javaguy

I just got a USB bluetooth dongle and walked through the steps to pair it with my mobile phone. Everything was working fine, and I was able to transfer files and stuff back and forth with no problem. Then it abruptly stopped working and says it can't connect to the phone. I have verified that the phone still works w/ its bluetooth headset, so the phone's bluetooth hardware seems to be in order. I tried removing the pairing in the phone and putting the phone into discovery mode again. When I look at bluetooth:/ in Konqueror, the phone does indeed get discovered, but when I double-click on it--this was where previously it had asked me to enter a pin to make the pairing--it goes straight to sdp, where previously it had discovered a whole bunch of services but now discovers nothing. Anybody have any experience w/ this? Thanks! Sam

I'm trying to connect an LG 8550 through the USB port. The phone certainly recognizes when it gets plugged into the computer, but I cannot mount it as a drive or connect via Kandy. Any ideas? THanks!

That's how I feel about it, and once upon a time that was a pretty clear principle of law, but it has eroded over the years. In most states, for example, convicted felons can never again get a gun permit. In many they can't register to vote. The case has been made that some people are still dangerous even after serving their sentence, but that strikes me as a problem with the length of the sentence, not a case to keep harassing them after it's over. Some argue that child molesters, for example, pretty much never stop doing it and should be watched for life; I sympathize, but if it's true then it seem to me they should be kept locked up for life and that it's cruel and irresponsible to turn them loose on society no matter how carefully we think we're monitoring them. In this particular case, we're talking about a movie pirate for God's sake! Even if he resumes his crimes he's not really a threat to society. The government is treating this case like they've captured Dr. Mengele. Leave him alone already.

00000000 52 49 46 46 00 DA 01 00 57 41 56 45 66 6D 74 20 RIFF....WAVEfmt 00000010 14 00 00 00 11 00 01 00 40 1F 00 00 A0 0F 00 00 ........@....... 00000020 00 02 04 00 02 00 F9 03 66 61 63 74 04 00 00 00 ........fact.... 00000030 DB BA 09 00 4C 49 53 54 BC 01 00 00 49 4E 46 4F ....LIST....INFO 00000040 49 53 46 54 0A 00 00 00 41 43 54 49 4F 4E 53 00 ISFT....ACTIONS. 00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Well these files are untouched by anything even remotely related to Windoze, but I don't know anything about the internal workings of my mp3 player except that it spits out a playable .wav file. How can I tell if they're the tagged kind?

I'm not having problems with the .wav files per se. They sound great. I'm having trouble converting them. Right-clicking and selecting action-convert did give me an mp3 file, but it too is just screeching static. Is there something about this particular .wav file (I recorded it using a standalone mp3 player, btw) that makes it hard to convert? edit: I uploaded one to http://media-convert.com/, and whatever they use was able to convert it to a good mp3. That's kinda a hassle though.

Yes, I've been through the man page. Bitrate looks optional. I did try adding a few different options, like lame -h rec.wav rec.mp3 and now get an error that says Warning: corrupt or unsupported WAVE format Assuming raw pcm input file I can play the .wav file though. Follow-up: I just did an experiment creating a .wav with text2wave and converting it with lame (no options), and it worked. Apparently some .wav files work, and some don't.

Like the title says. Here's what I try: lame rec01.wav rec01.mp3 Seems pretty simple to me. I can do it in audacity, but when I try to lame it from the command line I get a file with nothing but hideous screeching static. :o Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Sam [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Alsa, and then a reboot. Sound now works again.

Well I installed it...and the very first thing that tried to play a sound crashed my system. So I uninstalled it, and it took my existing sound stuff with it. When I went back to KDE sound setup it wouldn't even open the configuration dialog for me because it said it was missing soundlib.so.2. :( So now to figure out what package I need to reinstall.

Awww...you took out the spelling and grammar mistakes he made while trying to insult our intelligence.

Ahem. [/trollfeeding]

I loved Enemy Territory (had a native Linux version) and can't wait for the new one. I believe it will have native VOIP built into the client, so no need for TS. I generally agree, however, that building a bigger desktop market for Linux is a necessary first step. The Dell thing will definitely help. Windows Vista is helping a lot too.

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How hard will it be to set up? I've always struggled with sound in Linux. Right now KDE kinda sorta does it automagically for me as long as I set the sound system to "Auto," but it still has that really annoying quirk that any time KDE makes so much as a beep or a click it takes complete control of the sound system for a few seconds, and any app that get opened during that time will have no sound. Will there be an rpm in the repository so I can urpmi it? And does this mean Wolf ET will have sound without my having to jump through hoops? 'Cause that would be awesome.

