Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error on gtk thmem: gtk-engines-flat

2011-03-08 Thread du yang
On Wednesday 03/09/11 07:04:07 CST, walt wrote: > On 03/07/2011 11:29 PM, du yang wrote: > > On Tuesday 03/08/11 11:31:42 CST, Adam Carter wrote: > >> > >> I got a gtk library error when trying to run a python script. > >> > >> # ./st.py > >> /usr/bin/python2.7: symbol lookup error:

[gentoo-user] Re: Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-08 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > MythTV has a plugin to rip DVDs to disk Is that part of media-tv/mythtv or another package? (emerging mythtv and xbmc right now...) > MythVideo can look up information on IMDB > and add it to the film's metadata. I found this wiki: http://www.mythtv.or

[gentoo-user] Re: Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-08 Thread James
Vincent-Xavier JUMEL thetys-retz.net> writes: OK Thanks to all the posters. I'm going to try a few of these suggestions and see what I like. If I get stuck, I'll post back on the automation portion of the task. thanks again to all, for all of the suggestions. James

[gentoo-user] Re: Error on gtk thmem: gtk-engines-flat

2011-03-08 Thread walt
On 03/07/2011 11:29 PM, du yang wrote: On Tuesday 03/08/11 11:31:42 CST, Adam Carter wrote: I got a gtk library error when trying to run a python script. # ./st.py /usr/bin/python2.7: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/ libflat.so: undefined symbol: gtk_rc

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 11:25:33 -0800, Fernando Freire wrote: > It sounds like you want a complete solution for your multimedia, might I > suggest something like xbmc or boxee? They're both solid platforms, > unfortunately I cannot suggest a script for automating the disk > ripping/conversion process.

[gentoo-user] Re: When mounting windows (ntfs) shares

2011-03-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > $ mount -v -t cifs //harvey/ImagesMusic /mnt/ImagesMusic -o > username=harry,user=harry,uid=bob The example helped immensely... thanks. (Although I think it may have been responsible for a fellow named `bob' hacking my windows machines .. hehe) > You may find `man mount.c

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-08 Thread Vincent-Xavier JUMEL
>From what I understand, you want to automate a ripping process. Ripping is the easy part since you don't want to bother with encoding. In my opinion, you should had a udev line that fire up a mencoder/transcode/vlc/vobcopy/ session, clean the swap and then eject the CD. The udev manpage is quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I have a large DVD(movie) collection, that I want > copied to hard drive(s) and a database set up > about the movies. Since disc is cheap > ($75/2TB) I'm not even going to fool around > with conversion or compression, i.e. MPEG-2 > is fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-08 Thread Fernando Freire
James, It sounds like you want a complete solution for your multimedia, might I suggest something like xbmc or boxee? They're both solid platforms, unfortunately I cannot suggest a script for automating the disk ripping/conversion process. -Fernando On Mar 8, 2011 11:04 AM, "James" wrote: > Hell

[gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-08 Thread James
Hello, I have a large DVD(movie) collection, that I want copied to hard drive(s) and a database set up about the movies. Since disc is cheap ($75/2TB) I'm not even going to fool around with conversion or compression, i.e. MPEG-2 is fine for now, unless the process can be automated (see schema belo

Re: [gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk?

2011-03-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me > NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which > files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser > (Opera) downloads some

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting CD's etc

2011-03-08 Thread James Wall
You will need to set up pollution aka policykit. I use udisks to get automounting taken care of instead of Hal. See an earlier thread for details. I am working on a full policykit setup to document with examples for reboot and shutdown in lxde. Regards, James wall On Mar 8, 2011 1:05 AM, "Bill Kenw

Re: [gentoo-user] When mounting windows (ntfs) shares

2011-03-08 Thread Stroller
On 7/3/2011, at 11:46pm, Harry Putnam wrote: > ... > //harvey/ImagesMusic /mnt/ImagesMusic cifs > noauto,username=harry,credentials=/\ > etc/samba/CifsCredentials > > Where the UNC above is on windows XP, and mounted as shows above. Blah, blah, blah. You've written paragraphs here (snipped) a

Re: [gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk?

2011-03-08 Thread Petri Rosenström
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me > NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which > files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser > (Opera) downloads some