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#101 Post by aarf »

@playdayz re cputemp. of course the default acpi-cpufreq driver is the first one i tried. when i click "apply", the window refreshes to be as it was before. nothing changes. but i have notice now cputemp in the task manager but temp is still zero in pwidgets. only of backgroud importance. the temperature judged by hand touch is low in comparison to usual puppy.
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#102 Post by playdayz »

aarf, I tried what you said and got the same result. If I accept the default acpi-cpufreq driver then the screen refreshes but the same window is still there. This means it didn't work. I have to find my appropriate driver (which for me is the amd k8 driver) and then the window will accept the driver and go on in the process.

Concerning the temp--temp has never worked for me so I am grateful for any info about what might be missing. It works for some other people though.

I also got CPUtemp working, but it took quite a bit of fiddling and editing--none of the default settings gave me valid sensors--but the driver that sensors-detect indicated was the right one--I just had to modprobe it myself. All of this to find that my phenom is running right where I thought at 34C.
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#103 Post by tasmod »

Hmm been some time but I seem to recall that 'temp' in pwidgets needed lm sensors installing. Not really sure, I'll have to fire up the older PC and look.

EDIT:
Forget that.
It was one of my own pets for my own use. It was a temp gauge proper. It needed lm sensors installed.

Some memories there when I rebooted older PC with 421 and pwidget stuff.
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#104 Post by playdayz »

Experimental

FFMPEG 0.7.1

The multimedia libraries from Ubuntu Oneiric. They will replace the current ones--and then can be uninstalled of course.

http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/ffmpeg-071.pet

Does anyone notice any differences or improvements? Mainly this will/could affect quality of video in gnome-mplayer.

It may also affect video quality to Edit -> Preferences -> Video Output -> xv.

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#105 Post by aarf »

playdayz wrote:Experimental

FFMPEG 0.7.1

The multimedia libraries from Ubuntu Oneiric. They will replace the current ones--and then can be uninstalled of course.

http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/ffmpeg-071.pet

Does anyone notice any differences or improvements? Mainly this will/could affect quality of video in gnome-mplayer.

It may also affect video quality to Edit -> Preferences -> Video Output -> xv.
short test. positive improvement. less jerky for a file i got out of opera cache of a youtube flash

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#106 Post by playdayz »

***Experimental***

Mplayer with ffmpeg 0.8.2

This kind of just happened, but it seems interesting. To my eye the video quality is better. It is only a 4.7 MB pet. It is static with the ffmpeg multimedia libraries Incorporated into mplayer. The original libraries are still there for Pmusic, ffconvert, etc.

If you install the pet then gnome-mplayer will automatically use it .

http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/mplay ... static.pet

Does anyone notice any differences or improvements? Mainly this will/could affect quality of video in gnome-mplayer.

The previous experiment gave some problems with gnome-mplayer and dvd playback, and I didn't see an improvement in quality--but I see that aarf did. Thanks.

aarf

#107 Post by aarf »

installed this one as well. now mplayer wont play anything and something crashed X, needed to xwin for the first time. havent restarted.maybe that is what is needed.

aarf

#108 Post by aarf »

rebooted, tried gnome mpayer in console and this is the only error message from xerrs.log

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** (roxterm:9797): WARNING **: Failed to connect to session manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined
still cant play anything.

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#109 Post by playdayz »

So aarf, do you want to try one more. ;-)

http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/mplay ... -lucid.pet

some hard-working people make a new build of mplayer for Ubuntu versions twice a week. This is the latest for Lucid.

aarf, probably my stupid experiments have resulted in a file being deleted that is necessary. Please enter mplayer in a console and see what it says. I am sorry for the inconvenience.

LateAdopter, I just read the mplayer has supported threads since March. This version should do so.

These experiments might be better with pfix=ram.

aarf

#110 Post by aarf »

with ffmpeg-071.pet and mplayer-0.8.2-static.pet doesn't play

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sh-4.1# mplayer '/mnt/sdb1/music cd revealed/Bach - Double Violin Concerto in D minor 2nd movement, Largo.tmp'
MPlayer SVN-r34012-snapshot-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /mnt/sdb1/music cd revealed/Bach - Double Violin Concerto in D minor 2nd movement, Largo.tmp.
libavformat file format detected.


MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: demux_open
- MPlayer crashed by an 'Illegal Instruction'.
  It usually happens when you run it on a CPU different than the one it was
  compiled/optimized for.
  Verify this!
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
  Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
  disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
sh-4.1# 
below with ffmpeg-071.pet and mplayer-svn34010-lucid.pet plays, (ctrl C to stop as code from terminal wont copy when playing.)

