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Linux-Announce Digest #865, Volume #3 Sun, 22 Oct 00 08:13:02 EDT
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WWW: Issue #20 of Georg's Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU forum has been released. ("Georg C. F. Greve")
GKrellM version 1.0.0 (Bill Wilson)
Sing Along Disc Player 3.1.4 (Michael Glickman)
Linux driver for DC10plus and LML33 video capture cards. V 0.6 (Serguei Miridonov)
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From: "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve@gnu.org>
Subject: WWW: Issue #20 of Georg's Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU forum has been released.
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 11:46:54 GMT
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Issue #20 of Georg's Brave GNU World,
the monthly GNU forum has been released.
-- Georg Greve
Hi !
Issue #20 of the column is now online and it can - as usual - be found
on the GNU Webpage and its mirrors. Otherwise just follow the links at
the end of this posting.
Georg's Brave GNU World is a monthly column which is being released
simultaneously in five languages (English, German, French, Japanese
and Spanish) on the web and printed in the German "Linux-Magazin" as
well as the "Linux Magazine France." This makes it the monthly column
with the widest distribution worldwide as far as I know.
If you would like to receive mail about new issues directly, you can
subscribe to the "Brave GNU World" announcement mailinglist. Just
send mail to <brave-gnu-world-request@gnu.org> with "subscribe" in
the *body*. The mailinglist is only for announcements that are related
to the "Brave GNU World" and is of very low volume (between 1 and 2
mails a month).
The 20th issue covers the following topics:
* Sylpheed (a pretty nice mailreader)
* Xzgv (a very lightweight and fast image viewer)
* Solfege (music education with Free Software)
* Ggradebook (keeping track of school-grades)
* Common C++ (expanding the libstd++ framework)
* GNU marst (translating Algol to C)
* Gengetopt (commandline parsing made easy)
* OpenTheory (developing documents in the GNU way)
This column intends to provide a forum for all GNU maintainers,
friends and associates and I am always open to suggestions. So if
you
* have questions about the GNU Project that might be of general
interest
* have a GNU Project and would like to improve its profile
* would like to start a GNU Project you are looking for people to
start it with
* think something doesn't get the publicity it deserves
* would like to see something made public
send mail to:
"Brave GNU World <column@gnu.org>"
This column is for everyone with an interest in Free Software,
so donīt hesitate to contact me if your project is under the
GPL/LGPL and youīd like to see it introduced here.
The 20th issue can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-20.en.html
[ English version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-20.fr.html
[ French version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-20.de.html
[ German version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-20.ja.html
[ Japanese version ]
or via the "Brave GNU World" homepage
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.en.html
[ English version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.fr.html
[ French version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.de.html
[ German version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.ja.html
[ Japanese version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.es.html
[ Spanish version ]
Thatīs it for now...
Regards,
Georg Greve
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From: bill@gkrellm.kitenet.net (Bill Wilson)
Subject: GKrellM version 1.0.0
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 11:45:42 GMT
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GKrellM version 1.0.0 is released and available for download. Go to:
http://gkrellm.net
or, if that is down as it sometimes is, try
http://web.wt.net/~billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html
This release adds NetBSD monitoring code and a French translation.
It also adds keyboard shortcuts for changing themes and various
bugfixes.
Description
- -----------
GKrellM is a Gtk and Imlib based stacked monitor program that charts
SMP CPUs, disk, load, active net interfaces, and internet connections.
Other monitors are memory and swap, file system with a mount/umount
feature, mailbox checking including POP3 and IMAP, clock/calendar,
APM laptop battery, CPU temperatures, uptime, and hostname display.
It has LEDs for the net monitors and an on/off button and online timer for
PPP. There is a gui popup for configuration, plugin extensions can be
installed, and many themes are available.
It is released under the GPL.
Systems
- -------
GKrellM can be compiled with native support for Linux, FreeBSD, and
NetBSD. Other systems with libgtop installed may also compile a
nearly full featured version (libgtop does not provide disk or internet
connection statistics).
Regards,
Bill
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From: Michael Glickman <michaelg@imediacorp.com.au>
Subject: Sing Along Disc Player 3.1.4
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 11:42:28 GMT
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After a long break, sadp strikes back.
New features:
- Mouse wheel support for moving along a track, or to next/prevous
track
Uses ZAxis mapping with XFree86 or needs a pacth for GPM for
console version
- Memory map is now supported for OSS, Linux Sound Driver and ALSA.
- Maximum supported sampling rate has been increased to 96K: this
should be sufficient by far
- Tested and cistomized for Linux 2.4
About SADP.
- ------------------
This is a CD player, that also has a number of extras:
- Spectrum analyser and oscilloscope
- Access to remote CD data bases (CDDB, FreeDB, CDIndex)
- Local data base with multiple preferences and play lists
- Read-only compatibility with workman and xmmcd data bases
- Limited CD TEXT and CD Extra support
- Active icons: control player in iconic state (X-version only)
- Command line mode (console version only)
- And more...
Supported CD driver is the only requirement: all extras are optional
Available in X11 (libxforms) and console (ncurses + GPM) versions.
Available from the following sites:
http://www.geocities.com/xsadp/
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~michg/ace/sadp/
http://acelin.webjump.com/sadp/
as well as
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/apps/sound/players/
ftp://contrib.redhat.com/libc6
or mirrors
Enjoy.
