Kieth

February 24, 2010

Interesting article. Well, having a choice is at least a start, and they were honest about possibly loosing some features when you save your work. You can't knock them on that, anyway.

February 23, 2010

OK, thanks! I had it installed all along and didn't even know it! :D

February 23, 2010

On the Go-Openoffice web site, it states:

Mandriva

Mandriva provides Go-OO in their repositories.

But I can't find it anywhere! :woops: Going to Go-Openoffice download page, there is of course many .rpm files. Which ones should I load? I tried loading a bunch, but I was missing at least one, as I could get Go-Openoffice to open.

December 8, 2009

Ahh, today I had decided to give an update on making DVDs. I'm still learning how to do it, but have made more than 1. In fact, as kfoss mentioned, a lot of space is being taken up on the DVD. With DeVeDe, I made a DVD with 2 .avi films (456 mb and 455 mb). With a 4.7 GB DVD in the computer, according to DeVeDe I had to "adjust disk usage" as the two films were taking up 183% of the DVD space. After "adjusting the disk usage", the program said I would use 99% of the DVD. After the .iso file is made (over 2 hours of work), it is 2.9 GB, not 4.7.

Comparing the quality before doing the adjustment with it afterwards, some aspects remained the same and others obviously did not. Here is the info (according to DeVeDe):

Original size (pixels): before - 512x336; after - same

Final size (pixels): before - 720x576; after - same

Length (seconds): before - 5395; after - same

Video rate (Kbits/sec): before - 600; after - 2641

Audio rate (Kbits/sec): before - 96; after 224

As you can see, the video and audio rates are different.

Now, if I add another .avi video (455 mb), according to DeVeDe I am using 273% of my 4.7 GB DVD. So, I "adjust disk usage" again. Now the video and audio rates for the same film I listed above are:

Video rate: before - 600; after 1690

Audio rate: before - 96; after 224

As Ian mentioned, the quality is less. After 3 hours and 22 minutes, the .iso file is only a mere 3.7 GB.

I presume at this point that I need to keep adding films and adjusting the "disk usage" until I get the videos down to their original video and audio rate, so that I can use the whole DVD. What I really don't understand is why DeVeDe says I am using so much space, when I reality I'm not.

December 7, 2009

KDE 4? I disinstalled it and put on gnome. First time in many, many years.

Actually, I disinstalled 2010.0 x86_64 KDE4 and installed 2010.0 gmone .586. I was having too many problems. Among other things, Firefox never did work well.

November 30, 2009

:) Thanks for the advice. Hopefully today I can get to work on it. If not, soon. Thanks again! :)

November 29, 2009

I have all the Columbo TV series in .avi that I would like to make into DVDs for my wife for Christmas. The files are small enough that I can put each year on a separate DVD. But instead of making her go into dolphin and choosing the film to run, how can I put them onto a DVD and have it start automatically, giving her a choose of which film to see (like in a professionally bought DVD)? BTW, to state the obvious, this is my first attempt to do this sort of thing. :) :thanks: :)

[moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman]

November 27, 2009

:) So I edited the menu. Still some strange things happen. If I click on the .mov video and say open with mplayer, I get the the same results as the following command done in console:

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ gmplayer /home/kieth/Desktop/Greeting.mov

3DNow supported but disabled

3DNowExt supported but disabled

mplayer: could not connect to socket

mplayer: No such file or directory

Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /home/kieth/Desktop/Greeting.mov.

libavformat file format detected.

[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0

[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1

VIDEO: [avc1] 160x120 24bpp 10.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)

==========================================================================

Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family

Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)

==========================================================================

Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...

Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available.

Enable it at compilation.

Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders

AUDIO: 16000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->32000)

Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))

==========================================================================

AO: [alsa] 16000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0.

Starting playback...

VDec: vo config request - 160 x 120 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)

VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)

Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.

VO: [xv] 160x120 => 160x120 Planar YV12 [zoom]

[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0. ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0

[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0. ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0

[AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0. ??% ??% ??,?% 2 0

[AO_ALSA] Unab

As you can see below, if I start the .mov video with the command mplayer, it works just fine. When I run this video with xine or totem, there's no sound.

