Re: [gentoo-user] TS (transport stream) files: how to strip anything unwanted?

2011-02-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:12:29 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > from recording from my dvbt-card I have some ts-files (transport > stream). > > To save space AND quality, I want to strip anything from those files, > which is not wanted: anything, which is neither audio nor video. But > I dont w

[gentoo-user] audio and an easycap frame grabber

2011-02-13 Thread William Kenworthy
I have an easycap usb framegragger/capture device I am trying to get to work on a laptop. Video is fine (looks excellent in fact :) in xawtv but I dont have audio. The laptop is using pulse audio (gnome desktop) because some app I needed wanted it - not sure what now ! I can see the audio movin

[gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor & email

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm curious about setting up my compute server to monitor RAID array status and have it email me information at my GMail account. Does anyone have info on setting this up on Gentoo? In general I'm following: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software but it seems there are a few holes in

Re: [gentoo-user] TS (transport stream) files: how to strip anything unwanted?

2011-02-13 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 13.02.2011 03:12, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > from recording from my dvbt-card I have some ts-files (transport > stream). > > To save space AND quality, I want to strip anything from those files, > which is not wanted: anything, which is neither audio nor video. But > I dont want t

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor & email

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/13/2011 11:04 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm curious about setting up my compute server to monitor RAID > array status and have it email me information at my GMail account. > Does anyone have info on setting this up on Gentoo? In general I'm > following: > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor & email

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 02/13/2011 11:04 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> 4) Assuming I do get this working, while testing can i have the >> program email me every 60 minutes whether things are good or bad, just >> to test that it's actually working and getting

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor & email

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on c2stable A TestMessage event had been detected on md device /dev/md/7. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following: Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [rai

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor & email

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/13/2011 01:37 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I'll read through the links you posted to look at creating a test > case. From the page you posted above I'm trying this at the command > line: > > mdadm --monitor --mail=markkne...@gmail.com --delay=1800 /dev/md126 > > but I assume you think it won

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm --monitor & email

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/13/2011 01:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I think I'm there except maybe for kicking off some sort of regular > tests of the arrays vs waiting for things to fail. Any mdadm test is going to pass up until the point that it doesn't, which is when you'd get the alert email anyway =) If you wan

[gentoo-user] vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable to run the vmplayer app. The GUI never comes up. If I run it in a terminal it seems to die quietly after about 5 seconds. There are no additional messages in dmesg. The machine i

[gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files > total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable to run the vmplayer > app. The GUI never comes up. If I run it in a terminal it seems to die > quietly after about 5 sec

[gentoo-user] Re: Chromium requires threads flag

2011-02-13 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > These should be global in scope, > USE=threads is best per package as some packages support it but don't play > nice with it. Yep this is the advise I'm using Chromium's call for ffmpeg to use the *threads* flag, caught me as a little off. Oh well it

Re: [gentoo-user] TS (transport stream) files: how to strip anything unwanted?

2011-02-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 03:12:29AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote > from recording from my dvbt-card I have some ts-files (transport > stream). > > To save space AND quality, I want to strip anything from those files, > which is not wanted: anything, which is neither audio nor video. What y

Re: [gentoo-user] TS (transport stream) files: how to strip anything unwanted?

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Hampicke
>> from recording from my dvbt-card I have some ts-files (transport >> stream). >> >> To save space AND quality, I want to strip anything from those files, >> which is not wanted: anything, which is neither audio nor video. > > What you've just described is reencoding, even if it's from a TS wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:18:40PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote > did you add alsasound to the boot process? > > i went 6 months trying to figure out what was wrong with my microphone > until i realised that i forgot to do that! > > also unmute the microphones using alsamixer (in alsa-utils) like

[gentoo-user] ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-02-13 Thread dhk
I still can't get sound to work. Can someone tell me what's wrong? In addition to my earlier thread below I have INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" and ALSA_CARDS="AC97" in my make.conf. The following that someone suggented does nothing. > modprobe snd-intel8x0; modprobe snd-pcm-oss; modprobe snd-mixer-oss;

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-02-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
what does "lsmod" say? This is on a jetway MB with an onboard nvidia chipset so not quite the same as yours (only sound and the nvidia module are modularised) - in particular make sure that you are building the "Intel HD Audio" codecs - it isnt immediately obvious that its required. BillK myth3

[gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable to run the vmplayer app. The GUI never comes up. If I run it in a terminal it

[gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound

2011-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/14/2011 01:19 AM, dhk wrote: I still can't get sound to work. Can someone tell me what's wrong? In addition to my earlier thread below I have INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" and ALSA_CARDS="AC97" in my make.conf. Dumb question, but did you unmute the channels in 'alsamixer'? I almost always had

[gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files >> total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable to run the vmplayer >> app. The GUI never comes up. If I run i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht >>  wrote: >>> >>> This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files >>> total on my system. After the upgrade I am unable

[gentoo-user] Re: vmplayer not working after xorg upgrade

2011-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/14/2011 04:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/13/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: This morning I did an xorg-server upgrade which included IIRC 33 files total on my system. A