51- How to position the mouse cursor (while waiting for dual
view)
I downloaded this freeware program that allows tweaking of Win9x/NT. It has a
feature that moves the mouse cursor to the default button of the active
window. I thought this might come in handy for those with the TV-out problems
where the TV is in the other room (at least you know where your mouse cursor is
on the screen).
Anyway here it is:
http://www.xteq.com/downloads/index.html#xset
Scott Small
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52- How to create VideoCDs
hi , my current system is Asus CD50 , p2b-F 128 pc100 , PIII450 , sblive ,
Asus v3800 ultra deluxe , WD Expert 18GB 7200 2MB Cache . CDRW24X4X4. Am i able
to crete videocds (in good quality for watching it on TV) ? If so ,can anyone
specify the steps for creating VideoCDs (which software to
use , things to do etc.)
blackmagic
Gee i would think that a person with a computer like that would know how to
create a VCD.
1) first capture the damn bugger on to a AVI file
2) Compress it to pal VCD format (352x288, 25fps) using Xing Mpeg Encoder/DVMPEG
3) Use the Video CD creator which is available in the Adaptec EZ CD Creator
package.
Eng E. Ong <eeong@flashmail.com>
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53- Which benchmark-program to use?
3d mark is cool. get it at www.3dmark.com.
of course there is the classic quake 2 timedemo.
James Petroski <petroski@brother.com>
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54- Optimize your RAM with MemTurbo
I found this little utility that monitors your free RAM, allows you to
defragment RAM and you can also claim free RAM. It seems to boost performance
with games and I've noticed an increased performance with
benchmarks. What do you guys think of this utility? You can get it at: http://www.memturbo.com/
(shareware 30 day trial).
Henry Schlepper <henryschlepper@hotmail.com>
------------------------------------
This program is fantastic ! This will help free up stolen memory from
applications that do not free unused RAM after exiting application - Though I
noticed sometimes you have to hit many times the optimize button for it to keep
clearing your memory. I use it in conjunction with memclnr (freeware) and
it works great!
Rick Anderson <smtc2@hotmail.com>
(yes ... the real one)
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55- Asus TV box doesn't use drivers
A message posted in this newsgroup implied that drivers were required to run
the TV Box. Which is totally untrue. Yes, it requires software like ASUS Live,
but that is software NOT drivers. My point being there could be other
applications out there that can use the hardware better and there are no
firmware upgrades for the TV Box (which the message implied). Also missing
channels could be avoid (I believe) by using the scan function in ASUS
Live.
Scott Small
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56- Adobe Premiere and capture drivers
Is there any way to get Adobe Premiere 5.0 to recognize the capture driver
so it can be used from that program?
Lars
Yes. Download the TWAIN drivers from the ASUS FTP site.
Scott Small
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Twain drivers work also with other softwares (ex.: MS-PhotoDraw)
J.M. Poulin
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57- DVD player and TV (Macrovision problem / view copy
protected dvds over tv-out)
I´m trying to use my DVD player, Asus 3800 Ultra Deluxe and a
Panasonic Widescreen tv to view DVD movies. When i look at the monitor it
all looks fine but when i change to tv mode the picture starts to toggle,
first ASUS DVD pic (Space shuttle) then the Movie ... Whats wrong
and how to fix it? Does this have something to do with "Macrovision"?
Pelle <pelle_johansson@ebox.tninet.se>
That's the MACROVISION kicking in. Start the movie on your monitor then
switch to TV-out.
Scott Small
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The problem I now have is with DVD's, I use power DVD 1.6 and it has been
great, but when I play a protected movie, I get an error from power dvd
saying TV can't be disabled ?
I think this is a Power DVD error but, I don't really know, mabe the asus
tv out doesn't support the copy protected DVD's. I have tried a Non copy
protected one and it works fine.. Any ideas ?
greg <greg@itcomputers.com.au>
Hi Greg!
