Quirky 1.2rc feedback

[rcrsn51]

I have configured Gnome-mplayer with the mplayer cache disabled. Anyone got any particular thoughts on why that might be a good or bad thing?

If I start with the mplayer cache disabled and load an audio CD, mplayer turns the cache back on. Then if the cache size is too small (32k) the playback is choppy.

For people who really want to play CD's on their computer, pCD is a better program.

[bigpup]

Gnome-Mplayer seems to work ok for some people and not so good for others. I have found that the cache size does effect how it operates.

Try this;
In Mplayer select edit-Preferences
On the player tab-
make sure these settings look ok for your system. Make sure the audio setting is set for your audio setup.
on the Mplayer tab-
if enable mplayer cache is selected I would set it to 32K
In general look at all the settings in preferences for looking ok.
Changing the audio setting and cache worked for me.

Good call. Under Plugin, I set the Cache Size to 32K and now streams start almost immediately.

I have configured Gnome-mplayer with the mplayer cache disabled. Anyone got any particular thoughts on why that might be a good or bad thing?

rcrsn51 wrote:
bigpup wrote:
When playing an audio disc with Gnome-Mplayer. It plays but the CD player does not run at a constant speed. It slows down and speeds up, so the audio goes on and off.

Increase the size of your Mplayer cache.


Yes increase cache size worked but it still leaves the CD player speeding up and slowing down.
Increasing the cache size made Mplayer go back to taking a long time to start playing a audio stream from the INTERNET.
I know cache size should have an effect but Gnome- Mplayer seems to be real sensitive to the cache size.

just an idea, I wonder if their is something missing, that Gnome-Mplayer needs to work properly or if it still has bugs. There are several posts, in this thread, about problems people are having.
Web Site:
http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/

[rcrsn51]

@Béèm:

I have posted an update for the Epson scanner driver here. It is compiled for Quirky and should recognize your RX600.

[Béèm]

@Béèm:

I have posted an update for the Epson scanner driver here. It is compiled for Quirky and should recognize your RX600.

Thank you.
I appreciate.
I won't have time to test tomorrow, but probably on Monday.
I'll report.

[Firewave]

Is there a way to configure your wireless network to use a list of networks to connect to, so you don't have to run the configuration again again and select the network you want to use?
Also...what does the "Advanced" button in the wireless configuration do? The only difference I see is, that the "New Profile" button is misplaced and the "Advanced" button changes to "Basic".
And is there a way to find out which encryption the networks you just found during scanning are using? Would be nice to show it in the list, if possible, so it won't be a try and error to configure it.

[davids45]

G'day,

Gnome Mplayer on its Play drop down menu lists options to watch digital or/and analogue TV. Clicking on either produces no response.

I could watch DTV on gxine in previous Pups via my hybrid card and good antenna.

How do I activate these TV options in Gnome Mplayer?

Thanks,

David S.

[disciple]

Mplayer in Quirky can't play common old realaudio files like those found at one-way.org
http://one-way.org/jesusmusic/eband
These are playable in old Mplayer versions (IIRC I'm still using this one from Tempestuous), without binary Windows codecs or anything

This is what Mplayer in Quirky says:

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# mplayer *.ra
MPlayer SVN-r30341-snapshot-4.3.4 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing arthurblessitt.ra.
REALAUDIO file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
[ac3 @ 0x842fed0]frame sync error
AUDIO: 11025 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 176.4 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 22050->22050)
Selected audio codec: [ffac3] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AC-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 11025Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:   1.0 (01.0) of 16.1 (16.0) ??,?% 

Exiting... (End of file)

This is what a working Mplayer says:

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/initrd/mnt/dev_save/My Documents/Alister New/Multimedia# mplayer *.ra
MPlayer 1.0rc2-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor (Family: 6, Model: 4, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
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 arthurblessitt.ra.
Cache fill: 16.89% (354272 bytes)   
REALAUDIO file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using 3DNowEx optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 11025 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 16.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 2000->44100)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:  18.3 (18.2) of 177.1 (02:57.1)  1.6% 15% 
Exiting... (Quit)

Quirky includes liba52, but Mplayer doesn't seem to be compiled against it. I don't know if that's intentional, or a mistake, or because the Mplayer people think they can do without liba52 now...

[jpeps]

Installing gxine is simple enough, and works well in quirky. There's gxine-0.5.903-patched-MU
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 16659964d9

It needs the xine-lib-1.1.8, which can be installed from the puppy-4.0 rep in the package manager.

[disciple]

Hmmm.
I just checked in my 4.1.1 install, and neither ffmpeg (Patriot's 0.5 package) nor Mplayer seems to be linked to liba52... I guess maybe it was compiled statically into one of them? Does anyone know about this?

[davids45]

G'day,

Trying to play anything that has sound (mp3, movie clips) produces stuttering like sound from the file or device.
Trying the Alsa wizard, I get the double bark repeated ad infinitum (woof,woof,woof,woof,woof,woof,woof,woof,woof,woof,.. - well, until I kill it).

I just got xine to install from a pet and open my digital TV, but the sound is also a continual stammering.
Previously pet-installed xines in quirky would start to start - that is, the black video frame, a partial image of the 'control' and then just disappear. The console told me there was nothing wrong (when running xine from the console, not the menu). So at least I've now got a working combination of xine, xine-lib and xine-plug-in, but the sound is still faulty.

I recall this quirky xine and sound problem on my desktop has been in a lot of recent quirky pups - I think this is probably the first sound issue I've had, from Puppy 2.something to now. Old Pups are still perfect.

David S.

