"What I want from a media player is simple: a rectangular window with a standard title and menu bar. Controls: play, stop, and a horizontal scroll bar for fast forward/rewind - and it had better be a proper UI standard scrollbar too. Maximise widget for full screen video. Standard menus for everything else."
Use kmplayer and be done with it. (Google, yadda)
It's got the option to keep the aspect of the video, you can keep it on top since it uses the KDE window manager, offers all the configuration options you need in everyday operation.
With the exception of the horizontal scroolbar, it's got everything JWZ and you were complayining about.
Apart from that: What's the alternative? Don't get me startet on Windows, please, that Mediaplayer is the worst crap ever written with the "Multimedia"-tag on it - and I haven't even thought about DRM and the non-option to create movies or audio with free codecs.
I have mplayer configured with all the available codecs and options there are and together with kmplayer as frontend this is one hell of a piece of software that deserves the highest praise. I can't think of any mediaplayer that leaves more to be desired.
I use it to rip and encode DVDs, I use it as a VCR, it plays RealMedia, LIVE.COM streams, all kind of DivX-movies, MPEGs plus all the Windows audio and video codecs; it's fast, it doesn't crash on you.
You should at least have read the document you are talking about.
It helps to give a qualified opinion instead of rambling and speculating.
"SEC. 104. REPRODUCTION BY LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES.
Section 108 of title 17, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (i); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:
`(h)(1) For purposes of this section, during the last 20 years of any term of copyright of a published work, a library or archives, including a nonprofit educational institution that functions as such, may reproduce, distribute, display, or perform in facsimile or digital form a copy or phonorecord of such work, or portions thereof, for purposes of preservation, scholarship, or research, if such library or archives has first determined, on the basis of a reasonable investigation, that none of the conditions set forth in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (2) apply."
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| * MS Office uses a closed, proprietary format |and that's bad. | * OpenOffice uses XML, and that's good. | * Now Microsoft want to use XML too... but |that's also bad
Big difference:
Microsoft's DTD (Document Type Definitions) are proprietary, which makes use of the open framework XML just as proprietary.
"In short, you actually have to take action to get infected by a virus if you're using Outlook XP."
Guess what: You'd be amazed to learn that all safety precuations a regular user can discard *will* be discarded and this user *will* take action. We've seen it before.
" It is a good thing you qualified that with per "clock cycle".
You know I would have stepped up to bat to point out that you have made sacrifices for mac that Apple is collecting."
Hint: Apple is not what techies have in mind when they talk PowerPC.
"How are the IT departments handling changes in big corporatinos like BBC? Do they have to hire new admins or keep there old ones? Going from NT to Linux would require new people, wouldn't it?"
As a matter of fact, we do trainings for one institution that has recently decided to switch over from NT to Linux in the server environment. While there may be some savvy admins out there who grew up drinking UNIX from their mothers' breasts, these NT admins all *loved* learning Linux. It took them one week of realizing all the advantages of a command line interface and now they sneer at all Windows-based installations.
So, yes, it's easily possibly to make switch and no, you don't need new admins, just make the old ones happy.
"AS an American I can add another benefit - free software paid for German taxpayers."
Be happy. It won't cost you a dime to usethat software.
"This will be a payback for years of US consumer subsidizing EU healthcare system ( basically drug companies make 80% of their profits in US where drug prices are not regulated as they are in Europe meaning that EU can maintain their low drug prices only because US folks are paying all the costs associated with the development of new drugs. )"
That's funny. Last time I checked Europe hat pharma companies as well. And prices are a lot steeper fpr any kind of drug than they are in the US. Have you fallen victim to some rather uninformed PR bullshit? It may come as a surprise to you, but Europe is not some backwater third world country without research and development. Remember your daily dose of Aspirin?;-)
This is wonderful news for the world of Free Software.
I find it rather surprising to see comments with regard to "state subsidies" and "distortion of the marketplace". After all, the German government simply is *buying* software from a commercial vendor and it does so under terms that encourages competition to such an extent that any other commercial vendor can enter the same marketplace and try to place its own products.
As a German taxpayer I am very much in favor of the advantages this recent development has and will have:
- Microsofts monopoly on PC-based groupware
solutions will finally meet tough competition
- Users can now freely decide on the OS of their
choice
- the buyer has the opportunity to ensure safe
communication within its organization due to
the nature of an Open Source solution.
- bugfixes and enhancements will be available at
no extra charge and a lot quicker than before
- Complete control over features and security
layout of the software
Apart from the fact that Microsoft's Outlook, Outlook Express and Exchange are about the suckiest software products available (As a usenet regular I am *really* fed up with seeing all these malformated postings produced by OE-users).
What's the downside? Less money to be be thrown at Microsoft. And I can't see anything wrong with that. How many times have you heard people whine about Outlook and Exchange being the only available products? I have heard that one over and over again and I hope that this complaint is a thing of the past and makes people switch over to an Open Source solution.
Considering the fact that Germany's budget is in a desastrous state I find it favorable to see my money spent in developping new, free software instead of spending millions of bucks for products under a restrictive license and a company that couldn't care less about customer satisfaction.
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"What I want from a media player is simple: a rectangular window with a standard title and menu bar. Controls: play, stop, and a horizontal scroll bar for fast forward/rewind - and it had better be a proper UI standard scrollbar too. Maximise widget for full screen video. Standard menus for everything else."
