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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2840

Today's Topics: 

  ffmpeg encoding issues & AAC          [ "David Fox"  ]
  Configuring server with a virtual pa  [ Alex Samad  ]
  Re: Xresources not read at startup    [ Kumar Ravichandran  ]
  Re: OT: Video Card Nvidia card        [ "Kelly Clowers"  ]
  Re: modifer fstab by mistake,can not  [ Scarletdown  ]
  Re: modifer fstab by mistake,can not  [ Michael Pobega  ]
  Ardour                                [ luca  ]
  Re: CLI Addressbook                   [ Amit Uttamchandani 

Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:59:10 -0800


From: "David Fox" <dfox94085@gmail.com>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: ffmpeg encoding issues & AAC

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Guys,



I do quite a bit of video encoding / audio encoding in debian lenny,
and oftentimes I use tovid (tovid.sourceforge.net) to do the encoding,
usually with good results.



But recently I have had a problem with ffmpeg when I attempt to encode
what looks like a 5.1 channel aac file that's part of an mp4 video, it
tells me that it can't do the encode, that encoding more than 2
channels is not supported. The upshot is that I may have to find
another tool to extract the audio portion of the mp4 file, and then
downmix it to two channels, then resample to ac3 dvd standard audio
format.


Do you need help?X

So are there any ffrmpeg experts that can help me ?



First, ffmpeg is on lenny, like so:




dfox@m206-157:/tmp/Star Trek 8 - First Contact
[x264.AAC.5.1.subs.DrJ]$ apt-cache policy ffmpeg
ffmpeg:


 Installed: 3:20070917-0.0


 Candidate: 3:20070917-0.0


 Version table:



dfox@m206-157:/tmp/Star Trek 8 - First Contact [x264.AAC.5.1.subs.DrJ]$




ffmpeg is called thusly:




dfox@m206-157:/tmp/Star Trek 8 - First Contact
[x264.AAC.5.1.subs.DrJ]$ ffmpeg -i Star\ Trek\ 8\ -\ First\ Contact\
\[x264.AAC.5.1.subs.DrJ\].mp4 -vn -ab 224k -ar 48000 -acodec ac3 -y
foo.ac3


FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
 configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=${prefix}/lib

--shlibdir=${prefix}/lib --incdir=${prefix}/include/ffmpeg
--enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-libfaad
--mandir=${prefix}/share/man --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads

Do you need more help?X

--enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid --enable-pp --enable-libamr-nb
--enable-libamr-wb --enable-x11grab --enable-libogg --enable-libgsm
--enable-libx264 --enable-liba52 --enable-libtheora
--extra-cflags=-Wall -g -fPIC -DPIC --cc=ccache cc --enable-swscaler


 libavutil version: 49.5.0


 libavcodec version: 51.44.0


 libavformat version: 51.13.3


 built on Sep 17 2007 15:29:56, gcc: 4.2.1 (Debian 4.2.1-5)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'Star Trek 8 - First Contact
[x264.AAC.5.1.subs.DrJ].mp4':


 Duration: 01:46:09.1, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1390 kb/s

 Stream #0.0(und): Video: h264, yuv420p, 704x416, 25.00 fps(r)
 Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: mpeg4aac, 48000 Hz, 5:1
 Stream #0.2(ger): Audio: mpeg4aac, 48000 Hz, 5:1
 Stream #0.3(eng): Data: tx3g / 0x67337874
 Stream #0.4(ger): Data: tx3g / 0x67337874
 Stream #0.5(dan): Data: tx3g / 0x67337874
 Stream #0.6(dut): Data: tx3g / 0x67337874
 Stream #0.7(fin): Data: tx3g / 0x67337874
 Stream #0.8(ces): Audio: mpeg4aac, 48000 Hz, stereo
 Stream #0.9(hun): Audio: mpeg4aac, 48000 Hz, stereo
 Stream #0.10(nor): Data: tx3g / 0x67337874
 Stream #0.11(swe): Data: tx3g / 0x67337874
 Stream #0.12(tur): Data: tx3g / 0x67337874
 Stream #0.13(pol): Audio: mpeg4aac, 48000 Hz, stereo


Resampling with input channels greater than 2 unsupported.Can't resample.  Abort



I think the AAC may be part of the problem here?