This is not a bug but a feature. If i get it right you are trying to view copy
protected dvds over tv-out, right? The thing is called "macrovision"
and prevents exactly that, to ensure you do not make copies on your vhs. As far
as i know there are some people who can with some tricks change to tv-out later
or something so they get it working, but there is another way. There is ONE (1)
codec that doesnt support macrovision, it's cinemaster v1.0.28.4952 (sounds
dangerous, doesn't it?) :)
I don't know if this is legal, but you can use this engine (for example with the
cinemaster dvd-player) and thus avoid the protection.
Storch <sm0090@uni-essen.de>
---------------------------------
When I want to record this video signal with my video recorder (connecting
the composite out to the video composite in) I can see the correct picture when
recording, but the recorded data on the VHS casette somehow becomes
desincronised (looks just like it was coded)... What shuold i do , to be able to
record the correct signal ??
Dave
If your trying to record from a DVD, it's MACROVISION encoded and will not
record on modern VCRs.
Scott Small <shooter@netwave.ca>
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58- A case for tweakers ?
Forget other cases and get the SuperMicro SC750-A, I believe it's actually
made by Addtronics. It's the best case I've ever had and this is the 8th system
I've built in this case. The SC750-A has 6 ext. 5.25 and one internal, 1 ext 3.5
and 3 internal. This case can also hold nine fans not counting the PSU or CPU
fans. Also comes with 300 watt Sparkle PSU and has an option of redundant
PSU's. You will never need or want any other case! Good luck
John Cazzetta <zencomp@home.com>
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59- Unable to make the V3800 card work on a Soyo Motherboard
(and some others?)
Tape the last two pins (two pins as in one at each side, seen from the end of
the card. NOT the case side) of your v3800.
Why: because v3800 is AGP x4 and a lot of mainboard builders simply wired the
pins used for AGP x4 detection together with the AGP x2. Result: When you turn
on your PC the v3800 switches to AGP x4 which BX doesn't support which results
in a black screen.
Martin <tinus72@wxs.nl>
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60- Video shows horizontal lines not contiguous
I have a big problem when capturing video at 704x576 (PAL, 25fps). In
this mode (and in the new mode 640x480), when there is an object moving on the
screen not too slowly, the recorded video shows horizontal lines not
contiguous, as if there is a problem in de-interlacing video (it looks
like VR pics seen w/out the 3D glasses).
Aula 10 <user@ciseca.uniba.it>
This is normal for "cheaper" video capture cards. Especially those
that implement software capturing. Even some more expensive capture cards
display this problem. It's simply due to the difference between TV's and
computer monitors. Asus is currently incorporating a real-time deinterlacing
filter into the new capture drivers that should fix these hairlines. It will of
course need
a *slightly* faster processor to capture the same res and same framerate though.
Jason Cornelius <korn@iinet.net.au>
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61- Fixed Direct 3d Crashing (MVP3 board)
Hi. I used to have a S3 Virge and whenever I ran games in Direct 3d
they would crash. I figured it was the videocards prob. so I got the V3800
Deluxe Ultra. The same thing happened. After re-installing windows
98 about 5 times, I decided to play around with the BIOS settings. After
trying to disable and enable different settings and restarting my computer about
30 times to test those settings, I found out that Write Cache Pipline caused the
problem. So if you are having problems with Direct 3d, try disabling Write
Cache Pipline (in my BIOS it is under Chipset Featres). BTW, I have a FIC va503+
with an AMD K6-2 300
Nick I. <nick22@mailroom.com>
Oh, it's quite well known that MVP3 board should disable write cache
pipeline.
Ka Chun, Cheng <kccheng@glink.net.hk>
Nope, mine works without the Write Cache Pipelined disabled. Just flashed my
v3400TNT/TV with sideband disabled, installed the latest gart for VIA and
everything works like a charm, no crashes, no sound looping. Regards,
Cristi Hossu ARPRESS <arpress@rlib.kappa.ro>
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62- Line at bottom when capturing video
When I capture video from my camera I get a line down the bottom which looks
like the a line from the film pushed to the left a bit. Has anyone
experienced this and know how to get rid of it apart from cropping.
