Unfortunately accelerated playback of MPEG2 material on linux seems like a niche within a niche.
I do it daily, I have a MythTV system which plays back MPEG2 (including some HD) content using XvMC support available with nvidia's binary drivers.
To play back HD content on linux pretty much required using a binary driver of some sort (on nvidia cards) when I set my system up. (Maybe something has changed.) Basically the nv X.org driver just didn't support those resolutions.
In fact, even the binary nvidia drivers didn't do 1080i resolutions, the windows versions would but not the linux driver.
The video card driver situation on linux really does suck... but we've still got it better than poor BSD users. And if you're into connecting your linux machines to TVs and playing back HD, well you're in hell.
I guess by complaining about being modded troll
in your post you managed to get modded Funny.
I'm not sure if you're funny because you're right
or just funny silly, like "look at the guy with no
pants on, isn't that funny"?
I remember a time when Apple fans had their own web site. I guess it got shut down cause they all hang out here now. Oh well.
AMD is almost always good because they're the only ones to give Intel a kick in the pants compeition wise in the consumer CPU industry.
Intel, well screw Intel.
Apple SUCKS! That's not a troll, but you fella's want proprietary software, don't care about software freedom, etc. well I guess you'll get exactly what you're asking for.
Microsoft IS always evil. Their motiviation is not just profit (normal for a corporation) but nothing short of complete control over every market they compete in. They've proved it over and over again, therefore everything they say is highly suspect. Like, duh!
Steve Jobs can come to my house where I'll beat him with a broken C64.
Bill Gates is only right when he pays to make it that way.
Pardon my ignorance on this matter, but does anyone have any links to discussions or articles regarding broadband companies turning off a connection for overuse or using bittorrent?
I seem to have an issue where my ISP hammers my cable-modem and I have to reset it. The only way I can trigger it is to use bittorrent (totally legal free software being downloaded, btw.) My cable modem send light stops blinking and only a reset of the modem fixes it. I tried using an alternate BT port, but it didn't seem to matter.
It would be one thing if they capped my bandwidth but killing my connection is extremely annoying. I have to go home and reset it. It makes downloading anything with BT impossible... it might take 10 resets of the modem to finally get all of FC4, possible more.
SCO has always included OSS in their OpenServer products, as do most all UNIX vendors. sendmail and bind are two obvious examples, but I could probably find others if I tried.
I think the ftpd in OpenServer 5.0.5 might be wu-ftpd, originally as well although I'm not sure of that.
I think SCO just finally recognized that without a bunch of free software, SCO OpenServer was not only severely deficient but a pain to use.
It only takes one person to make a cracked copy of a piece of media. Then that one copy can be shared. These attempts at DRM inconvience users but don't stop piracy. A dedicated pirate only has to break it once... then the broken version can be shared. Dedicated pirates will be willing to go to great lengths for profit or fame or whatever motivates them to crack something. We've seen it in the past.. ever own a C64?
Copy protection made it difficult to make legit backup copies of very flimsy media (5 1/4 disks.)
But you could download cracked versions from a BBS. In other words, one pirate cracked it once and made it available to all... while legitimate owners couldn't even make a legal backup copy of their software without resorting to special copy programs.
I wouldn't put anything on RAID0 except for maybe a "scratch" partition. Not even/tmp is worth trusting to something like RAID0. Are you sure you people know what you're doing? No sane sysadmin would EVER put swap on a RAID0 system. I mean do what you want with your personal workstation but swap on RAID0 is insane, there really isn't anything to argue about here!
So... swap is critical to the functioning of a machine... and you want to stripe that with no redundancy? So... you really have no idea what you're talking about do you? When either one of the drives in question die, you're dead period.
You need to get over the fact that I have yet to find a BETTER way to configure a system than using flat text files.
The fact of the matter is, unless I can grep, diff, rcs, awk, etc. the configuration of my system it might as well not be there. Do you know how useful it is to keep configuration files in RCS and be able to view a comparison of any arbitrary version with the current or any other version? It's stupifyingly powerful.
I'm in the same boat... I really just can't help people very well with Windows. I sort of wish I knew more about windows, it comes in handy sometimes but it is so nice to be able to say... "I can fix your hardware, but I can't fix your windows."
