What operating system are you using? I used to have that problem with flash in Linux. A new release of flash, about six months back, fixed the problem for me.
The only thing keeping me switching is spellchecking in text boxes on forums. I've been loving this feature ever since it first appeared in Konqueror. Trying to live without it would be like trying to browse without tabs.
Everyone could live near work, but few are willing to change their lifestyle.
I think you're overestimating the pay in a lot of areas. For a lot of people, moving closer to their work wouldn't mean a slightly smaller house. It would mean going from house to apartment, or large apartment to small one which would have to be shared with roomates.
I know it was satire, but it's not hard to imagine robots living off the powerful medicines we old people use!
Oh no! You missed the warning at the end, that people denying the existence of robots may themselves be robots. They've been lying to us, time to ruuuuunnn!
Never tried doing so myself, but Morphix is supposed to be pretty easy to add new programs to. They also have a few different main builds, one of which is called lightGUI, and comes in at less than 200MB.
I have to disagree on the importance of theming. True it's not a media player, but it is something I'm going to be staring at for hours at a time. When it's something I'm spending that amount of time with, I want it to look nice.
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*Hello* -- this is Slashdot! Give us a link!;)
I'll second that! I know next to nothing about the subject, and I'd love to take a look at something like this.
I'd love to see a write up on video encoding on linux, maybe I'll do one myself.
I forgot to mention, that if you do take this on, Doom9's Linux
forum is probaly the single best source of information out there to start with.
I think there's a real need for a site centered on video editing, capturing and encoding under Linux. It was probaly the single biggest challenge for me moving to Linux, simply because all the information out there is so scattered. Compiling some information is something I keep meaning to do, but never seem to be able to find the time and energy for.
Ffdshow is an easy replacement, as it's based on a Linux project, ffmpeg.
The extent of my encoding comes from recording TV or VHS tapes and throwing a few filters at them for cleanup and encoding. So I've never had a chance to become familiar with what features avisynth has. Some people over at Doom9's Linux forum have mentioned getting Avisynth
running in wine.
Tmpgenc should be a pretty easy replacement. Transcode seems to be a favorite for mpeg2 encoding. There was a problem when I first started using Linux, which slowed mpeg encoding to a snails pace for a while, and I've never found a chance to get back to see how it works when fully functional. A lot of peoplel swear by it though, and it's feature list is pretty impressive. Avidemux, as well as quite a few other programs also provide mpeg1 encoding, I think through ffmpeg.
Everything in VirtualDub/VirtualDubMod except video capture should work fine under wine and that's what I used for quite a while before Avidemux appeared. The design and functionality are very similar to virtualdub, and it also includes encoding to mpeg1.
One of the two best media players for Linux, Mplayer, should be noted to have better support for matroska, in cvs, than is available for the format under windows. And these tools can be used for creation and editing of matroska files.
For capture from a tv card, I use nuppelvideo, and then use avidemux to edit and convert to a smaller format.
I'm always a little surprised when I see opensource 2D games written in DirectX, especially when they mention plans to port it to another platform. I'm not about to tell anyone how to code when they do it for their own amusement, and I can see why someone might want to stick with an API they're familiar with, but when the issue of porting comes in using DirectX just boggles my mind.
I think a lot of people simply aren't even familiar with SDL, WxWindows, or other multiplatform solutions yet. I make it a point to actively plug SDL and WxWindows in the documentation of anything I actually put out that uses them, and explain why I chose them over anything else.
I predict that "Where's the Beef?" jokes (currently in hibernation since the 80's) will reappear on the cultural landscape in 2005, as the Longhorn release date is inevitably delayed by Microsoft...
The answer on Slashdot, of course, will be either "In SOVIET RUSSIA!" or 42.
You've stated exactly the problem I have with Enterprise as well. After Voyager, the series was in desperate need of something to differentiate itself from the previous shows. The sense of newness, and seeing our treky protagonists as a tiny fish in a huge ocean is what I was all prepared to love. Instead we've gotten a couple episodes with these aspects, but the vast majority could be flipped over with Voyager or TNG, universal translators and everything. I like the universe enough that more of the same makes for an acceptable show, but it's such a wasted potential. Instead of what could have been a great show that I eagerly looked foreward to, it's just something I watch when I have a little extra time in the week.
