Hi, When using vlc to record from a pvr adjusting the bitrate has no effect. For example the default bitrate (-1) would record an hours worth of video into a 2.7GB file. Adjusting the bitrate to e.g. 3000000 should record an hours worth of video to a 1.4GB file with no deterioration in quality. Is t...

Hi, As much as I like most of what puppy can do there are a couple of bugs which prevent it being the operating system of choice. 1. vlc media player crashes when trying to play mkv files. I can play these with no problems in ubuntu. I need vlc player because I can use it to record tv programmes. 2....

Hi,

I was wondering if there was a way of restricting the drives that puppy searches for a savefile...

Thanks for your help.

I can quite easily play mkv files using vlc in ubuntu but puppy just crashes.

I get the message:
[000000291] ffmpeg demuxer error: Seeking too far : EOF?
Segmentation fault

Yet the same file plays ok in ubuntu.

I can quite easily play mkv files using vlc in ubuntu but puppy just crashes.

I get the message:
[000000291] ffmpeg demuxer error: Seeking too far : EOF?
Segmentation fault

Yet the same file plays ok in ubuntu.

Hi,

I am trying to set up a cron job where the output is to a file and the filename is appended with the date & time.

I have been able to do this before using -%d-%m-%Y-%H:%M but this does not work in Puppy.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

Kino

Hi,

Excellent job on the vlc player!

But, I find it crashes when trying to play mkv (matroska video) files.
I've tried trawling through the posts, etc. but not found any comments\solutions.

Do I need some extra codecs to play mkv files?

Thanks for your help.

Kino

Hi, I have installed vlc successfully but when I try to view input from my video card using the pvr option I get the error message "unable to open 'pvr://'". I'm not sure that puppy is recognising my video card... or is it something else? Thanks in advance. Well... I eventually managed to ...