From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 06:50:57 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 16252 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 06:50:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 06:50:55 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 16219 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 06:50:52 -0000 Received: from smtp.jpsdomain.org (HELO smtp.jpsdomain.org) (66.92.238.114) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:50:52 -0400 Received: from [192.168.99.121] (unknown [192.168.99.121]) by smtp.jpsdomain.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43CC47C8020 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:50:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <47297745.4070406@jpsdomain.org> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:50:45 -0400 From: JP Vossen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org Subject: Re: [PLUG] Mythbuntu update oddness? References: <20071101035036.ED40B7C8022@smtp.jpsdomain.org> In-Reply-To: <20071101035036.ED40B7C8022@smtp.jpsdomain.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:48:27 -0400 > From: "Brent Saner" > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Mythbuntu update oddness? > > ooooooh! let me know how clearing the apt-proxy goes, that sounds > suspect to me. short of that, i'd say it's the repos' and some sort > of strange indexing problem No go. I cleared the apt-proxy, and tried again with the same results. It turns out this package is coming from http://ppa.launchpad.net which was present in sources.list from the start of the clean install I did of the beta Gutsy. I have no idea what it is, and haven't proxied it... ----- Trimmed session ----- $ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-mythtv-frontend The following packages will be upgraded: ubuntu-mythtv-frontend Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net gutsy/multiverse ubuntu-mythtv-frontend 0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1 [180kB] Fetched 180kB in 0s (239kB/s) (Reading database ... 59833 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ubuntu-mythtv-frontend 0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1 (using .../ubuntu-mythtv-frontend_0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ubuntu-mythtv-frontend ... Setting up ubuntu-mythtv-frontend (0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1) ... $ sudo aptitude upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: ubuntu-mythtv-frontend 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/180kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. $ ll /var/cache/apt/archives/ total 184 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2007-10-31 18:20 lock drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-01 02:42 partial -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179922 2007-10-22 10:00 ubuntu-mythtv-frontend_0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1_all.deb ----- end Trimmed session ----- At this point, I'll poke around looking for bug reports when I get some time, but will otherwise give up unless anyone has any other ideas. Presumably at some point either the package or the index will Get Fixed... Thanks, JP ----------------------------|:::======|------------------------------- JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| jp{at}jpsdomain{dot}org My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/ ----------------------------|=========|------------------------------- Microsoft has single-handedly nullified Moore's Law. Innate design flaws of Windows make a personal firewall, anti-virus and anti-malware software mandatory. The resulting software arms race has effectively flattened Moore's Law on hardware running Windows. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 07:17:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 23348 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 07:16:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 07:16:59 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 23310 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 07:16:55 -0000 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (HELO wa-out-1112.google.com) (209.85.146.178) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:16:55 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j40so519301wah for ; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:16:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=jbSGaIyKK0f/hjTt6Lt+JPAOogOwpWsTtC0bsw6fXiY=; b=eUYhTQCZPYPG7lT7EjFvJpLY4O2QdDFFpdx5NhH+stOKMDd6He3IxvUCgvn0E1hsIW48D0rL62h3855/24XjDmiE/7uq/rlzxRtLVp/SfgO7+GkFS2CrldrWqOrHxIsoFojf2IcerWpdtA+lyooCLuMN24vgA9T4NtoU/CQyzFc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ZPooRa7QbOw7b0j774r3kPshJy22AnVtYSyDTicV0UjsbD9w6DkwoB0A8uXyeuG/8dx6cHlMh3YjP87s0eIabyv5K9MeoVZlWYYaRs+JvclHfoeM/S7Aar3KIivdpqwt3vUcwl2mf9K18W76FGbNy23jIi8+GK/YNGvNj40agFo= Received: by 10.114.148.1 with SMTP id v1mr312445wad.1193901411393; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.89.1 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 00:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <27c114eb0711010016j5d2a764ch8046b1eb4fe7e4c1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 03:16:51 -0400 From: "Brent Saner" To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question In-Reply-To: <20071101024801.c2f7a7db@osx10.v-system.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20071101024801.c2f7a7db@osx10.v-system.net> X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0992140707==" Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org --===============0992140707== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_12335_9667598.1193901411371" ------=_Part_12335_9667598.1193901411371 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline whaddya know! as luck would have it, this is currently the top 10 article on lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-free-video-rippers-encoders-and-converters-316478.php On 10/31/07, Brian Vagnoni wrote: > > If you live near Bensalem there is a New York Camera on street road, and > in south philly there is Calumet Photographicboth offer professional services and will be much more knowledgeable than > the local drug or video store. Of course professional means $$$, but a phone > call can't hurt. > > Good places to go and try out high end gear, and then go and buy it > online. > > Brian Vagnoni > > Good Luck, & Best Wishes for you and yours > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Eric [mailto:eric@lucii.org] > *To:* Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List [mailto: > plug@lists.phillylinux.org] > *Sent:* Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:53:54 -0400 > *Subject:* [PLUG] Video question > > This is only tangentially related to Linux but I need some advice/help. > > My daughter has to complete a 3 minute speech on my old VHS-C video tape > recorder tomorrow, have it converted to one of these formats: > [wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mpeg|mp4|3gp] and upload it to the contest site on > Friday. A > college scholarship or considerable portion thereof could be in the > balance here. > > Neither of my computers has the capability to take a video input (skip > long > "Pinnacle sux" story here). The Camera Shop will convert it for $29.99 (3 > minutes or 2 hours - same price) but they have no freakin' idea what the > file > format is. They just say: "You put the DVD in your DVD player and it > plays!" > > Does anyone have suggestions about going from VHS-C to a file in short > order? > Perhaps someone could help out - I'd be happy to pay the $29.99 and drive > over > if that helps :-) > > Thanks! > > Eric > -- > # Eric Lucas > # > # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth > # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... > # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- > http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > -- Brent Saner 215.264.0112(cell) 215.362.7696(residence) http://www.thenotebookarmy.org ------=_Part_12335_9667598.1193901411371 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline whaddya know! as luck would have it, this is currently the top 10 article on lifehacker:
http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-free-video-rippers-encoders-and-converters-316478.php

On 10/31/07, Brian Vagnoni <bvagnoni@v-system.net> wrote:
If you live near Bensalem there is a New York Camera on street road, and in south philly there is Calumet Photographic both offer professional services and will be much more knowledgeable than the local drug or video store. Of course professional means $$$, but a phone call can't hurt.

Good places to go and try out high end gear, and then go and buy it online.