Can we help you?X

Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:29:46 +1100


From: Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au>


To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Configuring server with a virtual package
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Hi



I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why n=
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build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the=20
corresponding configuration files.



I am having a look at debhelper and maint-guide.



for example for server test.acme.com



I was going to create a package test.acme.com  and making it dependant on t=
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required packages (I can specific a base minimum).


Can't find what you're looking for?X

Any one else done this, what hurdles might I face ?  How am i going to hand=
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/etc/bind/named.conf ???




Alex




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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:07:57 -0500


From: Kumar Ravichandran <kumar.ravichandran@gmail.com>
To: "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>


Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: Xresources not read at startup

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On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:52:29PM +0100, s. keeling wrote:

> Kumar Ravichandran <kumar.ravichandran@gmail.com>:
> > 
> >  I am running Debian Etch on a Macbook, and I have a simple problem,
> >  namely, that my $HOME/.Xresources file, which has a few colour options
> >  for xterm, is not read at startup. I need to manually xrdb load it
> 
> I have it in ~/.xinitrc
> 


I tried that as well :(. No good!


-- 
Regards,

Kumar.

--

"An eye for an eye will only make the entire world blind."

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi


Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:00:32 +1100
From: Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Configuring server with a virtual package
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:29:46PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:

> Hi

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> build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the=20
> corresponding configuration files.

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> I am having a look at debhelper and maint-guide.

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> for example for server test.acme.com

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> I was going to create a package test.acme.com  and making it dependant on=

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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:34:37 -0800
From: "Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>
To: "Debian user list" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: OT: Video Card Nvidia card
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On Nov 21, 2007 5:29 PM, Guillermo Garron <guillermo.fedora@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I am using an ATI Radeo X300 right now, but Compiz is not really
> working for me so I want to change it for a Nvidia one, I have these
> options

>

> VIDEO NVIDIA XFX GeForce 8500 GT 512 MB PCI Express VCD w/DVI TVOut SLI
> VIDEO NVIDIA ZOTAC GeForce 8600GT 256MB DDR2 PCI Express VCD w/DVI TVOut
> VIDEO NVIDIA XFX GeForce 8600 GT 512 MB PCI Express VCD w/DVI TVOut SLI
> VIDEO NVIDIA MSI GeForce 8600 GTS 512 MB PCI Express VCD w/DVI TVOut SLI

>

> which one do you recommend for Compiz compatibility, are all of them
> good supported by Debian?


Vendor, amount of ram, etc, doesn't really matter for drivers, so:

> GeForce 8500 GT
> GeForce 8600 GT
> GeForce 8600 GT
> GeForce 8600 GTS


They are basically all the same card. I imagine their support with
nvidia's binary driver would be identical (I don't know if they all be
good or all be bad). Support for these devices was added in April.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers



Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:39:26 -0800
From: "Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Xresources not read at startup
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On Nov 21, 2007 7:07 PM, Kumar Ravichandran
<kumar.ravichandran@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:52:29PM +0100, s. keeling wrote:
> > Kumar Ravichandran <kumar.ravichandran@gmail.com>:
> > >
> > >  I am running Debian Etch on a Macbook, and I have a simple problem,
> > >  namely, that my $HOME/.Xresources file, which has a few colour options
> > >  for xterm, is not read at startup. I need to manually xrdb load it
> >
> > I have it in ~/.xinitrc
> >
> I tried that as well :(. No good!


I made .Xdefaults a symlink to .Xresources, and it started working.
Might be worth a try.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers



Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:45:27 -0500
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: no x version
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 07:12:04AM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
 

> one other question (knowing that i can read about
> packages at www.debian.org) which commandline/terminal
> apps are the best in their various areas? 
> 

My optinion only:

vim for editing most things
nano-tiny for editing if /usr gets hosed
ed for editing when things go really bad
latex to generate documents
mc for file management, browsing tarballs and debs, ftp, sftp, etc.
lynx for most html, 
links2 for html with javascript
python for general scripting and math
Ada (gnat) for compiled programs
minicom for talking to the modem
mutt for mail (with exim4 as MTA)
vlock for locking all VTs
bwm for watching file transfers and connections
ppp and pppconfig
wget
rsync
fmt, enscript, a2ps
lpd + apsfilter 
remind for reminders and alarms
linux cookbook for lots of CLI recipies
postgresql for database
cdplay to play cds

Note that the _only_ things for which I use X are:

graphic web browsing
reading pdf files
previewing ps files prior to printing
drawing with xfig
watching DVDs (and playing audio cds usualy), using VLC.
viewing photos.


