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Yeah, the Memorex thing is kind of weird and I haven't had the best of luck with it lately either (DVD+R in my case, starting last year), and it was a problem with both Linux and Windows, different systems and burners. I have a bunch of it though somewhere since they sent another spindle when I contacted them but I switched to Verbatim and haven't had problems since.

I've used it on #! and it's worked pretty well. First, you might just want to make sure that suggested packages aren't considered dependencies in your package manager so you don't pull in the entire KDE desktop- but you might have to track down other packages though that's still better than pulling in the desktop. Also make sure you install the frei0r-plugins package since if I recall right it's not actually listed as a dependency so won't get pulled in.

I still do most editing in Windows and transcodes or up/downconverts in Linux, but I've done a bit of lightweight editing in Openshot and LiVES. LiVES converts everything to an image sequence on import  (which could be good or bad depending on what you want) but I've found it helpful for recovering damaged or otherwise difficult video by copying out the cache folder in the LiVES temp directory while it's running to import the image sequence into whichever editor I'm using (usually Vegas).

I don't do actual editing with Kino, but I like it better than Kdenlive for DV captures.

My Statler box is totally down right now so I don't have it available for reference (and I don't know which version of #! you're running), but in general if you haven't worked with the Debian Multimedia repository yet you'll want to get familiar with that (there should be a good info on that in the forums via search). If you use the Multimedia repository I'd suggest using just that for both editing applications and media players to keep it clean. And once you've got everything set up to your liking I'd recommend locking versions since there might be conflicts between the main Debian repository and Multimedia with regards to both applications and codecs which could cause a problem at an update.

Hope that helps!

(Edit- the Debian Multimedia repository has moved, see vrkalak's post here on how to enable it)

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … me-change/

Hi Aethernet and welcome!

CrunchBang is currently based on Debian Squeeze and I'm afraid you can't get here from there.

But there are some boot cheat codes you can try on the live cd so if you post up what video card you have, someone might know the right one for your card so you don't have to try them all.

You should be able to edit the thread title if that's something you want to try (or you could start a new thread).

Hi rhaven!  I don't think there was a supported inline upgrade path from r20110207 to r20111125 (or current).

http://corenominal.org/2011/11/26/updat … er-images/

In addition to xaos52's questions/suggestions, I'm wondering about the Plymouth boot splash. It was in the older image but it's no longer used at boot, so that seems like something that could have gotten wonkified.

Hi b4dave! I do captures but mine are through Firewire/IEEE1394 using a Canopus ADVC-100 with Kino as the capture application. There are some tutorials on YouTube showing how to do it with USB (they're using a Dazzle and TV Time) here:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL … ature=plcp

To echo rhowaldt, after you get the video in, you have plenty of options to get it out to disc. My preferred workflow for that type of project is capturing from tape to DV-AVI, cropping and minor editing in Kdenlive, exporting it back out to DV and compressing it MPEG-2 using WinFF, but there are a few applications to choose from. I do most of the actual authoring to DVD in Windows, but I've used DVD-Styler in Linux with good results. K3b can burn DVD compliant discs. If you want to stick with completely open formats you'll probably want to experiment to get the best quality but you won't be able to create a standalone player compliant DVD (though many players nowadays can read a variety of formats in file mode). 

My capturing is done on Mint 10 right now- for CrunchBang you may need to enable the Debian Multimedia Repository. I also use several KDE applications by themselves (not the full DE) on both Mint/Gnome and CrunchBang/Openbox and it's worked out well so far.

Looks like we're gonna need a designated sudoer.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

@newgamernik, it does sound like an overheating thing, does it always read 50c or do you usually see a change between idle and load?

@sigma, welcome back to Linux! I think what's going on with yours is pretty different so your first instinct was right (starting a new thread). Blackbox, neat! It's still really usable if ya wanna go retro.

^Don't feel embarrassed . It really does look like nothing's happening.

Do you have mlocate installed? It can help track down stuff quickly if something like this happens again. After installing it from the repos, in a terminal run 'sudo updatedb' to index your files, then you can search by:

locate *.pdf (or whatever extension you're looking for)

and if you get too much stuff back you can send the screen output to a file with:

locate *.pdf > filename

then look in the output file you just created.

If it's a brand new file that's missing you can refresh by running 'sudo updatedb' before searching on it.

Someday ask me how the first (and only) time I met my local LUG went!

Well... dang.

Take care omns and may the wind always go which ever way you need it to.

Edit -there's more, errm... "cat" on the full-sized one.