Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?

2012-01-13 Thread Amichai Rotman
Well, why don't we start one of our own. I bet most of you developers on this list are also Android users / developers I am no developer, but I am tinker and I like to help, so I can try to help as I can. In the mean time, can I ask. Android related questions here? Amichai. On Jan 10, 2012

Re: Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

2012-01-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 01/12/2012 02:27 PM, Udi Finkelstein wrote: > yielding about 30% higher bitrate for the same bandwidth Complete and utter nitpicking. Bitrate is the number of bits per second (usually measured in kilo bits per second, or kbps, or sometimes mbps). This means that bit rate and bandwidth are, for

Re: Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

2012-01-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 01/12/2012 10:08 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > What do you guys think about Mythbuntu? I like the idea that it just > works (supposedly). I installed mythbuntu a couple of years ago. It was so much the opposite of "just works" that, to this day, both me and my wife record by setting the Yes receiver

Audio capture

2012-01-13 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I decided to use this rainy Friday morning to finally convert some old videos to digital format. Here's a short checklist of what I managed and failed to do: - Managed to see video and hear video through my video capture and sound-cards. Video is composite, and audio is connected to Line-In.

Re: Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

2012-01-13 Thread Erez D
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday, January 12, 2012 07:21:31 AM Ohad Levy wrote: > > > I'm a mythtv user, and I used to use the DVB-T broadcast in Israel, > > the quality of the broadcast depends a lot of where you live. > > What do you guys think about Mythbuntu? I

Re: Somewhat OT: MythTV / DVB in Israel

2012-01-13 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Shachar, On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:50:42AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > On 01/12/2012 02:27 PM, Udi Finkelstein wrote: > > yielding about 30% higher bitrate for the same bandwidth > Complete and utter nitpicking. Some more nitpicking. > Bitrate is the number of bits per second (usually me

Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?

2012-01-13 Thread Erez D
2012/1/13 Amichai Rotman > Well, why don't we start one of our own. I bet most of you developers on > this list are also Android users / developers > I bet most of the people on this list have a fridge. I have a fridge question (just kidding, couldn't help it). I am an android user/deve

Re: Audio capture

2012-01-13 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I solved it. I had to run the pulse-audio mixer separately to setup the channels that I wanted to record. Shabbat shalom! Dov On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:00, Dov Grobgeld wrote: > I decided to use this rainy Friday morning to finally convert some old > videos to digital format. Here's a short ch

Re: Audio capture

2012-01-13 Thread Mordechai Behar
Cool! Could you maybe write out a slightly more detailed description of what you did? Because my parents have hundreds of VHS tapes that we've been talking about digitizing for years, but it's rather expensive to get it done professionally... 2012/1/13 Dov Grobgeld > I solved it. I had to run th

Re: Audio capture

2012-01-13 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Will do. Meanwhile I have captured our wedding movie from 1992 uncompressed which takes up about 90G. Now I have to figure out how to compress it without degrading its quality. Regards, Dov On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 15:07, Mordechai Behar < mordecha.be...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Cool! > Could yo

Re: Audio capture

2012-01-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 01/13/2012 03:55 PM, Dov Grobgeld wrote: > Will do. Meanwhile I have captured our wedding movie from 1992 > uncompressed which takes up about 90G. Now I have to figure out how to > compress it without degrading its quality. > > Regards, > Dov Rule of thumb is that a good encoder requires 5Mbps t