I've checked through my thirty odd Frugals and find this stuttering occurred in all Pups using the 33 kernel - all 31 kernels and lower Pups playing perfect sound. Has this computer reached its new kernel limit (I must become WARY?) or is there a sound fix available?

[`f00]

@Mysp (p6 ref-link) - "strange/wrong" values are somewhat common (for me anyway) in xorgwizard's initial boot-setup. Blank, generic (or even 'false' reports of values after editing xorg.conf in the mp console editor and retest for a readable test-display page) may happen.

The key is to get a readable test-display page (this ensures you will have a useable display in X). If you have a 'known-good' set of values that works in other pups, it should help and if those known-good values have worked without damage to your hardware or eyesight so far then you should be fine. Yes, ignore 'false' reports if they happen (say you've edited xorg.conf h&v refresh rates and gotten a readable test-display page on retest .. then after you exit that page, xorg gives a 'false report'? go right ahead and finish ). What you've edited and saved in xorg.conf is what is used.

Editing xorg.conf works well for fine-tuning values, but 'Tweak'ing is okay if it gives you a readable test-display page. Yes, xorg is conservative when it says may not be okay for card/display (the okay settings are the basic starting point). By the way, your English is pretty good

[BarryK]

The connect icon in the help file doesn't match the one on the desktop, which is about as unhelpful as a help file can be.

Since all versions of Puppy are now using different icon sets my guess is that this file needs to be edited for every new release.

I don't click on the helpfile that often so this may have been the case for some time.

The technique of using a png image of welcome1stboot.htm was introduced in 1.1. Not so good, it would need to be manually recreated for each new release of Quirky.

Have changed to a small html viewer (for 1.2):
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01608

[BarryK]

/root/Choices/MIME-types/application_x-chm should be changed to:

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exec pzchmview "$1"

I guess you mean
exec pzchmview "$@"

See also:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01611

[BarryK]

GNOME MPlayer wouldn't play anything I asked it to in previous Quirkys. I figured it was just me or that the problem would get fixed by now (I'm testing Quirky 1.1,) as usually happens with early versions of new Puppys if I just wait a while. But that hasn't happened. No matter what I try, MPlayer remains stubbornly silent. I've tried a regular audio CD (The Best of ABBA, no less,) a DVD, some AVI video files made with a Canon S3IS digital camera, and a mp3 file. If I drag the mp3 or AVI file from ROX onto the "Play" icon on the desktop, the playlist opens and the file shows up in it, but that's all. Clicking the "Play" arrow does nothing. If I click the mp3 file, MPlayer opens and says "Buffering," then says "Pmusic," but nothing else happens.

All these different file types play in Gxine in this machine, in earlier versions of Puppy.

Do you mean that you get no sound at all, with any application?

Have you experimented with the mixer, see if some other level needs to be brought up?

[BarryK]

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<ASX VERSION="3.0">
  <SETTINGS REPEAT="true" RANDOM="false"/>
  <ENTRY>
    <TITLE>mms://cctv-live-cctv1.wm.llnwd.net/cctv_live_cctv9</TITLE>
    <REF HREF="mms://cctv-live-cctv1.wm.llnwd.net/cctv_live_cctv9"/>
  </ENTRY>
</ASX>

I have just tested this with Gnome-mplayer, running on Quirky 1.1.1 (with updated libraries and mplayer), it plays nicely.
I don't have the proxy problem though.

[aarf]

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<ASX VERSION="3.0">
  <SETTINGS REPEAT="true" RANDOM="false"/>
  <ENTRY>
    <TITLE>mms://cctv-live-cctv1.wm.llnwd.net/cctv_live_cctv9</TITLE>
    <REF HREF="mms://cctv-live-cctv1.wm.llnwd.net/cctv_live_cctv9"/>
  </ENTRY>
</ASX>

I have just tested this with Gnome-mplayer, running on Quirky 1.1.1 (with updated libraries and mplayer), it plays nicely.
I don't have the proxy problem though.

q100 and puppeeerc1 and 2 all play it so it was definitely a q110 problem and not proxy related.

[aarf]

the frequent release debunker.
arch is now ahead of puppy on all time intervals at distrowatch in the last 12 months and arch has a sparse release schedule.

Recent Related News
• 2010-05-18: Distribution Release: Arch Linux 2010.05
• 2009-08-09: Distribution Release: Arch Linux 2009.08
• 2009-02-17: Distribution Release: Arch Linux 2009.02
• 2008-06-24: Distribution Release: Arch Linux 2008.06
• 2008-04-16: Development Release: Arch Linux 2008.04 RC
• 2007-10-07: Distribution Release: Arch Linux 2007.08-2

any clues why?

[BarryK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZEU1fZPD9A
you2pup:1.3-3

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Finding hostname
nc: bad address 'youtube.com'
Connecting to 
nc: bad address 'youtube.com'
Locating video file

It works with new you2pup 1.4

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 117#418267

Ok, I have upgraded to version 1.4. Thanks synth.

[BarryK]

this look like pet to you?

It's a PET in Firefox. It looks like your Opera is renaming the file based on its mime type.

That's awful. Harks back to my Windows days when IE used to rename downloaded files.

Solution: dump Opera

[BarryK]

Here is the latest PET:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 2.2-q1.pet

I installed this pet then restarted X. Got an additional icon in the tray.
However, I see only one freememapplet reference in /root/.jwmrc-tray
A bit quirky...

(Solved) I found a freememapplet reference in /root/Startup. Said good-bye to it.

The correct one is in /root/Startup. Any freememapplet anywhere else should be deleted.