That's kind of how I feel. The only time I miss Winbloze is when I'm trying to get anything sound-related to work. Whatever its problems were, I have to give it this: I could listen to mp3s and play a game at the same time, and hear the sound from both.

Same result. My dvdauthor.xml starts out like this: <dvdauthor dest="/video/dvd/" jumppad="yes" > <vmgm> <menus> <video format="ntsc" aspect="4:3" resolution="720x480" /> <pgc entry="title" > <pre> { if ( g4 gt 0 ) button=g4; if ( g2 gt 0 ) { if ( g2 eq 1 ) jump titleset 1 menu entry root; if ( g2 eq 2 ) jump titleset 2 menu entry root; jump title 1; } } </pre> <vob file="/video/tmp/land/Main Menu VMGM_menu.mpg" pause="inf" /> ... I see no mention of PAL anywhere in it. I don't know how to make it do that if it isn't doing it already.

It's the CD player for a Geo Prizm, so maybe it's not sophisticated enough to have any error messages other than "Err." :)

I went ahead and created a 30-second silent silence.mp2 and put it in the directory where it said it wanted it. Then I tried again. cmd> dvdauthor -x "/video/tmp/land/dvdauthor.xml" +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.13. Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net> INFO: Locale=en_US.UTF-8 INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8 INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS STAT: Picking VTS 03 STAT: Processing /video/land_before_time/land_before_time.mpg... WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU... WARN: attempt to update tv format from ntsc to pal; skipping STAT: VOBU 16 at 4MB, 1 PGCS STAT: VOBU 32 at 4MB, 1 PGCS STAT: VOBU 48 at 7MB, 1 PGCS STAT: VOBU 64 at 11MB, 1 PGCS STAT: VOBU 80 at 13MB, 1 PGCS STAT: VOBU 96 at 13MB, 1 PGCS STAT: VOBU 112 at 14MB, 1 PGCS STAT: VOBU 128 at 17MB, 1 PGCS [b].................[/b] STAT: VOBU 8240 at 2652MB, 1 PGCS STAT: VOBU 8256 at 2659MB, 1 PGCS STAT: VOBU 8272 at 2664MB, 1 PGCS INFO: Video pts = 0.276 .. 4226.596 INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.332 .. 4226.796 STAT: VOBU 8286 at 2669MB, 1 PGCS INFO: Generating VTS with the following video attributes: INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2 INFO: TV standard: ntsc INFO: Aspect ratio: 16:9 INFO: Resolution: 704x480 INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/2ch, 48khz drc , 'en' STAT: fixing VOBU at 4MB (17/8286, 0%) STAT: fixing VOBU at 4MB (33/8286, 0%) STAT: fixing VOBU at 7MB (49/8286, 0%) [b]................[/b] STAT: fixing VOBU at 2659MB (8257/8286, 99%) STAT: fixing VOBU at 2664MB (8273/8286, 99%) STAT: fixed 8286 VOBUS INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS STAT: Picking VTS 04 STAT: Processing /video/tmp/land/Chapters 1-4_menu.mpg... WARN: unknown mpeg2 aspect ratio 1 WARN: Discontinuity of 21350 in audio channel 8; please remultiplex input. WARN: Previous sector: 0.178 - 0.202 WARN: Current sector: 0.439 - 0.439 WARN: unknown mpeg2 aspect ratio 1 WARN: unknown mpeg2 aspect ratio 1 WARN: Discontinuity of 23510 in audio channel 8; please remultiplex input. WARN: Previous sector: 0.439 - 0.439 WARN: Current sector: 0.700 [b]...............................[/b] 29.983 WARN: Discontinuity of 23510 in audio channel 8; please remultiplex input. WARN: Previous sector: 29.983 - 29.983 WARN: Current sector: 30.244 - 30.244 INFO: Video pts = 0.178 .. 1.846 INFO: Audio[8] pts = 0.178 .. 30.244 INFO: Audio[32] pts = 0.178 .. 0.178 STAT: Processing /video/tmp/land/Chapters 5-8_menu.mpg... WARN: unknown mpeg2 aspect ratio 1 WARN: Discontinuity of 21350 in audio channel 8; please remultiplex input. WARN: Previous sector: 0.178 - 0.202 WARN: Current sector: 0.439 - 0.439 WARN: unknown mpeg2 aspect ratio 1 WARN: unknown mpeg2 aspect ratio 1 WARN: Discontinuity of 23510 in audio channel 8; please remultiplex input. WARN: Previous sector: 0.439 - 0.439 WARN: Current sector: 0.700 - 0.700 WARN: Discontinuity of 21160 in audio channel 8; please remultiplex input. WARN: Previous sector: 0.700 [b].........................................................[/b] WARN: Previous sector: 127.585 - 127.681 WARN: Current sector: 127.690 - 127.818 WARN: Unknown AC3 sample rate: 1 WARN: Discontinuity of 1019 in audio channel 0; please remultiplex input. WARN: Previous sector: 127.690 - 127.818 WARN: Current sector: 127.829 - 127.957 WARN: Unknown AC3 sample rate: 1 WARN: Discontinuity of 1019 in audio channel 0; please remultiplex input. WARN: Previous sector: 127.829 - 127.957 WARN: Current sector: 127.969 - 128.001 INFO: Video pts = 0.178 .. 1.846 INFO: Audio[0] pts = 0.178 .. 128.001 INFO: Audio[32] pts = 0.178 .. 0.178 STAT: VOBU 3 at 2MB, 1 PGCS INFO: Generating VMGM with the following video attributes: INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2 INFO: TV standard: ntsc INFO: Aspect ratio: 4:3 INFO: Resolution: 720x480 INFO: Audio ch 0 format: ac3/2ch, 48khz drc STAT: fixed 3 VOBUS