Use kmplayer and be done with it. (Google, yadda)
It's got the option to keep the aspect of the video, you can keep it on top since it uses the KDE window manager, offers all the configuration options you need in everyday operation.
With the exception of the horizontal scroolbar, it's got everything JWZ and you were complayining about.
Apart from that: What's the alternative? Don't get me startet on Windows, please, that Mediaplayer is the worst crap ever written with the "Multimedia"-tag on it - and I haven't even thought about DRM and the non-option to create movies or audio with free codecs.
I have mplayer configured with all the available codecs and options there are and together with kmplayer as frontend this is one hell of a piece of software that deserves the highest praise. I can't think of any mediaplayer that leaves more to be desired.
I use it to rip and encode DVDs, I use it as a VCR, it plays RealMedia, LIVE.COM streams, all kind of DivX-movies, MPEGs plus all the Windows audio and video codecs; it's fast, it doesn't crash on you.
What was it you needed in addition to that?
You should at least have read the document you are talking about.
It helps to give a qualified opinion instead of rambling and speculating.
"SEC. 104. REPRODUCTION BY LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES.
Section 108 of title 17, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (i); and
(2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:
`(h)(1) For purposes of this section, during the last 20 years of any term of copyright of a published work, a library or archives, including a nonprofit educational institution that functions as such, may reproduce, distribute, display, or perform in facsimile or digital form a copy or phonorecord of such work, or portions thereof, for purposes of preservation, scholarship, or research, if such library or archives has first determined, on the basis of a reasonable investigation, that none of the conditions set forth in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (2) apply."
| * MS Office uses a closed, proprietary format |and that's bad.
| * OpenOffice uses XML, and that's good.
| * Now Microsoft want to use XML too... but |that's also bad
Big difference:
Microsoft's DTD (Document Type Definitions) are proprietary, which makes use of the open framework XML just as proprietary.
Microsoft's use of XML *is* bad indeed.
By textmode you mean the framebuffer resolution? That can only be set up by passing the respective vga=??? at boottime. Works with Knoppix, too.
"In short, you actually have to take action to get infected by a virus if you're using Outlook XP."
Guess what: You'd be amazed to learn that all safety precuations a regular user can discard *will* be discarded and this user *will* take action. We've seen it before.
" It is a good thing you qualified that with per "clock cycle". You know I would have stepped up to bat to point out that you have made sacrifices for mac that Apple is collecting." Hint: Apple is not what techies have in mind when they talk PowerPC.
"How are the IT departments handling changes in big corporatinos like BBC? Do they have to hire new admins or keep there old ones? Going from NT to Linux would require new people, wouldn't it?"
As a matter of fact, we do trainings for one institution that has recently decided to switch over from NT to Linux in the server environment. While there may be some savvy admins out there who grew up drinking UNIX from their mothers' breasts, these NT admins all *loved* learning Linux. It took them one week of realizing all the advantages of a command line interface and now they sneer at all Windows-based installations.
So, yes, it's easily possibly to make switch and no, you don't need new admins, just make the old ones happy.
"AS an American I can add another benefit - free software paid for German taxpayers." Be happy. It won't cost you a dime to usethat software. "This will be a payback for years of US consumer subsidizing EU healthcare system ( basically drug companies make 80% of their profits in US where drug prices are not regulated as they are in Europe meaning that EU can maintain their low drug prices only because US folks are paying all the costs associated with the development of new drugs. )" That's funny. Last time I checked Europe hat pharma companies as well. And prices are a lot steeper fpr any kind of drug than they are in the US. Have you fallen victim to some rather uninformed PR bullshit? It may come as a surprise to you, but Europe is not some backwater third world country without research and development. Remember your daily dose of Aspirin? ;-)
This is wonderful news for the world of Free Software.
I find it rather surprising to see comments with regard to "state subsidies" and "distortion of the marketplace". After all, the German government simply is *buying* software from a commercial vendor and it does so under terms that encourages competition to such an extent that any other commercial vendor can enter the same marketplace and try to place its own products.
As a German taxpayer I am very much in favor of the advantages this recent development has and will have:
- Microsofts monopoly on PC-based groupware
solutions will finally meet tough competition
- Users can now freely decide on the OS of their
choice
- the buyer has the opportunity to ensure safe
communication within its organization due to
the nature of an Open Source solution.
- bugfixes and enhancements will be available at
no extra charge and a lot quicker than before
- Complete control over features and security
layout of the software
Apart from the fact that Microsoft's Outlook, Outlook Express and Exchange are about the suckiest software products available (As a usenet regular I am *really* fed up with seeing all these malformated postings produced by OE-users).
What's the downside? Less money to be be thrown at Microsoft. And I can't see anything wrong with that. How many times have you heard people whine about Outlook and Exchange being the only available products? I have heard that one over and over again and I hope that this complaint is a thing of the past and makes people switch over to an Open Source solution.
Considering the fact that Germany's budget is in a desastrous state I find it favorable to see my money spent in developping new, free software instead of spending millions of bucks for products under a restrictive license and a company that couldn't care less about customer satisfaction.
What a laugh:
VGAChip SetSMI 721 *
2 Bus PCI Bus
On Chip Memory8MB
EXT. MemoryN/A
3D FunctionN/A
Motion Compensation
Dual Panel Supported
You'll be the riot on a LAN-party. For sure.