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sh-4.1# mplayer '/mnt/sdb1/music cd revealed/Bach - Double Violin Concerto in D minor 2nd movement, Largo.tmp'
MPlayer SVN-r34010-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /mnt/sdb1/music cd revealed/Bach - Double Violin Concerto in D minor 2nd movement, Largo.tmp.
libavformat file format detected.
[flv @ 0x88a4300]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
[lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0
VIDEO:  [H264]  320x240  0bpp  30.000 fps   83.3 kbps (10.2 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 duration: 450
 starttime: 0
 totalduration: 450
 width: 320
 height: 240
 videodatarate: 81
 audiodatarate: 106
 totaldatarate: 196
 framerate: 30
 bytelength: 11056771
 canseekontime: true
 sourcedata: BD2BB1289HH1313320455837762
 purl: 
 pmsg: 
Load subtitles in /mnt/sdb1/music cd revealed/
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] This driver only supports the 3Dfx Banshee, Voodoo3 and Voodoo 5.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 108.7 kbit/7.70% (ratio: 13590->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
socket(): Address family not supported by protocol
AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused
Failed to initialize audio driver 'pulse'
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Unsupported PixelFormat 61
Unsupported PixelFormat 53
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12 
A:  48.0 V:  48.0 A-V:  0.001 ct:  0.034   0/  0  6%  1%  3.1% 1 0 


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: sleep_timer
A:  48.0 V:  48.0 A-V:  0.005 ct:  0.034   0/  0  6%  1%  3.1% 1 0 

Exiting... (Quit)
sh-4.1# 
on quick test, comparing ffmpeg-071.pet alone before adding mplayer pet , with after the latest mplayer pet is added, no noticeable quality difference. both are good quality.

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#111 Post by tasmod »

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#112 Post by playdayz »

Here is the result of the Mplayer experiments. There was something wrong with all of them so far, except this one!

Mplayer 34026-002
http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/mp34026-002.pet

It contains the very latest versions of the ffmpeg libraries (that is, even more recent then 0.8.2) It is compiled for i686. It will determine your cpu at runtime and use the appropriate media enhancements (mmx, sse3, 3dnow, etc.). It plays all the videos I usually test, and they look good. it also plays audio and CD.

It will play dvd's somewhat well. However, I still recommend that if you want to play DVD's you use the included XineDVD. I find it frustrating that no one else seems to be able to make a DVD player that looks and operates like the DVD players people are used to. But if you want to use gnome-mplayer to play dvd's you should View -> Playlist in gnome-mplayer--otherwise the first screen is black (who knows).

FYI, The version of the ffmpeg libraries in Lucid 5.2.8 is 0.6.2, but I am not sure how much if any this new mplayer improves video quality. I would like to hear. The 0.6.2 we use is the special build by Medibuntu and I don't see any real problems with it--everything plays reasonably well. 0.8.2 is not so far in advance of what we have, because 0.7.3 has most of the improvements of the 0.8 series but with compatibility with the 0.6 series. And the 0.7 and 0.8 were released the same day.

Thanks to 01micko for his help with the configure options.

After some more testing, I will post it on LupuNews.

I should say that I test with gnome-mplayer rather than at the command line.
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#113 Post by playdayz »

***Experimental***

Audacious 3.0.2. It was compiled in Lucid 5.2.8. The pet includes libgtk-3.0.8 which is required (as Audacious now uses either gtk3 or a version later than we have of gtk2). The pet also includes the most recent official release of the ffmpeg multimedia libraries 0.8.2.

http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/Audac ... 2-lucid528

This pet was modified on AUG 30, so if you downloaded it before that, please uninstall that one and download and install this one. Thanks.
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#114 Post by aarf »

should i un-install ffmpeg-071.pet before installing Mplayer 34026-002
http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/mp34026-002.pet?

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#115 Post by live »

To boot faster, :D
I propose that I boot time a menu option so either Puppy will on search on the media its booting, or as it is now on all medias.

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#116 Post by rcrsn51 »

live wrote:To boot faster, :D
I propose that I boot time a menu option so either Puppy will on search on the media its booting, or as it is now on all medias.
Are you aware of the "pdev1=sdax" option?

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#117 Post by tasmod »

Firewallstate

A pet of v2.0 posted in additional software, network section.

Fixes ON/OFF selection
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#118 Post by playdayz »

should i un-install ffmpeg-071.pet before installing Mplayer 34026-002
http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/mp34026-002.pet?
aarf, mp34026-002 (Mplayer) has the ffmpeg libraries built-in so it is self-contained now and doesn't use ffmpeg-071 or any other--it is all in the one mplayer binary.

I should explain. The mplayer 34026-002 does not need a separate ffmpeg any longer, but other programs do, Pmusic in particular. Pmusic as I understand it had some problems with the 0.8.x ffmpeg, and it sounds like other programs also did, so they (ffmpeg developers) say that 0.7.1 has most of the features of 0.8.x but is more compatible. So I thought it might be a step up from 0.6 that would retain compatibility with Pmusic. But that's to test..

And speaking of testing, installing and uninstalling these advanced ffmpeg pets, mplayer, and audacious, can break things, so please backup or work in a sandbox.

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#119 Post by live »

RE: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/security

If one could have some updates directly in 3-headed dog.

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#120 Post by majorfoo »

playdayz wrote:***Experimental***

Audacious 3.0.2. It was compiled in Lucid 5.2.8. The pet includes libgtk-3.0.8 which is required (as Audacious now uses either gtk3 or a version later than we have of gtk2). The pet also includes the most recent official release of the ffmpeg multimedia libraries 0.8.2.

http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/Audac ... 2-lucid528

This pet was modified on AUG 30, so if you downloaded it before that, please uninstall that one and download and install this one. Thanks.
playdayz
I booted lucid 529 original cd, downloaded new audacious-3.02-lucid.
I had to rename from audacious-302-lucid to
audacious-302-lucid.pet in order to install as pet file

I can confirm that this version works.
Only thing noted was .png extension error if run from command line but does
not hinder application.

majorfoo

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