cmd> jpeg2yuv -n 50 -I p -f 29.97 -j "/video/tmp/land/Main Menu VMGM/background.jpg" | mpeg2enc -n n -f 8 -o "/video/tmp/land/Main Menu VMGM/menu.m2v" cmd> mplex -f 8 -S 0 -M -o "/video/tmp/land/Main Menu VMGM/menu.mpg" "/video/tmp/land/Main Menu VMGM/menu.m2v" "/video/landbt/theme.mp3" cmd> spumux -m dvd "/video/tmp/land/Main Menu VMGM/menu.xml" < "/video/tmp/land/Main Menu VMGM/menu.mpg" > "/video/tmp/land/Main Menu VMGM_menu.mpg" cmd> jpeg2yuv -n 50 -I p -f 29.97 -j "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 1-4/background.jpg" | mpeg2enc -n n -f 8 -o "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 1-4/menu.m2v" cmd> cp /usr/share/qdvdauthor/silence.mp2 "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 1-4/menu.mp2" cmd> mplex -f 8 -S 0 -M -o "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 1-4/menu.mpg" "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 1-4/menu.m2v" "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 1-4/menu.mp2" cmd> spumux -m dvd "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 1-4/menu.xml" < "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 1-4/menu.mpg" > "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 1-4_menu.mpg" cmd> jpeg2yuv -n 50 -I p -f 29.97 -j "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 5-8/background.jpg" | mpeg2enc -n n -f 8 -o "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 5-8/menu.m2v" cmd> cp /usr/share/qdvdauthor/silence.mp2 "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 5-8/menu.mp2" cmd> mplex -f 8 -S 0 -M -o "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 5-8/menu.mpg" "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 5-8/menu.m2v" "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 5-8/menu.mp2" cmd> spumux -m dvd "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 5-8/menu.xml" < "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 5-8/menu.mpg" > "/video/tmp/land/Chapters 5-8_menu.mpg" cmd> jpeg2yuv -n 50 -I p -f 29.97 -j "/video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12/background.jpg" | mpeg2enc -n n -f 8 -o "/video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12/menu.m2v" cmd> cp /usr/share/qdvdauthor/silence.mp2 "/video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12/menu.mp2" cmd> mplex -f 8 -S 0 -M -o "/video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12/menu.mpg" "/video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12/menu.m2v" "/video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12/menu.mp2" cmd> spumux -m dvd "/video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12/menu.xml" < "/video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12/menu.mpg" > "/video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12_menu.mpg" cmd> dvdauthor -x "/video/tmp/land/dvdauthor.xml" +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for MOTION! INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING SSE and MMX for TRANSFORM! INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for PREDICTION! INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Parsing & checking input files. INFO: [jpeg2yuv] YUV colorspace detected. INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Starting decompression INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Image dimensions are 720x480 INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Movie frame rate is: 29.970030 frames/second INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Non-interlaced/progressive frames. [b] .......BLAH BLAH BLAH.........[/b] INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame 44 44 P q=8.00 sum act=1922.74383 INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame 45 45 P q=8.00 sum act=1953.06814 INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Processing non-interlaced/interleaved /video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12/background.jpg, size 223328 INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Rescaling color values. INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Processing non-interlaced/interleaved /video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12/background.jpg, size 223328 INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Rescaling color values. INFO: [mpeg2enc] Signaling last frame = 49 INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame 46 46 P q=8.00 sum act=1983.39244 INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame 47 47 P q=8.00 sum act=2013.71675 INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame 48 48 P q=8.00 sum act=2044.04106 INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame 49 49 P q=8.00 sum act=2074.36536 INFO: [mpeg2enc] Sequence end inserted INFO: [mpeg2enc] Guesstimated final muxed size = 175801 cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/qdvdauthor/silence.mp2': No such file or directory INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.8.0 (2.2.4 $Date: 2005/08/28 17:50:54 $) **ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12/menu.mp2 for reading. /video/tmp/execute.sh: line 3: /video/tmp/land/Chapter 9-12/menu.mpg: No such file or directory DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.13. Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net> INFO: Locale=en_US.UTF-8 INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8 INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS STAT: Picking VTS 01 STAT: Processing /video/landbt/landbt.mpg... WARN: Skipping sector, waiting for first VOBU... WARN: attempt to update tv format from ntsc to pal; skipping STAT: VOBU 16 at 4MB, 1 PGCS STAT: VOBU 32 at 4MB, 1 PGCS STAT: VOBU 48 at 7MB, 1 PGCS [b]...BLAH BLAH BLAH...[/b] STAT: fixing VOBU at 2652MB (8241/8286, 99%) STAT: fixing VOBU at 2659MB (8257/8286, 99%) STAT: fixing VOBU at 2664MB (8273/8286, 99%) STAT: fixed 8286 VOBUS INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS STAT: Picking VTS 02 STAT: Processing /video/tmp/land/Chapters 1-4_menu.mpg... ERR: Error opening /video/tmp/land/Chapters 1-4_menu.mpg: No such file or directory ("BLAH BLAH BLAH" not actually in original output.)