Brian Vagnoni

Good Luck, & Best Wishes for you and yours
From: Eric [mailto:eric@lucii.org]
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List [mailto: plug@lists.phillylinux.org]
Sent: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:53:54 -0400
Subject: [PLUG] Video question

This is only tangentially related to Linux but I need some advice/help.

My daughter has to complete a 3 minute speech on my old VHS-C video tape
recorder tomorrow, have it converted to one of these formats:
[wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mpeg|mp4|3gp] and upload it to the contest site on Friday. A
college scholarship or considerable portion thereof could be in the balance here.

Neither of my computers has the capability to take a video input (skip long
"Pinnacle sux" story here). The Camera Shop will convert it for $29.99 (3
minutes or 2 hours - same price) but they have no freakin' idea what the file
format is. They just say: "You put the DVD in your DVD player and it plays!"

Does anyone have suggestions about going from VHS-C to a file in short order?
Perhaps someone could help out - I'd be happy to pay the $29.99 and drive over
if that helps :-)

Thanks!

Eric
--
# Eric Lucas
#
# "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth
# And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
# -- John Gillespie Magee Jr
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Brent Saner
215.264.0112(cell)
215.362.7696(residence)

http://www.thenotebookarmy.org ------=_Part_12335_9667598.1193901411371-- --===============0992140707== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug --===============0992140707==-- From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 07:39:21 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 27098 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 07:39:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 07:39:18 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 27064 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 07:39:14 -0000 Received: from web3008.mail.tnz.yahoo.co.jp (HELO web3008.mail.tnz.yahoo.co.jp) (203.216.249.208) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:39:14 -0400 Received: (qmail 78639 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Nov 2007 07:39:08 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=yj20050223; d=yahoo.co.jp; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=FGqsGg7QEZKv/gSYjkw5iiLLab/VGwiTz1BJP5+ZmtmrFEbcZXVGwy5ce5lrAI14Yq3/edtxfDd6Z/lBn+rnKuZysR8SJdzd+/V7n7KR95thYf8FzRcMKdo7PRv0P9qx ; Message-ID: <20071101073908.78637.qmail@web3008.mail.tnz.yahoo.co.jp> Received: from [86.147.170.202] by web3008.mail.tnz.yahoo.co.jp via HTTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:39:08 JST Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:39:08 +0900 (JST) From: Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0174465024==" Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org --===============0174465024== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1809810753-1193902748=:77989" --0-1809810753-1193902748=:77989 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Maybe a better option would be to borrow a harddrive-based camcorder. That would already save the video in a file format. Easily transfer it over USB and you're done. Mini-DV is good, but it's more of a pain. Having a Firewire port along with a cable is less common than USB, although mini-DV camcorders do have USB interfaces as well. A capture program is needed. Then the video still needs to be compressed and encoded. So, unless editing needs to be done, mini-DV is just more work. Isaac Bennetch wrote:Other than that you should ask around and see if you can borrow a friend's mini-DV camera, as that's already a digital format you get a nice friendly datastream on the FireWire port and can relatively easily make the data file using any of a huge number of programs. --------------------------------- Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar --0-1809810753-1193902748=:77989 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-2022-jp Maybe a better option would be to borrow a harddrive-based camcorder.  That would already save the video in a file format.  Easily transfer it over USB and you're done.

Mini-DV is good, but it's more of a pain. Having a Firewire port along with a cable is less common than USB, although mini-DV camcorders do have USB interfaces as well.  A capture program is needed.  Then the video still needs to be compressed and encoded.  So, unless editing needs to be done, mini-DV is just more work.


Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com> wrote:
Other than that you should ask around and see if you can borrow a friend's mini-DV camera, as that's already a digital format you get a nice friendly datastream on the FireWire port and can relatively easily make the data file using any of a huge number of programs.

 

Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar
--0-1809810753-1193902748=:77989-- --===============0174465024== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug --===============0174465024==-- From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 11:12:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 3667 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 11:12:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 11:12:01 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 3634 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 11:11:57 -0000 Received: from alnrmhc14.comcast.net (HELO alnrmhc14.comcast.net) (204.127.225.94) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:11:57 -0400 Received: from mail (c-71-224-100-248.hsd1.pa.comcast.net[71.224.100.248]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20071101111153b1400cq4b0e>; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:11:53 +0000 Received: by mail (Postfix, from userid 108) id C23B72E968; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 07:11:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7-deb (2006-10-05) on mail.mossholder.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=ham version=3.1.7-deb Received: from [192.168.0.1] (mourneblade.mossholder.com [192.168.0.1]) by mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A542E934 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 07:11:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [PLUG] Mythbuntu update oddness? From: Matt Mossholder To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List In-Reply-To: <47297745.4070406@jpsdomain.org> References: <20071101035036.ED40B7C8022@smtp.jpsdomain.org> <47297745.4070406@jpsdomain.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:11:41 -0400 Message-Id: <1193915501.7021.36.camel@mourneblade.mossholder.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org PPA is the "Personal Package Archives" where Mario is keeping the Mythbuntu customized versions of MythTV and other packages. It might be that he posted a package with a problem... you might want to check in the Mythbuntu mailing lists, or drop him an email.... --Matt On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 02:50 -0400, JP Vossen wrote: > > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:48:27 -0400 > > From: "Brent Saner" > > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Mythbuntu update oddness? > > > > ooooooh! let me know how clearing the apt-proxy goes, that sounds > > suspect to me. short of that, i'd say it's the repos' and some sort > > of strange indexing problem > > No go. I cleared the apt-proxy, and tried again with the same results. > It turns out this package is coming from http://ppa.launchpad.net > which was present in sources.list from the start of the clean install I > did of the beta Gutsy. I have no idea what it is, and haven't proxied it... > > ----- Trimmed session ----- > $ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-mythtv-frontend > The following packages will be upgraded: > ubuntu-mythtv-frontend > Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net gutsy/multiverse ubuntu-mythtv-frontend > 0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1 [180kB] > Fetched 180kB in 0s (239kB/s) > (Reading database ... 59833 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace ubuntu-mythtv-frontend > 0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1 (using > .../ubuntu-mythtv-frontend_0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1_all.deb) > ... > Unpacking replacement ubuntu-mythtv-frontend ... > Setting up ubuntu-mythtv-frontend > (0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1) ... > > $ sudo aptitude upgrade > The following packages will be upgraded: > ubuntu-mythtv-frontend > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/180kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n > Abort. > > $ ll /var/cache/apt/archives/ > total 184 > -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2007-10-31 18:20 lock > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-01 02:42 partial > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179922 2007-10-22 10:00 > ubuntu-mythtv-frontend_0.20.2+fixes14703-0ubuntu0~mythbuntu1_all.deb > ----- end Trimmed session ----- > > At this point, I'll poke around looking for bug reports when I get some > time, but will otherwise give up unless anyone has any other ideas. > Presumably at some point either the package or the index will Get Fixed... > > Thanks, > JP > ----------------------------|:::======|------------------------------- > JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| jp{at}jpsdomain{dot}org > My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/ > ----------------------------|=========|------------------------------- > Microsoft has single-handedly nullified Moore's Law. > Innate design flaws of Windows make a personal firewall, anti-virus > and anti-malware software mandatory. The resulting software arms race > has effectively flattened Moore's Law on hardware running Windows. > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 13:44:43 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 30967 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 13:44:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 13:44:41 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 30637 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 13:44:07 -0000 Received: from web59112.mail.re1.yahoo.com (HELO web59112.mail.re1.yahoo.com) (66.196.101.23) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:44:07 -0400 Received: (qmail 67671 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Nov 2007 13:44:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=zyYBJU0ftK1ZFLuu9mlEVWeVqjVkq9Xqbo9Xn0SC9YxpoWF0K0I0LZLoqqCWYiFtTAge5tu9Ryne/03G7wKkDuuEIDPaUQXKd4N/M0682Woxe1tN5il6NYUWdwbnJ/DgZ9of1InFJQRf03VK4+z8PdV7x3Bpu/qEJ5Ls94jBNEI=; X-YMail-OSG: N6ty8Y4VM1kQdvNn6abuNjxVqGqUG1guJwpPLe0LXKmDjdy3cjwxi3oCZ41sWChcfPMm_p8ObJDBmfe0b0nJF3Nh Received: from [67.99.10.1] by web59112.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:44:04 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/818.15 YahooMailWebService/0.7.152 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 06:44:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Josh Goldstein Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <148208.67081.qm@web59112.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0463451744==" Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org --===============0463451744== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1469121879-1193924644=:67081" --0-1469121879-1193924644=:67081 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I thought DVDs were just a collection of mpeg files with some other files for the menus and stuff. Maybe you could just copy the mpeg files from the dvd?? ----- Original Message ---- From: Brian Vagnoni To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:48:01 PM Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question If you live near Bensalem there is a New York Camera on street road, and in south philly there is Calumet Photographic both offer professional services and will be much more knowledgeable than the local drug or video store. Of course professional means $$$, but a phone call can't hurt. Good places to go and try out high end gear, and then go and buy it online. Brian Vagnoni Good Luck, & Best Wishes for you and yours From: Eric [mailto:eric@lucii.org] To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List [mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org] Sent: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:53:54 -0400 Subject: [PLUG] Video question This is only tangentially related to Linux but I need some advice/help. My daughter has to complete a 3 minute speech on my old VHS-C video tape recorder tomorrow, have it converted to one of these formats: [wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mpeg|mp4|3gp] and upload it to the contest site on Friday. A college scholarship or considerable portion thereof could be in the balance here. Neither of my computers has the capability to take a video input (skip long "Pinnacle sux" story here). The Camera Shop will convert it for $29.99 (3 minutes or 2 hours - same price) but they have no freakin' idea what the file format is. They just say: "You put the DVD in your DVD player and it plays!" Does anyone have suggestions about going from VHS-C to a file in short order? Perhaps someone could help out - I'd be happy to pay the $29.99 and drive over if that helps :-) Thanks! Eric -- # Eric Lucas # # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -----Inline Attachment Follows----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-1469121879-1193924644=:67081 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
I thought DVDs were just a collection of mpeg files with some other files for the menus and stuff.  Maybe you could just copy the mpeg files from the dvd??

----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Vagnoni <bvagnoni@v-system.net>
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:48:01 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question

If you live near Bensalem there is a New York Camera on street road, and in south philly there is Calumet Photographic both offer professional services and will be much more knowledgeable than the local drug or video store. Of course professional means $$$, but a phone call can't hurt.

Good places to go and try out high end gear, and then go and buy it online.

Brian Vagnoni

Good Luck, & Best Wishes for you and yours
From: Eric [mailto:eric@lucii.org]
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List [mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org]
Sent: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:53:54 -0400
Subject: [PLUG] Video question

This is only tangentially related to Linux but I need some advice/help.

My daughter has to complete a 3 minute speech on my old VHS-C video tape
recorder tomorrow, have it converted to one of these formats:
[wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mpeg|mp4|3gp] and upload it to the contest site on Friday. A
college scholarship or considerable portion thereof could be in the balance here.

Neither of my computers has the capability to take a video input (skip long
"Pinnacle sux" story here). The Camera Shop will convert it for $29.99 (3
minutes or 2 hours - same price) but they have no freakin' idea what the file
format is. They just say: "You put the DVD in your DVD player and it plays!"

Does anyone have suggestions about going from VHS-C to a file in short order?
Perhaps someone could help out - I'd be happy to pay the $29.99 and drive over
if that helps :-)

Thanks!

Eric
--
# Eric Lucas
#
# "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth
# And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
# -- John Gillespie Magee Jr
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Let me know
Eric