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From: Serguei Miridonov <mirsev@cicese.mx>
Subject: Linux driver for DC10plus and LML33 video capture cards. V 0.6
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 11:47:47 GMT
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This is a driver for DC10plus capture cards from Pinnacle Systems
Inc. and LML33 cards from Linux Media Labs
(http://www.linuxmedialabs.com/). It also works with many old Miro
DC10 cards with SAA7110A TV decoder and ADV7176 TV encoder (please,
make sure that your card has these chips, otherwise the driver will
not work).
The driver is Video4Linux compliant and contains extensions to
provide hardware support for full motion MJPEG compression and
decompression. Since this driver is a derivative from the driver for
Buz Iomega cards written by Dr. Rainer Johanni,
http://www.johanni.de/munich-vision/buz/ they both have compatible
API. I hope that this API will become a part of V4L standard.
For more information and driver download, please, visit
http://www.cicese.mx/~mirsev/Linux/DC10plus/
Supported Formats
=================
Card: DC10/DC10plus LML33
TV standard: NTSC/PAL/SECAM(*) NTSC/PAL
Format: Square pixel CCIR.601
640x480 NTSC 720x480 NTSC
768x576 PAL/SECAM(*) 720x576 PAL
Frame rates: 30 frames/60 fields per second NTSC
25 frames/50 fields per second PAL/SECAM(*)
(*) - SECAM is supported for input only in DC10/DC10plus cards. The
output of the recorded SECAM video stream will be in PAL standard.
Also, please, note that monitoring of the SECAM input signal at the
DC10/DC10plus analog output may not be available. Please, use
appropriate application like XawTV to watch full color SECAM video at
the card input.
Hardware compression
====================
Since the card provides hardware compression, even low end machines can
be successfully used for movie capture and playback. I'm testing the
driver with with 2.2.16 kernel running on 233 MHz Pentium MMX with 64M
RAM on 430TX motherboard and with 10GB IDE drive from Western Digital
Corp.
On one test run with DC10plus card I've got 0 frames dropped during
about 20 minutes of full motion NTSC (I live in Mexico) video capture
with fully synchronized audio.
Typical run of similar test can provide as few as 6-8 dropped frames per
half of an hour. You mileage may vary, though.
Tested applications
===================
XawTV to watch video on your computer monitor.
kwintv the same (you might need to use option lock_norm=1).
lavtools To record and playback AVI or Quicktime files. Note: you
will need patched version, lavtools-1.2p2 to support new
features of this driver. Please visit driver homepage for
more info.
Broadcast2000 reportedly (I didn't try that) can accept movies recorded
by lavrec in Quicktime format for editing and then edited
movie can be played back by lavplay program.
MainActor 3.5x also can accept movies recorded by lavrec for editing.
The driver can to be used by two programs at the same time
(please, see warning note below regarding this feature). Using XawTV
you can watch what you are recording or playing back with lavtools.
I've tested the following sequence and it worked for me:
* start xawtv and switch inputs, TV standards, and adjust video
(contrast, saturation, etc.). You may also run your favorite
audio mixer application to adjust audio inputs.
* run lavrec with options:
-i<set your input and norm here> (to choose proper input
and TV standard)
-l -1 (to use audio mixer settings)
Other lavrec option can be added at your choice.
* watch the movie in xawtv window while recording it as AVI or
Quicktime file.
* when recording is finished, run lavplay or xlav and watch your
clip in xawtv window.
* Note: you should not quit xawtv during recording or playing back.
If you quit xawtv during recording or playback, another lavtools
program will stop and may even crash.
I'm not sure that the same will work for you. You can try but,
please, be careful.
WARNING! This is an experimental feature and I'm not sure if it will be
supported in the future. The original driver was not designed to be
used like this and it has no protection against any interference
between two running programs. THEREFORE, IT IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS
AND SINCE THE DRIVER OPERATES IN KERNEL SPACE, USING THIS FEATURE MAY
CRASH YOUR ENTIRE SYSTEM.
Features for testing
====================
When loaded, the driver creates a /proc/zoranX entry for each card:
using 'cat /proc/zoran0' for your first card you can see the contents
of ZR36057/67 chip registers. It is also possible to modify the
contents of some registers directly. WARNING: modified contents is not
stored in the driver memory, if you restart any program which uses this
driver or even change position or cause redraw of a window of xawtv or
other program, the original registers contents will be restored by the
driver. However, it can be used to change ZR36067 registers on the fly
for fine tuning and then to include these changes into driver code.
This feature is very limited and still requires some documentation.
However, if you are impatient, look at zoran_procfs.c code and
(IMPORTANT!) read ZR36057/67 manual. To set TopField bit, for example,
you need to type as root:
echo TopField=1 > /proc/zoranX # change X to 0 for your first card,
# 1 for second and so on...
If you use this feature and have found some interesting result, please, let
me know.
Mailing lists
=============
There are two mailing lists available to discuss application issues and
suggest driver improvements:
1. A mailing list buz-linux was set up to discuss Iomega Buz driver.
Since this driver is derivative of that driver, you can also post your
questions and suggestions there. Subscribe with a message (with
"subscribe" in the subject) to buz-linux-subscribe@webmages.com.
Unsubscribe with a message (with "unsubscribe" in the subject) to
buz-linux-unsubscribe@webmages.com. The mailing list archive can be
found at http://buz.webmages.com/list/.
2. Video4Linux mailing list is set for more general discussions related
to uncompressed video capture, V4L and V4L2 API, many Video4Linux
applications, etc. to subscribe to this mailing list, please, visit
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
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