Image Conversion Suggestions (.swf or .fla to raster formats)
by Christopher A Williams
I'm looking for suggestions on programs available in known F9
repositories that I can use to convert an image I created sometime ago
using Flash into a raster format (jpeg, PNG, etc.).
I have the original .swf and .fla files, but would rather not go through
the hassle of building out a Windows XP virtual machine and reinstalling
an old version of Macromedia studio just to do this one simple (at least
it should be simple) task.
I also would like to have this around for other things. A GIMP plugin or
importer would be great if something like this exists.
I'm also trying to make sure I have Linux based tools for everything I
usually do - just out of principle... :)
Suggestions and ideas welcome!
Cheers,
Chris
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By all means marry;
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
--Socrates
15 years, 10 months
can burn cds but not dvds on F8
by Globe Trotter
Hi,
I am using cdrecord on F8, wodim:1.1.6-6.fc8
I have been having a strange problem using my cd/dvdwriter. So, I use the following:
cdrecord -v -eject speed=24 dev=/dev/scd1 Fedora-9-i686-Live.iso
which works just fine when writing to a CD-R.
However, the same command using
cdrecord -v -eject speed=24 dev=/dev/scd1 Fedora-9-i386-DVD-iso
does not. Instead, it produces the following:
wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/scd1'
devname: '/dev/scd1'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.6
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'SONY '
Identification : 'DVD RW DRU-510A '
Revision : '1.0b'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0x001B (DVD+R)
Profile: 0x001B (DVD+R) (current)
Profile: 0x001A (DVD+RW)
Profile: 0x0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0013 (DVD-RW restricted overwrite)
Profile: 0x0011 (DVD-R sequential recording)
Profile: 0x0010 (DVD-ROM)
Profile: 0x000A (CD-RW)
Profile: 0x0009 (CD-R)
Profile: 0x0008 (CD-ROM)
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc DVD-R(W) driver (mmc_mdvd).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 4718592 = 4608 KB
Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device
communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
Drive DMA Speed: 12430 kB/s 70x CD 8x DVD
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 3414 MB
Total size: 3921 MB (388:31.72) = 1748379 sectors
Lout start: 3922 MB (388:33/54) = 1748379 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
HINT: use dvd+rw-mediainfo from dvd+rw-tools for information extraction.
Blocks total: 2295104 Blocks current: 2295104 Blocks remaining: 546725
Speed set to 5540 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4.0 in real unknown mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), reserve track scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 53 00 00 00 00 00 1A AD 9B 00
status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
cmd finished after 41.461s timeout 40s
wodim: Cannot open new session.
Writing time: 42.273s
wodim: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
I have tried every possible blank DVD (including some bought new just today) and come with the same thing over and over again.
Any suggestions please? By the way, here is the output for
cdrecord --scanbus
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'SAMSUNG ' 'CD-ROM SC-148A ' 'B403' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
scsibus3:
3,0,0 300) 'SONY ' 'DVD RW DRU-510A ' '1.0b' Removable CD-ROM
3,1,0 301) *
3,2,0 302) *
3,3,0 303) *
3,4,0 304) *
3,5,0 305) *
3,6,0 306) *
3,7,0 307) *
Many thanks and best wishes,
Trotter
15 years, 10 months
Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10?
by Mike Bird
QUESTION TO DEVELOPERS: Is there any hope of a full KDE 3.5
in F10, plus an upgrade path from F8 to F10 that preserves
KDE 3.5 configurations?
KDE 4.0 is incomplete and not suitable for most users.
KDE 4.1 will be incomplete and not suitable for most users.
The KDE devels are debating whether KDE 4.2 will be usable.
The pro-plasma crowd argue that it is theoretically possible
to implement a desktop by KDE 4.2, but that everyone should
change to using the folderview and forget about real desktops.
Probably control center will be fixed by KDE 4.2. It's
debatable whether Dolphin will ever have the usability that
KDE 3.5 Konqueror had, but if it does it won't be until KDE 4.2
at the earliest. F9 already includes a usable KMenu to replace
the KDE 4.0 joke, although the usable KMenu is not the default.
I'm not a KDE developer but I do have users that need to get
work done and they are not interested in a religious conversion
to plasmoids. After reading a lot of KDE developer discussions
my best guess is that KDE 4.3 is the earliest possibility for
most KDE users, but no guarantees.