Note that alla the CLI stuff I can do quite well on my 486 (Debian no
longer since Etch is slow slow on it; OpenBSD is great).  

Doug.



Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:13:59 -0500
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: CLI Addressbook
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:07:48PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> I was looking for a nice CLI address book. Something not too advance
> but contains the basic contact information, searchable, etc. I want to
> be able to ssh into my server and just access this application from
> the commandline and read all my contacts.
> 
> Any ideas?


I always used postgresql and just did standard SQL queries, until I
wrote a python front-end.  

Good way to learn SQL?

Before that, I just used a plain-text file.  Each record is a paragraph,
separated by blank lines.  Use standard / to search in less or vim.

I suppose the best tool depends on the number of contacts and the type
of queries you wan to make.

Doug.



Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:22:05 -0500
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: In-place migration to LVM?
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 05:22:50PM +0100, Malte Forkel wrote:

> 
> I have a data file collection on three hard disks, each with just one 
> partition. The 'primary' partition has the complete directory structure. 
> The two 'secondary' partitions partially mirror that directory structure. 
> There are some data files on the primary partition. For each data file on 
> one of the secondary partitions, there is a soft link to it from the 
> primary partition. Each partition has a couple of GB space left. 
> Is it possible to migrate these partitions into one logical volume without 
> loosing or backing up the data? If I had a backup storage large enough to 
> hold all the data ...


Ouch.

First, ensure that you have exhausted all backup options.  Backup to
another machine?

How large are these disks?  You say each has a couple of GB spare; is
that free-space on the drive or that a partition with a filesystem that
has some free space?

You don't necessarily need backup storage large enough for all the data,
just do do one partition at a time.  

Is the data already compressed?

I've never tried resizing non-LVM partitions so I wouldn't attempt that
without a backup.  Hey, I don't attempt anything without a backup;
including doing a backup.

Your best bet may be to buy a fourth disk and make it the firs physical
volume of a volume group, make your LV and put a filesystem on it.
Transfer one drives data to it and do the shell-game from there.

Or create an LV+filesystem and use it to hold a compressed tarball of
the first data partition.  It all depends on the size of the data set
and the size of these drives.

Doug.



Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:47:28 -0800
From: "Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: no x version
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On Nov 21, 2007 7:12 AM, joseph lockhart <jwl_andlovesaidno@yahoo.com> wrote:

<snip>


> i already use nothing but aptitude for package
> managment so that is not an issue, and i will try to
> remember to install doc packages.

>

> one other question (knowing that i can read about
> packages at www.debian.org) which commandline/terminal
> apps are the best in their various areas?


I use the following:
vifm - a vi inspired midnight commander replacement.
vim - text editing/viewing (PAGER=vim)
fbi  - image viewing
elinks - web
wget - downloading
wcalc - calculator
transmission - bittorrent


I haven't moved from Amarok for music, but I am looking
at moc (music on console) and the xmms2 CLI front-end.
cdcd, cdtools and workbone are CLI cd players. Doug, is
cdtools the package with the cdplay you mentioned?

For IRC/Instant Messaging there are a number of options.

Cabber - Jabber
CenterIM/CenterICQ - multi-protocol IM
tmsnc - MSN
bitlbee - all IM to irc gateway, use with any IRC client
irssi now has plugins for xmpp (jabber) and icq

irc: irssi, ircii, epic4, scrollz, sirc, tinyirc


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers



Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:05:58 +1100
From: "David Schulberg" <davids@evertech.com.au>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: System won't boot after successful Debian installation
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Hi,

 

I have installed Debian 4.0 without any apparent problem. However when I
boot the PC I am getting the error 'Primary master hard disk fail'.

When the computer starts up the BIOS recognizes my sole HD as the primary
master.

 

Is this a problem with the hard disk itself? The HD is a new warranty
replacement from Western Digital so I would expect it to be OK.

 

Regards,

David

email: davids@evertech.com.au


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Confused? Frustrated?X

Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:16:27 -0800
From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Window Borders Disappear
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:05:24AM -0600, Jack Schneider <puck@volunteerwir=
eless.net> was heard to say:

> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 09:42 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > aptitude purge metacity && aptitude install metacity (If this gives you
> > dependency errors reinstall everything else as well).
> >=20
> > -
> Have'nt done this yet,but
> A little more info... what might "everything else" entail????
> I'm guessing you mean whatever dependency errors occur...=20


  If just running "metacity" helped you, I doubt this will help; it's
a problem with your configuration, not metacity's installation.

