My Fedora Core 8 was refusing to player the BBC radio feeds as I like to do.
Rather than fighting with the Windows Media format and getting mplayer working as a browser plugin I went for the Realplayer approach. Mostly because I've associated Realplayer with streaming media longer than I have WMA.
So after a little googling for answers I came across a tutorial here...
http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/f8-tips.php#rplayer
Only difference being where the tutorial talks about removing mplayer-plugin files I removed the lib-totem files instead (that was the player Firefox tried to open the media stream in without success).
Didn't work at first, but a quick Firefox restart and I can now play BBC radio live :) Not tried the listen again shows yet, but I can't see it'll be a problem. Unless the BBC use a different format!
Saturday, 5 April 2008
Friday, 21 March 2008
Gimp, UFRAW and ARW
Lots of strange names, al about cameras and photography this time.
ARW is the file extension given to RAW files from my A100 Sony camera. On windows I was using a free image editor called Gimp and seeing as it came bundled with my Fedora 8 installation it seemed sensible to continue using it on Linux.
I was using a program called UFRaw to read the ARW(RAW) files and import them into gimp, but this wasn't included in the distro so need to retrieve it.
# yum whatprovides ufraw
Produced no results, turns out the freshmeat rpm repository wasn't working, so add enabled=0 to the appropriate file (/etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo) and try again. This time yum picked up ufraw so it was to be a painless install.
Checked with fedoraforum.org and it seems there would be a couple more packages I needed....
So, one yum install later (as root)...
# yum install ufraw ufraw-common ufraw-gimp
...and now when I double click an ARW file, Gimp attempts to open it succesfully (well, actually the UFraw Gimp plugin opens it, but who cares - it works :) ).
ARW is the file extension given to RAW files from my A100 Sony camera. On windows I was using a free image editor called Gimp and seeing as it came bundled with my Fedora 8 installation it seemed sensible to continue using it on Linux.
I was using a program called UFRaw to read the ARW(RAW) files and import them into gimp, but this wasn't included in the distro so need to retrieve it.
# yum whatprovides ufraw
Produced no results, turns out the freshmeat rpm repository wasn't working, so add enabled=0 to the appropriate file (/etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo) and try again. This time yum picked up ufraw so it was to be a painless install.
Checked with fedoraforum.org and it seems there would be a couple more packages I needed....
So, one yum install later (as root)...
# yum install ufraw ufraw-common ufraw-gimp
...and now when I double click an ARW file, Gimp attempts to open it succesfully (well, actually the UFraw Gimp plugin opens it, but who cares - it works :) ).
Thursday, 13 March 2008
mp3s + phone
After discussing the mp3 thing with another Linux bod, I tried Amarok as that is what he was using to sync properly.
A quick play with it and decided it probably wasn't the approach I wanted, however in the process of following instructions somewhere online for using Amarok with the N95 I discovered the idea of telling the media player where the portable device is.
I wasn't expecting to have to do this as Windows software would generally figure it out for you. Anyway, /media/N95_storage_card was added to the Rythmbox config and away we go.
Still don't get syncing, but rather I connect the phone and do the following:
1. create a playlist of tracks I want on phone
2. select the playlist in the left pane of Rythmbox - this displays the mp3s on the right
3. highlight all the listed mp3s and drag on the device/N95 icon on the left pane
4. wait....
First time I did this a progress indicator started. I unplugged the phone after 100% but only got half an hour of music on my phone. I guess that progress indicator was a progress made in queing the tunes rather than actually transferring.
So while I haven't actually got a load of music on my phone yet, I do think I know how now :)
A quick play with it and decided it probably wasn't the approach I wanted, however in the process of following instructions somewhere online for using Amarok with the N95 I discovered the idea of telling the media player where the portable device is.
I wasn't expecting to have to do this as Windows software would generally figure it out for you. Anyway, /media/N95_storage_card was added to the Rythmbox config and away we go.
Still don't get syncing, but rather I connect the phone and do the following:
1. create a playlist of tracks I want on phone
2. select the playlist in the left pane of Rythmbox - this displays the mp3s on the right
3. highlight all the listed mp3s and drag on the device/N95 icon on the left pane
4. wait....
