1 Aug
2018
1 Aug
'18
3:40 p.m.
Greetings all;
Not really fussing but 340 of them will never be used on this particular
machine, Its running linuxcnc, eg no audio except maybe possibly a
whispered beep from the computers own speaker. No tv either.
But, I'll do this machine next, and it does have a problem, absolutely
nothing in the menu's that can play an .mp3. I get the apps gui, and its
animated likes its playing the .mp3, but nothing can coax a peep out of
my speakers. The only cli app, aplay, reproduced it as 11 minutes of
unmodulated pink noise.
Does it seem possible to fix this?
I had to hunt thru the bin directory's to find a copy of mplayer2 that
would play it, sorta. .mp3 are always a little muddy, but this was very
poorly done. The music wasn't too bad, but the voices weren't at all
understandable. Have I forgotten just how crappy a 160 kilobit .mp3
sounds? A 44.1kilobit recording that alsa had to pump up to 48k, which
probably didn't help. The original came from a windows machine that
never heard how good an .ogg can sound.
Traceing thru the linkage from /usr/bin/mplayer, a link that points back
to /etc/alternatives/mplayer, which itself is a link
to /usr/bin/mplayer1 which does not exist.
Can this be fixed? That does seem to be the real problem, and its not
something I can recall piddling with.
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
1 Aug
1 Aug
3:44 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] update this morning=347 pkgs from trinity?
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer to me than mplayer
especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett(a)shentel.net> wrote:
Greetings all;
Not really fussing but 340 of them will never be used on this particular
machine, Its running linuxcnc, eg no audio except maybe possibly a
whispered beep from the computers own speaker. No tv either.
But, I'll do this machine next, and it does have a problem, absolutely
nothing in the menu's that can play an .mp3. I get the apps gui, and its
animated likes its playing the .mp3, but nothing can coax a peep out of
my speakers. The only cli app, aplay, reproduced it as 11 minutes of
unmodulated pink noise.
Does it seem possible to fix this?
I had to hunt thru the bin directory's to find a copy of mplayer2 that
would play it, sorta. .mp3 are always a little muddy, but this was very
poorly done. The music wasn't too bad, but the voices weren't at all
understandable. Have I forgotten just how crappy a 160 kilobit .mp3
sounds? A 44.1kilobit recording that alsa had to pump up to 48k, which
probably didn't help. The original came from a windows machine that
never heard how good an .ogg can sound.
Traceing thru the linkage from /usr/bin/mplayer, a link that points back
to /etc/alternatives/mplayer, which itself is a link
to /usr/bin/mplayer1 which does not exist.
Can this be fixed? That does seem to be the real problem, and its not
something I can recall piddling with.
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
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5:49 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] update this morning=347 pkgs from trinity?
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 10:44:07 am Pisini, John wrote:
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer
to me than mplayer
especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
Second that.
I use both mplayer and mpv under SMPlayer. Open 'Preferences' to switch
the 'Multimedia engine.'
Overkill but I copy/pasted the 3 aptitude show's below.
Do note SMPlayer phones home for self update info, which you can disable by
following:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099&s=73e8a8809da60f5e496…
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet
#!/bin/bash
COMMAND="$1"
shift
for arg; do
COMMAND="$COMMAND \"$arg\""
done
sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Then changing the SMPlayer menu entry to:
no-internet smplayer %U
* I changed 'ni' to 'no-internet' so I'd know what it was later,
everything
else came from the Internet...
Best,
Michael
# aptitude show smplayer
Package: smplayer
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 18.6.0-1~trusty1
Priority: extra
Section: graphics
Maintainer: Ricardo Villalba <rvm(a)users.sourceforge.net>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 15.4 M
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3),
libqt4-network (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-script (>=
4:4.5.3), libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1),
libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1),
zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), mplayer | mplayer-nogui | mpv (>= 0.6.2)
PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.14.12ubuntu3)
Recommends: smplayer-themes, smplayer-skins, smtube, alsa-utils, x11-utils,
pulseaudio-utils
Conflicts: smplayer
Replaces: smplayer-l10n, smplayer-l10n, smplayer-translations,
smplayer-translations
Provides: smplayer-l10n, smplayer-translations
Description: A great media player
SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning mplayer
and also for mpv. But apart from providing access
for the most common and useful options of mplayer and mpv, SMPlayer adds
other interesting features like the possibility to
play Youtube videos or search and download subtitles. One of the main
features is the ability to remember the state of a
played file, so when you play it later it will be resumed at the same point
and with the same settings.
