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Thanks for the script, it seems to be working well for me.

It took me a while to work out that I had to install the package python-indicate before it would work. Probably a good idea to mention it...

Check out Elisa, It is not as mature as XBMC but works flawlessly on 64-bit. I use it on my TV that is connected as a second monitor to watch videos and play music, it does the job nicely. I tried...

Many thanks for this.

Now I can finally suspend my PC without losing the sound from my audigy value card (using the CA0106 driver). After only 3 and a half years of waiting! :D :D :D :D

Much...

I used to run the files through a java program called projectX which cleans up and repairs sync issues with mpeg files. The way it works is to demux (seperate) the audio and video stream into two...

First you need to open the file in avidemux, then make sure that on the left video and audio are both set to copy.
Check that format underneath is set to the same as the original file.

Tick the...

You need to delete the hidden .mplayer folder from your home directory. Possibly just deleteing the file codecs.conf from that folder should be enough.

It could still be a problem for you as the GPU will be getting hot instead of CPU. However the GPU should be more effecient at decoding than the CPU, According to some benchmarks here at Anandtech....

Cards earlier than the 8*** series can use XvMC acceleration with the NVIDIA driver, so they already have some GPU video acceleration. Later cards currently have no acceleration at all.

For me...

I've been having the same problem.

From the ppa administrator's page:



Apparently the bug has been fixed so hopefully the next version that he builds will have this functionality re-enabled.

I think that in Ubuntu the file called compiz is just a script that starts up compiz, I think the actual executable is called compiz.real.

Sorry I can't test this as my compiz is currently...

If you are using the beta driver (177.67 or higher) you need to do a few things to see the improvements.

from http://nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118088


This improved things for my...

Newer nvidia cards suck.

From 8xxx cards onwards nvidia don't and seemingly have no plans to provide any video decoding acceleration in their drivers. So I cant watch any 720p videos without...

One of the developers posted the following link on the elisa forum:

https://launchpad.net/~elisa-developers/+archive

It contains the following apt sources.list entry


deb...

Thanks for the little tutorial. It succesfully compiled and installed for me and I can now watch 720p MKV's without juddering in elisa on my HDTV :guitar:

Only problem is that in totem everyone...

Yep, checkinstall is working for me using build 1024.

I have only 4 presets installed by default, now I seem to remember there were more when I did a make install but I updated from cvs before...

Many thanks for the tutorial :KS

Got it working great here on 64-bit Hardy with an 8800gt and it looks absolutely superb. I Just had to downgrade the ftl-dev package, I did this by uninstalling...

Anyone know how to run and show MediaInfo from the right-click open with menu ?

I tried:

gnome-terminal -x MediaInfo

but it closes the terminal as soon as MediaInfo has finished.

Thanks for the tutorial.
It's working great for me with my broadcom pci card (fwcutter).

The apt-get command to download the network-manager packages did not work, it said I already had the...