Really, what happened to Slashdot. I'm surprised there hasn't been any mention of Nokia buying Trolltech. Pretty big news, I think. http://dot.kde.org/1201517986/
Maybe it's been posted, but I haven't seen it.
On the Ubuntu forums, there is a post with a fonts.conf for freetype that sets the fonts exactly the same as on Windows regarding the aliasing.
I'm on a CRT here and I can't stand the small fuzzy fonts that all linux distros default to these days, and setting anti-alias min/max isn't enough, it was still pretty bad, although it helped.
Point 1: The AIW's TV capture is not better, they are the same, at least they were the last time I looked into these things. Owning both a AIW 7000 and a TV Wonder PCI, I've seen the both myself.
Point 2: Hauppauge makes a better card, this is true, as it includes hardware mpeg support. But this isnt about the Hauppauge, this is about the AIW vrs the TV Wonder.
Point 3: Ever try getting a AIW to work in Linux? Good luck, go over to the Gatos page and see the pain that AIW's are in linux. The TV wonder and the Hauppauge cards are a breeze to setup, insert the driver module and you're good to go.
So basicly you are paying for a capture card that will be useless when you upgrade your video card, as opposed to buying a tuner card separately and it lasting as long as you own your computer. My tuner has gone from a orignal pentium board all the way to my barton.
There is no good reason to get an AIW unless you can't afford to spare an extra pci slot.
I can't believe posts like this get modded up... no offense:)
Mod me as a troll, but whatever, the truth must be told!
So before you make your 1000 posts about how fucking slow Debian is, remember that good things come to those who wait.
I absolutely agree! For example, some of my acquaintances have actually chosen to go out and look for individuals of the female persuasion. Unbelievable, I know!
While I have chosen to simply wait, for a decade or two, for that good thing to walk through the door of my mothers house and straight into my basement apartment.
Why don't local affiliates brand the tv shows with their commericals and logo, and let people download them off their website.
That way local commericals are shown that matter to the advertisers in addition to the national ads.
Sure you could download an episode from another affiliate, but if you have one in your city, it would probably be faster download so why bother.
People who don't have an affiliate that airs said show can also watch it, but I'd hardly consider that a loss since your gaining a viewer who wouldn't be able to watch it in the first place.
What exactly is the issue? Is it a lack of support, or existing bugs that make it unusable?
Situations like this make me think that it'd be nice if there was some sort of compatiblity goal so that drivers could be somewhat crossplatform, or at least easily ported acrosss the various unix's via some sort of shared api or something.
I'm sure there are 101 reasons why this isn't possible, but it's nice to dream:)
The same could be said for Linux when it was in its infancy.
I commend the group working on ReactOS for the job they've done so far. Unlike others, they seem to be progessing nicely and arent stuck in the limbo between design and coding which so many projects seem to suffer from these days.
Theres a growing amount of users who have older hardware that struggles on 2k, XP and will struggle even more so with Longhorn. If ReactOS can provide a relatively stable Windows compatable environment, IMO they will make serious inroads.
- disable all the filters - in the deinterlace menu, make sure judder terminator is off and change to 2:2 pulldown, flip on odd - under "Settings->General hardware setup" change your cpu type to "below 300mhz"
At these settings, on a 1.3ghz thunderbird, Dscaler uses 2-3% cpu power.
The motherboard still had a very basic bios, the more advanced gui bios was contained on the hard drive partition. This was the case on many compaq machines.
Most of these old bios's actually loaded their setup program off a hidden 10-20mb partition on the hard drive, not running off some rom on the motherboard.
To implement a adobe style interface, you'd need a toolkit with MDI (multiple document interface) support, or write it on your own. Support for MDI in GTK is lacking. AFAIK there is MDI support in Gnome2, but it's marked as "depracated".
Today AMD has achieved something that their processors have been able to do, quite easily, for quite a while now. Don't belive me? Take off the heatsink and find out.
*RIMSHOT*
I'm not a hater though. My thunderbird is serving as a space heater; keeping me warm on those cold Canadian nights.
The best option is to really just put together an old gaming box. Old hardware that will run dos like a dream is avaiable everywhere. Seems to be the best option instead of messing around with various emulators trying to get them to work with game xy and z.
Well if you got some money to spend, the hauppauge PVR series of cards can't be beat with their hardware encoding goodness.
However, if you don't need hardware encoding, then any card based on the brooktree (bt8xx) will do fine in linux.
Personaly, I've got the Ati Tv Wonder. Worked perfectly under linux for years now, and can be found dirt cheep , about 80 dollars cdn. Note that the VE version is mono only, no stereo.
Ati's drivers for 2k,xp have been terrible for a long time for the tv wonder. If you weren't using an ati display adapter, you were sool. There was a bug in their multimedia center that made it impossible to use on nvidia based cards. They finally fixed that, and now everything seems to be great with their drives.
Most of the time I don't even use their software, Dscaler for windows is my tv viewing application of choice for windows, and its free:)
Some random tv apps for linux: Mythtv, Tvtime (dscaler port for linux, more or less) & trusty ol xawtv.
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Really, what happened to Slashdot. I'm surprised there hasn't been any mention of Nokia buying Trolltech. Pretty big news, I think. http://dot.kde.org/1201517986/ Maybe it's been posted, but I haven't seen it.
The first thing that popped into my head was: "I wonder how old the Penis bird is?"
Curse you slashdot.
On the Ubuntu forums, there is a post with a fonts.conf for freetype that sets the fonts exactly the same as on Windows regarding the aliasing.
I'm on a CRT here and I can't stand the small fuzzy fonts that all linux distros default to these days, and setting anti-alias min/max isn't enough, it was still pretty bad, although it helped.
