I try to get too depressed looking at the news, but with 10 dead American soldiers over the weekend, I have to speak out. When will the madness stop? Are we really going to try to hand over Iraq in less than 3 months? Who really thinks the country WON’T end up in cival war as soon as we leave? It is all madness, based on lies, by an un-elected president. Another thing, you think one solid month of job growth will counter almost FOUR YEARS of losses. The jobs that were created were all low paying, service jobs. I’m sorry, a 7 dollar an hour job just can’t replace my 23 dollar an hour job.
Well, I got Avidemux and Cinerella to work, and they both do what I need. Avidemux is much easier to use, but I am not sure why my lame encoder does not work properly with it. Anyways, now I can happily edit movies in Linux. Cinerella looks really heavy duty, but it was easy to install. To install Avidemux, build it from the tar ball, the RPMS I found don’t work well.
Well, Kino works all well and good, but it looks like it was really desinged to work with raw video streams from camcorders and what not. Another case of RTFM. I did find Avidemux, which looks friendly and works with divx (mpeg4) and alot of other formats. I will give that a try tonight.
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
There are packages for it on the PLF (Penguin Liberation Front).
Still not done installing it yet. Had to install all the 1394 drivers, (uninstalled the mandrake ones first) then the libacv libraraies, then installed libglade, now it is making the file….
Wow, it actually launched…
I will let you know how it works out.
Stuck in a rut
Computers and the high tech world are stuck in a rut. The computing world is boring. Is there anything you can do today that you couldn’t really do 10 years ago? Listen to music? Make movies? Well, people were doing that over 100 years ago. Organize your life? Keep notes? Need a tablet PC to do that? Not really, you can do it with a sheet of paper. I have watched computers grow from the 64k machines of my childhood to the multi-gigahertz machines of today, and I am amazed how little more you can do with computers now. Except for the internet (but there were BBS’s and e-mail back then), there has not been much change. I still use a word processor, which is still not really WYSIWYG. I still use spreadsheets, and I still play games. All the same things I was doing when I was 11 years old. In fact, some things were easier back then, like drawing programs. I loved drawing on the old computers. Now I hate it. We need something new, something you really can’t do in the real world. I don’t know what it is, but whoever comes up with it will be a billionaire.
Posted by admin on April 6, 2004 in General Comments, Linux
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