# aptitude show mplayer
Package: mplayer
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 2:1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu3
Priority: extra
Section: universe/graphics
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss(a)lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 5,139 k
Depends: libaa1 (>= 1.4p5), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libavcodec54 (>=
6:9.1-1) | libavcodec-extra-54 (>= 6:9.11),
libavformat54 (>= 6:9.1-1), libavutil52 (>= 6:9.1-1), libbluray1 (>=
1:0.2.2), libc6 (>= 2.15), libcaca0 (>=
0.99.beta17-1), libcdparanoia0 (>= 3.10.2+debian), libdca0,
libdirectfb-1.2-9, libdvdread4 (>= 4.1.3), libenca0 (>=
1.9), libesd0 (>= 0.2.35), libfaad2 (>= 2.7), libfontconfig1 (>=
2.9.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libfribidi0 (>=
0.19.2), libgif4 (>= 4.1.4), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1,
libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) | libjack-0.116, libjpeg8
(>= 8c), liblircclient0, libmpeg2-4, libopenal1 (>= 1:1.13),
libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libpostproc52 (>=
5:0.git20120217~), libpulse0 (>= 1:0.99.1), libsdl1.2debian (>=
1.2.11), libspeex1 (>= 1.2~beta3-1), libsvga1,
libswscale2 (>= 6:9.1-1), libtheora0 (>= 1.0), libtinfo5, libvdpau1
(>= 0.2), libx11-6, libx264-142, libxext6,
libxinerama1, libxv1, libxvidcore4 (>= 1.2.2), libxvmc1,
libxxf86dga1, libxxf86vm1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: bzip2, fontconfig, mplayer-doc, netselect | fping, ttf-freefont
Conflicts: mplayer2, mplayer2, mplayer
Replaces: mencoder (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mencoder (<
2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer-doc (<
2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer-doc (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2),
mplayer-nogui (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2),
mplayer-nogui (< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2), mplayer2, mplayer2
Provided by: mplayer2
Description: movie player for Unix-like systems
MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4,
FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA
files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. It
can also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx,
RealMedia, and DivX movies.
Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers.
It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib,
fbdev, DirectFB, but also SDL.
Not all of the upstream code is distributed in the source tarball. See the
README.Debian and copyright files for details.
Homepage: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
# aptitude show mpv
Package: mpv
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2:0.15.0+git7~trusty
Priority: optional
Section: video
Maintainer: Doug McMahon <mc631man(a)gmail.com>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 20.7 M
Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.27), libbluray1 (>= 0.3.0~), libbs2b0, libc6 (>=
2.16), libcdio-cdda1 (>= 0.83),
libcdio-paranoia1 (>= 0.83), libcdio13 (>= 0.83), libdrm2 (>=
2.4.25), libdvdnav4 (>= 4.1.3), libdvdread4 (>=
4.1.3), libfdk-aac1 (>= 0.1.4.0~trusty1), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0),
libfreetype6 (>= 2.4.10), libfribidi0 (>=
0.19.2), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libgme0 (>= 0.5.5), libgnutls26
(>= 2.12.17-0), libgsm1 (>= 1.0.13), libguess1
(>= 1.2.1), libharfbuzz0b (>= 0.9.9), libjack-jackd2-0 (>=
1.9.5~dfsg-14) | libjack-0.116, libjpeg8 (>= 8c),
liblcms2-2 (>= 2.6), liblua5.2-0, libmp3lame0, libopenjpeg2, libopus0
(>= 1.0.3), libpulse0 (>= 1:1.0), librtmp0 (>=
2.3), librubberband2, libsmbclient (>= 2:4.0.3+dfsg1), libsoxr0 (>=
0.1.0), libspeex1 (>= 1.2~beta3-1), libssh-4 (>=
0.4.2), libtheora0 (>= 1.0), libtwolame0, libuchardet0, libv4l-0 (>=
0.5.0), libva1 (> 1.3.0~), libvdpau1 (>= 0.2),
libvorbis0a (>= 1.1.2), libvorbisenc2 (>= 1.1.2), libvpx1 (>= 1.3.0),
libwavpack1 (>= 4.40.0), libx11-6,
libxcb-shape0, libxcb-xfixes0, libxcb1, libxext6, libxinerama1,
libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.2), libxss1, libxv1,
libxvidcore4 (>= 1.2.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0.2)
Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri, i965-va-driver | libva-intel-vaapi-driver |
va-driver, mesa-vdpau-drivers | nvidia-vdpau-driver
| nvidia-driver-binary | nvidia-current | vdpau-driver
Suggests: libaacs0
Conflicts: mpv
Description: mplayer/mplayer2 based video player
MPV is a versatile CLI movie player, based on mplayer and mplayer2. This
build uses latest git FFmpeg & libass with some
encoding support For online streaming recommended to install upstream
youtube-dl & keep updated See here
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
Homepage: http://mpv.io/
8:09 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] update this morning=347 pkgs from trinity?