This puts us in something of a quandary. F9 KDE 4.0 is hugely
annoying to most KDE users. F8 KDE 3.5 still works fine of
course but IIRC security updates will end in six months.
QUESTION TO DEVELOPERS: Is there any hope of a full KDE 3.5
in F10, plus an upgrade path from F8 to F10 that preserves
KDE 3.5 configurations?
--Mike Bird
15 years, 10 months
gnome-system-monitor -- most of the views greyed out.
by Bill Case
Hi;
I use gnome-system-monitor all the time. Leave it on the upper left
corner of my top panel. In F9 I find that all the options other than
Memory Maps and Open Files are greyed out -- and they do nothing
discernible. I can no longer choose All processes, active processes or
my processes.
The processes reflected in the main window are only the processes of the
logged in user. I now have to sudo to see root processes etc.
Is this deliberate or a bug?
--
Regards Bill;
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2
Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1
15 years, 10 months
Hardware browser??
by Beartooth
Fedora always used to have a hardware browser; for a while it had
two, one with endless cryptic detail, and one highly simplified.
Now I find neither. Has it (or have they) been renamed? Can I add
it with yum? Some other way?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
15 years, 10 months
virtmanager, qemu-kvm and keyboard
by Christoph Höger
Hi,
Ive got a little problem with my virtmanager here.
I installed a debian just for testing into a qemu-kvm driven machine.
Everything seems to work fine, except that I get a lot of "unknown
keycode 0x0" errors, when I press "-" key or other essential keys.
Is there a workaround?
regards
Christoph
15 years, 10 months
speaking of grub graphical boot...
by Tom Horsley
I have from time to time tried to make my own grub boot
image. I've seen all the rules I'm supposed to follow about
making it the right size and the right number of colors, and
my own attempts often work out fine.
But then there are those other times, when I'll have an
image that looks perfectly fine in gimp, or eog, or whatever,
but when grub displays it, the colors are completely wacked
out - not at all like the colors specified in the xpm file.
Anyone know what rule I am missing about restrictions
on the images?
15 years, 10 months
Evolution fails to see some messages in Inbox
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I see no messages displayed in Inbox earlier than Sept 11, 2007, though
I know there are earlier ones. If I search Inbox for a message that I
know is there, received in 2005, it's not found. But if I search the
*Account*, rather than Inbox, for the same message it is found.
Can anyone explain this?
Inbox is rather large:
3032 unread 8014 total
15 years, 10 months
Dual Athlon cpu
by Mike Chambers
Running dual athlons using the i386 (or 686 depending the package) F9
release (this is an x86_64 system), is there some services that need to
be enabled for them to be maximized in their use? Things such as
cpuspeed and such need to be on? In other words (and not that
knowledgeable in this area), can you even tell if it's being used
correctly, and if your just doing small things, such as checking email,
browsing, those type things, is it used then as well, or more for when
doing things like compiling one program, then doing all the other stuff
like normal?
Hope I worded my question right LOL
--
Mike Chambers
Fedora Project - Ambassador, Bug Zapper, Tester, User, etc..
mikec302(a)fedoraproject.org
15 years, 10 months
Mirror bandwidth and user redirection
by Matt Domsch
Tonight I deployed a slight update to MirrorManager that I'd been
wanting to do for a while. The basic selection algorithm for choosing
the order in which to return mirrors to clients remains the same:
prefer same netblocks, internet2 in same country if on internet2, same
country, same continent, then global, in that order. However, until
now, faster mirrors (those with larger bandwidths) were returned with
equal probability as slower mirrors. This means not enough traffic
was being sent to our gigabit-connected mirrors, and too much traffic
was being sent to our slower mirrors.
Each mirror's bandwidth value is now used as a weight. Mirrors with
larger bandwidth will have a a higher probability of being returned
earlier in the mirrorlist selection. Slower mirrors can still be
returned as the first mirrorlist selection because this is based on
probabilities, but should not be overwhelmed anymore.
For countries with fewer mirrors, such as India, where there's some
relatively fast mirrors, and several relatively slower mirrors, this
should mean that users will more often get directed to the faster
mirrors.
Thanks,
Matt
Fedora Mirror Wrangler
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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
15 years, 10 months