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Linux-Announce Digest #181
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Linux-Announce Digest #181, Volume #5 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:13:04 EDT
Contents:
liboggz 0.9.2 Release (Conrad Parker)
TuxMobil News 06/2005 (Werner Heuser)
libannodex 0.7.0 Release (Conrad Parker)
Dedicated to Linux... ("Sun75")
Guarded Installation Tool 2.17 (Ingo Brueckl)
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:14:14 CST
From: Conrad Parker <conrad@metadecks.org>
Subject: liboggz 0.9.2 Release
Oggz 0.9.2 Release
==================
Oggz comprises liboggz and the command-line tools oggzinfo, oggzdump,
oggzdiff, oggzmerge, oggzrip and oggz-validate.
liboggz is a C library providing a simple programming interface for reading
and writing Ogg files and streams. Ogg is an interleaving data container
developed by Monty at Xiph.Org, originally to support the Ogg Vorbis audio
format.
This release is available as a source tarball at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/download/liboggz-0.9.2.tar.gz
New in this release:
* New and improved examples:
rewrite-pages: example code stub to build tools from
fix-eos: new example tool to fix missing EOS flags (MikeS)
* Build system improvements (thomasvs)
* Bugfixes / closed tickets:
oggzinfo: Fix calculation of content duration. (ticket:117)
oggzmerge: Fix an interleaving error in oggzmerge. (ticket:121)
oggzrip: fix memory corruption detected by glibc on Fedora Core
(reported/fixed by thomasvs)
oggz-validate: report streams with missing *** eos (ticket:146)
oggz-validate: report and fail on non-Ogg files (ticket:147)
* Removed need for ./configure --disable-shared when running tests
under valgrind
Special thanks to Fluendo (http://www.fluendo.com/) for their contributions
to this release, and for their compassion and forebearance in indulging the
peculiarities of Ogg.
About Oggz
==========
Oggz comprises liboggz and the command-line tools oggzinfo, oggzdump,
oggzdiff, oggzmerge, oggzrip and oggz-validate.
liboggz supports the flexibility afforded by the Ogg file format while
presenting the following API niceties:
* Full API documentation
* Comprehensive test suite of read, write and seeking behavior.
The entire test suite can be run under valgrind if available.
* Developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX, Win32 and
Symbian OS. May work on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf.
For Win32: nmake Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files
and Visual C++ 6.0 workspace files are provided in the source
distribution.
* Strict adherence to the formatting requirements of Ogg bitstreams,
to ensure that only valid bitstreams are generated; writes can fail
if you try to write illegally structured packets.
* A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close
interface to raw Ogg files.
* Writing automatically interleaves with packet queuing, and provides
callback based notification when this queue is empty
* A customisable seeking abstraction for seeking on multitrack Ogg
data. Seeking works easily and reliably on multitrack and multi-codec
streams, and can transparently parse Theora, Speex, Vorbis, FLAC,
CMML and Ogg Skeleton headers without requiring linking to those
libraries. This allows efficient use on servers and other devices
that need to parse and seek within Ogg files, but do not need to do
a full media decode.
Full documentation of the liboggz API, customization and installation,
and mux and demux examples can be read online at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/html/
Tools
=====
The Oggz source tarball also contains the following command-line tools,
which are useful for debugging and testing Ogg bitstreams:
* oggzinfo: Display information about one or more Ogg files and
their bitstreams.
* oggzdump: Hexdump packets of an Ogg file, or revert an Ogg file
from such a hexdump.
* oggzdiff: Hexdump the packets of two Ogg files and output
differences.
* oggzmerge: Merge Ogg files together, interleaving pages in order
of presentation time.
* oggzrip: Extract one or more logical bitstreams from an Ogg file.
* oggz-validate: Validate the Ogg framing of one or more files.
License
=======
Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD style license.
More information is available online at the Oggz homepage:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/
enjoy :)
--
Conrad Parker
Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia
http://www.annodex.net/ http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:57:19 CST
From: Werner Heuser <Werner.Heuser@web.de>
Subject: TuxMobil News 06/2005
Hello,
the "TuxMobil News Digest" for June 2005[1] has good news
for Linux PDA, mobile phone, laptop and notebook users. Here is an
extract of the most important or most interesting messages.
If you are missing news, applications or documents, don't
hesitate to contact me.
Please support our work by submitting news and Linux reports about
laptops, notebooks, PDAs, mobile phones and portable media players.
Werner Heuser
|=| Complete Monthly Digest
[1] http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_news_2005_06.html
|=| Daily RSS, Archive, Submission Form, Subscription
You may find the _daily_ TuxMobil News RSS/XML channel, the archiv and
a news submission form at http://tuxmobil.org/newsfeed.html
BTW: You may subscribe to the complete _monthly_ digest there, too.