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215-699-3218 ------=_Part_12201_3390052.1193924980386-- --===============1142955972== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug --===============1142955972==-- From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 15:03:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 17207 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 15:03:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 15:03:29 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 17173 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 15:03:27 -0000 Received: from mx0.hxti.com (HELO mx0.hxti.com) (216.203.4.133) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:03:27 -0400 Received: from mx0.hxti.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mx0.hxti.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lA1F3BIM014330 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:03:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:03:11 -0400 From: "Mark Baker" To: plug Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <148208.67081.qm@web59112.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Subject: RE: [PLUG] Video question x-scalix-Hops: 1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=3.1.9 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.9 (2007-02-13) on mx0.hxti.com X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0893762294==" Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org --===============0893762294== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="2_0_166_5899b3MHTML_=_01" --2_0_166_5899b3MHTML_=_01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline The files on the DVD are in VOB format and can be converted to other formats with software packages available online. I have also read that VOB files are in mpeg-2 format and they can simply be renamed from *.vob to *.mpeg and will play that way, but I have never tried it. Maybe someone on the list has tried this?? =20 Mark =20 _____ =20 From: Josh Goldstein [mailto:oopjosh@yahoo.com]=20 Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:44 AM To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question =20 I thought DVDs were just a collection of mpeg files with some other files for the menus and stuff. Maybe you could just copy the mpeg files from the dvd?? ----- Original Message ---- From: Brian Vagnoni To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:48:01 PM Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question If you live near Bensalem there is a New York Camera on street road, and in south philly there is Calumet Photographic both offer professional services and will be much more knowledgeable than the local drug or video store. Of course professional means $$$, but a phone call can't hurt. Good places to go and try out high end gear, and then go and buy it online. Brian Vagnoni Good Luck, & Best Wishes for you and yours From: Eric [mailto:eric@lucii.org] To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List [mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org] Sent: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:53:54 -0400 Subject: [PLUG] Video question This is only tangentially related to Linux but I need some advice/help. My daughter has to complete a 3 minute speech on my old VHS-C video tape recorder tomorrow, have it converted to one of these formats: [wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mpeg|mp4|3gp] and upload it to the contest site on Friday. A college scholarship or considerable portion thereof could be in the balance here. Neither of my computers has the capability to take a video input (skip long "Pinnacle sux" story here). The Camera Shop will convert it for $29.99 (3 minutes or 2 hours - same price) but they have no freakin' idea what the file format is. They just say: "You put the DVD in your DVD player and it plays!" Does anyone have suggestions about going from VHS-C to a file in short order? Perhaps someone could help out - I'd be happy to pay the $29.99 and drive over if that helps :-) Thanks! Eric --=20 # Eric Lucas # # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr ________________________________________________________________________ ___ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -----Inline Attachment Follows----- ________________________________________________________________________ ___ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug =20 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around=20 http://mail.yahoo.com=20 --2_0_166_5899b3MHTML_=_01 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline

<= span style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>The fil= es on the DVD are in VOB format and can be converted to other formats with soft= ware packages available online.  I have also read that VOB files are in m= peg-2 format and they can simply be renamed from *.vob to *.mpeg and will play t= hat way, but I have never tried it.   Maybe someone on the list has= tried this??

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<= span style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Mark

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From: Josh G= oldstein [mailto:oopjosh@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 0= 1, 2007 9:44 AM
To: Philadelphia Linux Use= r's Group Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video q= uestion

 

I thought DVDs were just a collection of mpeg f= iles with some other files for the menus and stuff.  Maybe you could just= copy the mpeg files from the dvd??

----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Vagnoni <bvagnoni@v-system.net>
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:48:01 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question

If you live near Bensalem there is a New York Camera on street road, and i= n south philly there is Calumet Photographic both offer professional services and will be m= uch more knowledgeable than the local drug or video store. Of course professi= onal means $$$, but a phone call can't hurt.

Good places to go and try out high end gear, and then go and buy it onlin= e.

Brian Vagnoni

Good Luck, & Best Wishes for you and yours

From: Eric [mailto:eric@lucii.org]
To: Philadelphia Linux Use= r's Group Discussion List [mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org]
Sent: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:= 53:54 -0400
Subject: [PLUG] Video ques= tion

This is only tangentially related to Linux but I need some advice/help.
My daughter has to complete a 3 minute speech on my old VHS-C video tape<= br> recorder tomorrow, have it converted to one of these formats:
[wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mpeg|mp4|3gp] and upload it to the contest site on Frida= y. A
college scholarship or considerable portion thereof could be in the balan= ce here.

Neither of my computers has the capability to take a video input (skip lo= ng
"Pinnacle sux" story here). The Camera Shop will convert it for= $29.99 (3
minutes or 2 hours - same price) but they have no freakin' idea what the f= ile
format is. They just say: "You put the DVD in your DVD player and it= plays!"

Does anyone have suggestions about going from VHS-C to a file in short or= der?
Perhaps someone could help out - I'd be happy to pay the $29.99 and drive= over
if that helps :-)

Thanks!

Eric
--
# Eric Lucas
#
# "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth
# And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
# -- John Gillespie Magee Jr
_________________________________________________________________________= __
Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-anno= unce
General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug



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--2_0_166_5899b3MHTML_=_01-- --===============0893762294== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug --===============0893762294==-- From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 15:23:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 21573 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 15:22:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 15:22:59 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 21537 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 15:22:55 -0000 Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (HELO rn-out-0102.google.com) (64.233.170.186) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:22:55 -0400 Received: by rn-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id a46so237333rne for ; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:22:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=jzNoycFLX0ZD0YFxwbum6nJXFVpfPm0Nu7aBmXCadyQ=; b=Ks/R2I2x8tmaSgt4txXJ5+Nn14154DNQfzTceyJGhI+IDzN5pu9ckoleA1YK3w+rwCfs3PK8nW5Mk3tBei8M8TU+vQbp40os55HmKJBzo67rHSgmdSa30VHUs5d/gnNV2jsVR1tmGwd/ElCc+fZM/ToBxRXeslv2EYz3Ch47BGI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RMeZJfjZkfLvmX63LNRja5xv0fPk9cGBtlL+pJYfJxOY8UbSqMFy75g3Fgr6Votm1e/ZfTuuOKkbkggwyrJwwHgIcC4hwa5gSp6alIlUeIySngQJZ2rL73Z9hPQJ19jcF9+asMgi/CDMq8TeXWNlgd8hdQD1DEApQSr3UTsAi3E= Received: by 10.142.79.15 with SMTP id c15mr147200wfb.1193930573341; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:22:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.88.10 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:22:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <243a163a0711010822y626dda63k8dadb5400b917893@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:22:53 -0400 From: "Steve Morgan" To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <148208.67081.qm@web59112.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Do remember that DVDs for movies that are bought at are encrypted with CSS and that simply renaming the file may not be enough. Also, I wanted to mention that the DVD camcorders suck.. They suck because you have to use their stupid proprietary software to work with their proprietary video that is recorded to the discs. Tried several different methods to extract MPEG 2/4 video and nothing seemed to work. I think we eventually had to HandBrake the video off the disc (as opposed to copying the files to the harddrive and using that) to get some kind video that we could finally then import into iMovie. Steve Morgan On 11/1/07, Mark Baker wrote: > > > > > The files on the DVD are in VOB format and can be converted to other formats > with software packages available online. I have also read that VOB files > are in mpeg-2 format and they can simply be renamed from *.vob to *.mpeg and > will play that way, but I have never tried it. Maybe someone on the list > has tried this?? > > > > Mark > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Josh Goldstein [mailto:oopjosh@yahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:44 AM > To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question > > > > > > > I thought DVDs were just a collection of mpeg files with some other files > for the menus and stuff. Maybe you could just copy the mpeg files from the > dvd?? > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Brian Vagnoni > To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List > > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:48:01 PM > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question > > If you live near Bensalem there is a New York Camera on street road, and in > south philly there is Calumet Photographic both offer professional services > and will be much more knowledgeable than the local drug or video store. Of > course professional means $$$, but a phone call can't hurt. > > Good places to go and try out high end gear, and then go and buy it online. > > Brian Vagnoni > > Good Luck, & Best Wishes for you and yours > > From: Eric [mailto:eric@lucii.org] > To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List > [mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org] > Sent: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:53:54 -0400 > Subject: [PLUG] Video question > > This is only tangentially related to Linux but I need some advice/help. > > My daughter has to complete a 3 minute speech on my old VHS-C video tape > recorder tomorrow, have it converted to one of these formats: > [wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mpeg|mp4|3gp] and upload it to the contest site on Friday. > A > college scholarship or considerable portion thereof could be in the balance > here. > > Neither of my computers has the capability to take a video input (skip long > "Pinnacle sux" story here). The Camera Shop will convert it for $29.99 (3 > minutes or 2 hours - same price) but they have no freakin' idea what the > file > format is. They just say: "You put the DVD in your DVD player and it > plays!" > > Does anyone have suggestions about going from VHS-C to a file in short > order? > Perhaps someone could help out - I'd be happy to pay the $29.99 and drive > over > if that helps :-) > > Thanks! > > Eric > -- > # Eric Lucas > # > # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth > # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... > # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? 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Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 15:27:17 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 25107 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 15:27:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 15:27:13 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 25057 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 15:27:09 -0000 Received: from vancouver.yorkcabal.org.uk (HELO vancouver.yorkcabal.org.uk) (89.16.166.17) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:27:09 -0400 Received: from lobefin.net ([91.103.132.25] helo=hadrian.lobefin.net ident=Debian-exim) by vancouver.yorkcabal.org.uk with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Inbwn-0002oc-8E for plug@lists.phillylinux.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:27:05 +0000 Received: from steve by hadrian.lobefin.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Inbwm-0002ep-GR for plug@lists.phillylinux.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:27:04 +0000 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:27:04 +0000 From: Stephen Gran To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question Message-ID: <20071101152704.GA9547@www.lobefin.net> Mail-Followup-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org References: <148208.67081.qm@web59112.mail.re1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 X-OS: Linux hadrian 2.6.18-5-686 i686 X-Uptime: 32 days X-Latin: Hodie Kalendis Novembribus MMDCCLX ab urbe condita est X-Date: Today is Setting Orange, the 13rd day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3173 X-DDate: Only 2430206 Shopping Days Left Before X-Day. 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X-Motto: debian/rules User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Authenticated-Sender: C=UK, ST=North Yorkshire, L=York, O=yorkcabal.org.uk, CN=lobefin.net, EMAIL=hostmaster@yorkcabal.org.uk X-Scanned-By: ClamAV 0.91.2 on vancouver.yorkcabal.org.uk; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:27:05 +0000 X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0148598100==" Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org --===============0148598100== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X" Content-Disposition: inline --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:03:11AM -0400, Mark Baker said: > The files on the DVD are in VOB format and can be converted to other > formats with software packages available online. I have also read > that VOB files are in mpeg-2 format and they can simply be renamed > from *.vob to *.mpeg and will play that way, but I have never tried > it. Maybe someone on the list has tried this?? VOBs are like mpeg-2, except that they are not always linear (you can spread a single video over multiple VOBs), and they are usually 'encrypted' with CSS protection. If you have dvdbackup, libdvdcss and libdvdread installed, you should be able to rip the VOBs off to viewable files pretty easily. --=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Reality -- what a concept! -- Robin | | steve@lobefin.net | Williams | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHKfBISYIMHOpZA44RAooFAJ4n6qSlKxbcPlrnijBOqgHEs++bRgCePv3s T5FZf4X+avy+XDaYiGG2Kv4= =q/Dg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X-- --===============0148598100== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug --===============0148598100==-- From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 15:31:08 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 27409 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 15:31:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 15:31:07 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 27367 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 15:31:03 -0000 Received: from hmsedge01.hostmysite.net (HELO hmssmtp01.hostmysite.com) (76.12.65.198) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:31:03 -0400 Received: from hatchet.corp.safesecureweb.com (76.12.55.188) by hmssmtp01.hostmysite.com (76.12.65.198) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.0.744.0; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:31:16 -0400 Received: from MBX01.corp.safesecureweb.com ([76.12.65.197]) by HATCHET.corp.safesecureweb.com ([76.12.55.188]) with mapi; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:31:15 -0400 From: Tim Dodd To: 'Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List' Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:31:14 -0400 Thread-Topic: OT: HostMySite is hiring full-time Java Developers Thread-Index: AcgcnArdS3QlqgNqQ8a8j+jFwRQwoA== Message-ID: <293D8C8F01B45744AAFD71913CB0BAD41604C6D3C4@MBX01.corp.safesecureweb.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 Return-Path: tdodd@HostMySite.com Subject: [PLUG] OT: HostMySite is hiring full-time Java Developers X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1132650487==" Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org --===============1132650487== Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_293D8C8F01B45744AAFD71913CB0BAD41604C6D3C4MBX01corpsafe_" --_000_293D8C8F01B45744AAFD71913CB0BAD41604C6D3C4MBX01corpsafe_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Are you interested in applying advanced technologies in the Enterprise Java arena to build, from the ground up, our next generation application platform? 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--_000_293D8C8F01B45744AAFD71913CB0BAD41604C6D3C4MBX01corpsafe_-- --===============1132650487== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug --===============1132650487==-- From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 15:33:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 29272 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 15:33:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 15:33:00 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 29254 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 15:32:53 -0000 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (HELO wr-out-0506.google.com) (64.233.184.226) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:32:53 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 68so320763wri for ; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:32:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=PDdrPAYpYW2iBUn7958oqGflUJcAIwstRMT46fFFExU=; b=HPB1ErbL4M4AGbgqNgQiI3/SZiG42Oyo/bifkpEJWBjSC9925GcCTu5kNZxZIH8cTX9NVPzYFY1P+dzyeM/y8LUmRCOmv8ZweLCHuZKxFYkVR17D7XWmrT7hF3+mFqP/Gx/fVTqIjZ/RSJy8DhoRqWjqhVAtVs6+yKJipnxuTtc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=iCDMQadX89ldpsXsC/7GivCgXDzRNfej+Hb7auZAqLRcvPEzYWpaSjiyutv+TWzOhxha09vkd3S9oJLjGWMFnh6d1Tmjs2BDsivLAXIPdqsOMneSjw1zzxIHwNwL3ETkJFwyZMTk8zBhukYXXTxMc0gIhNbtP7K5CTiiYL+/qMw= Received: by 10.142.49.4 with SMTP id w4mr152290wfw.1193931170774; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:32:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.155.12 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:32:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:32:50 -0400 From: "Louis Kratz" To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <148208.67081.qm@web59112.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0034928226==" Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org --===============0034928226== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_12689_15825963.1193931170742" ------=_Part_12689_15825963.1193931170742 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline The vob files on a dvd may contain other information than the mpg data stream. This includes alternative audio tracks, subtitles (which are stored as bitmaps), menus (mpgs plus a menu map file), and alternate angle video streams. Renaming the vobs typically works because most video playing software can parse the data stream. Eric, if you have that store convert your video for you, the dvd will most likely be what Brent said, NTSC dvd. If they don't encode encryption onto the dvd, you can easily copy the vobs to your hard drive, then pull out the mpg stream you want via mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg, and lots of other nifty linux pieces of software. If they do encode the protection, well, I am not going to get into that as its a hot topic among fair use advocates and such (I doubt the store will encode the CSS encryption). The easy, no frills way if you get a dvd without encription: mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile out.mpeg dvd:// That will play the first title on the dvd and dump the mpeg-2 stream to a file out.mpeg. Hope this helps! If you are really into home movies though, I would recommend getting a capture card. I use the hauppauge 150 MCE, it encodes to mpeg-2 on the card. Using the ivtv linux driver, I can plug in a vcr, old camera, or tv line and just cat /dev/video0 > out.mpeg to dump the stream. Works like a dream! But thats an investment you may not need. -Louis On 11/1/07, Mark Baker wrote: > > The files on the DVD are in VOB format and can be converted to other > formats with software packages available online. I have also read that VOB > files are in mpeg-2 format and they can simply be renamed from *.vob to > *.mpeg and will play that way, but I have never tried it. Maybe someone on > the list has tried this?? > > > > Mark > > > ------------------------------ > > > *From:* Josh Goldstein [mailto:oopjosh@yahoo.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:44 AM > *To:* Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List > *Subject:* Re: [PLUG] Video question > > > > I thought DVDs were just a collection of mpeg files with some other files > for the menus and stuff. Maybe you could just copy the mpeg files from the > dvd?? > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Brian Vagnoni > To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List < > plug@lists.phillylinux.org> > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:48:01 PM > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question > > If you live near Bensalem there is a New York Camera on street road, and > in south philly there is Calumet Photographicboth offer professional services and will be much more knowledgeable than > the local drug or video store. Of course professional means $$$, but a phone > call can't hurt. > > Good places to go and try out high end gear, and then go and buy it > online. > > Brian Vagnoni > > Good Luck, & Best Wishes for you and yours > > *From:* Eric [mailto:eric@lucii.org] > *To:* Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List [mailto: > plug@lists.phillylinux.org] > *Sent:* Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:53:54 -0400 > *Subject:* [PLUG] Video question > > This is only tangentially related to Linux but I need some advice/help. > > My daughter has to complete a 3 minute speech on my old VHS-C video tape > recorder tomorrow, have it converted to one of these formats: > [wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mpeg|mp4|3gp] and upload it to the contest site on > Friday. A > college scholarship or considerable portion thereof could be in the > balance here. > > Neither of my computers has the capability to take a video input (skip > long > "Pinnacle sux" story here). The Camera Shop will convert it for $29.99 (3 > minutes or 2 hours - same price) but they have no freakin' idea what the > file > format is. They just say: "You put the DVD in your DVD player and it > plays!" > > Does anyone have suggestions about going from VHS-C to a file in short > order? > Perhaps someone could help out - I'd be happy to pay the $29.99 and drive > over > if that helps :-) > > Thanks! > > Eric > -- > # Eric Lucas > # > # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth > # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... > # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- > http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > ------=_Part_12689_15825963.1193931170742 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline The vob files on a dvd may contain other information than the mpg data stream.  This includes alternative audio tracks, subtitles (which are stored as bitmaps), menus (mpgs plus a menu map file), and alternate angle video streams.

