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I've just seen a recurrence of the dreaded 'pinwheel of death' when opening version Chromium 15.0.860.0.(since including your fix by adding the libgconf file).
Nothing has been changed on my setup except for adding 'Mplayer with ffmpeg 0.8.2' and the latest 'Flashpalyer.pet'.

playdayz wrote:majorfoo,

No one said anything but I found out that the version of Audacious 3.0 will not play .mpc (musepack) files. A small codec but I have some. Further investigation was that there was a problem between Audacious and the version of ffmpeg libraries we have (we have 0.6.2, but Audacious 3 want late 0.7.x or 0.8.) So for now I recommend the 2.5.4 version.

I would like to see version 3+ work also.

ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet ... -2.5.4.pet

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I've just seen a recurrence of the dreaded 'pinwheel of death' when opening version Chromium 15.0.860.0.(since including your fix by adding the libgconf file).
Nothing has been changed on my setup except for adding 'Mplayer with ffmpeg 0.8.2' and the latest 'Flashpalyer.pet'.

I am out of ideas Brown mouse. Several times it has happened to me, but each time it was because I had either removed or used a version that did not have the libgconf 3.1.6. Try reinstalling it??? I will investigate also.

playdayz wrote: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.

• (gtkdialog3:31162): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.0/gobject/gsignal.c signal name `depressed' is invalid for instance `0x8532de0'

• sh: line 0 ... broken pipe

rerwin wrote: The other message cannot be reproduced at will. It just appears occasionally. From memory, it is approximately:

• sh: line 0 ... broken pipe

No hint as to where it comes from. I have seen no operational consequence of the message.

sed: -e expression #2, char 0: no previous regular expression
EXIT="OK"
Generating /root/.icewm/menu...
Generating /root/.jwmrc...
Generating /root/.fbpanel/default...
cut: write error: Broken pipe
cut: write error: Broken pipe
cut: write error: Broken pipe
Generating /root/.config/openbox/menu.xml...

I'm not having much luck today.I installed the Mplayer 34026-002.pet and get a fatal error of 'skin default not found'.
Tried a reboot to no avail.

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
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playdayz wrote:

I'm not having much luck today.I installed the Mplayer 34026-002.pet and get a fatal error of 'skin default not found'.
Tried a reboot to no avail.

Oh, Maybe I left a desktop file for the gui in the pet. I will check. You never need to start mplayer-gnome-mplayer does all the work for you. You can type mplayer at a console to see the svn number from the version you are using--should be 34026.

• # 1. Update /etc/rc.d/MODULESCONFIG.
  # 2. Reduce occurrences of DNS not being set for ppp connections to some USB-modem ISPs. (/etc/ppp/wvdial)
  # 3. Retain access to prename script if devx also loaded (with a different script of the same name) (usr/share/applications/prename.desktop).
  # 4. Set "show_msg=NO" configuration option for both of dillo's dillorc files (adding the one in /etc/dillo).
  # 5. Correct missing "fi" statement in bareview script.
  # 6. Personal Settings updates:
  # . . a. Complete the hostname-change process by cycling connections and prompting user to log out.
  # . . b. Simplify numlock preset logic.
  # . . c. Avoid "barks" during full country-settings display but retain them for first runs with no pupsave files or full installations.
  # . . d. Integrate firstrun-1.8.4 into lupu version of personal settings script but exclude new "extralang" support (which could be provided by a dot-pet package).

• 'To change UTF-8 status, choose your language from the drop-down menu and click OK. If you are booting a USB disk and want to use a USB Wifi device, you should Shut Down and create a save file *before* you set up networking.'

• "When requested to do so in text mode, please enter 'logout' and then 'xwin'"
  "to run the Video Wizard and return to the desktop."
  "to return to the desktop."