the top of my wish list (after a really good file manager) is a Mac style menu bar that lives at the proper place, at the top of the screen. As you move between windows and programs the menu bar would change to those program's menu. Will we ever see this in GNOME?
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Not really. You could come up with a patch that looks at the win32 binary and replace the ip address with a new one. It wouldn't take long for that to spead around once people knew about it.
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It's certainly doable. I know because I can't stop playing. It's just a lot slower than a Voodoo3 or G200/G400.
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Easy solution to this: don't build the shared.dat file. I don't know about the Windows version of this but since you have to run a special command to have the list of files it gives to the server you have a very easy way of deciding not to share your bandwidth
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I really, really like this idea. How about it Rob(s)? Could you please ask him? Before his 15 mins of fame are up?
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Umm... How hard could it be too fix? Or at least try?
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Not very. Granted they have an X server you can download and the glx.so module which lets you play q3test, they havn't released specs for their cards so that stuff like agp support, or even dma texture copies can be done. This means that your framerate in linux is about half of what you get on Windoze (I think, don't have windoze on my machine).
They have released a kernel mod that is supposed to be an interface (they call it a resource manager) to the function I mentioned above, but a) the important code is preprocessed, b) it's for 2.0.34 not 2.2.x and I can't get it to compile even for 2.0.34, c) this is not the way graphics are handled by any other card. This really should be a library or something like that.
The other real open graphics card maker is Matrox. They have released an API that is being used in the glx project . They are getting much higher framerates on a G200 than I get on my TNT2.
From all that I can gather this also means no one as started to work on the XFree 4.0 DRI implementation for Riva cards.
Hopefully this news will get Riva to open up a little more.
Perhaps the demand for a low-end Unix Graphics Workstation with Linux and a GeForce 256 to replace some SGI's will get them moving.
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Hit paydirt!
http://www.biota.org/ksims/blockies/ index.html
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- http://dendrite.cs.brandeis.edu/proje cts.html
- http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~hornby/lux o1.mov
*.brandeis.edu are slow as heck... I guess they are getting--
I spent my teenage years in Papua New Guniea (the 2nd largest island in the world, right above Oz (If you're from there send me a message, love to talk)). One day I was browsing thru a rare bookstore that soon when out of business. I'd only heard a little bit about cyberpunk (mostly thru the infamous Time article) and when I saw a book with Bruce Sterling on the cover I knew it was important for some reason. Unfortually I didn't have the $$ to buy it right then, but when I got home and thought about it I was kicking myself. The name of the book? _Involution Ocean_, Bruce's first book (I think). I'm sure the fact that a rare copy of his first book being found in a 3rd world country right next to 4th class romance novels, and with guys selling newpaper cigarettes, wooden artifacts, and live chickens would bring a smile to his face. I think I'll go kick myself somemore...
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You got Sterling? You just made my day! I guess I better come up with a good question.
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The new beta only uses 33% of my CPU, it lets me move around in the clips (something I couldn't do before), and double size....
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John Bucy at CMU is working on it. I've met John once at a Nashville 2600 and he's pretty cool (if all the 2600 groups were as cool as the 615-2600 group, 2600 would kick a**. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~bucy/IM/
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Here are some links I was looking for when I wrote the above:
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Budding Geeks read it. People in HS (me and a whole bunch of others) picked this up and realized there was a big world out there that was more to their taste.
One note: the Time cyberpunk article came out about when the first issue of Wired did. I found that infamous issue of Time in my house and just dropped to the floor and read it. Devoured it. I knew just by the fact that it was in Time the story wasn't totally 100% fact, that didn't ever bother me (besides everyone knows the cyberpunks were a front to get all the yippies spending $$ on net/vr tech, just trying to make it sexy (like Bruce Sterling's Viviran's (sp?) are to the greens). Picked up the 2nd issue of Wired a few weeks later just before I moved overseas. I read it so many times my dad got me a subscription. I learned so much from it.
I have a recent issue of Wired: they may as well have printed "Internet = money" on every page. Sorry wired "Internet = freedom"...
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Any DNS lookup I do fails, even trying to get it directly from their dns servers...
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http://www.cryptonomicon.com/main.html seemed to get me in the site
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... is he gay. This is really stupid.
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