Well, I probably could but it's frustrating and time-consuming. Of course, since people think I know "like, everything" about computers, I think they figure I'm lying when I tell them I can't help them.
The lingo service will try and port your current number to the voip platform but existing carriers make it hard... however it can be done.
Also, when you sign up you can get additional numbers from all around the world and across the US. Your pals in those areas can dial you like you're local. You pay a montly fee for additional numbers.
The web site says lingo offers numbers in: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, United States, and the United Kingdom.
I don't think that list is complete, but whatever.
I set up SA for some users on our "departmental" mail server. I switched myself over to DSPAM as a test and it works better IMHO, although I haven't upgraded SA recently, and I think it's improved as well.
DSPAM works quite well once trained... the only problem I have is that there were still occasional false positives. I get so much SPAM now though that I can't afford the time to dig through my SPAM folder looking for FP's.
Of course, plans are in the works for IT to move us onto the Exchange server so I may not bother upgrading SA again. I'll probably continue to run DSPAM/cyrus for my own use after the big day. Hooray for an all MS IT shop!
The companies that make the "products" you are talking about take almost no risk whatsover. They routinely chose formulaic garbage over anything new. When discussing recording artists, they make the artists pay for everything they get and then some. Bands go broke from record "deals."
They want profit protection when technology is threatening their current business model. Are we going to pass laws that protect current business against new technologies? Where would we be if we'd banned cars to protect horse traders? We'd be shoveling shit is where we'd be. (This might be a bad example, you can always find a down side to most technology.)
I don't think you actually read the Heinlein quote. You sound like a corporate apologist or a pharmaceutical industry commercial.
The real kicker is you think they should be spending money on ways to keep me from skipping commercials instead of just passing laws to do that? I DON'T HAVE TO WATCH COMMERCIALS! More importantly I don't want my children to watch them!
Me three. MythTV is fantastic and like a lot of free software, just keeps getting better.
Make sure you do some reading before you make your purchases and consider joining the users mailing list as well. The list is very tolerant of FAQs, you usually will get an answer to even the most frequent of FAQs, but please don't be that guy, do some reading.
Also, remember that MythTV is software, not a consumer electronics device. You will have to configure some things. However, the docs are good and there are pre-built packages for various distros, including but not limited to Xebian (debian Xbox), Fedora Core, debian, etc. in adition to the aforementioned KnoppMyth.
In my informal sample, Americans often say things like this about Iraq:
Nuke 'em. We help them too much and they just hate us, I say we leave them to rot. They're all just terrorists anyway so who cares.
Etc. etc. Seriously, a large portion of America seems to not value the lives of Iraqi and Afghani people at all. They genually believe that we are helping them and that we're being attacked for it, poor us!
I did it remotely with apt-get dist-upgrade. I recall that it wanted to remove evolution and some other must-have apps, and that I ended up with two versions of sendmail and one other package. (this was a server/workstation) After the main upgrade was done, I just added back evolution and removed the duplicate packages.
Actually it was pretty easy. However, don't put your job on the line for this. I would make sure you have remote console access or a competent site tech on hand if this is job related.
On the other hand, Mac OS X is an excellent example of what Linux could do if it ever gets over its "by geeks for geeks" attitude.
It'll be a sad day when it does. Seriously, who is Linux and can it/he/she be said to have an attitude? Or did you mean some homogeneous collection of people somewhere who all answer to the name Linux? Who is it you want to get over it? Me? Based on your vague statement, I could be Linux. Yes, call me Linux from now on. I use linux, administer it for pay, occasionally preach it's virtues to the unwashed masses, etc. I think RedHat, Suse, Novell, IBM, etc. are all "over it" though, or are they not linux?
Will the real Linux please stand up and knock of it's annoying attitude, this guy wants you to be MacOS X, pronto!
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So the U.S. should get thrown out of the U.N.?
I do it daily, I have a MythTV system which plays back MPEG2 (including some HD) content using XvMC support available with nvidia's binary drivers.
To play back HD content on linux pretty much required using a binary driver of some sort (on nvidia cards) when I set my system up. (Maybe something has changed.) Basically the nv X.org driver just didn't support those resolutions.