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Can I develop Windows applications from within Linux now?
You'll still want to have windows around to test the results every once and awhile, but WxWindows might be worth looking into. I don't know if it would have everything you need, but I've been very impressed with it. In theory, you should be able to compile your code for Linux, Mac, or Windows, and have the results look and run as a native application on all platforms. I wouldn't recommend doing a crosscompile and never checking out the results on windows, but for the most part I've been quite happy with the crossplatform development WxWindows opens up. For me, the end result is just having to reboot into windows to do a little tweaking every couple weeks, and I've never really ran into any major problems. I've also been using python wrappers around it (wxpython) for a few months , and have been even more blown away. After wxpython was installed on my windows partition, it was as simple as copying over my code and watching as it ran, with no changes, on a totally different operating system than I'd done the development on. The reverse should be equally true though. Get a handle on WxWindows development in windows, and your programs should only need a little tweaking to work in OS X or Linux.
You might want to take a look at Knoppix , to see how you take to Linux. It's basically a Debian install which runs entirely off of a CD, never touching your hard drive. Mandrake or Suse would have a lot more in terms of configuration utilities, but Knoppix should at least give you a good idea of where Linux has gone in the past few years.
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I mean, how hard is it to use portable libraries and code from the beginning?
Seriously. It never ceases to amaze me when I see programs meant from the beginning to run on multiple platforms, yet written in DirectX. Neverwinter Nights being the prime example of this. It just seems like a bad decision to maintain two separate codebases like this. I only muck around writing 2D, and fairly simple 3D, but I consider it not compiling on any supported platform, with no changes needed, to be an error which should be fixed immediately. It took me a little time to get WxWindows down, but I've saved that many times over in not having to do what amounts to writing two programs to do the same function.
Yeah, that would be fuckin' great. Just imagine the innane stupid laws we would get if the legislators were as stupid as the general populace.
Are they really any more intelligent? Certainly most have lived lives where they were given a better education than most people off the street. But for some reason, it seems as if much of this education rolls off their back, as much as the public school education slipped by your high-school drop out.
What's worse, people don't seem to grasp that the government officials are often just as ignorent about many issues as the general public, sometimes more. It's extreamly depressing to think that scientific and medical issues are being decided by people who often have less grasp of them than a kid sleeping through his middle school science class.
One of the most depressing moments of my life came when I heard a tape of a reporter discussing how the current drug laws came into being. It was obvious no one involved had any idea what was going on, and it was all coming down to little clique warfare betwean the parties.
You seem to be missing the same point here that the TiVo posters keep ignoring as well. Using the best product for the job is logical, but there are more jobs out there than the one you're interested in! If I want to be able to archive my shows to a CD in ogm format, and don't care about the recommended shows feature, than a computer will do a better job for me than a TiVo. A hundred people screaming that I should be using TiVo doesn't change the fact that they're confusing what's an important feature for them, with what's an important feature for me.
The same goes with games on Linux. If I only buy one or two games per year, and they run on the operating system I use, why should I waste my drive space with another operating system in order to have the ability to play games I neither own nor care about? I'd get a considerable disadvantage, and the only plus I'd gain from it is being able to say I'm "a gamer" rather than just someone who enjoys playing computer games every now and again. If there's no real advantage for me, and several disadvantages, how can Windows possibly be the right tool for the job in my case!
As much as I hate it, I think this is good point. Another problem is how much of a moving target Linux is. It took long enough for many companies to support WindowsXP after it's release, and that was the only major change microsoft has made in years. Linux on the other hand, seems to have some major change in one of the major libraries every few months or so.
I think this is true only to a certain extent. People are learning how to drive their cars instead of hiring a taxi, but they still need us to do the repairs of anything above a broken drink holder.
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I think torrentse.cx did so once, though it was to a picture of tubgirl instead of the goatse.cx guy.
Then why the hell is it so slow?
Swing.
What operating system are you using? I used to have that problem with flash in Linux. A new release of flash, about six months back, fixed the problem for me.
The only thing keeping me switching is spellchecking in text boxes on forums. I've been loving this feature ever since it first appeared in Konqueror. Trying to live without it would be like trying to browse without tabs.