Thanks Andrew
As you probably noticed, the screen presented by asus live is acctually
bigger then on your TV. Your TV chops off a little bit (this is NOT a bug of
your TV, it's the standard. Your camera complies just fine with the standard,
even though it puts garbage in the 'unsupported lines'. Acctually, it's a Asus
Live bug (showing you more then you should see) but I really like this bug
(never missing anything) :)
Over Flow <OverFlow@phreaker.net>
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63- Resolution problems on monitor
What's max resolution of v3400TNT? On my Windows 98, display properties is
show max resolution as 1280*1024 (Drivers v2.17). In user manual is support to
1900*1200 in true color. How I can set more 1280*1024 resolution? My monitor can
support to 1600*1200 at refresh rates 75Hz.
Tommy.
Install drivers for monitor.
John Cazzetta <zencomp@home.com>
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64- VGARTD.VXD for Win 95 or for Win 98 ?
Here is what I found on INTEL website: http://support.intel.com/support/technologies/graphics/agp/
What is VGARTD.VXD and where do I get it?
One of the benefits of AGP is the ability to use graphics textures directly from
main memory, as opposed to the PCI model that must copy textures to local
(graphics) memory before use. This new memory type is not supported directly in
Windows* 95 (OSR2.X), so VGARTD.VXD was created as a patch to the dynamic memory
manager in Windows 95, to allow this new memory type. Executing textures from
main memory is a feature supported by Windows 95 with DirectX* 5.0. This memory
type is supported without VGARTD.VXD in Windows 98. Graphics card vendors
distribute VGARTD.VXD with their drivers if the hardware supports the feature.
Without it, the AGP card would behave like a PCI card with regard to how
textures are handled. If your graphics card supports this function, the card
vendor should supply VGARTD.VXD with the driver. Contact the vendor for an
update.
Christophe Borivant <cborivant@lgs.ca>
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65- V3800 Video Processor and TV out chip
V3800 Video Processor :
Philips SAA7111A-EVIP (Enhanced Video Input Processor)
Web page with datasheet :
http://www-us2.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/SAA7111AH
TV-out Chip :
Chrontel 70003 (or 7004 or 7005 if confirmed ?)
Web page with datasheet : http://www.chrontel.com/7003.html
Bruno Rosset <brunorosset@compuserve.com>
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66- Games (ex. Quake I/II) running too dark
I have a solution to problems with Quake I/II running too dark with the 3800UD. I downloaded a program called IDGamma and it fixed the
problem. (http://www.d128.com/idgamma).
idGamma was written and tested for quake 1, quake 2 and Hexen2.
Jeffery Donnell <jeffdonnell@earthlink.net>
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67- Tool to check your board voltages (some boards)
heres a cool little freeware prog that will give you all
the info...................
http://www.multimania.com/newtech/us/frame_downloads_winsystem.html
TK <Tkenney@webspan.net>
---------------------------
That's nice, but like all software monitoring programs, it measures the
voltage at the PSU/motherboard interface, not on the AGP port.
Arthur Dent <me@home.com>
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True.. but does anybody know if the motherboard is able to "up" the
voltage? example; software monitor says 3.15 volts... could the voltage on the
AGP port be higher than this? (I would expect it to be the same or lower...)
So maybe these programs can be handy after all..
Ramon <ramon8enNOSPAMMPLEASE@euronet.nl>
------------------------------
Doesn't work with my Asus P3B-F board. But I
use Asus Probe 2.02 and it works nicely.
J.M. Poulin
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68- Graphics chipset settings, BE6 motherboard
On my BE6 Mobo there are settings in the Chipset Features Setup Menu to turn on
System Bios Cacheable, Video Bios Cacheable and Video Ram Cacheable. Does the
V3800 Ultra Deluxe support them all. If not which ones should I turn off?
