Text 5324, 77 rader
Skriven 2006-02-14 05:27:00 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Maurice Kinal
Ärende: What else? 
========================
On or about 02-12-06 17:00, Maurice Kinal did engage James Bradley

 MK> Yeah that is always a good idea.  I am doing that with this
 MK> mencoder thing since there is too much to absorb and being
 MK> unsure what will be best for what I am targetting, a list
 MK> of options I can mix together to get what I think is 'best'
 MK> is a very good idea.  Working on it.
"mencoder" -Either a menu based codec engine, or you are reforming The Village
People. <G+D>

 MK> That was weird.  I guess that is why I abandoned all that
 MK> stuff over a decade ago.
I'm still dialling in. I've had offers to point, but I'm still using fdisk too
often to commit a HD to the task.

 JB> Now to get drunk, so I can forget about it for the night. <G>
 MK> Heh, heh.  Did it work?
Yup, pretty well! <Hicup>  

 MK> That is why taking notes on the fly is best.  Anyhow I am
 MK> still not sure how gentoo handled it but it seems to me
 MK> that whatever it does it does it right given the output you
 MK> posted here.
Oh, I have a bezel full of notes scribbled in pencil. Page after page of notes
concerning this and that. The best record I seem to have is a cut and paste
compilation to a GUI sticky-note program.

I was pouring over the modinfo, modprobe, modules-update [...] documentation
and files earlier today. If I actually knew what I was doing, the reading might
have made more sense. /-:

 MK> We'll see.  If that indeed is who is responsible for mga_vid then I'd
 MK> say he deserves some kudoes.  It would be a real bonus if that
Matrox doesn't seem to play in the open-source arena by the sounds of things. 

I had been getting the impression this Czech was responcible for most of the
work, but under the surface we see the real culprit? If you ever shake his
hand, pat him on the back for me, will ya?

 MK> same stuff can be replicated to the tv-out on the breakout
 MK> box.  Then the inputs could be tackled, although my
 MK> neighbour tells me the tuner is no better then any other
 MK> tuner he has seen on capture cards, so there is that to
 MK> consider.  I am thinking the composite might be all I am
 MK> after and use the vcr for tuning.  That worked excellent
 MK> with all the cards I have used thus far.
That course would be hard to fault. I've never A-B-ed the G400 to my cheap-o,
so I can't comment on either tuner's performance. The last time I made the Bt
device work on Knoppix was less than stellar. Mindfull, that this Matrox hasn't
tuned *anything* in yet under Gentoo. I supose they were about equal under
Windblows. 

 MK> have to be tied to v4l somehow if the inputs are to be
 MK> properly exploited, Linuxie speaking.
Shoot, I'm still hoping, and too stubourn to let go. Another I-Net run is
planned for Tuesday.

 JB> for their subsequent CD images. The docs I've read on Gentoo so far,
 JB> *excellent* springboards, as you put it.

 MK> Yeah, they don't mess around with words too much.  The
 MK> example I have seen are frugal but at least they work.
It's not like I need any *more* confusing. {-|

 JB> Nas D'Rovia!
 MK> Cool!  Same to you!  I've never seen that spelled in English before

A fellow on RUSSIAN_TUTOR gave the phonetic spelling, but I'll be damned if I
wrote it down. <*Bash*ful-G> I'm conflicted to spell it "Nez Da'Rovia" but
either could be closer than the other.


... Don't read the newspaper,+ you are uninformed. Do, and you are misinformed.
___ MultiMail/Linux v0.46

--- Maximus 3.01
 * Origin: -=-= Calgary Organization CDN (403) 242-3221 (1:134/77)