Renaming the vobs typically works because most video playing software can parse the data stream.

Eric, if you have that store convert your video for you, the dvd will most likely be what Brent said, NTSC dvd.  If they don't encode encryption onto the dvd, you can easily copy the vobs to your hard drive, then pull out the mpg stream you want via mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg, and lots of other nifty linux pieces of software.  If they do encode the protection, well, I am not going to get into that as its a hot topic among fair use advocates and such (I doubt the store will encode the CSS encryption).

The easy, no frills way if you get a dvd without encription:
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile out.mpeg dvd://
That will play the first title on the dvd and dump the mpeg-2 stream to a file out.mpeg.

Hope this helps!  If you are really into home movies though, I would recommend getting a capture card.  I use the hauppauge 150 MCE, it encodes to mpeg-2 on the card.  Using the ivtv linux driver, I can plug in a vcr, old camera, or tv line and just cat /dev/video0 > out.mpeg to dump the stream.  Works like a dream!  But thats an investment you may not need.

-Louis

On 11/1/07, Mark Baker < mark.baker@hxti.com> wrote:

The files on the DVD are in VOB format and can be converted to other formats with software packages available online.  I have also read that VOB files are in mpeg-2 format and they can simply be renamed from *.vob to *.mpeg and will play that way, but I have never tried it.   Maybe someone on the list has tried this??

 

Mark

 

  

From: Josh Goldstein [mailto:oopjosh@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:44 AM
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List

Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question

 

I thought DVDs were just a collection of mpeg files with some other files for the menus and stuff.  Maybe you could just copy the mpeg files from the dvd??

----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Vagnoni <bvagnoni@v-system.net>
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:48:01 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question

If you live near Bensalem there is a New York Camera on street road, and in south philly there is Calumet Photographic both offer professional services and will be much more knowledgeable than the local drug or video store. Of course professional means $$$, but a phone call can't hurt.

Good places to go and try out high end gear, and then go and buy it online.

Brian Vagnoni

Good Luck, & Best Wishes for you and yours

From: Eric [mailto:eric@lucii.org]
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List [mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org]
Sent: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:53:54 -0400
Subject: [PLUG] Video question

This is only tangentially related to Linux but I need some advice/help.