Am Mittwoch 01 August 2018 schrieb Michael:
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet
#!/bin/bash
COMMAND="$1"
shift
for arg; do
COMMAND="$COMMAND \"$arg\""
done
sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Why not just:
sg no-internet "$@"
which would do the same as the code above, AFAIU.
Kind regards,
Stefan
11:31 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] update this morning=347 pkgs from trinity?
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 03:09:19 pm Stefan Krusche wrote:
Am Mittwoch 01 August 2018 schrieb Michael:
Hi Stefan,
It doesn't do the same, but it's not my code, so...
AFAIR the difference is in how shell does the expansion, where "$@" can break
single arguments in to garbage because of white spacing and the
COMMAND="$COMMAND \"$arg\"" re-adds quotes properly to not break
single
arguments that have white space. (Or less likely it was an sg issue of passed
in arguments?)
The full explanation is (was) buried on that thread somewhere, or on something
that thread links(ed) to. It made sense to do at the time, but I'd need
someone else with a much better depth of skill with bash/shell/sg to
authoritatively explain it.
Best,
Michael
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script
to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet
#!/bin/bash
COMMAND="$1"
shift
for arg; do
COMMAND="$COMMAND \"$arg\""
done
sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Why not just:
sg no-internet "$@"
which would do the same as the code above, AFAIU.
2 Aug
2 Aug
12:47 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] update this morning=347 pkgs from trinity?
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 13:49:32 Michael wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 10:44:07 am Pisini, John
wrote:
This is all on a 32 bit wheezy install. As this is the main machine for
my local network, its always the last to get updated. This install is
somewhat debian, but its been filtered thru what it takes to at least
run the simulation of linuxcnc.
I am so far, not terribly impressed with debian stretch, 99% of what I
can do from a wheezy box to another wheezy box in flat out rejected by
stretch, even an ssh login is problematic and despite using a -Y
argument for the login, nothing that needs X is allowed to run, so if I
want to write gcode from a comfortable chair, I am stuck with nano for
an editor. Frankly thats BS thats so poor it can't even grow weeds.
But I always install to a new drive, so I can move things I need to the
new drive with mc. But with an invalid wife, (COPD, and broken bones
from falling, so as the chief and only cook and potty/bottle washer here
I don't often find the time to do a new release install and make it all
work again. I've already done one stretch install and just getting
networking usable is a cast iron bitch, nothing will take a gateway
assignment until you get a wad of Kentucky Twist adjusted just right,
and if you spit it out, the network goes away again. And I don't chew,
haven't even had a cigarette in my face in 29+ years.
All this is of coarse not your fault, just jeering from the bleachers.
Summary
310 pkgs upgraded
5 new installed since smplaer wasn't
All this will of course need a reboot, but I've 25 day uptime, so it
about due anyway.
Thanks Michael.
I didn't catch the mpv, so I'll see if thats available for wheezy 32 bit.
Then reboot.
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little
nicer to me than
mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
Second that.
I use both mplayer and mpv under SMPlayer. Open 'Preferences' to
switch the 'Multimedia engine.'
Overkill but I copy/pasted the 3 aptitude show's below.
