Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (10 Viewers)

[Sheik Yerbouti]

...and you call yourself as a Linux user

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[V]

No, only linux enthusiast. I'm mainly a win user, stronger forces at work.

 

[Chxta]

I love Amarok but Amarok 2 has more bugs than a Chinese restaurant.

Why don't you install Amarok 1.4?

 

[JCK]

I looks like Amarok 2 is more stable on Gnome than on KDE and I find that strange.

 

[Chxta]

Started the upgrade around 18. Let it run until now. Had to abort cause it was making no progress with downloads anymore :wth:

Nothing beats a fresh install. Just have your home folder in a separate partition and you can install even a different OS without missing anything.

As an added bonus, in Debian based distros, you can get a list of all the software you have and reinstall 'em very easy.

If you load up a blank terminal, and run the following command:

 $ dpkg --get-selections > apps.txt

This will store a list of every application that is currently installed to a file called apps.txt. If you are wanting to re-install your OS, then make sure that you save this file to a USB stick!

Once you are ready to install all your applications again:

 $ dpkg --set-selections < apps.txt
    $ dselect update
    $ apt-get dselect-upgrade show

 

[Chxta]

I looks like Amarok 2 is more stable on Gnome than on KDE and I find that strange.

Well, I'm too much of a KDE man to move nowadays, so I'll skip Amarok 2 until April of next year...

 

[Martin]

Nothing beats a fresh install. Just have your home folder in a separate partition and you can install even a different OS without missing anything.

As an added bonus, in Debian based distros, you can get a list of all the software you have and reinstall 'em very easy.

If you load up a blank terminal, and run the following command:

 $ dpkg --get-selections > apps.txt

Meh, I'm unimpressed. Something like this ought to only list the packages you, as a user, explicitly installed. Everything else should be managed as "system packages" tied to the distro release. That's how gentoo's /var/lib/portage/world list works. Wtf do I know what "obex-data-server" even is? It's listed as "install" but I sure as hell did not explicitly install it. Moreover, how does it manage this list from release to release as packages get retired and so on? I don't trust it.

 

[JCK]

Well, I'm too much of a KDE man to move nowadays, so I'll skip Amarok 2 until April of next year...

I think I was the most religious KDE person but Gnome has taken some of my love. I will install KDE on Gentoo on my test machine though.

 

[Chxta]

Meh, I'm unimpressed. Something like this ought to only list the packages you, as a user, explicitly installed. Everything else should be managed as "system packages" tied to the distro release. That's how gentoo's /var/lib/portage/world list works. Wtf do I know what "obex-data-server" even is? It's listed as "install" but I sure as hell did not explicitly install it. Moreover, how does it manage this list from release to release as packages get retired and so on? I don't trust it.

I've been using it for two years and I'm not complaining.

 

[Martin]

I've been using it for two years and I'm not complaining.

Perfect! Not just something someone skimmed off a website but actually tested long term on their own skin

 

[V]

Nothing beats a fresh install. Just have your home folder in a separate partition and you can install even a different OS without missing anything.

As an added bonus, in Debian based distros, you can get a list of all the software you have and reinstall 'em very easy.

If you load up a blank terminal, and run the following command:

 $ dpkg --get-selections > apps.txt

This will store a list of every application that is currently installed to a file called apps.txt. If you are wanting to re-install your OS, then make sure that you save this file to a USB stick!

Once you are ready to install all your applications again:

 $ dpkg --set-selections < apps.txt
    $ dselect update
    $ apt-get dselect-upgrade show

Things like this make me wanna use linux as my main OS. Great stuff, Chxta, thanks. Will come in handy...sometime in the future.

 

[JCK]

I think a new poll is needed here.

 

[Chxta]

Perfect! Not just something someone skimmed off a website but actually tested long term on their own skin

Well, I did skim it off of some website, but that was during 7.04...

 

[JCK]

And now Amarok 2 plays mp3

 

[Tommy]

Seen the bugs on this package? Might find a solution there:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+...pes=on&field.has_patch=&field.has_no_package=

Maybe it's a naming issue?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/85969/comments/21

+rep may. thanx a lot. finally jdk installed

 

[V]

Smplayer, meaning Martin's MPLAYER , crashes when opening a HD .mkv file. In MINT this worked flawlessly. I'm on Karmic now.

 /usr/bin/mplayer -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -lavdopts threads=2 -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo xv:adaptor=0 -ao alsa -nokeepaspect -framedrop -nodr -double -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -wid 69206031 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles /home/vlatko/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -fontconfig -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -vid 0 -aid 0 -subpos 100 -volume 40 -cache 2000 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -slices -channels 2 -af scaletempo,equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 110 /home/vlatko/Desktop/!sample/sample.mkv

MPlayer SVN-r29643-Ubuntu-RVM (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
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.
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.

Playing /home/vlatko/Desktop/!sample/sample.mkv.

ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_VID_0_NAME=1280x532 - 5.5mbit/s - x264
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) "1280x532 - 5.5mbit/s - x264", -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
ID_AID_0_NAME=1536kbit/s DTS 5.1
ID_AID_0_LANG=eng
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_DTS) "1536kbit/s DTS 5.1", -aid 0, -alang eng
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_LANG=eng
[mkv] Track ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/ASS), -sid 0, -slang eng
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=1
ID_SID_1_LANG=spa
[mkv] Track ID 4: subtitles (S_TEXT/ASS), -sid 1, -slang spa
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=2
ID_SID_2_LANG=rum
[mkv] Track ID 5: subtitles (S_TEXT/ASS), -sid 2, -slang rum
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO:  [avc1]  1280x532  24bpp  23.976 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=/home/vlatko/Desktop/!sample/sample.mkv
ID_DEMUXER=mkv
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=avc1
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1280
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=532
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=2.4060
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=8193
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=6
ID_LENGTH=69.39
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
[ass] auto-open
Opening video filter: [screenshot]
[ass] Init
[ass] Updating font cache.
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [libdca] DTS decoding with libdca


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec
ID_SIGNAL=11
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
  Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
  disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

Stupid Totem works but I don't like it.

 

[Martin]

Lord almighty with the command line arguments, how about you just try

$ mplayer <file>

 

[V]

vlatko@vlatko-desktop:~$ mplayer /home/vlatko/Desktop/\!sample/sample.mkv
MPlayer SVN-r29643-Ubuntu-RVM (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
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/vlatko/Desktop/!sample/sample.mkv.
[mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) "1280x532 - 5.5mbit/s - x264", -vid 0
[mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_DTS) "1536kbit/s DTS 5.1", -aid 0, -alang eng
[mkv] Track ID 3: subtitles (S_TEXT/ASS), -sid 0, -slang eng
[mkv] Track ID 4: subtitles (S_TEXT/ASS), -sid 1, -slang spa
[mkv] Track ID 5: subtitles (S_TEXT/ASS), -sid 2, -slang rum
[mkv] Will play video track 1.
Matroska file format detected.
VIDEO: [avc1] 1280x532 24bpp 23.976 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)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [libdca] DTS decoding with libdca


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

 

[Martin]

Well if you wanna ship me the mkv I can watch it for you and tell you what's in it

 

[V]

A sample file of Across The Universe, a musical inspired by Beatles music. Great stuff.

But that happens with all .mkv files. It's obviously something with DTS decoding.