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  1. Re:Video on After 3 Years, Rockbox 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I should have included more details, sorry. (would have posted anonymously to avoid karma whoring, but for the retarded mandatory-anonymous-post-delay)

    MPEGplayer is an MPEG video player viewer plugin. It is currently capable of playing back MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streams with MPEG audio multiplexed into .mpg files (MPEG Program Stream) and raw MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streams. To play a video file, you simply select it in the Rockbox file browser. If your file does not have the .mpg, .mpeg, .mpv or .m2v extension, you will need to use the "Open With..." context menu option and choose "mpegplayer".

    NOTE: MPEGplayer does all video and audio decoding using your device's main CPU. It does not use any special video decoding hardware such as the Broadcom Video Processor found in the iPod Video. MPEGplayer therefore performs very badly on such devices in comparison with the manufacturer's original firmware.

  2. Re:Video on After 3 Years, Rockbox 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    It only really supports MPEG2 (the one DVD uses, specifically). You also have to encode it to particular framerats, aspects etc..

    See this page for details.

  3. Re:Creative? on After 3 Years, Rockbox 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    My Sansa e200r (v1) had poor radio reception. Rockbox somehow fixed that. But for me, that fix was being allowed to tune at 0.05mhz increments, instead of the standard 0.10mhz. For some reason, my tuner is offset by 0.05mhz and to hear 97.90mhz clearly, I actually need to tune to 97.95mhz.

  4. Re:Rockbox is great! on After 3 Years, Rockbox 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Beware! See my post above. Sansa v2 family support is in progress but currently unusable.

  5. sansa v2 hardware support - in progress on After 3 Years, Rockbox 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Just beware, the Sansa v2 family is not supported, the vendor went and implemented a whole new board. The new one is some sort of system-on-a-chip that they are working on, but so far is unusable.

    See this forum thread. You'll probably agree with me that some of these developers know their stuff.

    Note: One of the holdbacks is that the vendor will only give a particular developer documentation, under the condition that he/she can't share it with others. Nice.

  6. Re:Been using this for years... on After 3 Years, Rockbox 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Basically they did what Debian does, they froze development on new features and just hammered away at bugs.

    As far as the difference from the previous "release", there's simply not enough space here to describe. Three years of solid SVN commits to go through...

  7. Re:Anyone prefer this to the stock firmware? on After 3 Years, Rockbox 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    The database has vastly improved since then. You can browse by many tags, including Artist, Album Artist, Album, Genre, Year etc...

    And as far as sound goes, when you can adjust crossfeed and seperation parameters yourself... you know you have something just a tad bit better than consumer-level firmware.

  8. Re:There is nothing to see here.... on Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit · · Score: 1

    That doesn't work. I didn't click and I don't feel either way about not clicking. Meh.

  9. Re:One of these things is not like the other. on Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmm, and hot on the heels of a few other security vulnerabilities.

    I'm really hoping crackers exploit the hell out of flash until it's ground underfoot. If we try to do the nice thing, and suggest/recommend PROPER ways of using Flash, and the only thing we get is a resounding 'fuck you,' I think screwing flash over is called-for.

    It's a shame Adobe doesn't put something in their toolkit ELUAs about proper use of Flash.

  10. Re:Not Quite... on Jack Thompson Disbarred · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It gets better. Read his emergency filing, and you learn that basically his whole argument is this:

    1. Innocent person "Bob" is in jail, due to a conspiracy by the Bar.
    2. Due to Thompson's disbarrment, Thompson (the only one who sees the conspiracy) can no longer represent "Bob".
    3. "Bob" is doomed unless Thompson's disbarrment is stayed.

    Of course, they could always suspend the disbarrment until "Bob"'s case is decided, and then disbar him. That would be even more awesome, because then they get to smack him down for his conspiracy theory as well!

  11. Re:What is so dangerous about gambling anyway? on State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names · · Score: 1

    This is all about someone in the horse racing industry not liking the competition.

    Which is perhaps even more retarded than the alternative. Poker isn't Horses.

    This would be like Microsoft getting mad at Walgreens because they are taking in cash that could have (possible? it's a stretch... but thats my point) gone to them instead.

    (company names picked randomly, but chosen from different markets)

  12. Re:What is so dangerous about gambling anyway? on State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names · · Score: 1

    I logged in, but for some reason I lost my session and became anonymous again. ... there's little point in posting something like that. How can someone know if it was you or me? Or neither?

  13. Re:Wow. on State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The difference? ICANN is in the US, not China. If it was in China, exactly what you said would be happening. But then, the rest of the world would wake up, and ICANN (or it's international-except-china equivalent) would not be under the exclusive control of a single nation)

    I wonder how many people need to get screwed before ICANN goes properly international.

  14. Re:hmmm on Ancient Yeast Used To Brew Modern Beer · · Score: 1

    Endospore is only seen with bacteria, unfortunatly Yeast is a fungus. Specifically, an ascomycota - the spore in question is an ascospore.

  15. Re:Excellent news. About time too. on EA Hit By Class-Action Suit Over Spore DRM · · Score: 1

    How about going after the people who actually write the malware?

    Sony DADC Austria AG
    Sonystrasse 20
    A-5081 Anif/Salzburg
    Austria

    Sales:
    SecuROM-sales@SecuROM.com

    SecuROM Support is available worldwide, 24 hours a day at support@securom.com

  16. Re:sad on EA Hit By Class-Action Suit Over Spore DRM · · Score: 1

    ID makes linux ports. I doubt SecureROM will work in a native linux environment.

  17. Re:If I sold anything to EA... on EA Hit By Class-Action Suit Over Spore DRM · · Score: 1

    That's the ticket... we don't need CONSUMERS boycotting EA, we need developers boycotting them.

    Hard to make money when you have nothing to sell, no?

  18. Re:Undisclosed? on EA Hit By Class-Action Suit Over Spore DRM · · Score: 1

    Transgaming did the WINE(like) interface for the MacOSX port. Nothing to do with the copy protection.

  19. Re:Blocks vs. sub-blocks. on China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days · · Score: 1

    ... you've got me. I concede my point. I haven't really had exposure to how you say it should be, I imagine if that was my only reference, I would feel the same way about that.

  20. Re:Several weeks to warm up and cool down? on LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't know why there's a bulkhead every 10km. Would they need more helium-circulation equipment for every barrier? Pumps and tanks, etc?

    It may have been a cost reduction or design simplification (more pumps, more chance for a pump to fail and take the system down for weeks).

    I'm just going to trust that people a hell of a lot smarter than me, knew what they were doing.

  21. Re:Several weeks to warm up and cool down? on LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer) · · Score: 1

    It is - the issue is that the thing is just so huge! (and, you can't run it without all sections operational).

    If you look here, you can see that sector 3-4 is warm.. that's the compartment that was affected. Detailed graphs are available here.

  22. Re:hmmm on Ancient Yeast Used To Brew Modern Beer · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't need to be a microbiologist to understand the spore state.

  23. Re:Blocks vs. sub-blocks. on China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days · · Score: 1

    Hmm, UPnP get's turned off immediately for all my equipment. I don't trust it - what stops an intruder from opening that port?

  24. Re:Blocks vs. sub-blocks. on China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days · · Score: 1

    I understand what you are saying, but having one host where ports redirect to other hosts behind it just makes perfect sense to me, putting each host on it's own IP seems wasteful to me.

  25. Re:Supply and demand, indeed on RIAA and Net Radio Broadcasters Reach Agreement · · Score: 1

    I find the player is more important than the gear. Granted, nobody sounds good on a trashy guitar, but if it's well taken care of, it doesn't really matter if it was $300 or $3000.