I do it for all of my movies... most especially those that my two year old son watches.
Why?
1) I can edit out the constant ads for yet more videos he doesn't need
2) As I've got an internal LAN and share the movies throughout the house I don't have to go looking for a DVD whereever he may be inclined to watch it.
3) I don't have to fight with him about not touching the DVD until after he's washed the peanut butter off his hands
4) I can copy several to my laptop when we roadtrip.
I could see that since 8.2 is a bit long in the tooth these days, right?
heh. Yup. but I actually like SuSE, and will probrably get the next version that supports the the 2.6 kernel... I started using Linux with RedHat 7.1 I switched because they had a really easy to use hardware database for compatible hardware, and was amazed at how much easier to use it was...
I've heard SO many wonderful things about using Gentoo, but I've also heard some pretty remarkable horror stories about getting it installed (the first time)...
When K3B starts, or on setup/programs, it will tell you you don't have mp3lame or such installed.
I remember those messages, and kept installing stuff until they went away. It was after this point that I actually tried to do anything with the program...
Don't get me wrong, k3b rocks, and works flawlessly in all other respects, but I think it should have given me some kind of hint as to why it couldn't read the mp3s...
I got off my ass to upgrade just to see how well the 'stick in a dvd and have k3b burn a vcd' feature worked (I haven't actually done it yet, because keep most media in Xvid/mp3 and play it through a multimedia box connected to tv/stereo).
Don't get me wrong, K3B is freakin' awsome, but it, as with other apps are not yet bullet-proof for the masses, and at the very least k3b should have at least given me some clue as to what may have been the problem with burning an audio CD from mp3s other than 'unknown format'.
Now you've said that it really isn't k3b's fault, but it is... sort of... As I understand how the program works, it's just a GUI for other CLI tools. If the particular CLI that is supposed to understand what an mp3 is doesn't, the error message would have been more helpful if it had said something like, "sox can't read input file..."
I suppose if was a true member of the opensource community I'd try to fix it myself, but I'm not a programmer, and I've got a wife and kids... and as I've said before: It doesn't bother me that much, I never use the feature...
Yast won't install things like libraries to decrypt DVDs... Nor will it install things like an unemasculated version of mplayer... It was the latter that got me using them, and really when I try to install a program that doesn't have the features I want, but is included in distro I have to assume it has some licensing problem (like the libs to decrypt dvds).
And, as I pointed out, even though I wanted to be able to burn DVDs, and the version that came with 8.2 didn't support it... even after Yast updated it...
SuSE 8.2, but I get upgrades from a website that gathers together all the relevant support files. I'd post the name, but I'd be pissed if they went down after a sound slashdotting.
I had upgrade it recently because I wanted to use the DVD burning facilities that didn't come with suse 8.2...
I've long suspected that the issue could be solved if I spent an hour or so trying to find the right missing utility, or posting help questions, but it wasn't that important to me...
A previous poster's suggestion that it is Sox sounds like it could be the problem... I also like the CLI solution someone else posted.
yeah, you'd think...
The problem is, it describes the mp3s as being in an unreadable format, and proffers no solution as to why.
To make matters worse, when I check to see if all the 'support' files (dvd+record, cdrecord, etc) are installed, it says that all of them are, and working perfectly.
I think that is, in fact the problem, but as I've said I rarely need to do it, and have been way to lazy to do the install.
I am so lazy, in fact that I usually go to an outside website in germany that gathers up all the suport files for software upgrades for my distribution (SuSE).
much thanks... I'll keep it in mind the next time I need to rip an audio CD of mp3s.
To be fair to k3b, I've needed to do it once in the two years I've been doing it, as my car's cd player reads CDs with mp3s, as does my computer and stereo...
It's sort of funny watching my download speed (via cable modem) slowly drop...
T-250KB/s... 249... 248..
Kind of reinforces the whole moment of a lift off...
ummm... if you are selling the license on ebay because there IBM has left nothing on the bones for you claim after they've been given the death the so richly deserve, I'm guessing the purchesor on ebay would be making a pop-culture kische purchase more than actually having need for license that a court of law said was invalid...
The good looking, intelligent girl over there at the bar that you'd really like to talk to doesn't care much whether you are famous amongst a group of geeks and neither does she even remotely fathom why you'd be famous for that stuff in the first place. I mean - get real here.
What the hell else could you draw from this statement other than chics only dig money?!
heh.
When I started programming I started by stealing other people's code figuring out how it worked, then bashing it into something that I made.
This book actually seems usefull to me not becasue of the projects, but because it is as you say, "a starting point"
two quarters of negative growth is only one definition of a recession. It's a pretty good one to use while you are living through it.
HOWEVER the OFFICIAL definition of a recession that it starts whenever the NBER says it does... Unfortunately, they usually don't get around to it until months after the fact.
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When the hell is smith and wesson going to come up with an American response?!
