AussieJohn

Have you tried GTKam package ???. John.

If that is the case then why didn't you say so earlier. It appeared that you had ignored entirely, my earlier post to try and help and appeared to be deliberately so. And whether I respond to any of your posts is my choice and always will be. You certainly wont decide it. If you want to be selective about who responds to your posts then perhaps other members may decide to not respond to you. You might even have to consider going elsewhere instead if you persist with that attitude. The Card I use captures video, captures video off tv. It is not just to watch TV as you imply. The fact that, under Linux, it has difficulty with other video sources does NOT make it Not a video capture device. I would hardly call LeadTek a supplier of outdated Video capture devices. I am sure there are more recent models than the one I have.. I doubt that newer cards by any maker will do much better than the current one I use since the important chips have remained basically the same, having changed very little. You asked for a suggestion of a Video Capture Card and I suggested one. You try to take a cheap shot by saying "please pay attention to the subject" as if you are talking to some school kid. The following is for other readers on this topic who may be more appreciative of any and every little bit of help available on this subject. "Kino is a video capture (from DV camcorders: IEEE 1394 and USB), edit (cuts only) and play software. It is based on GTK+ 2.0, uses OSS or ALSA audio and supports PAL and NTSC" "This pcHDTV card works with Xine. The pcHDTV HD-5500 supports ATSC/NTSC TV reception and accelerated motion compression support with NVidia GeForce4 and Quadro 4 cards. Also supports MPEG-1/2/4 video capture." A possible card source........................ http://store.bluecherry.net/category_s/63.htm ............ http://www.artistx.org/site2/hardware/hard...o-hardware.html .................... http://www.ituner.com/new_pdf/spectra8.pdf .......... http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge ........... Note the Linux support for many models. According to the hauppauge website..."Drivers for Hauppauge cards are now included in the kernel (version 2.2 and newer)". Hauppage devices are certainly worth looking at. It seems the company is not interested in developing Linux drivers but has assisted Linux developers to devise Linux drivers for some models and so on. Kaffeine has the best tv scanning of tv stations, both analogue and digital, and as a consequence can be easily captured to the hard drive. It is so easy to set up and use that makes the other TV viewing or capturing programs to be a waste of time. I am not new to the problem of selecting and getting Video Capture Cards working in Linux. Been examining the subject for a couple of years now. The major thing I have learned in that time is that almost nothing has improved much in that time. Even doing an extensive googling on the subject today draws up stuff mostly from people around 2006-2008 asking for help and ideas and mostly getting not even a single response. Obviously no one had any suggestions to try. Pretty much the situation to date. Fellow members will remember how little members were able to help me when I had questions on this same subject in the past. The only reason I haven't tried to solve the VCR input problem is because it was not important enough to me to be bothered with trying to resolve it. The Linux websites dedicated to Video aspects, especially Video Capture, still don't have much more to offer than they did 2 or 3 years ago and some haven't been updated for more than a year so it is a very sorry subject indeed. John.

By attempting to use cooker as a source of security updates is really looking for trouble. If security updates were meant to be done this way then all updates would have been done this way. ALL updates find there way to the update site only when they have been tested to be certain that they do not cause new problems. You are trying to use the system in a manner that was never intended and likely never will. No matter how stable a lot of the stuff in cooker actually is, it is still the experimental/test arena for software. All the updates reach the update repository pretty quickly so don't be impatient. The vast majority of security updates in Linux are ahead of possible security problems unlike Windows updates where they are after the event. You are likely only to be able to resolve your problem by uninstalling all the programs that you have updated from cooker and reinstall those programs from the normal Main and Contrib repositorys. Even then you may not be totally successful and may need to do a fresh reinstall of the OS. Cheers. John.

I gave you a reference for a card that works but you seem to have ignored it. On top of that this card is recommended on a couple of Linux video centric websites. Since it was obviously much too hard to check my reference before saying "So far I cannot find one with composite inputs that looks as if it would stand a chance with Linux", here it is to save you looking.......LeadTek WinFast-DTV2000-H Video Capture Card, It includes composite input and provides the appropriate connectors. If you google this card you will find all details about it. Don't waste time by asking the company, LeadTech, about Linux use with the card, they will pull the usual Windows centric crap of saying Linux is not supported. On top of that their tech reps barely speak passable English. John.

I found that Kaffeine was the only program that worked with my capture card. (see my signature for the card type.) The only function I have not been able to get working is getting input from a Video tape recorder. The free to air broadcast capturing works brilliantly. It has no trouble scanning for the broadcast channels, both Digital and Analogue. Cheers. John.

Thanks for that Tux. I have now installed it. Cheers. John.

You have a great and successful New Year 2009 too, Henrik. :thumbs: Cheers. John.

Sheesh. All those passwords to remember. :D . You do have my sympathy. I am glad you are especially aware of the banking aspect though. Cheers. John.

Fortunately for me my Firefox does NOT save my netbank password and I am glad it doesn't. I feel you are making a bad move there. You should never have your banking password saved on your computer regardless of how well you think you have covered all the security issues. Just how hard is it to type in your password each time you access your bank account ???. Do you have to do it dozens of times per day every day ???. I think not. Save yourself some possible future grief if you value your funds as much as I do. Cheers. John.

I guess you were expecting the "root" routine to be the same in Mandriva as it is in Ubuntu. It isn't and Ubuntu tends to be the standoff here. There is a certain amount of controversy in the general Linux world as to whether the Ubuntu routine is a good idea but I am not about to get into debate about the whys and wherefores on the subject. As Jim says, there is absolutely no need to be in root especially to install packages especially when you can use the MCC (Mandriva Control Centre). Fact is you hardly ever need to use the CLI and then mainly for a few simple things such as one Jim said about using su - . Cheers. John.