CEO-ART <ceo-art@email.msn.com>
If you want to know what those settings do, try this webpage: http://epsilon.silicon.net.my/adrian/news.htm
Look for the BIOS Optimization guide.. it explains it all.. For Windows use,
most of the time the BIOS shouldn't be cached, because Windows doesn't need
that, and so your cpu-cache is partially filled with unusefull stuff for your
setup. It is used by MS-DOS, but you don't need that I think. Anyway, read the
stuff, it's interesting.
Ramon <ramon8enNOSPAMMPLEASE@euronet.nl>
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69- DVD players: what they think about
PowerDVD 2.0:
Speed: Poor
Quality: Good
User friendly: Excellent
Comments: Not good for slower computers, full of features.
WinDVD:
Speed: Fast
Quality: video is excellent, sound is average
User friendly: good, bad graphics for controls
Comments: fast, great quality, contrast, hue, brightness, ect.
controls. Worst gui (graphical user interface)
AsusDVD:
Comments: basically a clone of WinDVD with a Asus name on it (both made
by InterVideo).
ATI Player:
Speed: very fast
Quality: very good video, excellent sound
Comments: Fastest player (great for slow computers), best gui, however you can't
do free resize of the movie screen (sizes restricted to 50%, Full Screen, 100%,
ect)
QI Player:
Same as ATI player, but modified for free resize, with a eh.. gui
Xind DVD Player:
Speed: Fast
Quality: Good
Comments: NOT reccommended!!! Full of bugs
I would personnally go with the QI player, I got a version of that that works
great, however, WinDVD can be good for the person interested in adjusting their
videos contrast brightness, ect. But a word of the warning: DONT install
more then 1 DVD player at a time or their filters overlap eachother, and with
few exceptions, this will lead to one of the players not working, and the other
one to cause your computer to crash! I dont know where you would buy these
players, they arnt freeware. Mine came with my computer :)
Jeffrey Malone <ieatlint@home.com>
--------------------------------
Software Cinemaster:
Version 1.0.28 and lower works perfectly since it doesn't check for any
macrovision violations. Version 1.0.29 and 1.0.32 just gives me a black
and yellow striped screen with the words Macorvision 1,2,3 on it the moment I
switch to TV-Out. Cinemaster is definately the quickest of the bunch.
PowerDVD 2.0:
Allows playback to TV-Out if you start the movie first, and then switch to
TV-Out. Although once or twice during the movie it suddenly popped-up with
a macrovision violation when i fiddled with stuff. PowerDVD contains heaps of
settings, and I like the Pan&Scan and Grow/Shrink options. The
playback unfortunately was not smooth my my machine.
WinDVD 1.2.x:
Didn't test the quality that much but it sure sounded like it had a lot more
hiss. Couldn't get it to work with TV-Out. Kept on flashing between
the movie and WinDVD logo, even if I first start the movie and then siwtch to
TV-Out.
Xing 2.0.3:
Kept on crashing and wouldn't swap to TV-Out. Didn't try too hard though.
Also briefly tried Win98 DVD Player and PC Friendly that came with "You've
Got Mail", but nothing noteworthy comes to mind.
TV-Out quality wasn't too great compared to the montitor quality. Things were
very dark, and very dark patches showed up in red. Any ideas why?
So I would recommend the Cinemaster decoder for TV-Out. The only problem I
see as that the newer decoders doesn't work. So as Cinemaster improves you
cannot upgrade to the new version and still use TV-Out.
Wouldn't it be possible to hack the Asus drivers, so that it reports a
macrovision capable TV decoder to the DVD software?
I am considering getting a Hollywood Plus hardware decoder, just for better
TV-Out quality, but I heard that the pass-through cable degrades your normal
2D/3D quality. Can anybody confirm/deny this? Hope this help other
Software DVD people out there.
Peter Floyd <pfloyd72@hotmail.com>
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I use Asus DVD works 100% no trouble with macrovision
Jef <jstymans@pandora.be>
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Jef, i think you have some patched version ?!?!?! my ASUS DVD 1.2
have problem with macrovision :(
Dario Mateljic <dmateljic@usa.net>
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70- Wrong Bios flash ... What to do ???