My daughter has to complete a 3 minute speech on my old VHS-C video tape
recorder tomorrow, have it converted to one of these formats:
[wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mpeg|mp4|3gp] and upload it to the contest site on Friday. A
college scholarship or considerable portion thereof could be in the balance here.

Neither of my computers has the capability to take a video input (skip long
"Pinnacle sux" story here). The Camera Shop will convert it for $29.99 (3
minutes or 2 hours - same price) but they have no freakin' idea what the file
format is. They just say: "You put the DVD in your DVD player and it plays!"

Does anyone have suggestions about going from VHS-C to a file in short order?
Perhaps someone could help out - I'd be happy to pay the $29.99 and drive over
if that helps :-)

Thanks!

Eric
--
# Eric Lucas
#
# "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth
# And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
# -- John Gillespie Magee Jr
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------=_Part_12689_15825963.1193931170742-- --===============0034928226== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug --===============0034928226==-- From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 16:22:40 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 5322 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 16:22:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 16:22:39 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 5284 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 16:22:33 -0000 Received: from web3015.mail.tnz.yahoo.co.jp (HELO web3015.mail.tnz.yahoo.co.jp) (203.216.249.215) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:22:33 -0400 Received: (qmail 17425 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Nov 2007 16:22:27 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=yj20050223; d=yahoo.co.jp; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=Mx3G1wKfuIx360zdS2lPLM/Mzi8/y32PCR/Hwua91SEATFe9DXGZPtOcGyVuh3x1TfoW/Lit9t0Z5oRxM4IUiiKvHg+DQc0HWVYs61OWXxJmZk0E9LJG7/+/ZJngHjnN ; Message-ID: <20071101162227.17423.qmail@web3015.mail.tnz.yahoo.co.jp> Received: from [86.147.170.202] by web3015.mail.tnz.yahoo.co.jp via HTTP; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:22:26 JST Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 01:22:26 +0900 (JST) From: Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1052264021==" Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org --===============1052264021== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1826396285-1193934146=:15542" --0-1826396285-1193934146=:15542 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp How about one of those things that covert a video signal into a USB stream? I still think a hard drive-based camera would be the most direct route. --------------------------------- Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar --0-1826396285-1193934146=:15542 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-2022-jp How about one of those things that covert a video signal into a USB stream?

I still think a hard drive-based camera would be the most direct route.
 