Everyone could live near work, but few are willing to change their lifestyle.
I think you're overestimating the pay in a lot of areas. For a lot of people, moving closer to their work wouldn't mean a slightly smaller house. It would mean going from house to apartment, or large apartment to small one which would have to be shared with roomates.
I know it was satire, but it's not hard to imagine robots living off the powerful medicines we old people use!
Oh no! You missed the warning at the end, that people denying the existence of robots may themselves be robots. They've been lying to us, time to ruuuuunnn!
Never tried doing so myself, but Morphix is supposed to be pretty easy to add new programs to. They also have a few different main builds, one of which is called lightGUI, and comes in at less than 200MB.
I have to disagree on the importance of theming. True it's not a media player, but it is something I'm going to be staring at for hours at a time. When it's something I'm spending that amount of time with, I want it to look nice.
*Hello* -- this is Slashdot! Give us a link! ;)
I'll second that! I know next to nothing about the subject, and I'd love to take a look at something like this.
install linux and use WineX to "emulate" the DX layer?
I don't think anyone has been able to get 3D acceleration in an xbox linux, and without that it'd be sunk.
I'd love to see a write up on video encoding on linux, maybe I'll do one myself.
I forgot to mention, that if you do take this on, Doom9's Linux forum is probaly the single best source of information out there to start with.
I think there's a real need for a site centered on video editing, capturing and encoding under Linux. It was probaly the single biggest challenge for me moving to Linux, simply because all the information out there is so scattered. Compiling some information is something I keep meaning to do, but never seem to be able to find the time and energy for.
Ffdshow is an easy replacement, as it's based on a Linux project, ffmpeg.
The extent of my encoding comes from recording TV or VHS tapes and throwing a few filters at them for cleanup and encoding. So I've never had a chance to become familiar with what features avisynth has. Some people over at Doom9's Linux forum have mentioned getting Avisynth running in wine.
Tmpgenc should be a pretty easy replacement. Transcode seems to be a favorite for mpeg2 encoding. There was a problem when I first started using Linux, which slowed mpeg encoding to a snails pace for a while, and I've never found a chance to get back to see how it works when fully functional. A lot of peoplel swear by it though, and it's feature list is pretty impressive. Avidemux, as well as quite a few other programs also provide mpeg1 encoding, I think through ffmpeg.
Everything in VirtualDub/VirtualDubMod except video capture should work fine under wine and that's what I used for quite a while before Avidemux appeared. The design and functionality are very similar to virtualdub, and it also includes encoding to mpeg1.
One of the two best media players for Linux, Mplayer, should be noted to have better support for matroska, in cvs, than is available for the format under windows. And these tools can be used for creation and editing of matroska files.
For capture from a tv card, I use nuppelvideo, and then use avidemux to edit and convert to a smaller format.
I'm always a little surprised when I see opensource 2D games written in DirectX, especially when they mention plans to port it to another platform. I'm not about to tell anyone how to code when they do it for their own amusement, and I can see why someone might want to stick with an API they're familiar with, but when the issue of porting comes in using DirectX just boggles my mind.
I think a lot of people simply aren't even familiar with SDL, WxWindows, or other multiplatform solutions yet. I make it a point to actively plug SDL and WxWindows in the documentation of anything I actually put out that uses them, and explain why I chose them over anything else.
I predict that "Where's the Beef?" jokes (currently in hibernation since the 80's) will reappear on the cultural landscape in 2005, as the Longhorn release date is inevitably delayed by Microsoft...
The answer on Slashdot, of course, will be either "In SOVIET RUSSIA!" or 42.
drug addicts will start peeing in the sink.
Being that the majority of Americans are addicted to some drug, legal or not, I'll be thrilled to have the toilets wired and all to myself.
Probably doesn't believe in that 'new fangled' aspirin for aches, either.
So he's still using opium? Heck, in that case sign me up!
You've stated exactly the problem I have with Enterprise as well. After Voyager, the series was in desperate need of something to differentiate itself from the previous shows. The sense of newness, and seeing our treky protagonists as a tiny fish in a huge ocean is what I was all prepared to love. Instead we've gotten a couple episodes with these aspects, but the vast majority could be flipped over with Voyager or TNG, universal translators and everything. I like the universe enough that more of the same makes for an acceptable show, but it's such a wasted potential. Instead of what could have been a great show that I eagerly looked foreward to, it's just something I watch when I have a little extra time in the week.