Is the card working at all? If you can get to dos mode, then just get the
correct bios and flashing tool and do it correctly.
If not, it'll be a bit more difficult. These instructions are pulled from memory
from a recent issue of PC Powerplay, a great computer mag from Australia.
1. Get another video card (beg/borrow/steal) with a different chipset and by a
different manufacturer (eg s3 virge card). If your tnt is agp, get a pci card,
if pci get an agp. If you don't have an agp slot, make sure the new card is in
an earlier pci slot than your 3400 (further away from your isa slot/s).
2. Place this card (if pci) into the slot closest to your agp slot.
3. Make sure your bios is set to search for this new card before your old one by
changing the pci/agp setting for this.
4. Get the right bios and flashing tool for your 3400, boot your machine and
flash it.
5. Remove the new card and pray that the 3400 works now :)
IMPORTANT: I've never tried this or spoken to anyone who has tried this. I don't
know if I got the instructions right either, but they sound okay. Maybe take
this to a technical newsgroup and get them to check it out for you. Try
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (I think), they may be able to help you.
Please don't just go out and do this since I would hate another video card to
get stuffed 'cause I mucked up. Hope this is along the lines of what you were
after. Good luck.
Joshua Lyndon <jlyndon@flc.qld.edu.au>
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71- Asus Live troubles
This message is all i get and i check and check and can't see anything
wrong:
Connecting to capture driver occur error!
Please check your capture driver is correctly installed or not, then
restart your windows to reset your capture driver.
Christer Johansson <christer.j@kurir.net>
1) Find files in your windows dir called SystemAsusCap.*
2) rename them to AsusCap.*
3) Move files to system directory.
Do this all in True-DOS to avoid conflicts..
So :
REN SystemAsusCap.* AsusCap.*
MOVE AsusCap.* System\AsusCap.*
(answer yes to replace)
And boot again in Windows .. it should be fixed ..
Pete Gamers Master <Gamers@Planet.nl>
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LIVE 3800 SECAM
I have ASUS AGP-V3800 TNT2 Ultra Can I use this card with SECAM signal in the
program LIVE3800/3.0?
biser <biser@microdin.ru>
You can use my patch to enable SECAM support in AsusLive/drivers
Here is some info from readme: The key feature of this patch - that it's
VERSION-INDEPENDENT - i.e. it works on any version of ASUS software
(Drivers, ASUSLive). It has been tested on a lot different versions of
ASUSLive/Drivers (Live 3400 2.20->AsusLive 3.4R, drivers v3400/v3800 v1.0
-> v2.08H) It's possible, that it'll work on v3000 VGA boards, but it
was tested only on v3400/v3800 boards. No any guarantee that it'll work
with next ASUS software releases - but it'll fail only in case ASUSTek
will change their software dramatically. But I don't think it'll happen in
future - for example this patch successfully works with Live 3400 2.20 and
ASUSLive 3.40R, which differ a lot and there is about a one year distance
between this programs.
Patch is written in Java with nice GUI :-)) Two versions of patch available.
Get patch from:
http://www.srm.ru/AsusSecam.zip 15
Kb, - Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher required. May be everything will be
OK with IE 3.0 - but I didn't tried it.
http://www.srm.ru/AsusSecamExe.zip
1044 Kb - "all in one" - this version of patch is in form of exe-file,
it's so big due to that JVM (Java Virtual
Machine) is included. Read included Readme carefully !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(applied to both versions)
Max Silakov <Max.Silakov@srm.ru>
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72- 3D/VR pictures creation
If anyone has successfully managed to create their own 3D VR pictures for use
with the V3800 VR Picture Viewer, could you please post the steps involved and
the software used to do so?
Scott Small <shooter@netwave.ca>
I used 3D Imager which creates an interlaced image from 2 images, all
instructions are there: http://www.ampksoft.ca/vr/
"Note: The shareware version of 3D imager will allow you to view the image
with your 3-D headset BUT you will be unable to save the final image without
registering 3D Imager."
