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Well, I haven't done a modprobe / insmode of what is normal on me system, which would add (as far as I remember) i2c-core i2c-algobit videodev bttv tuner And after I do that, I may or may not have a /dev/v4l , however, I DO have a /dev/video When I used to capture with Zapping or Xawtv, I had to use --noxv, because the Xvideo extension interfered. That may not be the case anymore though. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ While I'm on the subject, I think I'll pass this on, you might be able to use it in the future..... I use mjpegtools to capture now, and find it to be much more useful. Here's a little script I use #!/bin/sh # vcr: use this script to rip VHS tapes with lavrec # # -t / --time num : recording time in seconds # -w / --wait : use enter to start recording location=`pwd` cd $location nlevel="-19" fname="Quest for fire" nice -n $nlevel lavrec --quality 90 --mjpeg-buffers 64 --format A --geometry 352x240 -l 100 -R l -U -a 8 -r 44100 -c 2 -n 64 --file-flush 30 --software-encoding -i n --time 5652 --wait $fname%01d.avi #nice -n $nlevel lavrec --quality 90 --mjpeg-buffers 64 --format A --geometry 704X480 -l 100 -R l -U -a 8 -r 44100 -c 2 -n 64 --file-flush 30 --software-encoding -i n --time 5652 --wait $fname%01d.avi I'm using sudo to run this shell with a nice -n -19 (or whatever nice level I set in $nlevel) You'll see that there are two lines that are almost identical. One is for half-size NTSC, and the other is for full size NTSC

Just as a start, try using xawtv --noxv (sorry, I don't have xawtv installed at the moment, it might be -noxv, --no-xv -- check the man page.

PDF is good, albeit proprietary. If you want a non-proprietary route, load all the files back into Word, and save them as straight Rich Text Format.

that's the way to go, be it Windows or Mac... add VNC, and you have access to both computers from one seat.

I used to have similar problems. I solved them by copying the disks to my HD and using urpmi.addmedia, then removing the references to the CDs. This also meant that the files were instantly available whenever I needed them. However, I had 130 gigabytes of HD storage.

Well, I don't own one, bit cdrtools has contained both dvdrtools and cdrutils for quite a while now. sh-2.05b$ gaze what dvdrtools dvdrtools is a fork of cdrtools, with the primary goal of supporting writable DVD drives. People have successfully used dvdrtools to burn video DVDs (with the masters created using other software) and data DVDs. The Pioneer DVR-A03 is well supported, other MMC compliant compliant hardware is likely to work.

Don't give up if they don't, see if there are source RPMs there and build them yourself.

DVDs work fine with MPlayer (0.90rc2) and Xine (0.9.13) on my machine --- however, I'm not using Mandrake.... I'm just curious, have you tried reinstalling Xine after having installed the plugins? I know that's not the way that it would normally work, but it might be worth a try.

Oh yeah, if you're using Grub, the append info is generally included on the "root =" line, after the root device

Yes, I think so. Your controller doesn't handle ata100 - however, you can still use ata66 instead of the default ata33, as long as you have an 80 pin data cable. If you want, you an also buy an ata100 PCI card, if you're worried about that 30% drop in potential speed. Generally, an ata66 is more than sufficient, unless you're doing something like recording digital video over firewire, where it's nicer to use the full speed.

Sure, it will work. You might want to edit your /etc/lilo.conf to get the best results though: prompt lba32 delay=128 timeout=128 install=boot-bmp.b bitmap=/boot/boot.bmp bmp-table=227p,233p,1,7 bmp-colors=13,0,,11,0,13 bmp-timer=76,30,11,0 map=/boot/map append="devfs=nomount vga=ask ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66 idebus=66" #password=................... boot=/devices/discs/disc0/disc root=/devices/discs/disc0/part3 image = /boot/vmlinubz-2.4.20 label = linux-2.4.20 read-only image = /boot/vmlinubz-2.4.19 label = linux-2.4.19 read-only Notice my "append" line where I'm telling the kernel to use ata66 Edit: removed password, even though it wasn't being used

sh-2.05b$ gaze DETAILS mozilla-nightly SPELL=mozilla-nightly VERSION=`date +%Y%m%d` SOURCE=mozilla-source.tar.bz2 SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/mozilla SOURCE_URL[0]=ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/$SOURCE SOURCE_URL[1]=ftp://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/nightly/latest/$SOURCE WEB_SITE=http://www.mozilla.org ENTERED=20010922 UPDATED=20020605 MAINTAINER=dossen+sgl@daimi.au.dk MD5[0]=IGNORE SHORT="A nightly snapshot of the Mozilla browser." cat << EOF Mozilla is a Web browser that is being developed by the Free Software Community with the cooperation and support of Netscape. Initially, its development was based on an early version of Netscape Communicator 5.0. But most of it was disposed of halfway, and the current Mozilla is a completely new software based on the "NGLayout" layout engine developed for Netscape Communicator 6. "Netscape 6" (the Web browser from Netscape) and "Beonex Communicator" are based on Mozilla. Many other projects use/embed Mozilla's rendering engine. Note that this spell is based on a nightly snapshot of a work-in-progress. It is not an official release and certain things may not work. EOF So, you'd go to: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly...-source.tar.bz2 No RPMs, of course