Can I develop Windows applications from within Linux now?
You'll still want to have windows around to test the results every once and awhile, but WxWindows might be worth looking into. I don't know if it would have everything you need, but I've been very impressed with it. In theory, you should be able to compile your code for Linux, Mac, or Windows, and have the results look and run as a native application on all platforms. I wouldn't recommend doing a crosscompile and never checking out the results on windows, but for the most part I've been quite happy with the crossplatform development WxWindows opens up. For me, the end result is just having to reboot into windows to do a little tweaking every couple weeks, and I've never really ran into any major problems. I've also been using python wrappers around it (wxpython) for a few months , and have been even more blown away. After wxpython was installed on my windows partition, it was as simple as copying over my code and watching as it ran, with no changes, on a totally different operating system than I'd done the development on. The reverse should be equally true though. Get a handle on WxWindows development in windows, and your programs should only need a little tweaking to work in OS X or Linux.
You might want to take a look at Knoppix , to see how you take to Linux. It's basically a Debian install which runs entirely off of a CD, never touching your hard drive. Mandrake or Suse would have a lot more in terms of configuration utilities, but Knoppix should at least give you a good idea of where Linux has gone in the past few years.
I mean, how hard is it to use portable libraries and code from the beginning?
Seriously. It never ceases to amaze me when I see programs meant from the beginning to run on multiple platforms, yet written in DirectX. Neverwinter Nights being the prime example of this. It just seems like a bad decision to maintain two separate codebases like this. I only muck around writing 2D, and fairly simple 3D, but I consider it not compiling on any supported platform, with no changes needed, to be an error which should be fixed immediately. It took me a little time to get WxWindows down, but I've saved that many times over in not having to do what amounts to writing two programs to do the same function.
Yeah, that would be fuckin' great. Just imagine the innane stupid laws we would get if the legislators were as stupid as the general populace.
Are they really any more intelligent? Certainly most have lived lives where they were given a better education than most people off the street. But for some reason, it seems as if much of this education rolls off their back, as much as the public school education slipped by your high-school drop out.
What's worse, people don't seem to grasp that the government officials are often just as ignorent about many issues as the general public, sometimes more. It's extreamly depressing to think that scientific and medical issues are being decided by people who often have less grasp of them than a kid sleeping through his middle school science class.
One of the most depressing moments of my life came when I heard a tape of a reporter discussing how the current drug laws came into being. It was obvious no one involved had any idea what was going on, and it was all coming down to little clique warfare betwean the parties.
Like people in the TiVo thread keep saying
You seem to be missing the same point here that the TiVo posters keep ignoring as well. Using the best product for the job is logical, but there are more jobs out there than the one you're interested in! If I want to be able to archive my shows to a CD in ogm format, and don't care about the recommended shows feature, than a computer will do a better job for me than a TiVo. A hundred people screaming that I should be using TiVo doesn't change the fact that they're confusing what's an important feature for them, with what's an important feature for me.
The same goes with games on Linux. If I only buy one or two games per year, and they run on the operating system I use, why should I waste my drive space with another operating system in order to have the ability to play games I neither own nor care about? I'd get a considerable disadvantage, and the only plus I'd gain from it is being able to say I'm "a gamer" rather than just someone who enjoys playing computer games every now and again. If there's no real advantage for me, and several disadvantages, how can Windows possibly be the right tool for the job in my case!
This is -1 Redundant, but just buy a Tivo.
Can you point me to a tivo that will let me archive recorded shows onto cd?
Thank goodness, I thought this one was going to be about competitions betwean bacteria cultures.
As much as I hate it, I think this is good point. Another problem is how much of a moving target Linux is. It took long enough for many companies to support WindowsXP after it's release, and that was the only major change microsoft has made in years. Linux on the other hand, seems to have some major change in one of the major libraries every few months or so.
I think this is true only to a certain extent. People are learning how to drive their cars instead of hiring a taxi, but they still need us to do the repairs of anything above a broken drink holder.