Fair enough; keep us posted on how that endeavor progresses.
I have another hickup of sorts. I'm trying to get Rythmbox to work with all of my sisters .mp3's that used to be in her itunes. When I try to add them to the library it says that they are not valid audio streams. I copied them to the linux partition, but I still get this error. What's wrong and what can be done?
Wow, I've never seen that guide before. That would help a ton with the installation of Jdk on the school comps. Thanks, I'll see if I can do it myself now.
For further questions, there's Google Linux; searches catered specifically for Linux 
I abandoned Rythmbox and choose amarok. I was able to get it to play all that I needed by installing more gstreamer libs. So all is well as far as music goes.
The family is getting more and more used to the new system. I logged onto my sisters screen yesterday (to fix up her Itunes stuff), and I could barely recognize it. She had stuff set up that I had no idea how to do (all GUI though). So it looks like this has a very good chance of permanence.
The family is getting more and more used to the new system. I logged onto my sisters screen yesterday (to fix up her Itunes stuff), and I could barely recognize it. She had stuff set up that I had no idea how to do (all GUI though). So it looks like this has a very good chance of permanence.
Man, don't you hate that when you show someone something new and then they get better at it than you? 
I'm going to require a little more help. I have Kino and Cinelerra installed on the computer. I'm using a Sony Handycam and a firewire port (I keep seeing the number 1394 with it, if that's important). When I try to import, both Kino and Cinlerra give an error message which goes as follows:
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I found this page in which a person with a similar problem asks for help, but the problem is only resolved for a person with Slackware and so some steps are different. Here's the page with the Slackware solution. I attempted to follow the steps, but I couldn't do this:
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In short, I can't capture video from the camera like I could with Adobe Premeire in Windows.
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Warning raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw1394!I found this page in which a person with a similar problem asks for help, but the problem is only resolved for a person with Slackware and so some steps are different. Here's the page with the Slackware solution. I attempted to follow the steps, but I couldn't do this:
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In Slackware 9.1 you will have to create the devices yourself. They should
look like this:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 171, 0 Dec 17 2002 /dev/raw1394
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 172, 0 Dec 17 2002 /dev/video1394 In short, I can't capture video from the camera like I could with Adobe Premeire in Windows.
*cough* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firewire *cough*
Just a tip, ALWAYS look in the "official" wiki and/or forums FIRST - you'll get better results that way 
Just a tip, ALWAYS look in the "official" wiki and/or forums FIRST - you'll get better results that way
Alright, I was able to make it work (although I had to go a little outside of what they said (I had to change it back to raw1394 in the preferences for Kino instead of dv1394)), but the quality is very poor. It manages to capture, but it drops frames like crazy and the audio quality is terrible. My sister is not satisfyied and she wants me to try to setup Adobe. So I'm attempting to wine that right now, but I'd really prefer a linux solution. Any idea why the video quality is so low?
No idea, but if its a problem with the firewire, wine won't fix anything
However, my suggestion is to avoid raw1394 and try and get it working like the wiki has it - there is a reason for that (In this case it poses a massive security risk if you use raw1394)
Oh, and a bit of wiki searching turned this up: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToCaptureDigitalVideo?highlight=%28kino%29
However, my suggestion is to avoid raw1394 and try and get it working like the wiki has it - there is a reason for that
(In this case it poses a massive security risk if you use raw1394)
Oh, and a bit of wiki searching turned this up: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToCaptureDigitalVideo?highlight=%28kino%29
The problem isn't with the firewire itself. It works perfectly in windows with Adobe Premeire Pro. I'll take a look at that page you linked to. I tried to follow their directions explicitely, but that didn't work.
Chipmaster wrote:
The problem isn't with the firewire itself. It works perfectly in windows with Adobe Premeire Pro. I'll take a look at that page you linked to. I tried to follow their directions explicitely, but that didn't work.
The kino FAQ also has an entry on this problem EXACTLY (man, you didn't search much, did you?
) http://www.kinodv.org/article/view/21/1/10
I'd check that out aswell
I'm using dma already so that's no help. I tried installing all the files from the other site you posted before. I'll have to wait for tomorrow to see if that helped as my sister and her camera are no longer available.
I still haven't gotten a chance to see if I was able to fix it, but I should soon.
I do have the results of the disk timings that Kllrnohj had asked for (on the SAX). Here's what I'm getting:
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I do have the results of the disk timings that Kllrnohj had asked for (on the SAX). Here's what I'm getting:
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patrick@Family:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5503 44202816 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 5504 7523 16225650 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 7524 9964 19607332+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 5504 7415 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 7416 7523 867478+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
patrick@Family:~$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/hda3
/dev/hda3:
Timing buffered disk reads: 62 MB in 3.02 seconds = 20.53 MB/sec
Did you try running kino as root? The wiki on firewire also listed that as a possible suggestion...
And what happens when you try doing it this way?
And what happens when you try doing it this way?
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dv1394-0
(Tested in Ubuntu 6.06 with Kino 0.9)
Once there's a device file for IEEE1384 as outlines above, in Kino go to 'Edit > Preferences' and select the 'IEEE 1394' tab. Any detected cameras will be listed in 'AV/C Device'. In 'dv1394 Device' change the value to '/dev/dv1394-0'. (In Ubuntu 5.10 choose "dv1394" on the pulldown menu and set the path in the text box to "/dev/dv1394/0"). Now go back to the 'Capture' tab and press Play on your camera just before clicking the 'Capture' button. The cameras controls are not accessable via dv1394 but if the DV tape is rewound before starting, that won't be a problem.
(Tested in Ubuntu 6.06 with Kino 0.9)
Once there's a device file for IEEE1384 as outlines above, in Kino go to 'Edit > Preferences' and select the 'IEEE 1394' tab. Any detected cameras will be listed in 'AV/C Device'. In 'dv1394 Device' change the value to '/dev/dv1394-0'. (In Ubuntu 5.10 choose "dv1394" on the pulldown menu and set the path in the text box to "/dev/dv1394/0"). Now go back to the 'Capture' tab and press Play on your camera just before clicking the 'Capture' button. The cameras controls are not accessable via dv1394 but if the DV tape is rewound before starting, that won't be a problem.
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