In fact, even the binary nvidia drivers didn't do 1080i resolutions, the windows versions would but not the linux driver.
The video card driver situation on linux really does suck... but we've still got it better than poor BSD users. And if you're into connecting your linux machines to TVs and playing back HD, well you're in hell.
Here's to the future!
If you're inclined most (linux at least) software dvd players give the big finger to UOP.
You can skip anything you want, including commercials and FBI warnings.
I'm not sure if you're funny because you're right or just funny silly, like "look at the guy with no pants on, isn't that funny"?
I remember a time when Apple fans had their own web site. I guess it got shut down cause they all hang out here now. Oh well.
AMD is almost always good because they're the only ones to give Intel a kick in the pants compeition wise in the consumer CPU industry.
Intel, well screw Intel.
Apple SUCKS! That's not a troll, but you fella's want proprietary software, don't care about software freedom, etc. well I guess you'll get exactly what you're asking for.
Microsoft IS always evil. Their motiviation is not just profit (normal for a corporation) but nothing short of complete control over every market they compete in. They've proved it over and over again, therefore everything they say is highly suspect. Like, duh!
Steve Jobs can come to my house where I'll beat him with a broken C64.
Bill Gates is only right when he pays to make it that way.
I seem to have an issue where my ISP hammers my cable-modem and I have to reset it. The only way I can trigger it is to use bittorrent (totally legal free software being downloaded, btw.) My cable modem send light stops blinking and only a reset of the modem fixes it. I tried using an alternate BT port, but it didn't seem to matter.
It would be one thing if they capped my bandwidth but killing my connection is extremely annoying. I have to go home and reset it. It makes downloading anything with BT impossible... it might take 10 resets of the modem to finally get all of FC4, possible more.
Slashdot needs more nethack jokes. Apple fanboys need education after all!
I think the ftpd in OpenServer 5.0.5 might be wu-ftpd, originally as well although I'm not sure of that.
I think SCO just finally recognized that without a bunch of free software, SCO OpenServer was not only severely deficient but a pain to use.
It only takes one person to make a cracked copy of a piece of media. Then that one copy can be shared. These attempts at DRM inconvience users but don't stop piracy. A dedicated pirate only has to break it once... then the broken version can be shared. Dedicated pirates will be willing to go to great lengths for profit or fame or whatever motivates them to crack something. We've seen it in the past.. ever own a C64?
Copy protection made it difficult to make legit backup copies of very flimsy media (5 1/4 disks.)
But you could download cracked versions from a BBS. In other words, one pirate cracked it once and made it available to all... while legitimate owners couldn't even make a legal backup copy of their software without resorting to special copy programs.
I wouldn't put anything on RAID0 except for maybe a "scratch" partition. Not even /tmp is worth trusting to something like RAID0. Are you sure you people know what you're doing? No sane sysadmin would EVER put swap on a RAID0 system. I mean do what you want with your personal workstation but swap on RAID0 is insane, there really isn't anything to argue about here!
So... swap is critical to the functioning of a machine... and you want to stripe that with no redundancy? So... you really have no idea what you're talking about do you? When either one of the drives in question die, you're dead period.
You need to get over the fact that I have yet to find a BETTER way to configure a system than using flat text files.
The fact of the matter is, unless I can grep, diff, rcs, awk, etc. the configuration of my system it might as well not be there. Do you know how useful it is to keep configuration files in RCS and be able to view a comparison of any arbitrary version with the current or any other version? It's stupifyingly powerful.
Idiot.
I agree... I keep playing nethack and I've never even seen the stinking wizard, let alone his damn amulet.
I once ate a cockatrice egg though... just another in a long line of creative ways to die.
I'm in the same boat... I really just can't help people very well with Windows. I sort of wish I knew more about windows, it comes in handy sometimes but it is so nice to be able to say... "I can fix your hardware, but I can't fix your windows."
Well, I probably could but it's frustrating and time-consuming. Of course, since people think I know "like, everything" about computers, I think they figure I'm lying when I tell them I can't help them.
Oh well.
The lingo service will try and port your current number to the voip platform but existing carriers make it hard... however it can be done.