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ mplayer /home/kieth/Desktop/Greeting.mov

3DNow supported but disabled

3DNowExt supported but disabled

mplayer: could not connect to socket

mplayer: No such file or directory

Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /home/kieth/Desktop/Greeting.mov.

libavformat file format detected.

[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0

[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1

VIDEO: [avc1] 160x120 24bpp 10.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)

==========================================================================

Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family

Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)

==========================================================================

Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...

Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available.

Enable it at compilation.

Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders

AUDIO: 16000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->32000)

Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))

==========================================================================

AO: [pulse] 16000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

Starting playback...

VDec: vo config request - 160 x 120 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)

VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)

Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.

VO: [xv] 160x120 => 160x120 Planar YV12 [zoom]

A: 4.2 V: 4.2 A-V: -0.021 ct: 0.062 0/ 0 8% 0% 0.1% 2 0

Exiting... (Quit)

November 27, 2009

Hey, thanks. The command gmplayer works fine in console. Still, the icon in the menu still doesn't work, but at least I can get it to work if I want.

November 27, 2009

%URL% and %FILE% aren't literal, replace them with a URL to stream from or file name with content to play.

Well, I really didn't think they were, but . . . .

Anyway - it did work. Any idea why it won't start when I push the mplayer icon? The executable command, mplayer, is in usr/bin.

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ mplayer /home/kieth/Desktop/Greeting.mov
MPlayer SVN-1.rc3.0.r29554.2plf2010.0-4.4.1 © 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

3DNow supported but disabled

3DNowExt supported but disabled

mplayer: could not connect to socket

mplayer: No such file or directory

Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /home/kieth/Desktop/Greeting.mov.

libavformat file format detected.

[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0

[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1

VIDEO: [avc1] 160x120 24bpp 10.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)

==========================================================================

Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family

Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)

==========================================================================

==========================================================================

Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...

Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)

FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!

AUDIO: 32000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 16000->128000)

Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))

==========================================================================

AO: [pulse] 32000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

Starting playback...

VDec: vo config request - 160 x 120 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)

VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)

Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.

VO: [xv] 160x120 => 160x120 Planar YV12 [zoom]

A: 24.1 V: 24.1 A-V: -0.000 ct: 0.064 0/ 0 3% 2% 1.2% 2 0

Exiting... (Quit)

November 26, 2009

Here's the result of the commands you gave, scrawcrow. Even when I push the icon to start mplayer, it doesn't start. That's why I tried to start it in console.

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ mplayer %URL%

3DNow supported but disabled

3DNowExt supported but disabled

mplayer: could not connect to socket

mplayer: No such file or directory

Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing %URL%.

File not found: '%URL%'

Failed to open %URL%.

Exiting... (End of file)

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ mplayer %FILE%

3DNow supported but disabled

3DNowExt supported but disabled

mplayer: could not connect to socket

mplayer: No such file or directory

Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing %FILE%.

File not found: '%FILE%'

Failed to open %FILE%.

Exiting... (End of file)

November 26, 2009

Trying to start mplayer from console gives me the following report. Of course it will not start. Any idea why? I usually use mplayer and xine. Are there viable alternatives? Thanks, Kieth

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ mplayer

3DNow supported but disabled

3DNowExt supported but disabled

Usage: mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename

I un-installed it, then re-installed it, to see if it would add any dependent packages. But no, nothing changed.

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

November 22, 2009

The Mandriva 2010.0 errata page talks a bit about this. errata

November 22, 2009

OK, the other day I ran the command # chown -R kieth:kieth /home/kieth. So far no adverse effects, but firefox continues to complain about not connecting to the local host.

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ firefox
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain

(firefox:1441): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Could not open network socket.

But seamonkey doesn't have this problem.

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ seamonkey

So I renamed .mozilla and .mozilla2 to . . . -old, and this is what I got in console when I open firefox.

