Comments on: gentoo multimedia faq

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:36:20 +0000

@bacatta

No, just haven’t had time.

By: bacatta

bacatta — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:56:57 +0000

I hope you doesn’t have give up !?

By: Dennis S

Dennis S — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:43:42 +0000

What is a recommended way to convert taped videoand audio (from sources like VHS, or Cam Video Cassett) to a DVD?

Thanks for your willingness to gather these key points together. Wiki, forum, personal blog… who cares where, just get links to the FAQ everywhere you feel is practicle. Google will do the rest

Sincerly…
Your Fan!

By: jamesDunn

jamesDunn — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:05:08 +0000

As an amature musician I have to use windows for a lot of my music production applications, I mostly use NativeInstruments Guitar Rig 2, I heard that one can run this in linux using wine and jack, the plugins are VSTi, will these kind of questions make it into your FAQ? There isnt any simple recipie for this sort of thing out there is there? Nice selection on the DVD Ripping stuff though.

By: tkhobbes

tkhobbes — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:48:12 +0000

Another question (which completely confuses me at the moment) is: What is the difference between ALSA/OSS, ARTS/ESD, JACK etc. - and what’s the best method of combining these for different tasks (like multimedia pc, audio producer, musician, gaming etc.)

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:25:21 +0000

Here’s another one: how do I choose which of my two sound cards gets used with various programs in ALSA? I use a SoundBlaster Live for playing mp3s and such, while I use my motherboards sound for system sounds and games, and I remember it being a PITA to setup.

By: bacatta

bacatta — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:23:02 +0000

Great idea ! I’m looking forward your work.

By: KL

KL — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:01:02 +0000

Kaffeine can be used to record radio and television programs to hard disk in the DVB MPEG-2 transport stream (*.m2t) format only.
How can this format for radio be converted to MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3) or WMA (Windows Media Audio) or ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding) which are compatible with CD requirements for audio players?
How can this format for television be converted to MPEG-2 elementary stream that is compliant with DVD and SVCD standards for video players?

By: Blytte

Blytte — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:52:25 +0000

Why can I only play DVDs as root even though I have all the necessary rights (reading/writing) to my DVD-drive?

By: zenria

zenria — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:43:19 +0000

other questions :
How do I mount automatically USB disks, CDROM, DVDs (without any user action) ?
How can I eject a cdrom/dvds with simply press the eject button (without unmounting it like in MS windows) ?

By: Nick Rout

Nick Rout — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:48:28 +0000

Common question: how do I turn my avi/ogg/wmv/rm/mpg movies into a DVD. In fact it seems that half the computing power in the multimedia world is turning DVD’s into avi’s, and the other half is spent turning them back again!
Tentative answers: any2dvd and/or tovid

Another common one: How do I back up my DVD9 commercial DVD to a DVD5? (Complete with menus, chapter points and multiple sound tracks.)

By: HXC

HXC — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:23:13 +0000

P.S. The wiki would be a greta place to put it!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:22:43 +0000

I would put it on the wiki, except that it’s not going to be a full on HOWTO at all … just a quick reference with a lot of links to the wiki, I’m sure.

By: HXC

HXC — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:22:38 +0000

I would like to see the following question answered:
How to enable sound for audio cd’s

For a quick reference the other questions you can look in my starters guide:

http://home.planet.nl/~hxc/

By: tro

tro — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:52:04 +0000

Hey, why not put this on the wiki? Seems like something that we could all collaborate on.