On Saturday 14 December 2002 05:04 pm, David List wrote:
Just having installed SuSE Linux 8.1 I am looking forward to try out K3B for writing DVDs with my HP DVDRW200i. From what I´ve heard I understand that this should be possible. Now, when trying to configure K3B it seems that some of the external programs, that should be installed to have K3B work, are missing. They are: tccat tcdecode tcextract tcprobe tcscan transcode I am unable to find them on the installation DVD. Is something wrong? Have SuSE forgotten something?
Best regards, David List
---------------------------- David, Those programs will have to be downloaded and compiled. I think I got the transcode files from Freshmeat. Just do a fm:transcode in your Konqueror browser to find them. If you can't find them, I have already compiled and built a rpm file for SuSE 8.1, just email me privately. Your SuSE 8.1 installation of K3b will allow you to burn dvd's as well as cdrs, but if you are wanting to copy a dvd or rip one to encode it to video, then you will need the version from the k3b site as the SuSE 8.1 version is not allowed to provide that and is broken in that respect only, as Richard pointed out. But that is the only way it is "broken", for just burning and copying cds, etc., K3b will work quite nicely for you as is from SuSE. I also have the new "unbroken" K3b compiled and in a rpm file, if you don't want to bother doing your own compile. If you plan to convert your dvd to divx, then you will need the tar file so that you can compile it to do that. You will also need divx4linux files. Just do a search on Google or just type fm:k3b or fm:divx4linux in your Konqueror url box to get Freshmeat's listings. I too have this already in a ready to run form. So, bottom line, if you want to use K3b from the SuSE 8.1 dvd, then have at it, it works great! You don't need the transcode stuff for that. If, though, you want to do more, then you will need the newest version and compile it yourself. The other programs Richard mentioned are good from your 8.1 dvd and if you do an online update from SuSE, those will be updated as well. Patrick --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206