Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (888 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 09:23 +0000, Peter Nikolic wrote:
> On Saturday 08 January 2011 06:57:41 Basil Chupin wrote:
> > On 08/01/2011 17:42, Mike McMullin wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 16:46 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > > > On 08/01/2011 16:14, Insomniac wrote:
> > > > > On Friday, January 07, 2011 14:20 peter nikolic wrote:
> > > > > > Hi folks
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Well having had to do a reinstall  of 11.3 i have most hings working
> > > > > > but i still get one complaint from kaffeine  when trying to watch TV 
> > > > > > i get
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cannot find demux plugin for
> > > > > > MRL"fifo:/home/pete/.kde4/share/apps/kaffeine/dvbpipe.m2t".
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have VLC installed and working but i prefere kaffeine any day of the
> > > > > > week i have w32all-codecs  ffmpeg   xine from packman  and gawd knows
> > > > > > what else
> > > > > >
> > > > > > how does one solve this   i be jiggered if i can remember
> > > > >     I was told to 'update' kaffeine and the kaffeine people said it was
> > > > >     opensuse's
> > > > >
> > > > > fault. It didn't do any good.
> > > > >
> > > > >     IMO, kaffeine has been screwed up badly by either opensuse or the
> > > > >     kaffeine
> > > > >
> > > > > devs or both. It doesn't work anywhere near as well as it did in suse
> > > > > 9.3 (personally the last time it did work well and I still had control
> > > > > over things it did)...now the controls are almost gone and it's a
> > > > > dumbed down' version of what it once was.
> > > >
> > > > So you've noticed this as well, eh? :-) .
> > > >
> > > > kaffeine is not the kaffeine of old. I've even spent time with the
> > > > person who still maintains it to get a problem resolved - but it was
> > > > never resolved as far as I know, and which is why I gave kaffeine away
> > > > as a bad joke and switched to vlc but also using xine which I have been
> > > > using for many years (xine for digital TV and watching DVDs and vlc to
> > > > record TV programs and also watch DVDs when I want to see things
> > > > frame-by-frame, for example [I was most surprised, for example, when
> > > > watching one particular Hollywood movie that the actress didn't wear any
> > > > knickers during a simulated rape scene- and it's all there for the world
> > > > to see if one used the frame-by-frame view! :-) . Ever watch some scenes
> > > > in Basic Instinct with Stone and Douglas f-b-f?)
> > >    Any idea if Ogle is still being packaged for oS?  VLC and xine are
> > >
> > > nice, but Ogle rocked.
> >
> > Sorry, don't know. You'll need to check for yourself I am afraid.
> > Perhaps somebody else knows the answer.
> >
> > BC
>
>
> Well  sorted running once again  latest  xine-lib from pacman links2linux 
> solved it     
>
> As for Ogle it is still there but think it is only a DVD player and looks 
> like 
> it has not had any updates for a while  
>
> Now just to sort  out a new TV card  PS  still looking for reports on PCI-e 
> TV 
> cards  then i can get back to a decent sound system cus the HDAATI thing is 
> dire to put it politely

 Hauppauge unveiled a PCI-E based HDTV card at CES, looking at about
$150 USD.  It has the same chipset as the USB version and may well be
supported in the kernel.  Have a look at the hauppage site, and do some
googleing for mythtv and pci-e based tuner cards.  (Tuner cards are
often discussed on the mailing list.)

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