Especially in this case because the could open up the knife part and stab them if the eye if not shown the proper respect by the authorities.
I do it for all of my movies... most especially those that my two year old son watches. Why? 1) I can edit out the constant ads for yet more videos he doesn't need 2) As I've got an internal LAN and share the movies throughout the house I don't have to go looking for a DVD whereever he may be inclined to watch it. 3) I don't have to fight with him about not touching the DVD until after he's washed the peanut butter off his hands 4) I can copy several to my laptop when we roadtrip.
I as well. At the time I thought of converting all my mp3s to ogg files, but then I realized I burn audio CDs from mp3s very infrequently...
I think I've gotten enough hints from comments here to figure it out though.
perhaps the good folks at mplayer are reading your suggestion?
heh. Yup. but I actually like SuSE, and will probrably get the next version that supports the the 2.6 kernel... I started using Linux with RedHat 7.1 I switched because they had a really easy to use hardware database for compatible hardware, and was amazed at how much easier to use it was...
I've heard SO many wonderful things about using Gentoo, but I've also heard some pretty remarkable horror stories about getting it installed (the first time)...
Right now, I've go no reason to change.
Don't get me wrong, k3b rocks, and works flawlessly in all other respects, but I think it should have given me some kind of hint as to why it couldn't read the mp3s...
I got off my ass to upgrade just to see how well the 'stick in a dvd and have k3b burn a vcd' feature worked (I haven't actually done it yet, because keep most media in Xvid/mp3 and play it through a multimedia box connected to tv/stereo).
Don't get me wrong, K3B is freakin' awsome, but it, as with other apps are not yet bullet-proof for the masses, and at the very least k3b should have at least given me some clue as to what may have been the problem with burning an audio CD from mp3s other than 'unknown format'.
Now you've said that it really isn't k3b's fault, but it is... sort of... As I understand how the program works, it's just a GUI for other CLI tools. If the particular CLI that is supposed to understand what an mp3 is doesn't, the error message would have been more helpful if it had said something like, "sox can't read input file..."
I suppose if was a true member of the opensource community I'd try to fix it myself, but I'm not a programmer, and I've got a wife and kids... and as I've said before: It doesn't bother me that much, I never use the feature...
And, as I pointed out, even though I wanted to be able to burn DVDs, and the version that came with 8.2 didn't support it... even after Yast updated it...
I had upgrade it recently because I wanted to use the DVD burning facilities that didn't come with suse 8.2...
I've long suspected that the issue could be solved if I spent an hour or so trying to find the right missing utility, or posting help questions, but it wasn't that important to me...
A previous poster's suggestion that it is Sox sounds like it could be the problem... I also like the CLI solution someone else posted.
yeah, you'd think... The problem is, it describes the mp3s as being in an unreadable format, and proffers no solution as to why. To make matters worse, when I check to see if all the 'support' files (dvd+record, cdrecord, etc) are installed, it says that all of them are, and working perfectly.
I am so lazy, in fact that I usually go to an outside website in germany that gathers up all the suport files for software upgrades for my distribution (SuSE).
much thanks... I'll keep it in mind the next time I need to rip an audio CD of mp3s. To be fair to k3b, I've needed to do it once in the two years I've been doing it, as my car's cd player reads CDs with mp3s, as does my computer and stereo...
And you think this comment is helpful?
While I'm certain I could figure out why, I honestly don't care enough to spend the effort. My point was that I shouldn't have to spend the effort.
I'm using a nearly new version of K3B and it won't let me burn CDs from Mp3's, and it won't tell me why. This is a pretty serious problem.
and that says quite alot about the girlie-men who created and use Windows if you ask me.
It's sort of funny watching my download speed (via cable modem) slowly drop... T-250KB/s... 249... 248.. Kind of reinforces the whole moment of a lift off...
ummm... if you are selling the license on ebay because there IBM has left nothing on the bones for you claim after they've been given the death the so richly deserve, I'm guessing the purchesor on ebay would be making a pop-culture kische purchase more than actually having need for license that a court of law said was invalid...
The law of supply and demand suggests that since they made very few of them, someone, somewhere may actually pay for copy.
"Lack of pussy makes you brave, man"
The good looking, intelligent girl over there at the bar that you'd really like to talk to doesn't care much whether you are famous amongst a group of geeks and neither does she even remotely fathom why you'd be famous for that stuff in the first place. I mean - get real here.
What the hell else could you draw from this statement other than chics only dig money?!
You forgot to mention that chics will only dig you if you spend money on them... That is, all women are whores.
I think that second thing is the secret teleporter that they were working on...
heh. When I started programming I started by stealing other people's code figuring out how it worked, then bashing it into something that I made. This book actually seems usefull to me not becasue of the projects, but because it is as you say, "a starting point"
HOWEVER the OFFICIAL definition of a recession that it starts whenever the NBER says it does... Unfortunately, they usually don't get around to it until months after the fact.