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ firefox
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain                                          
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain                                          

(firefox:1789): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:                                                    
Could not open network socket.                                
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain                                          
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain                                          

(firefox:1789): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Could not open network socket.
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain

(firefox:1789): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Could not open network socket

I then disinstalled firefox, ran the command update-menus -v as a normal user and as root. After that I reinstalled firefox via urpmi, which also installed 2 dependencies:

Preparing...                     ###########################                                   
     1/3: nspluginwrapper-i386  ###########################                                   
     2/3: firefox               ###########################                                   
     3/3: nspluginwrapper       ###########################

Opening firefox in console gives me the same results:

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ firefox
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain

(firefox:3094): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Could not open network socket.
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain

(firefox:3094): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Could not open network socket.

Any ideas?

November 19, 2009

Hey, maybe that's the problem!!

I opened dolphin and clicked on kieth. Then I right clicked the mouse and choose permissions. On the top, under "access permissions", the owner can view and modify content. The group can only view content (as well as others). Below, under "ownership", there it shows the owner being kieth and the group being 500 (so you were right speedball2!). Under "access permissions", should I change the group to: Can view and modify; and under "ownership", change the group to kieth? I would also apply the changes to all sub folders.

November 18, 2009

Well, like before, sometimes it's OK and sometimes no.

[root@host-001 ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# generated by drakhosts

127.0.0.1 host-001 localhost.localdomain localhost

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ firefox
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain

_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain

(firefox:3588): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:

Could not open network socket.

Flash plugin? Nope, after I wrote my last post, I tried to get it working, but to no avail.

November 18, 2009

Well, so far it seems to be working. Thanks.

[root@host-001 ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# generated by drakhosts

127.0.0.1 host-001 localhost.localdomain localhost

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ firefox

November 17, 2009

At times I still have the "host" problem. Not always, but maybe every other time.

[root@host-001 ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# generated by drakhosts

127.0.0.1 localhost host-001

[kieth@localhost ~]$ firefox
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain

_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain

(firefox:3090): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:

Could not open network socket.

(firefox:3090): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(firefox:3090): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

November 17, 2009

I had 2 of the ones you listed in my computer. I installed the other two, but they are newer. The problem still remains, unfortunately.

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep gdk
libgdk_pixbuf2.0_0-2.18.3-3mdv2010.0

gdk-pixbuf-loaders-0.22.0-15mdv2010.0

lib64gdk_pixbuf2.0_0-2.18.3-3mdv2010.0

lib64gdk-pixbuf2-0.22.0-15mdv2010.0

[kieth@localhost ~]$ firefox
_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain

_IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost.localdomain

(firefox:3090): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:

Could not open network socket.

(firefox:3090): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(firefox:3090): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

November 15, 2009

I got to thinking (hurt too!!), the bug is in reference to the Gdk-warning. Would that also be the problem with the flash plugin? Are they related problems or are they two different issues?

November 15, 2009

OK, I got it changed in MCC.

[root@host-001 ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# generated by drakhosts

127.0.0.1 localhost host-001

Thanks,

Kieth

November 15, 2009

I guess it's a bug that hasn't yet been resolved. :mellow: Bugzilla

November 15, 2009

I've read and reread the 2010.0 errata page, and tried to follow what it says about the flash plugin, but I still cannot get my browsers to play flash content. They either crash or do not play anything. Even though I installed the 64 bit flash plugin according to the errata page, it isn't seen in console.

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ rpm -q flash-plugin
package flash-plugin is not installed

It is seen in firefox (about:plugins), even if I still can't play flash material.

Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so

Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled

application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes

application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

This is what happens when I try to see a video on foxnews.com.

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ firefox

(firefox:9465): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(firefox:9465): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(firefox:9465): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(firefox:9465): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(firefox:9465): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

(firefox:9465): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead

Illegal instruction

I've been googling around trying to find the answer, but to no avail. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Kieth

November 15, 2009

David, it wasn't necessary for you to know any more! It all worked out. :)

November 14, 2009

Got it! Thanks.

[root@host-001 ~]# id kieth

uid=10001(kieth) gid=10001(kieth) groups=10001(kieth)

In fact, firefox doesn't complain anymore about the localhost:

[kieth@host-001 ~]$ firefox

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32]

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /home/kieth/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so [/home/kieth/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32]

Firefox has other problems, but now I can start working on those.

Thanks again,

Kieth

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