Also, when you sign up you can get additional numbers from all around the world and across the US. Your pals in those areas can dial you like you're local. You pay a montly fee for additional numbers.
The web site says lingo offers numbers in: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, United States, and the United Kingdom.
I don't think that list is complete, but whatever.
Even better, buy a fifty dollar router and then install linux on it. Well, you're limited to the ones that run linux already but, whetever.
I installed OpenWRT on my linksys wrt54g, and I'm uh, leet as it gets. I think.
I set up SA for some users on our "departmental" mail server. I switched myself over to DSPAM as a test and it works better IMHO, although I haven't upgraded SA recently, and I think it's improved as well.
DSPAM works quite well once trained... the only problem I have is that there were still occasional false positives. I get so much SPAM now though that I can't afford the time to dig through my SPAM folder looking for FP's.
Of course, plans are in the works for IT to move us onto the Exchange server so I may not bother upgrading SA again. I'll probably continue to run DSPAM/cyrus for my own use after the big day. Hooray for an all MS IT shop!
Your post is nonsensical.
The companies that make the "products" you are talking about take almost no risk whatsover. They routinely chose formulaic garbage over anything new. When discussing recording artists, they make the artists pay for everything they get and then some. Bands go broke from record "deals."
They want profit protection when technology is threatening their current business model. Are we going to pass laws that protect current business against new technologies? Where would we be if we'd banned cars to protect horse traders? We'd be shoveling shit is where we'd be. (This might be a bad example, you can always find a down side to most technology.)
I don't think you actually read the Heinlein quote. You sound like a corporate apologist or a pharmaceutical industry commercial.
The real kicker is you think they should be spending money on ways to keep me from skipping commercials instead of just passing laws to do that? I DON'T HAVE TO WATCH COMMERCIALS! More importantly I don't want my children to watch them!
You don't need new hardware, you need xine. (Or probably mplayer, ogle, etc.)
Me three. MythTV is fantastic and like a lot of free software, just keeps getting better.
Make sure you do some reading before you make your purchases and consider joining the users mailing list as well. The list is very tolerant of FAQs, you usually will get an answer to even the most frequent of FAQs, but please don't be that guy, do some reading.
Also, remember that MythTV is software, not a consumer electronics device. You will have to configure some things. However, the docs are good and there are pre-built packages for various distros, including but not limited to Xebian (debian Xbox), Fedora Core, debian, etc. in adition to the aforementioned KnoppMyth.
http://www.mythtv.org
In my informal sample, Americans often say things like this about Iraq:
Nuke 'em.
We help them too much and they just hate us, I say we leave them to rot.
They're all just terrorists anyway so who cares.
Etc. etc. Seriously, a large portion of America seems to not value the lives of Iraqi and Afghani people at all. They genually believe that we are helping them and that we're being attacked for it, poor us!
...for I adminster SCO OpenServer.
Actually I try not to do so, I'm hoping one day to wake up and they'll have all disappeared. All 50+ of them.
I did it remotely with apt-get dist-upgrade. I recall that it wanted to remove evolution and some other must-have apps, and that I ended up with two versions of sendmail and one other package. (this was a server/workstation) After the main upgrade was done, I just added back evolution and removed the duplicate packages.
Actually it was pretty easy. However, don't put your job on the line for this. I would make sure you have remote console access or a competent site tech on hand if this is job related.
Why not? We are... it's been WBEL for those projects which have no budget and RHEL for those that do...
Do you remember when you had to go out and kill your own food if you wanted to eat?
Do you remember when you had to crank-start your car?
Lowering the barriers to programming has been good by and large... would we have all this free software if it all required assembly programming?
It'll be a sad day when it does. Seriously, who is Linux and can it/he/she be said to have an attitude? Or did you mean some homogeneous collection of people somewhere who all answer to the name Linux? Who is it you want to get over it? Me? Based on your vague statement, I could be Linux. Yes, call me Linux from now on. I use linux, administer it for pay, occasionally preach it's virtues to the unwashed masses, etc. I think RedHat, Suse, Novell, IBM, etc. are all "over it" though, or are they not linux?
Will the real Linux please stand up and knock of it's annoying attitude, this guy wants you to be MacOS X, pronto!