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  2. Xvidcap strange captures

    in Audio and Video

    Posted · Edited by ramonflores

    I have recently installed Mandriva Free 2010 x86_64 in a PC with a AMD Phenom II X4.

    I have no problems to install XvidCap, but the videos it produces are quite odd, and they do not match what happens on the screen.

     

    You can get the idea with the following picture:

     

    qpt7d2w7vutiz7gqubh_thumb.jpg

     

     

    However, nothing better that a video recorded using XvidCap to asses the problem:

    http://www.filefactory.com/file/b569h5d/n/test-Xvidcap.mpeg

     

    The program does not give many clues to what goes wrong. Thus, running it from the console in verbose mode writes the following messages:

    [ramom@favo ~]$ xvidcap -v --audio no --gui yes

    Current settings:

    flags = 3587

    capture mode = multi-frame

    position = 192x144+0+41

    rescale output to = 100

    frames per second = 10,00

    file pattern = test-%04d.mpeg

    file format = AUTO

    video encoding = AUTO

    audio codec = AUTO

    verbose level = 1

    frame start no = 0

    frames to store = 0

    time to capture = 0 sec

    autocontinue = no

    input source = shm (2)

    capture pointer = white

    capture audio = no

    - input = /dev/dsp

    - sample rate = 44100

    - bit rate = 64000

    - channels = 2

    animate command = mplayer "${XVFILE}" &

    make video command= xterm -e "echo not needed for multi-frame capture; echo hit enter to dismiss; read"

    edit frame command= xterm -e "echo none specified; echo hit enter to dismiss; read"

    [ramom@favo ~]$

     

    Any clue is welcome.

  4. maintaining user's configurations and other stuff

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    When you get to the formatting page make sure that the /home partition is not selected. All the user configurations will be as they were beforehand.

     

    The users directories are there, but the users are not. It is necessary to create them, and the million question is how to create them maintaining all the users' information: documents, configuration files, kmail messages, kmail filters, firefox bookmarks, firefox cookies, etc.

  5. maintaining user's configurations and other stuff

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Hi:

     

    I want to install Mandriva 2008 over Mandriva 2006. I do not want to make an upgrade, but a new installation. But

    I want to keep up all the users' information: configurations and other stuff. Yes, I have a /home partition, and by the way I use KDE.

     

    I have made some others upgrades, but I do not know any convenient way of main maintaining user's configurations; for kmail, Firefox, etc. I have previously made them by hand, and it take a lot of time.

     

    Is there an convenient way of installing Mandriva 2008, maintaining the old user, with all its documents, kmail's messages, kmail's filters, konqueror cookies, etc? (Obviously

     

     

    Thank for your input

  6. No video in .wmv files

    in Software

    Posted

    Excuse me, I sent my previous post too fast, and with too few information.

    I was trying to see the films with KMPlayer, as it is installed, without changing the configuration.

    I have installed win32-codecs and applied all updates to the system, but there were no images.

     

    The initial configuration uses Xine as the backend. With this configuration there are no images. But after changing the back-end to MPlayer the KMPlayer works nicely. :D

  10. Setting a different language [solved]

    in Software

    Posted

    The only way to have just ONE KDE app in language A, and all others in language B, is recompiling it yourself- unless its developer has application-specific i18n packages (e.g. K3B is such an app, but it's not a core KDE application).

     

    Is this a feature of Mandriva or of the new versions of KDE?

     

    In my computer I have installed two distributions, RedHat 8.0 and Mandriva2006. In RedHat8.0 there are no problems to have one KDE app in language A, other in language B, and the remaining in language C. As can be seen in the attachment. In the screenshot you can see that the general locale is pt_PT.iso88591, and two different konquerors, one in en_GB and the other in pt_BR.

     

    The pt_BR version is similar to the pt_PT version (that is not shown), but slightly different.

     

    post-13426-1139595610_thumb.jpg

  11. Setting a different language [solved]

    in Software

    Posted

    Ah, so you just want the KDE menus in French, and not in Portuguese/Brazilian...

    urpmi kde-i18n-fr

    (I think this is the correct name of the RPM).

    Then you can switch via kcontrol/regional&accessibilty/Country/Region & Language.

    This will affect only the KDE applications- for Openoffice you must install the french RPM's, while for Firefox/Thunderbird you can just install the "fr.xpi" extension ( it's easy to find the one matching the version you're running- from ftp.mozilla.org ), and then start the application like

    firefox -UILOcale fr%u

    and

    thunderbird -UILOcale fr%u

     

    No, I don't want all KDE menus in French. I just want one program in French, and the others programs in Portuguese.

  12. Setting a different language [solved]

    in Software

    Posted

    I had installed locales-fr, but exporting LANG do not work in my computer. Even arfter runing:

    export LC_ALL=fr

    export LC_LANG=fr

     

    One question please. Is me the only one that have this problem?

     

    I would thank that somebody using Mandriva2006 make a test, and confirm if this is a bug or just my problem.