First time I did this a progress indicator started. I unplugged the phone after 100% but only got half an hour of music on my phone. I guess that progress indicator was a progress made in queing the tunes rather than actually transferring.
So while I haven't actually got a load of music on my phone yet, I do think I know how now :)
Sunday, 2 March 2008
Today I discovered to wonderful world of customising the panels in Gnome. So after lots of fiddling and panels everywhere I've got something behaving in a way I like. Lovely.
I'm easily distracted! The original aim was to get the music player (Rythmbox) to write to an external media, namely my phone, so I can easily dump a load of music on it before heading out to gym or whatever. Not as easy as I had hoped. While I've got RhythmBox managing all my mp3s and fiddled about with playlists etc I dont seem able to get it to write them to the phone.
Fedora recognises the phone and pops up the explorer window quite happily so that's not the problem... it seems this audio manager/player can't write tracks to an external device. That can't be right?!
I'm easily distracted! The original aim was to get the music player (Rythmbox) to write to an external media, namely my phone, so I can easily dump a load of music on it before heading out to gym or whatever. Not as easy as I had hoped. While I've got RhythmBox managing all my mp3s and fiddled about with playlists etc I dont seem able to get it to write them to the phone.
Fedora recognises the phone and pops up the explorer window quite happily so that's not the problem... it seems this audio manager/player can't write tracks to an external device. That can't be right?!
Sunday, 24 February 2008
Cameras
Tried plugging in my Sony Alpha 100 to download some pics, but nothing happend. No detection of the dvice it seemed, so tried plugging into the memory card reader directly. Appears that isn't understood by Fedora Core 8 either.
Just on the off chance, I tried plugging into one of the mainboard USB ports on the rear on the PC, that worked and up popped the 'import images' tool which was useful in importing the images.
The memory card reader/front USB I was trying to use is connected to an internal USB header on the motherboard, it seems something isn't right with that rather than the Fedora installation not understanding the camera. So all is well :)
Just on the off chance, I tried plugging into one of the mainboard USB ports on the rear on the PC, that worked and up popped the 'import images' tool which was useful in importing the images.
The memory card reader/front USB I was trying to use is connected to an internal USB header on the motherboard, it seems something isn't right with that rather than the Fedora installation not understanding the camera. So all is well :)
Monday, 18 February 2008
Yum loving
Decided to leave the WiFi card thing for a bit... I don't *need* it sorting so it can wait. Maybe I'll just keep eyes open for a one with 'proper' Linux support.
In the mean time, a bit of tinkering and I've got my Apache http working with PHP stuff.
Isn't yum great?!
Tell this program I want xyz, and off it jolly well goes and fetches and installs them automagically.
So a 'yum install php-xml' installed the php xml libraries. Brilliant.
Same for mplayer, as the Totem player that ships with the install doesn't have a lot of codecs installed. While easy to add them, it costs. So now I need to figure out where to change the default player for video files to mplayer instead of Totem.
Then I need to think wether I need Totem at all.
In the mean time, a bit of tinkering and I've got my Apache http working with PHP stuff.
Isn't yum great?!
Tell this program I want xyz, and off it jolly well goes and fetches and installs them automagically.
So a 'yum install php-xml' installed the php xml libraries. Brilliant.
Same for mplayer, as the Totem player that ships with the install doesn't have a lot of codecs installed. While easy to add them, it costs. So now I need to figure out where to change the default player for video files to mplayer instead of Totem.
Then I need to think wether I need Totem at all.
Saturday, 16 February 2008
A bit more digging and it seems that maybe MadWifi isn't what I need....trying to install some other drivers...
http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Distribution_list/Fedora
From lspci:
01:08.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
A bit of googling leads me to believe I've actually been trying to use MadWifi when I should be using a different driver (acx111).
http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Distribution_list/Fedora
From lspci:
01:08.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
A bit of googling leads me to believe I've actually been trying to use MadWifi when I should be using a different driver (acx111).
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