In order to save the picture just snap your screen using PrintScreen key and
paste it in Paint save as .bmp don't save as anything other than bmp 24-bit or
it will destroy the effect.. :)
btw: if you find better software please let me know, thanks
gilad <megaman01@hotmail.com>
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73-AsusDVD / WinDVD
For some reasoin when I play an Mpeg I get a scrablemed movie. I tryied many
different player so it aint media player. I upgraded from the CD Drivers to 2.08
release no change. Reinstalled DX 6.1 same prob, happens at any res/refresh rate.
I have Asus DVD player installed from the very start and ti worked fine w/dvds.
This problem just started occuring for no reason: I hadn't instlled new
hardware/software or anything.
Luke Harrison
I had the same problem with ASUS DVD (switched to Power DVD). MPEGs play fine
using ASUS DVD but not with mediaplayer. I uninstalled ASUS DVD and mediaplayer
was fine again.
Scott Small <shooter@netwave.ca>
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Just ripped the decoders from AsusDVD 1.2.97, and put them into WinDVD 1.2.85
AND IT WORKS !!! :))))
Here are some of the new features (as far as I can figure out) :
. Improved visual quality and decoding speed. Almost as fast (if not faster than
Cinemaster)
. Improved audio bass range and volume (its very loud).
. Option to change Dolby Pro-Logic mode.
My patch also changes the interface to the AsusDVD one, which is actually better
looking than the InterVideo one.
Get it all here :
https://members.tripod.com/dvdpage2/dload2.html#windvd
DVD Digest - All you need to play DVDs on your PC
BOOKMARK --> http://dvdsite.cjb.net
BOOKMARK --> http://dvdsite.homepage.com
BOOKMARK --> http://get.to/dvdsite/
https://members.tripod.com/dvdpage2/
and mirrored at :
http://dvdigest.entertainment.webjump.com/
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Derby/2659/
Xiao Fang <xfang@netspace.net.au>
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74- Clip out commercials from TV capture
I like to capture off the TV and also like to take out the ads on my
computer. The problem is the best codec to use is the Asus one right (to
get no frames dropped) however since there is no pause when recording I have to
capture tv shows in segments that is - record up to on ad - stop the record
again.
In the end I have multiple asus avi clips. I then want to put them
all together - I have the ulead mediastudio pro editor and I can get them
all
together nicely. The problem is ulead does not have the asus codec so if I want
to save the film I have to either use Microsoft avi or something else which more
or less uncompresses - then needs to be recompressed.
In the end I want to be able to convert the file using xing to mpg - ulead has a
mpeg standard but it takes hours to convert while xing only takes twice the time
of the footage. Is there a solution or a better way of doing this??
Andrew <aouw@apv.com.au>
I'm using VCDCutter to clip out the commercials from TV capture. It works on
MPEG format, not AVI, which is where you want to end up anyway. So convert the
capture to MPEG and then clip and join. I believe that Adobe Premiere can
do this with the AVI format. In short, there are a number of solutions out
there, this is just mine.
Scott Small <shooter@netwave.ca>
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75- How to get Linux Red Hat 6.0 installed with V3800
1) After building / installing Mesa you should replace the libMesaGL.so.*
with the nVIDIA-specific version (don't have the name at hand). Beware that
libGL.so.* is usually symlinked to libMesaGL. You don't need to recompile /
relink - applications linked with Mesa 3.0 should work OK, many apps linked
with other OpenGL libs will too.
2) You should check that XGL extension is being loaded into XServer. Check that
the last lines dumped by startx on the console tell something about glx being
initialized - you may need to add the module loading lines to your XF86Config
(nVIDIA supplies script for installing things but it didn't add the needed lines
to my config on RedHat 6.0).
3) 32-bit graphic modes are currently non-3D-accelerated. After switching to 16
bit all works well and pretty fast.
Oleg Moroz <moroz@metahood.ru>
Software Engineer
Geonix / MetaHood
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