Do note SMPlayer phones home for self update info, which you can
disable by following:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099&s=73e8a8809da60f5e49
641129388c7658
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet
#!/bin/bash
COMMAND="$1"
shift
for arg; do
COMMAND="$COMMAND \"$arg\""
done
sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Then changing the SMPlayer menu entry to:
no-internet smplayer %U
* I changed 'ni' to 'no-internet' so I'd know what it was later,
everything else came from the Internet...
Best,
Michael
1:43 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] update this morning=347 pkgs from trinity?
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 17:47:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 13:49:32 Michael wrote:
I've also had some problems getting into Debian Stretch (or Devuan Ascii), but
Jessie runs pretty well for me (although I still use a couple of Wheezy
packages). But if you've tried Stretch, then I assume you've also tried
Jessie, right?
Bill
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 10:44:07 am Pisini,
John wrote:
This is all on a 32 bit wheezy install. As this is the main machine for
my local network, its always the last to get updated. This install is
somewhat debian, but its been filtered thru what it takes to at least
run the simulation of linuxcnc.
I am so far, not terribly impressed with debian stretch, 99% of what I
can do from a wheezy box to another wheezy box in flat out rejected by
stretch, even an ssh login is problematic and despite using a -Y
argument for the login, nothing that needs X is allowed to run, so if I
want to write gcode from a comfortable chair, I am stuck with nano for
an editor. Frankly thats BS thats so poor it can't even grow weeds.
But I always install to a new drive, so I can move things I need to the
new drive with mc. But with an invalid wife, (COPD, and broken bones
from falling, so as the chief and only cook and potty/bottle washer here
I don't often find the time to do a new release install and make it all
work again. I've already done one stretch install and just getting
networking usable is a cast iron bitch, nothing will take a gateway
assignment until you get a wad of Kentucky Twist adjusted just right,
and if you spit it out, the network goes away again. And I don't chew,
haven't even had a cigarette in my face in 29+ years.
All this is of coarse not your fault, just jeering from the bleachers.
Summary
310 pkgs upgraded
5 new installed since smplaer wasn't
All this will of course need a reboot, but I've 25 day uptime, so it
about due anyway.
Thanks Michael.
I didn't catch the mpv, so I'll see if thats available for wheezy 32 bit.
Then reboot. Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little
nicer to me than
mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
Second that.
I use both mplayer and mpv under SMPlayer. Open 'Preferences' to
switch the 'Multimedia engine.'
Overkill but I copy/pasted the 3 aptitude show's below.
Do note SMPlayer phones home for self update info, which you can
disable by following:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099&s=73e8a8809da60f5e49
641129388c7658
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet
#!/bin/bash
COMMAND="$1"
shift
for arg; do
COMMAND="$COMMAND \"$arg\""
done
sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Then changing the SMPlayer menu entry to:
no-internet smplayer %U
* I changed 'ni' to 'no-internet' so I'd know what it was later,
everything else came from the Internet...
Best,
Michael
2:25 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] update this morning=347 pkgs from trinity?
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 21:43:26 William Morder wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 17:47:39 Gene Heskett
wrote:
Right Bill, in fact the jessie flavored raspian on an r-pi3b is probably
the most stable install on the premises in spite of a pinned ancient
kernel. But its also realtime built. The r-pi is running lcnc and moving
an 11x36 Sheldon lathe quite nicely. Barring power outages which exposed
an order of detection of the two SSD's plugged into it (I need to
convert fstab to use Label= to remove the detection order so it didn't
reboot, hung at trying to mount what should have been /dev/sdb2
as /dev/sda3. Hung the boot and I finally remembered where I had written
the root pw, got into that and commented those 2 lines back out of
fstab, rebooted, moved cables from usb-2 jack tio usb-2 jack and
rebooted till dmesg showed them in the proper order, and everythings
cool again. Not having a ups on that one shows config errors when the
lights go out unexpectedly. :)
Pi's don't need much of a ups, 100 watts is a sublime overkill. I should
get a little one for it, but if I fix the mounts, its fine. And thats
about $100 cheaper. Call me cheap, I'll probably answer. ;-)
Thanks Bill.