PS: Working with laptops and notebooks for almost 10 years I often had to
upgrade or repair them. Sometimes I needed to investigate mobile (cell) phone
upgrades and repairs, too. But investigation, let's say through search
engines, looks difficult, therefore I have started a new project:
Repair4MobilePhone
http://repair4mobilephone.org/
Ordered by mobile phone manufacturers you will find links to do-it-yourself
repair and upgrade instructions, as well tips and tricks for modding.
--
|=| Werner Heuser = Berliner Str. 122 = D-13187 Berlin = Germany
|=| <wehe at tuxmobil.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86
|=| http://TuxMobil.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software
|*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed
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From: Conrad Parker <conrad@metadecks.org>
Subject: libannodex 0.7.0 Release
Date: 11 Jul 2005 05:10:01 GMT
libannodex 0.7.0 Release
=========================
libannodex is a C library providing a simple programming interface for reading
and writing Annodex media. Annodex is an open standards based technology that
extends the World Wide Web's hyperlinking, searching, and compositing
infrastructure to time-continuous data, enabling video surfing, searching for
clips of audio and video files using ordinary Web search engines, and
on-the-fly composition of a video on a Web server from previously annodexed
clips. For more information on Annodex, see http://www.annodex.net/
This release is available as a source tarball at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/libannodex/download/libannodex-0.7.0.tar.gz
New in this release:
* Support for CMML 2.1
* Updates to build against libcmml-0.9.0 (silvia)
* Build system improvements (thomasvs)
About libannodex
================
The libannodex source distribution comprises the C library libannodex,
plugins for importing CMML and Ogg media (Theora, Vorbis and Speex), and
the command-line tools anxenc, anxrip, anxgrep and anxinfo.
libannodex provides the following features:
* API documentation, with comprehensive examples
* Developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX and Win32. May
work on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf. For Win32: nmake
Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files and Visual C++ 6.0
workspace files are provided in the source distribution.
* A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close
interface to Annodex media and embedded CMML clips.
* Plugin based importing framework, providing temporal interleaving
of multiple media and annotations data sources.
Full documentation of the libannodex API, customization and installation,
and reading and writing examples can be read online at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/libannodex/html/
Tools
=====
The libannodex source tarball also contains the following command-line tools,
which are useful for creating and inspecting Annodex media:
* anxenc: Encapsulate annotations and data into annodexed media.
* anxrip: Extract annotations and data tracks from annodexed media.
* anxgrep: Search for a pattern in annodexed media files.
* anxinfo: Display information about annodexed media contents.
License
=======
libannodex is Free Software, available under a BSD style license.
More information is available online at the libannodex homepage:
http://www.annodex.net/software/libannodex/
enjoy :)
--
Conrad Parker
Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia
http://www.annodex.net/ http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:12:22 CST
From: "Sun75" <sun75@danielec.it>
Subject: Dedicated to Linux...
Hi all!!
Only a few words to announce the opening on http://linux.carbonetti.org of
some new services dedicated to who searches info and files on Linux:
* A search engine on the Archive Area (*.rpm) with information, list of
contents and search of dependencies of the file requested!
* Linux Newsgroups archive on as a single daily digest in mailbox format
* A search engine on Linux Newsgroups with the ability to search by day of
the year and by newsgroup.
* Gateway of the newsgroups on the web with the ability to view the
messages ordered by subject, date, author and thread.
* Many mirrors online with tons of file (redhat, centos, suse, freshrpms,
contrib, fedora, yellowdog) except .iso images because of disk space
(sorry!) and because the goal of this site is primarily the rpm search
engine.
* .... and much more!!
The address: http://linux.carbonetti.org
For more info: http://linux.carbonetti.org/contact.html
Thank you for your time reading this!
Bye Bye!
Daniele Carbonetti
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:46:27 CST
From: ib@wupperonline.de (Ingo Brueckl)
Subject: Guarded Installation Tool 2.17
I am glad to be able to announce version 2.17 of "Guarded Installation
Tool", which can be freely downloaded from
http://home.wtal.de/ib/freisoft
It is a bash script which allows monitoring the installation of new
software by watching the directory tree, reporting any changes and
creating de-installation scripts. Some useful functions for handling
these scripts are included.
"Guarded Installation Tool" is particularly dedicated for people who
prefer translating and installing sources by themselves instead of using
prefabricated distributions or packet managers.
It is primarily meant for use on individual computers or on servers
running in single user mode.
Ingo Brueckl
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