One other thing...Should my size be 720:576? It's NTSC, and it's not widescreen format. BTW, what should it be if I do copy one that's widescreen format?

Well I didn't do the second mencoder command, but shouldn't I still have been able to produce a DVD when I ran qdvdauthor? How important is that step? I'm getting the capture okay as far as I can tell. I get an avi that I can watch with kmplayer, and qdvdauthor adds it to my project without objection. It's just that when I actually tell qdvdauthor to make the dvd it creates an empty file structure (VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS exist but are empty) and an .iso that k3b says is unusable. I'll give your postprocessing command a whirl and see what shakes out. Thanks again!

This was somewhat frustrating for me, so I put it on the back burner for a while and tried again tonight. I'm using qdvdauthor and got as far as running the final burn process. It wanted to use something called dvdrecord, which I don't have and could get through urpmi, but it looks an awful lot like cdrecord so I substituted that. It ran all the way through to the record process and then blew up trying to burn the dvd. Since it had generated the .iso file, I opened that up in k3b, but k3b informed me that it was not a usable iso. :( I went back and looked at the directory where it was supposedly building the dvd structure, and it did indeed have VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS subdirectories, but they were empty. /primalscreamofimpotentrage

Uggh. This is certainly an education for me. I don't see any files, .cda or otherwise, when I look at it in the file manager. I kinda thought that a CD was a CD and that a CD player was a CD player. Certainly there is varying quality, just like there are good and bad quality cassette tapes, but any cassette tape will play in any cassette player in the world. I'm using Memorex CDs, which have never been a problem for anything computer-related for me. I guess I'll look for one of those you recommend. Thanks.

Here's where I am now: I recorded a tape using Audacity and got some nice .wav files that work. I created an audio cd project and dropped the .wav files into it, then burned my CD. K3b said everything was A-okay and ejected the disc. To make sure, I put the disc back in and ran the CD Player program. It worked fine. Javaguy was Happy. So this morning I got into my car to drive to work, put the CD in the player, saw "Track 1" briefly on the display thingy, then "Err." I ejected the disc blew the dust off and tried again just to make sure. "Err" again. I tried the other disc I made last night and got the same result. Javaguy was Unhappy.