ffmpeg should handle wma9 just fine, although they do not support wma pro yet.
>That's the real sucky thing for us on 64-bit platforms that can't easily use the 32-bit Windows DLL's.
I used to use those with w32codecs, but now there is just w64codecs, which only has 3.so files for Real support. I guess modern versions of w32codecs are the same.
>Unless these were using an SVN build this really surprises me.
Actually, everyone (vlc, mplayer, xine) was using VCS snapshots.
>Is WMV9 what WMP10 and WMP11 use?
Yes. WMV9 is the latest version. It is related to VC-1 and descended from MPEG-4 part 2, and is a competitor to MPEG-4 part 10/AVC/h.264/whatever-you-want-to-call-it
No it doesn't. Wine's DX support sits on top of the Linux graphics stack, which means X and Mesa/OGL. Wine's DX doesn't support any hardware on its own.
Get off you lawn? I am only 27 and I have been using *nix for about 10 years. And fortunately, I learned long ago that gui configurators are bad (RH 5.x linuxconfig helped with that).
When I saw that screenshot of Mandrake it really took me back. Mandrake 7 or maybe 6 was my very first Distro.
I had package of 8 or so distros on CDs from (I think) Linux Mall. I tried Mandrake first because I heard it was the easiest. For some time, as I moved back and forth between Win2k and trying out different Distros (Storm, Corel, Red Hat), Mandrake was the Linux I kept coming back to.
Then of course I finally saw the brilliance of apt and Debian (though the article's pic of dselect brought back some bad memories).
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APT - Advanced Package Tool
>WMV9 but no WMA9 support
ffmpeg should handle wma9 just fine, although they do not support wma pro yet.
>That's the real sucky thing for us on 64-bit platforms that can't easily use the 32-bit Windows DLL's.
I used to use those with w32codecs, but now there is just w64codecs, which only has 3 .so files for Real support. I guess modern versions of w32codecs are the same.
>the belligerent blue bike shed
clearly the bike shed should be red
>Unless these were using an SVN build this really surprises me.
Actually, everyone (vlc, mplayer, xine) was using VCS snapshots.
>Is WMV9 what WMP10 and WMP11 use?
Yes. WMV9 is the latest version. It is related to VC-1 and descended from MPEG-4 part 2, and is a competitor to MPEG-4 part 10/AVC/h.264/whatever-you-want-to-call-it
No it doesn't. Wine's DX support sits on top of the Linux graphics stack, which means X and Mesa/OGL. Wine's DX doesn't support any hardware on its own.
>Do you sit and wait for phoronix to update OpenGL
Phoronix is a Linux graphics news website. They talk about OGL, but they certainly don't make it, Khronos does.
Duck season! Fire!
I recently saw a blog post contemplating what it would be like if Jorg Schilling (cdrtools/cdrecord) got in an argument with Daniel Bernstein.
I figure for real entertainment, add in ESR, the XFree86 guys and Tuomov (Ion WM)
RTFA. He is blind because of problems in his retina, not in his brain.
Seriously. Geneticists have been talking about this for quite some time now, it isn't all that new.
cat /etc/issue
or look at /etc/apt/sources.list
>Motorhead
>great soundtrack
I see a flaw in your plan... ;-)
>keep away license restricted software
I don't think that is something we need to worry about too much, since our last big fight was over the inclusion of non-free *firmware*.
*wanders off, grumbling about those freedom-hating "firmware isn't software, and so can be non-free" guys*
*your
Get off you lawn? I am only 27 and I have been using *nix for about 10 years. And fortunately, I learned long ago that gui configurators are bad (RH 5.x linuxconfig helped with that).
I use sid now, but I used to use "testing", and you should be aware of this issue, but it isn't anything you can't ride out.
Personally, I run sid/experimental updated every time I feel like it.
Aside from security, it can be a rough ride as packages held in Sid flood into testing.
Some of us noted that it was KDE 4.*0* and that it was the first QT4 release.
And the nature of KDE 4.0 was quite apparent if you did any reading of Planet KDE.
KDE releases every six months, so Squeeze should get 4.3 at very least, and 4.4 is likely. 4.5 is even a slight possibility, I would guess.
PC/GEOS aka GeoWorks!
So much better than win3.1
Personally, I thank Linuxconf for screwing up my config often enough to convince me that gui configurators are a terrible idea
When I saw that screenshot of Mandrake it really took me back. Mandrake 7 or maybe 6 was my very first Distro.
I had package of 8 or so distros on CDs from (I think) Linux Mall. I tried Mandrake first because I heard it was the easiest. For some time, as I moved back and forth between Win2k and trying out different Distros (Storm, Corel, Red Hat), Mandrake was the Linux I kept coming back to.
Then of course I finally saw the brilliance of apt and Debian (though the article's pic of dselect brought back some bad memories).
>Ken Thompson
>Dennis Richie
>Brian Kernighan
>Bill Joy
Yep :-)
It is actually "famous computer people":
Alan Turing
Grace Hopper
Others on my list for future use include Stallman, Knuth, Pike, ect. But some of those would have made it too obvious ;-)
Had to google that, but it seems reasonable