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Zaurus - pdaXrom / ANN: Mplayer 1.0pre5
« on: November 08, 2004, 05:02:23 pm »
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MPlayer is a movie player for Linux (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, see the documentation). It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too (without the avifile library).
Have you tried enabling the GUI? It would be really nice for pdaxrom to have the GUI-enabled mplayer, along with some default skin and everything else already set up to be instantly usable without any command line at all.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / UCLX compressor
« on: November 04, 2004, 05:59:01 am »
Beware that compressed executables make little sense when stored on the internal flash (jffs2 filesystem), since every file there is transparently compressed anyway.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Next generation pdaXrom.org site
« on: November 02, 2004, 08:07:51 pm »
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2. Flyspray. If you use Bugzilla, much fun trying to integrate the Perl-bugzilla-scripts with your PHP site ... it just won't fit.

3. Ewiki. Integrates the Wiki into your site with a simple call to <?php print(ewiki_page()); ?> instead of expecting you to force-fit your site into the Wiki.
What's the point in all this integration, really? To have fancy menus all the same everywhere?

I think products here should be chosen by their functional and usability characteristics, not just because they are written on that particular language or use some particular framework. While the latter is nice, it is very frustrating to get a nice integrated site useful for nothing in all its integrity.

I would rather not have written all this, but unfortunately I already had the experience of the integrated nothingness in my life. It involved two mistakes from my side: first, choosing intergrity over functionality, and second, judging by the first look. At first, it looked nice. Unfortunately, it end up smelling bad. That is why these days I suggest bugzilla, as a tool of success many great projects use, and mediawiki, which was based on some real demands and evolved to be a really powerful and handy engine judjing by the wikipedia todays success and fragrance. I also have my own personal experience with both tools -- and I like using them just myself, too.

But these are only suggestions, I would never insist on anything here. The only thing I would really recommend for Laze is to ponder everything carefully before making final decisions. If you want trying mantis -- good, go for it, but finding real facts about use of it in real life would be crucial. A quick google glance was full of 'wow, this looks cool, installing was a snap, tried filing one bug so far and it worked, how nice', but not much of 'I have been using it for year and now I got something to say'. In fact, no, I found one, someone said he end up having patching something in it and migrating to another BT. Oh well.

Make up your own opinions and findings, try using it yourself and so on -- but just don't make fast decisions. That is all I ask, really. Judjing from the first look is dangerous -- just a personal experience I wanted to share.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Next generation pdaXrom.org site
« on: November 02, 2004, 01:53:30 pm »
Bug tracking: Bugzilla. It is very attentive and responsible. Once you try installing and using it, it doesn't look complex at all. There may be some better alternatives, but bugzilla is proven by many projects and it is really good.

Wiki: MediaWiki. That is the one that runs wikipedia.org. I know of no better wiki software out there. I have even installed it on my local computer to take notes. I can barely use other wikis anymore
It lives here: http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/

p.s. Interestingly, wikipedia.org uses bugzilla for bugtracking as well. They know what to choose, don't they?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / pdaxrom flickering
« on: October 29, 2004, 08:42:53 am »
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Maybe the only solution to this problem is to use thicker and larger fonts, change the colors used etc... and not some sash's magic

(Note perhaps someone can try to run Aterm in x/qt on the sharp rom to see if indeed flicker does not happen)

my 2 cents
Well, you can make a lossless Aterm screenshot and watch it with a picture viewer in Sharp's rom. And while I don't really think it flickers because of picture complexity or whatever, it wouldn't hurt to try.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Quake segfault fix
« on: October 28, 2004, 03:51:00 pm »
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PS. gunzipping the pak0.pak.gz file in /usr/share/quake/id1/ quickens loading times tenfold at the expense of only using 10 more MB of flash.
Also note that in case quake is installed on the internal flash, which has a jffs2 filesystem on top, all files are compressed anyway, so gunzipping on it makes perfect sense. It only takes additional 800kb when being uncompressed (compare 'df / -h' output before and after), and boy, it is VERY fast then, takes only four seconds to start playing demo

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Movie Playing
« on: October 20, 2004, 07:29:55 am »
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If i get the time later tonight i will try to throw together a small python gui for controlling mplayer - just for practice - basically if you know the keyboard shortcuts and the commandline parameters there is no need for a gui :-) I couldn't find anyone google that had made anything like it ;-)
Laze, don't waste your time! Mplayer has its own native gui available, with skins and everything else, and it should be explicitly enabled with one of the ./configure options when building mplayer.

Here:

http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/gui.html

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Working CPU monitor
« on: October 17, 2004, 05:14:43 am »
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That must just be due to the way the applet works.  I just installed it on my desktop PC and it had the same behaviour.  The code says it's based on wmbubblemon which I also run on my desktop, and while wmbubblemon also increments/decrements the CPU usage it does so much faster than mb-applet-system-monitor.  If anyone wants to report this as a bug make sure to send it to the matchbox project rather than pdaXrom.
I guess it is just because wmbubblemon does the same number of graduate steps, but refreshes more often, each refresh taking one step. Clearly a once-nifty graphical effect of wmbubblemon turned into an outright bug in mb-applet-system-monitor

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Working CPU monitor
« on: October 17, 2004, 03:11:20 am »
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Hi guys,

I've modified mb-applet-system-monitor so that it no longer always shows 100% CPU usage.  In the below screenshot the applet on the right is the original version and my modified version is on the left:

Hope someone finds this useful.