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 13:49:32 Michael
wrote:
I've also had some problems getting into Debian Stretch (or Devuan
Ascii), but Jessie runs pretty well for me (although I still use a
couple of Wheezy packages). But if you've tried Stretch, then I assume
you've also tried Jessie, right?
Bill
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 10:44:07 am Pisini,
John wrote:
This is all on a 32 bit wheezy install. As this is the main machine
for my local network, its always the last to get updated. This
install is somewhat debian, but its been filtered thru what it takes
to at least run the simulation of linuxcnc.
I am so far, not terribly impressed with debian stretch, 99% of what
I can do from a wheezy box to another wheezy box in flat out
rejected by stretch, even an ssh login is problematic and despite
using a -Y argument for the login, nothing that needs X is allowed
to run, so if I want to write gcode from a comfortable chair, I am
stuck with nano for an editor. Frankly thats BS thats so poor it
can't even grow weeds.
But I always install to a new drive, so I can move things I need to
the new drive with mc. But with an invalid wife, (COPD, and broken
bones from falling, so as the chief and only cook and potty/bottle
washer here I don't often find the time to do a new release install
and make it all work again. I've already done one stretch install
and just getting networking usable is a cast iron bitch, nothing
will take a gateway assignment until you get a wad of Kentucky Twist
adjusted just right, and if you spit it out, the network goes away
again. And I don't chew, haven't even had a cigarette in my face in
29+ years.
All this is of coarse not your fault, just jeering from the
bleachers.
Summary
310 pkgs upgraded
5 new installed since smplaer wasn't
All this will of course need a reboot, but I've 25 day uptime, so it
about due anyway.
Thanks Michael.
I didn't catch the mpv, so I'll see if thats available for wheezy 32
bit. Then reboot. Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little
nicer to me than
mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
Second that.
I use both mplayer and mpv under SMPlayer. Open 'Preferences' to
switch the 'Multimedia engine.'
Overkill but I copy/pasted the 3 aptitude show's below.
Do note SMPlayer phones home for self update info, which you can
disable by following:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099&s=73e8a8809da60f
5e49 641129388c7658
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet
#!/bin/bash
COMMAND="$1"
shift
for arg; do
COMMAND="$COMMAND \"$arg\""
done
sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Then changing the SMPlayer menu entry to:
no-internet smplayer %U
* I changed 'ni' to 'no-internet' so I'd know what it was later,
everything else came from the Internet...
Best,
Michael
4:13 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] update this morning=347 pkgs from trinity?
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 19:25:14 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 21:43:26 William Morder
wrote:
Not cheap, but rather thrifty; that used to be a compliment, not an insult.
But now if we don't buy more than we need, we are not good consumers.
If we have a contest for cheap and/or thrifty, I would bet that I am cheaper
than you. But I'm not cheap about everything. I have been known to spend
exorbiant sums on things I really want, but then I don't want much.
Bill
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 17:47:39 Gene Heskett
wrote:
Right Bill, in fact the jessie flavored raspian on an r-pi3b is probably
the most stable install on the premises in spite of a pinned ancient
kernel. But its also realtime built. The r-pi is running lcnc and moving
an 11x36 Sheldon lathe quite nicely. Barring power outages which exposed
an order of detection of the two SSD's plugged into it (I need to
convert fstab to use Label= to remove the detection order so it didn't
reboot, hung at trying to mount what should have been /dev/sdb2
as /dev/sda3. Hung the boot and I finally remembered where I had written
the root pw, got into that and commented those 2 lines back out of
fstab, rebooted, moved cables from usb-2 jack tio usb-2 jack and
rebooted till dmesg showed them in the proper order, and everythings
cool again. Not having a ups on that one shows config errors when the
lights go out unexpectedly. :)
Pi's don't need much of a ups, 100 watts is a sublime overkill. I should
get a little one for it, but if I fix the mounts, its fine. And thats
about $100 cheaper. Call me cheap, I'll probably answer. ;-)
Thanks Bill. On Wednesday 01 August 2018 13:49:32 Michael
wrote:
I've also had some problems getting into Debian Stretch (or Devuan
Ascii), but Jessie runs pretty well for me (although I still use a
couple of Wheezy packages). But if you've tried Stretch, then I assume
you've also tried Jessie, right?
Bill On Wednesday 01 August 2018 10:44:07 am Pisini,
John wrote:
> Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer to me than
> mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
Second that.