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X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org still fighting Verizon on this. here's some new information I've learned, however. (if anyone here is a member on AVSforum, please cross-post to there.) Verizon is injecting something like a _broadcast flag_ (although the representative I spoke to seemed to confused this with encrypted QAM at times) which the Actiontec routers look for. this could explain the very large PMT header information. supposedly when the 2009 analog OTA shut-off occurs, Verizon wants to force everyone who subscribes to FiOS TV to use their cablebox even (encrypting) for OTA channels (which are currently offered as Clear QAM). isn't there some kind of law/regulation regarding this behavior? don't the OTA channels have to be unencrypted (un-DRM'd)? can someone cite this regulation/law for me? because of the OTA regulations about how much Verizon can charge for that feed, Verizon is seeking the loophole of charging rents on the (mandatory) cablebox instead. when you call in for tech support for FiOS TV service, the support centers are in Texas, Indiana, and Florida. they use a _Slingbox_ (seriously) to route the local video office feeds in question to their tech support office. this is why they ask you for a "channel number" when you inquire about a broadcaster. the conversion from signal -> cablebox -> slingbox is also why, I suspect, I'm having such difficulty getting Verizon to audit the MPEG-2 Transport Stream itself for faults. the two "main broadcast rings" for television are in Florida and Indiana. apparently everyone else derives from that. Florida gets 50Mbps download speeds. New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut (and I think Boston) get 20Mbps symmetric. the filters controlling speeds and authenticating access to the PON are _in the firmware of the ONT_. does anyone have EEPROM dumping skills? comparing various firmwares from the ONT could provide insight into how the system works. (sorta like uncapping cable modems back in the day.) the hardware itself can do up to 900Mbps symmetric. the CO uses OC-192 upstream. the satellite dishes used to receive the originating provider video signal are referred to as the "super head-in". the analog to fibre conversion occurs at the "big box". the 15/15 symmetric that was supposed to be offered starting the beginning of October (according to a Verizon representative) congruent to this [ http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071023-verizon-discovers-symmetry-offers-2020-symmetrical-fios-service.html ] will probably materialize within 8 weeks. (the claim is that between talk-of and actual existence heuristically occurs within Verizon of about 8 weeks time.) the ONT handles access authentication and the WAN is now fully DHCP. PPPoE is provided as a legacy function, but the name and password are no longer actually authenticated. anyone have the info on what's so special about Florida to Verizon? a combination of legal benefits and where the pipe/infrastructure are? On 10/12/07, zuzu wrote: > I asked about this before in passing, but after throwing myself > against the wall of Verizon bureaucracy for over 3 weeks, I'm also > trying to forensically assess the technical nature of this problem: > > is anyone else using a Clear QAM tuner (such as the HDHomeRun) with > the FiOS TV service? are any of you missing sound from the channels > for WGN Superstation and the Weather Channel (not Weatherscan)? ...as > of about 3 weeks ago? > > (all other unencrypted channels have sound and picture just fine. > picture is fine on WGN and Weather Channel, just no sound, only as of > 3 weeks ago.) > > I'm using an HDHR with EyeTV, although I've also tested this directly > off the ONT with a Miglia MiniHD tuner, and ever since Verizon mucked > with their network/infrastructure 3 weeks ago, those two channels have > been without sound. > > on the phone I keep getting re-routed to either the "video" / "inside > your house" department or lied to that I have the Premier package when > actually I have the Local Plus (i.e. digital / HDTV) package ($13/mo), > and that the problem is either with my tuner (it's not, since two > different tuners produce the same result, and both tuners did work > before) or that because I opted not to take the free cablebox when the > TV service was installed that "I only ordered analog signal" (not > true, Local Plus is _only_ in digital). > > I'm now starting to play with dvbsnoop or find some other (preferably > Free Software) utility to examine the MPEG-2 transport stream (a > friend of mine examined what FiOS sends out and said their header > packets for PMT are unusually large -- so large that they spread over > several packets). > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_transport_stream > > one question Verizon shyed away from was that perhaps their boxes > don't have problems because they're actually outputting the analog > signal; I think this was a topic on Slashdot a little while ago: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/16/0238245 > > so among all you smart people who I'm betting have FiOS TV and MythTV > setup using an HDHR: > > 1.) do you have any problems tuning 256 QAM with an HDHR or similar > tuner and getting sound for WGN Superstation (411MHz) and the Weather > Channel (477MHz)? > > 2.) do you know of any tools, such as dvbsnoop, to examine the > transport stream packets to find out, precisely, what Verizon is doing > wrong so I can decisively bring it to their attention? > > 3.) anyone have any additional information about how Verizon's FiOS > network is deployed that you could bring to bear into this issue? is > there jargon for the particular hardware used or office responsible > that I can cite? or any other advice on how to squelch the run-around > Verizon is giving me? > > p.s. the best way to get through Verizon's automated phone tree is to > say "speak to an agent" or "speak to an NT" (network technician). > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 21:39:51 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 3197 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 21:39:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 21:39:48 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 3163 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 21:39:45 -0000 Received: from smtp.jpsdomain.org (HELO smtp.jpsdomain.org) (66.92.238.114) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:39:45 -0400 Received: from [192.168.99.121] (unknown [192.168.99.121]) by smtp.jpsdomain.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1140D7C8020 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:39:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <472A4790.8070807@jpsdomain.org> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:39:28 -0400 From: JP Vossen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org References: <20071101160019.4DBFB7C8020@smtp.jpsdomain.org> In-Reply-To: <20071101160019.4DBFB7C8020@smtp.jpsdomain.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [PLUG] Hauppauge PVR-500 capture from composite input? X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org The things that crop up in this list are just sooooo handy! > Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:32:50 -0400 > From: "Louis Kratz" > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Video question > I use the hauppauge 150 MCE, it encodes > to mpeg-2 on the card. Using the ivtv linux driver, I can plug in a vcr, > old camera, or tv line and just cat /dev/video0 > out.mpeg to dump the > stream. Works like a dream! But thats an investment you may not need. Really?! That's interesting. One of my TODOs is to capture some kid VCR tapes (and possibly DVD, not sure yet [2]) into my new MythTV setup. I have a PVR-500 with both tuners and one composite input all configured in Myth. (Humm, I thought... [1].) I also have a VCR/DVD combo player I was going to plug into the PVR-500 composite in. But then I get stuck. How do I go about recording that? I had vague notions of trying to set up a manual recording for a given time slot, cuing up the tape then sitting there with a watch to hit play. But I figured there had to be a better way. 'cat /dev/video0 > out.mpeg' might do the trick, though it begs other questions like how to "inject" the new file into Myth. Wife Acceptance Factor implies that in with the rest of the episodes recorded would be best, but I'm not sure how to do that. Thoughts? JP [1] $ ll /dev/video* crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2007-10-31 15:35 /dev/video0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 1 2007-10-31 15:35 /dev/video1 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 24 2007-10-31 15:35 /dev/video24 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 25 2007-10-31 15:35 /dev/video25 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 32 2007-10-31 15:35 /dev/video32 crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 33 2007-10-31 15:35 /dev/video33 [2] I'm sure that ripping any DVDs would be much better than capturing them. The problem is that I don't think I have any DVD players in any of my Myth* machines. I think my work Laptop can play DVDs, but I never tried and it's running XP2 (for work, remember). I suppose DVD drives are cheap enough, but I have form-factor issues too (like Dell PE 650 1u server), though I guess putting one in the Optiplex GX-260 Myth-frontend would probably work. ----------------------------|:::======|------------------------------- JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| jp{at}jpsdomain{dot}org My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/ ----------------------------|=========|------------------------------- Microsoft has single-handedly nullified Moore's Law. Innate design flaws of Windows make a personal firewall, anti-virus and anti-malware software mandatory. The resulting software arms race has effectively flattened Moore's Law on hardware running Windows. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 21:41:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 5161 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 21:41:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 21:41:27 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 5125 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 21:41:24 -0000 Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (HELO sccrmhc14.comcast.net) (204.127.200.84) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:41:24 -0400 Received: from [192.168.168.26] (c-69-253-130-163.hsd1.pa.comcast.net[69.253.130.163]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2007110121410901400mn258e>; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 21:41:19 +0000 Message-ID: <472A4808.6050109@op.net> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:41:28 -0400 From: jeff User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List Subject: Re: [PLUG] PhillyLinux.org/net/com Registration Renewal Donations References: <13ae6a200711011133x71a48e17l206a8a89961d5cdc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <13ae6a200711011133x71a48e17l206a8a89961d5cdc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Elizabeth Bevilacqua wrote: > It's time to pass the hat again for donations to renew our domain names. I don't get out much (lest I turn into a pumpkin) but can I paypal you? -=-=- ... Let them eat linux * TagZilla 0.066 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug From plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Thu Nov 01 23:35:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: historian@netisland.net Received: (qmail 26032 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2007 23:35:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ellesmere.netisland.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Nov 2007 23:35:06 -0000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: alias-plug@lists.phillylinux.org Received: (qmail 25953 invoked by uid 107); 1 Nov 2007 23:35:03 -0000 Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (HELO sccrmhc11.comcast.net) (204.127.200.81) by qpsmtpd.netisland.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:35:03 -0400 Received: from [192.168.168.26] (c-69-253-130-163.hsd1.pa.comcast.net[69.253.130.163]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <200711012334540110012s29e>; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:34:58 +0000 Message-ID: <472A629D.5000409@op.net> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:34:53 -0400 From: jeff User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [PLUG] nice surprises X-BeenThere: plug@lists.phillylinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Id: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org Errors-To: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org I needed an extra box at work, which presented the chance to try something different. PCLinuxOS has become a favorite, running in a VM at home, so I figured why not. The machine is a newish Dell, dual core, 1G, dual drive. To say it didn't like the XP it came with is a gross understatement. To say it didn't like my 2nd install of XP is another understatement. I won't even tell you about the 3rd install. No sooner was the decision made than a cd burned and off I went. >From boot to reboot in just under ten minutes. I don't seem to remember and of my XP installs being completed anywhere in the vicinity of ten minutes. Let's just call it many multiples of ten minutes. Even Ubuntu, if I can remember that far back, took longer. The new OS found every little detail of the pc, DVD-ROM, CDRW, DHCP server, and even asked me if I wanted to join a domain. I've never had linux ask me if I wanted to join a domain before. I wanted to ask it if it was anything like joining a health club, in which case the answer was a resounding NO. Besides - the last guy in my dept who tried to join the domain ended up doing REALLY WEIRD THINGS to his box. Leaping right in, with what some would call a