Cheers,

Matt
Great, that needed bashing. Now it really works and is something I was missing, thanks.

Btw, when I raise the CPU load to 100% instanteneously ("while true; do true; done" in bash, for instance), the indicator display doesn't show the change in one step when it updates -- rather, it shows CPU gradually increasing step-by-step until it is full. When I remove the load, it goes down the same way. Was that a feature or maybe some problem?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Request: Sega Genesis / Megadrive Emu for RC5
« on: October 14, 2004, 12:44:44 pm »
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You can select -bpp 15 to select 15 bit colour depth (there's actually no such thing as 16 bit, think about it - 3 colour values into 16 doesn't go right ?)
JFYI, there actually is such a thing as 16 bit, with a green color getting 6 bits instead of 5, as it really deserves it being in the center of the spectrum.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Oops not all packages from unstable are stable
« on: October 14, 2004, 12:38:48 pm »
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Hi, using RC5
Just installed a series  of packages from unstable and rebooted the Z.
Yes its unstable indeed.
Don't recall which packages exactly but be warned, some of them really screw up the system.
---
 dmesg spews out things like:
- cramfs: wrong magic
- FAT: bogus logical sector size 381
   Inode #8594 was a directory with children - removing those too...
   (11 more of these)
- Freeing init memory: 152K
   jffs: Too few erase blocks(0)
- Partition check:
   VFS: register(part1): could not append to parent, err: -17
   (three more of these)

startx fails with the following message:
Fatal server errror:
Could not open default font 'fixed'
---

My guess is that the extra fonts packages screwed up the basic font config, but I'll have to verify that.
Anyway, just a heads-up. I'm going to  reflash RC5 and do the same thing step by step.
Cheers,
The only real problem you encountered here is a problem with the font indices overwritten by some font package. Maybe crox-cyrillic? Btw, all webfonts-* packages are safe to install.

All other stuff is perferctly normal, just disregard.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / RC5: ScummVM 0.6.1b uploaded
« on: October 14, 2004, 12:29:27 pm »
Package updated. Use Ctrl-S to suspend. Kana/Zen keys now act as left/right mouse buttons.

Bundabrg, your xmodmap additions have them swapped, i.e. left Japanese key pushes right mouse button, and vice versa. So I flipped them.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / RC5: ScummVM 0.6.1b uploaded
« on: October 14, 2004, 08:09:56 am »
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PS: Where is 'suspend'? I've yet to find it... though I've only so far installed BASS.
Unfortunately, BASS is a non-Scumm game, and therefore it uses its own dialogs. I have only patched Scumm engine to add the 'Suspend' button. BASS menus seem to be too hardcoded to add anything there without redrawing graphics etc.

There is a simple solution though -- I'll provide a key to suspend. Say, Fn-S. This would work in absolutely all games, not only in Scumm ones.

Expect an updated release with your Jap keys applied and Suspend shortcut.

As for open/closed -- suit yourself, and if you have any ideas on how to improve the experience, feel free to share.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Thank You for bringing PdaXrom to ours Z
« on: October 13, 2004, 08:03:49 pm »
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Basically we can offer as many payments method as we like - if nobody donates whats the point ;-)

Yes there is always the argument that people can't "claim" money for something they didn't make from the bottom - but we don't force people to pay. [..]
Sorry Laze, but I haven't said that at all! What I said is that it is impossible to force a limited subscription-based distribution of the GPLed software, as it would make the GPL license void.

What you did is fantastic, that is much hard work. I know it personally because I once tried to make up something useable of the Z from the already available software and realized that I couldn't put that much effort in all the terraforming and pure creativity just to have the Z useable. You have all the right to claim the money. What I say is that you should really "claim" them, not pretend that everybody who finds this usable happen to be wholeheartedly inspired to donate at once. In reality, this does not work. That is not a speculation, that is practice. Another funny bit of practice is that if you say now that the project is officially dead because of the financial shortages, you'll experience a waterfall of donations. Why? Because people would pay "for not losing". When everything seems to be working anyway, people don't see any pressing reason to pay, and in the end they tend not to pay. They may understand that it is not right and sometimes really regret, but they really have other pressing problems to think about.

You can offer subscriptions but you can't really force them, and that might alienate the community. Bounty would work better. As for donations, they usually serve as a sign of appreciation, not as a real financial flow. If you want your users to know that you need money, not just only signs of appreciation, you can put a graphical bar on the site showing the progress in fulfilling the budget in donations. That really worked for some sites. This way users know how much exactly is needed and how much is left -- this helps them determine themselves. The latest effort of that sort I've seen was at Wikipedia -- each page had a banner saying they needed $50,000 and how much was left. They got more than $51,000 in a matter of few days. Yep, Wikipedia is a huge project, but you don't have to request that much on the other hand, just made it clear for people and show the progress.

I just wanted to say that with some more deterministic approach you could find yourself much more productive, and in result everybody would be happier. Hope this helps.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / pdaXrom and C750 = flickering
« on: October 13, 2004, 03:35:40 pm »
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For me, flickering has always been a XFree86 "feature"

The only X11 server without flickering I know off is xorg 6.8.1. I saw a few comments about flickering removed on freedesktop.org too.
That's another kind of flickering  Maximise the brightness on your Z, run Aterm and press enter enough times so that the scrollbar on the left appears. Now look at that scrollbar and see it flickering.

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