First of all, welcome to MUB. I would like to ask why you are trying to compile a tarred Firefox. Mandriva includes Firefox packages in its repository so there is absolutely no need to compile Firefox. If you think that doing so puts you further ahead with Firefox then you are sadly mistaken. Any updates in Firefox appear within days in the Mandriva Firefox package. You are just making an unnecessary rod for your own back. When you did the initial install, Firefox would have been in the list of installable packages. Anyway go into MCC then Software Management then into install and remove software and look for Firefox, click to install it. Couldn't be easier. Cheers. John.

I hope you now understand that your impression was incorrect. In the early days when memory was extremely expensive and therefore usually low, the general rule was twice the swap space to the actual hard memory. Over the years this was modified to be up to a maximum of 512Mb of swap regardless of hard memory size. This recommendation has been around for quite some years now. Remember.....Quote -"Please keep in mind that this is Linux and not Windows. Linux uses memory in a different and far more efficient ways." Cheers and I hope you enjoy your Linux experience. John.

Have you really got 8.5Gb of Swap ???. If you have, what a great waste of space. You really don't need any more than 512Mb for practical purposes. Certainly no more than 1Gb and that is also unnecessary. Please keep in mind that this is Linux and not Windows. Linux uses memory in a different and far more efficient ways. Even on a large hard drive, 7.5Gb to 8Gb is still a lot of wasted space. Many Linux users who have 1Gb or more of hard memory don't even have a swap space and never have problems. I have 4Gb of memory and a swap of 512Mb and the swap only exists because it happened to be there when I had only 750Mb of hard memory. When I ultimately repartition the the entire hard drive for whatever reason, I will be eliminating swap entirely. Cheers. John.

When I tried it in root, I was in root and kaffeine ran the saved kaffeine capture quite OK. When I was in my account, I could not even right click or left click on the capture. nothing would vivibly happen but from that moment onwards, after trying to click on the capture, any attempt to close Konqueror resulted in a long delay then a message asking if I wanted to leave it running or to stop it. If I stopped it, then restarting konqueror resulted in not being able to open anything in konqueror. I then needed to log out and back in again. Provided I did not click on the captures or other videos, everything else was workable again. Alas IanW, I cannot do that since I have fresh installed, as I mentioned earlier, and no longer have the problem. I am not looking for a current solution, rather some possibilities of what might have been the problem so I can look out for them/it in the future. Thanks all for trying so far. Cheers. John.

Are there no ideas from anyone yet at this stage ??? Cheers. John.

They are recorded by Kaffeine and in the format that Kaffeine uses. It is definitely a permissions problem but even though I gave the file full permissions it still wouldn't work. That in itself was no big deal but the aspect of screwing with konqueror is, as I described. I have done a clean install of 2008-Spring again in the last 24 hours (including setting up all my desktop settings from scratch again. I know I didn't need to but I did for an exercise). I have no such problems now, everything working as it should do so any answers are now largely just of interest as to how it might have been caused. Especially since I generally don't play around with system default settings that might effect permissions. Cheers. John.

I am in 2008-Spring. I can save "Live to Air" TV to a folder with no troubles at all. However I cannot replay the captures in Kaffeine or Totem except in root mode. This despite my setting my Home partition Permissions to read and write totally. I find also that Konqueror tends to freeze up and becomes unusable until I reboot. When rebooted Konqueror works normally until any attempt is made to play the capture in any of the media players. It only seems to be caused by the Captures and not by any of the other video formats. Any ideas from anyone will be appreciated. I have all updates and latest Nvidia driver but problem has existed for months so updates have neither caused or corrected the problem. Cheers. John.

To do what Greg says you will need to do it as root. Type su and enter then your password. :D It works. Cheers. John.

Fantastic Adam. Like I said I will stick with Mandriva until it is no longer feasible. I see you are devoted to Mandriva as I am, that is why I am so angry at anything which seems to threaten the long term of Mandriva, and also the way you and your colleague have been treated. Cheers. John.

I am not sure about the Logo. I find that out of ever 10 reboots that the Logo doesn't appear 3 or 4 times, or doesn't seem to. I have always put that down to the very short duration that the Logo is set to and perhaps can't be seen but is still really there. I have tended to not worry about it although, like you , I do get a kick out of seeing it. :D Cheers. John.

Thanks for that Greg. :D Cheers. John. 91897 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18379.241 FPS 92309 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18461.789 FPS 92134 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18426.637 FPS 92511 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18502.189 FPS 92189 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18437.752 FPS 91802 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18360.378 FPS 90140 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18025.519 FPS 92523 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18504.508 FPS 92525 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18504.334 FPS 92617 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18523.285 FPS 92369 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18473.755 FPS 91931 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18386.053 FPS Is this a good or great rate ???. Your view please. JB

Thanks Ian. I just tried and it just gives me .....command not found. Note I am using Nvidia's proprietary driver only not the Mandriva one. Would that be why there is no response to the gxlgears. test ???. Cheers. John.

Hi Greg. I am currently in 2008-Spring and have ksensors working. I haven't had to use my workaround and I just checked what you suggested and I don't have that either so there must be something else involved as well. :D Weird, huh ???. Cheers. John.

I used to fix that problem by opening Konqueror as root, going into /usr/bin and copying ksensors then pasting it into /home/account/.kde/autostart Then rebooting. Haven't had to do that in 2008-Spring or 2009 so I don't know what is the cause of your problem but at least this work around should get you to go. Cheers. John

Ian, I think it might help to actually say how to do the glxgears test rather than just refer to it. I don't know how to do it and I am sure most newcomers don't know either, although you obviously could do it in your sleep. Cheers. John.