  Daniel



Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:08:32 -0800 (PST)
From: mond <mondzhu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: modifer fstab by mistake,can not boot debian
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I have been using debian(sid) for quite a while. I also have windows
xp installed on my pc too. When I use debian, I modified fstab to let
debian mouse an NTFS drive automatically.

Today,  to test some parameters in fstab, I changed a parameter for
the NTFS drive from auto(which worked fine previously) to default(just
like ext3 ). But after that, the system could not boot. It stoped
right here:

      "Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future.
       NTFS Volume Version 3.1"

I dont know how to do now. I really have very important data from my
research on my pc. Is it possible to edit fstab or just boot to some
kind of basic system, so at least I can rescue my data?

Many thanks, I am having a tough thanksgiving now.



Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:34:42 -0800
From: Scarletdown <scarletdown@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: modifer fstab by mistake,can not boot debian
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On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 21:08 -0800, mond wrote:


> I dont know how to do now. I really have very important data from my
> research on my pc. Is it possible to edit fstab or just boot to some
> kind of basic system, so at least I can rescue my data?
> 
> Many thanks, I am having a tough thanksgiving now.


Sounds like a job for one of the live CD distros like Knoppix, Mepis,
Damn Small Linux, Ubuntu, etc. 

Just boot up with a live CD (I'm assuming you have another working
system you can use to download and burn the ISO to disk), and edit away.



Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:18:56 -0500
From: Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: modifer fstab by mistake,can not boot debian
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 10:34:42PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 21:08 -0800, mond wrote:
> 
> > I dont know how to do now. I really have very important data from my
> > research on my pc. Is it possible to edit fstab or just boot to some
> > kind of basic system, so at least I can rescue my data?
> > 
> > Many thanks, I am having a tough thanksgiving now.
> 
> Sounds like a job for one of the live CD distros like Knoppix, Mepis,
> Damn Small Linux, Ubuntu, etc. 
> 
> Just boot up with a live CD (I'm assuming you have another working
> system you can use to download and burn the ISO to disk), and edit away.
> 
> 


Or he can just boot the Debian installer, hit Alt-Right and end up at a
(albeit, basic) TTY terminal. For something as simple as this mond
really doesn't have to go as far as the Ubuntu LiveCD.

- -- 
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative
programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they
restrict the use of these programs. 
 - Richard Stallman
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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:37:40 +0100
From: luca <luc.cappelli@tiscali.it>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Ardour
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Scusate se scivo ma non so usare  reportbug e non sono molto pratico 
della riga di comando.
Il mio problema nell'installare Ardour sta nel fatto che mi chiede  
l'installazione di libglib1.2 e altro ma impossibile farlo in quanto 
disinstalla altre librerie  aggiornate  recentemente .
Uso Debian 4.01 amd64 su AMD64 Athlon x2 dual core 4000+
versione kernel linux-image-2.6.22-2-amd64
Grazie per l'aiuto



Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:12:50 -0800
From: Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:07:24 +0530
"Sridhar M.A." <mas@mylug.org> wrote:


> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:07:48PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
>    > 
>    > I was looking for a nice CLI address book. Something not too
>    > advance but contains the basic contact information, searchable,
>    > etc. I want to be able to ssh into my server and just access this
>    > application from the commandline and read all my contacts.
>    > 
> $ apt-cache show abook
> Package: abook


That actually is perfect. And the files are stored as plain ascii files, which is good enough.

Thanks again for the suggestion.

Amit



Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:14:13 -0800
From: Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu>
To: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: CLI Addressbook
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> I always used postgresql and just did standard SQL queries, until I
> wrote a python front-end.  
> 
> Good way to learn SQL?
> 
> Before that, I just used a plain-text file.  Each record is a paragraph,
> separated by blank lines.  Use standard / to search in less or vim.
> 
> I suppose the best tool depends on the number of contacts and the type
> of queries you wan to make.
> 
> Doug.
> 


That is actually a good idea. I love python and this could be a very interesting small project. So you built a GUI using PyGTK or something like that?

Amit

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