Search the forums, you won't regret it.
A foul up at the iSmell datacenter led every customers device to smell like Uranus.
These TV Wonder USB drivers for XP. Maybe you overlooked this? I assume by external you mean usb...
q uestionID=1167
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?
uhmm, no...
:)
Point 1: The AIW's TV capture is not better, they are the same, at least they were the last time I looked into these things. Owning both a AIW 7000 and a TV Wonder PCI, I've seen the both myself.
Point 2: Hauppauge makes a better card, this is true, as it includes hardware mpeg support. But this isnt about the Hauppauge, this is about the AIW vrs the TV Wonder.
Point 3: Ever try getting a AIW to work in Linux? Good luck, go over to the Gatos page and see the pain that AIW's are in linux. The TV wonder and the Hauppauge cards are a breeze to setup, insert the driver module and you're good to go.
So basicly you are paying for a capture card that will be useless when you upgrade your video card, as opposed to buying a tuner card separately and it lasting as long as you own your computer. My tuner has gone from a orignal pentium board all the way to my barton.
There is no good reason to get an AIW unless you can't afford to spare an extra pci slot.
I can't believe posts like this get modded up... no offense
Mod me as a troll, but whatever, the truth must be told!
So before you make your 1000 posts about how fucking slow Debian is, remember that good things come to those who wait.
I absolutely agree! For example, some of my acquaintances have actually chosen to go out and look for individuals of the female persuasion. Unbelievable, I know!
While I have chosen to simply wait, for a decade or two, for that good thing to walk through the door of my mothers house and straight into my basement apartment.
Any minute now....
Why don't local affiliates brand the tv shows with their commericals and logo, and let people download them off their website.
That way local commericals are shown that matter to the advertisers in addition to the national ads.
Sure you could download an episode from another affiliate, but if you have one in your city, it would probably be faster download so why bother.
People who don't have an affiliate that airs said show can also watch it, but I'd hardly consider that a loss since your gaining a viewer who wouldn't be able to watch it in the first place.
Forgive my ignorance but...
:)
What exactly is the issue? Is it a lack of support, or existing bugs that make it unusable?
Situations like this make me think that it'd be nice if there was some sort of compatiblity goal so that drivers could be somewhat crossplatform, or at least easily ported acrosss the various unix's via some sort of shared api or something.
I'm sure there are 101 reasons why this isn't possible, but it's nice to dream
When they clearly haven't even stress tested their server.
Well, at least I got to read page one before the slashdot effect.
Who would have thought my blog rant, posted anonymously to avoid the rath of bloggers with mod points, would have such an interesting response :)
I think you're pretty much bang on with all your ponits.
He has no right... to voice his opinion... outside of a blog...
Strange, I've had an SB PCI 128 in a Via KT266A and in my current board, a KT400 and haven't experienced the problems you posted.
The same could be said for Linux when it was in its infancy.
I commend the group working on ReactOS for the job they've done so far. Unlike others, they seem to be progessing nicely and arent stuck in the limbo between design and coding which so many projects seem to suffer from these days.
Theres a growing amount of users who have older hardware that struggles on 2k, XP and will struggle even more so with Longhorn. If ReactOS can provide a relatively stable Windows compatable environment, IMO they will make serious inroads.
- disable all the filters
- in the deinterlace menu, make sure judder terminator is off and change to 2:2 pulldown, flip on odd
- under "Settings->General hardware setup" change your cpu type to "below 300mhz"
At these settings, on a 1.3ghz thunderbird, Dscaler uses 2-3% cpu power.
The motherboard still had a very basic bios, the more advanced gui bios was contained on the hard drive partition. This was the case on many compaq machines.
Most of these old bios's actually loaded their setup program off a hidden 10-20mb partition on the hard drive, not running off some rom on the motherboard.
BADGER?!@ We don't need no stinking BADGER!!!
To implement a adobe style interface, you'd need a toolkit with MDI (multiple document interface) support, or write it on your own. Support for MDI in GTK is lacking. AFAIK there is MDI support in Gnome2, but it's marked as "depracated".
Or does it look like the same thing, cept it uses gtk2 and has some pretty icons?
Today AMD has achieved something that their processors have been able to do, quite easily, for quite a while now. Don't belive me? Take off the heatsink and find out.
*RIMSHOT*
I'm not a hater though. My thunderbird is serving as a space heater; keeping me warm on those cold Canadian nights.
Cheers AMD!
The best option is to really just put together an old gaming box. Old hardware that will run dos like a dream is avaiable everywhere. Seems to be the best option instead of messing around with various emulators trying to get them to work with game xy and z.
Well if you got some money to spend, the hauppauge PVR series of cards can't be beat with their hardware encoding goodness.
:)
However, if you don't need hardware encoding, then any card based on the brooktree (bt8xx) will do fine in linux.
Personaly, I've got the Ati Tv Wonder. Worked perfectly under linux for years now, and can be found dirt cheep , about 80 dollars cdn. Note that the VE version is mono only, no stereo.
Ati's drivers for 2k,xp have been terrible for a long time for the tv wonder. If you weren't using an ati display adapter, you were sool. There was a bug in their multimedia center that made it impossible to use on nvidia based cards. They finally fixed that, and now everything seems to be great with their drives.
Most of the time I don't even use their software, Dscaler for windows is my tv viewing application of choice for windows, and its free
Some random tv apps for linux: Mythtv, Tvtime (dscaler port for linux, more or less) & trusty ol xawtv.
If I could only get off my chair and get someone to roll me to the nearest grocery store, I'd be set.
I hope you never sit on your cat. Every obese person has at least 4 cats... and chins.
*rimshot*