     

    Ramom

  15. Setting a different language [solved]

    in Software

    Posted

    Some times it is suitable that a program use a language different from the system default. For example to run lyx without problems. The classic way to do it in linux is setting the LANG environment variable before starting the program, ex:

     

    LANG=fr_FR lyx

     

    But in Mandriva 2006 this do not work.

     

    Do anybody know how to achieve this in Mandriva?

    :thanks:

     

    Ramom

     

    [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

  16. Kmail using /home/user/ ?

    in Software

    Posted

    I have a similar problem :angry: ; sometimes after closing Kmail, my home directory appears full of files, that are attachments (of mail messages). I have no idea how to solve the problem.

     

    After reading the Mandriva2006 errata, I have come to the conclusion that the problem was due to kat. So I have uninstalled this program, and it looks like that the problem is gone. :happy:

  18. Boot problem - Mandriva 2006 and Red Hat 8.0

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    I have resolved the problem reinstalling grub of the redhat partition, with the original fstab file and the following grub.conf :

     

    default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux 8.0
       root (hd0,1)
       kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=/dev/hda2 hdc=ide-scsi
       initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
title Windows XP
       rootnoverify (hd0,0)
       chainloader +1
title Mandriva 2006
       root (hd0,5)
       kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 noapic splash=silent vga=788
       initrd /boot/initrd.img

  19. Boot problem - Mandriva 2006 and Red Hat 8.0

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Mandriva installs by default to ext3 partition.

     

    I have a funny feeling that your /etc/fstab is saying ext2 instead of ext3 for your Red Hat partition which is why you seem to be experiencing problems.  Can you access the Red Hat partition when you are booted into Mandriva?  If so, check what the /etc/fstab entry in Mandriva is for /dev/hda2.  This should then match the /etc/fstab entry in Red Hat.  If it's different, you need to make sure it's the same.

     

    You can boot from the Mandriva CD and go into rescue mode.

     

    I think this is not the problem. Mandriva boots without problems. By default it do not mounts the Red Hat partition. This is the fstab file for the Mandriva partition:

     

    [root@favo etc]# more fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=utf8,sync 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

     

    I can mount the Red Hat partition by hand without problems, and the fstab file seems correct:

    [root@favo mnt]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /mnt/outro
[root@favo mnt]# cd outro/etc
[root@favo etc]# more fstab
/dev/hda2/   /           ext3    defaults        1 1
none         /dev/pts    devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/hda3/   /home       ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

     

    Why do you write: "but I have found a strange fact: the system mix up partition information"? I don't get/see what's wrong there, please explain.

     

     

    The df comand says that it is mounted the /dev/hda6 partition (Mandriva), but the size corresponds to the /dev/hda2 partition (Redhat).

     

    This is what df from Mandriva says (with /dev/hda2 mounted by hand):

    [root@favo etc]# df -T
Sist. Arq.    Tipo     Tam   Usad Disp  Uso% Montado em
/dev/hda6     ext3     12G  4,2G  6,8G  39% /
/dev/hda3     ext3    9,7G  3,0G  6,3G  32% /home
/dev/hda1     ntfs     15G  4,7G   11G  32% /mnt/windows
/dev/hda2     ext3     20G  3,5G   15G  20% /mnt/outro

  20. Boot problem - Mandriva 2006 and Red Hat 8.0

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    In my computer coexisted Mandriva 2005, Red Hat 8.0 and MS Windows XP. But I have upgrade to Mandriva 2006 and now Red Hat do not boot. Actually it was not a upgrade, but a new installation.

     

    The disk has 4 useful partions. Using sfdisk -l /dev/hda:

     

    Device     Boot Start   End    #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *      0+   1913    1914-  15374173+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2   *   1914    4463    2550   20482875   83  Linux
/dev/hda3       4464    5738    1275   10241437+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4       5739    7296    1558   12514635    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5       5739+   5770      32-    257008+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6   *   5771+   7296    1526-  12257563+  83  Linux

     

    with

    /dev/hda1 --> MS Windows XP

    /dev/hda2 --> Red Hat 8.0

    /dev/hda3 --> /home

    /dev/hda6 --> Mandriva 2006

     

    The computer uses grub, and the menu.lst says:

     

    timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
default 0

title Mandriva Free 2006
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 noapic splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img

title Red Hat 8.0
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=/dev/hda2 acpi=ht
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img

etc.

     

    Mandriva and MS Windows boot without problem, but when I select Red Hat it begin to boot until the following error message appears:

     

    Checking root filesystem
fsck.est3/dev/hda2
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem ...

: Not a directory while trying to open /dev/hda2


Give root password for maintenance

     

    In fact the /dev/hda2 partition do not contain an ext2 filesystem, but a ext3 one.

     

    I do not what to do in the maintenance console, but I have found a strange fact: the system mix up partition information.

     

    (Repair filesystem) 1 # df -T

Filesystem  Type  1k-blocks     Used     Available    Use%   Mounted on
/dev/hda6   ext3   2016204    3642848     15494216     20%         /

     

    Any idea of what is happening? :help:

     

    Any hint is wellcome.

     

    Ramon

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