1.4a came out for the start of its testing cycle on 14 February, I think.

Since you have a permanent record here of what your current settings are, maybe you could try a : root@linux:/home/terry# ln -sf /devices/sound/mixer /dev/mixer or ln -sbf ... if you want to make an automatic backup

To be honest, I haven't read everything you posted, but I'm just wondering, since it didn't say "no mixer device" if it's talking about having a particular mixer installed.... aumix, nmix, nmixer, etc. I know you say you have aumix, but I used to have problems getting it to save configurations

I would imagine that there is not too much. A while back I did the same movie with both mjpeg-tools & libavcodec, and ffmpeg & mpeg4 and there wasn't any difference at all

I used to, but I ran out of virgins to sacrifice.... ---------------- Incidently, I used to love the Chronicles of Narnia too, even if C.S. Lewis was a christian apologist :)

Try DivX Calc - it's not exactly what you asked for, but it will tell you what bitrate to use to fit a file on a CD for example... http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/?m=sw&p=divxcalc

I don't know, I use grub on my machine (an Atari TT) with NetBSD & Debian.

Not sure about a demo.... seems to me that there was one on the Commercial Apps disk in the 8.x series... so there might be one in the 9.x series. I bought it, just because I had some spare money at the time and wanted to see how well it worked. I was using Mandrake at the time, and it functioned beautifully. I just use TightVNC to connect to my wife's Windows machine if I need to access Windows for any reason now though.

hmmmm well, I don't use any of those, although I've installed them in the past, just to play around... Do you have ffmpeg installed? I'm sure Mandrake has an RPM available in its base distribution, but if not, here is what it is, and the website for it. sh-2.05b$ gaze what ffmpeg FFMpeg is a complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for Linux/Unix. It also includes a digital VCR. It can encode in real time in many formats including MPEG1 audio and video, MPEG4, h263, ac3, asf, avi, real, mjpeg, and flash. sh-2.05b$ gaze website ffmpeg http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net sh-2.05b$ Try installing it, and then seeing if any of the 3 programs will use the files directly. If they won't, don't give up.... you can just use mencoder or transcode to convert the file into a format thay they can use.

You might just try telling her that she can't do it.... just kidding

A really nice thing about LFS is you are learning a LOT about Linux. How everything ties together, etc. You get the same thing with the source based distros, but absolutely not to the same extent. While aru was joking, a lot of people ask what advantages there are to using Source Mage when you can just change your optimizations in Mandrake.... The speed is of course very nice, since everything is compiled for your architecture. For me though, one of the nicest things is that I don't have to deal with the "dependency hell" I had with RPM-based systems (and before you start wondering, I also use Debian). Many people have asked me what is so great about it, since I have to download the libraries anyway, and they can just download an RPM themselves. The thing is, when you install an RPM, it comes compiled looking (in many cases) for a particular version of a library, then you install another RPM, and it wants a different version of the library - meanwhile, the libraries come expecting you to have particular versions of other files..... With a source based distro, you download and compile the library once, and then when you want to install another program, you download it and compile it yourself, with it using the libraries that you already have installed. Also, you can configure programs just as you like them. Why have a program compile to use all sorts of hardware that you don't actually have?

Well, I'm using an Athlon 1200. For me (with Source Mage) it took me about two hours to rebuild my base system. About 4-6 hours to build X, less than five minutes for fluxbox (these times varied, depending upon which kernel (preempt, etc.) I was using). My Gentoo times were equivalent, but a little longer - again though, you can use their stage3 tarball, where everything is precompiled.

:D or you can do a stage1 install like I did on my Dual Pentium3 1gig with 1gig or RAM and it took me 12 hours before I reboot after an install ... and 3 days before I had X fluxbox and mozilla :P worth it tho' I think There's also the option of installing them (Gentoo, SMGL, etc.) from a chrooted environment from inside of a running Mandrake machine, if you have the disk space for both distros. That way you could be running Mandrake while the source-based distro was installing