Text 5291, 68 rader
Skriven 2006-02-12 17:00:02 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
   Kommentar till text 5286 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: What else? 
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Hey James!

Feb 12 06:47 06, James Bradley wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB> Now, I'll have to take notes. O-8*

Yeah that is always a good idea.  I am doing that with this mencoder thing
since there is too much to absorb and being unsure what will be best for what I
am targetting, a list of options I can mix together to get what I think is
'best' is a very good idea.  Working on it.

 JB> Guess I won't be uploading any more soft-CR text files!

That was weird.  I guess that is why I abandoned all that stuff over a decade
ago.

 JB> Now to get drunk, so I can forget about it for the night. <G>

Heh, heh.  Did it work?

 JB> dumb luck was my part. My CLI history seems to have a selective 
 JB> memory, so
 JB> tracing my steps are going to include a lot of re-reading.

That is why taking notes on the fly is best.  Anyhow I am still not sure how
gentoo handled it but it seems to me that whatever it does it does it right
given the output you posted here.

 MK>> Hm.  Just down the road from here.  I'll have to see what
 MK>> else he has under his sleeve eh?  :-)

 JB> Salute!

We'll see.  If that indeed is who is responsible for mga_vid then I'd say he
deserves some kudoes.  It would be a real bonus if that same stuff can be
replicated to the tv-out on the breakout box.  Then the inputs could be
tackled, although my neighbour tells me the tuner is no better then any other
tuner he has seen on capture cards, so there is that to consider.  I am
thinking the composite might be all I am after and use the vcr for tuning. 
That worked excellent with all the cards I have used thus far.

 JB> I read a bunch of htmls that seem to address that mess. One fella 
 JB> said to:
 JB> "fbset -a 1024x768-70" works for him, but that was on a G450, IIRR.

Right.  That is simpler then the breakout box idea but then g450's have two
regular 15-pin vga outputs and not some weird pinouts for the second head. 
Also somehow that interface is going to have to be tied to v4l somehow if the
inputs are to be properly exploited, Linuxie speaking.

 JB> I have a DVD that includes a 640M repository. I think next, I'll take 
 JB> a look
 JB> for their subsequent CD images. The docs I've read on Gentoo so far, 
 JB> have been
 JB> *excellent* springboards, as you put it.

Yeah, they don't mess around with words too much.  The example I have seen are
frugal but at least they work.

 JB> Nas D'Rovia!

Cool!  Same to you!  I've never seen that spelled in English before this.

Life is good,
Maurice

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