I use both mplayer and mpv under SMPlayer. Open 'Preferences' to
switch the 'Multimedia engine.'
Overkill but I copy/pasted the 3 aptitude show's below.
Do note SMPlayer phones home for self update info, which you can
disable by following:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099&s=73e8a8809da60f
5e49 641129388c7658
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet
#!/bin/bash
COMMAND="$1"
shift
for arg; do
COMMAND="$COMMAND \"$arg\""
done
sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Then changing the SMPlayer menu entry to:
no-internet smplayer %U
* I changed 'ni' to 'no-internet' so I'd know what it was later,
everything else came from the Internet...
Best,
Michael
This is all on a 32 bit wheezy install. As this is the main machine
for my local network, its always the last to get updated. This
install is somewhat debian, but its been filtered thru what it takes
to at least run the simulation of linuxcnc.
I am so far, not terribly impressed with debian stretch, 99% of what
I can do from a wheezy box to another wheezy box in flat out
rejected by stretch, even an ssh login is problematic and despite
using a -Y argument for the login, nothing that needs X is allowed
to run, so if I want to write gcode from a comfortable chair, I am
stuck with nano for an editor. Frankly thats BS thats so poor it
can't even grow weeds.
But I always install to a new drive, so I can move things I need to
the new drive with mc. But with an invalid wife, (COPD, and broken
bones from falling, so as the chief and only cook and potty/bottle
washer here I don't often find the time to do a new release install
and make it all work again. I've already done one stretch install
and just getting networking usable is a cast iron bitch, nothing
will take a gateway assignment until you get a wad of Kentucky Twist
adjusted just right, and if you spit it out, the network goes away
again. And I don't chew, haven't even had a cigarette in my face in
29+ years.
All this is of coarse not your fault, just jeering from the
bleachers.
Summary
310 pkgs upgraded
5 new installed since smplaer wasn't
All this will of course need a reboot, but I've 25 day uptime, so it
about due anyway.
Thanks Michael.
I didn't catch the mpv, so I'll see if thats available for wheezy 32
bit. Then reboot. 
1 Aug
1 Aug
10:18 p.m.
Pisini, John wrote:
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer
to me than mplayer
especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
I ported kplayer to trinity
some time ago - it is my favorite player (no
kmplayer but kplayer). It is also an interface to mplayer, but IMO better
one. The admins were kind to accept the patch.
2 Aug
2 Aug
1:18 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Re: update this morning=347 pkgs from trinity?
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 18:18:05 deloptes wrote:
Pisini, John wrote:
mpv apparently came in with jessie, not available for wheezy.
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little
nicer to me than
mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
I ported kplayer to trinity some time ago - it is my favorite player
(no kmplayer but kplayer). It is also an interface to mplayer, but IMO
better one. The admins were kind to accept the patch.
1 Aug
1 Aug
10:21 p.m.
Gene Heskett wrote:
Traceing thru the linkage from /usr/bin/mplayer, a
link that points back
to /etc/alternatives/mplayer, which itself is a link
to /usr/bin/mplayer1 which does not exist.
Can this be fixed? That does seem to be the real problem, and its not
something I can recall piddling with.
you can use update-alternatives, but perhaps better remove the link - I
don't have it in stretch
you can try ffplay to test audio it will also install the codecs required.
regards
2 Aug
2 Aug
2:05 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Re: update this morning=347 pkgs from trinity?
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 18:21:28 deloptes wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
alsa's speaker-test works fine, and ffplay isn't findable in what wheezy
repo's remain online.
I did find something that resembles a .conf update gone screwy, fixed
that and now Noatun works, and with its equalizer working 24/7, mp3's
sound a little better. So this problem is solved for the time being.
Thanks for the hand holding, deloptes, its appreciated.
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
Traceing thru the linkage from /usr/bin/mplayer,
a link that points
back to /etc/alternatives/mplayer, which itself is a link
to /usr/bin/mplayer1 which does not exist.
Can this be fixed? That does seem to be the real problem, and its
not something I can recall piddling with.
you can use update-alternatives, but perhaps better remove the link -
I don't have it in stretch
you can try ffplay to test audio it will also install the codecs
required.
regards
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