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| Thread ID: 86067 | 2008-01-02 08:44:00 | Show me the Linux.... | Metla (12) | Press F1 |
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| 626734 | 2008-01-21 11:17:00 | Use k3b for DVD/CD burning. It's brilliant :D You'll be disappointed with the poor selection of video editing tools though - as I said earlier: Glad you have all the rest up & running though - how did you find it? How did I find it? As in, My opinion of the user experience so far? Easier then Windows to install, Though I'd hate to see what would have happened if I used hardware that was a bit more obscure. You require a a decent internet connection, The Package manager is a fantastic app, But the Apps themselves all have retarded names, Browsing the list is a waste of time. Need to find a recommended app and then do a search for it. Installed apps need to have shortcuts, My list of installed software is longer then my menu of installed apps. My only real gripe is the bells and whistles missing from the apps, Is TVtime the best TV software for Linux?....Because it works, But its crap. Real crap. Likewise DVD playback, PowerDVD (full paid for version) does some awesome fine tuning of the displayed video, Can't see any such features (so far) on the basic as a potato media player I have used so far. Still, as an OS, 9 out of 10. But I have shied away from any of the unintelligible command line voodoo. My laptop is getting converted over next. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 626735 | 2008-01-21 11:34:00 | Use VLC for your DVD's... I've heard people on these forums reccommending Myth TV for tv app.. Dunno much about it though as I don't have a TV card. I doubt that k3b will be installed by default in Ubuntu, but hopefully shouldn't be too hard to install. |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 626736 | 2008-01-21 11:42:00 | Thanks, I'll chase up Myth TV, k3b I just selected out of a list under the package manager and 3 minutes later it was installed and I was poking around in her. Likewise for Wine. I'll also try VLC, but the picture quality was pretty poor when I was running it under Windows, Very unstable image. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 626737 | 2008-01-21 13:29:00 | Never heard of TVTime, so unsurprised that it's crap. There are much better alternatives available. Mythtv is damn good if you want to use it as a PVR (although you may find the config a little complex); otherwise VLC is excellent for DVDs etc. Regarding your comment about picture quality - enable deinterlacing, and suddenly all will be right with the world. You can also do "some awesome fine tuning of the displayed video", possibly more so than any other media player on the planet. Almost all of this awesome functionality is available through the GUI; while some of the really, really esoteric ones are CLI-only I doubt they'll be things you would ever use. MPlayer is another gem. I strongly suggest you ditch gnome in favour of kde - by the sounds of things you're suffering from an overdose of excessive option-pruning. Installing the 'kubuntu-desktop' package will take care of it for you. As far as searching for apps goes - do you realise you don't have to just search by title? Almost every package manager in existance should let you include package descriptions in the search, which means you can find software by the functionality you want rather than needing to know whatever crazy name the developers decided to call it. One thing to watch with the laptop - be careful with the ACPI support. Most are fine, but some don't follow the standard and need a couple of tweaks to boot properly. This can also affect suspend/hibernate functionality. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 626738 | 2008-01-31 07:23:00 | Never heard of TVTime, so unsurprised that it's crap. There are much better alternatives available. I am struggling to understand how if you have never heard of something you can be unsurprised it is crap? I have never heard of you but I would not suggest you or your views are crap. |
wingo (595) | ||
| 626739 | 2008-01-31 07:56:00 | I am struggling to understand how if you have never heard of something you can be unsurprised it is crap? I have never heard of you but I would not suggest you or your views are crap.Welcome to PressF1 wingo. I said this because I set up a tuner system not so long ago. In the process of doing this I investigated most such applications available through the Debian repositories - widely known to be the largest of any current distro. If it's not in the Debian repositories it's either closed-source (which means it won't be in Ubuntu's either) or unmaintained. If a software package is unmaintained, that generally means it's useless and has been pushed to the side by something better. I don't just randomly state things unless I have something meaningful to back it up with. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 626740 | 2008-01-31 08:03:00 | TVTime is a viewing application only; it does not support recording. It comes with most major Linux distros so I am surprised you haven't come across it under Debian. I use it to watch telly and for that purpose it is basic and easy to use. :) http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/ |
Jen (38) | ||
| 626741 | 2008-01-31 08:19:00 | Interesting - it appears to be there now, so either I missed it when I looked the first time, or it's been recently added. Either way, sounds like something I should check out and have a play with. Thanks. Edit: Charming... it fails to start. So far unimpressed, but will persevere. |
Erayd (23) | ||
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