I finally installed all the codecs for Ubuntu Linux. Now everything
plays on anything. It was easy enough, just a matter of getting the
information. First I had to edit the sources.list file under sudo. Then
remove the quotes in the file to allow ubuntu update to browse all
available applications, software and drivers. Then I had to type:

"sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gl
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
libxine-extracodecs w32codecs"

This then proceeded to download and install the codecs I needed.

OK Next it's installing some decent CD/DVD burning software.

I'm slowly but surely becoming a full time Linux user. Wohay so long
and thanks for all the fish Mr Gates. :-)

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:35:56 -0800, ChrisC wrote:

> I finally installed all the codecs for Ubuntu Linux. Now everything
> plays on anything. It was easy enough, just a matter of getting the
> information.

Congrats. Linux rocks, and I too am liking Ubuntu very much, recently
migrated my two desktop PCs and my Compaq Presario V2000 notebook to
Ubuntu. Got codecs? Got mplayer? Try this: run several (2,3,4,5,6...)
instances of mplayer-- you can actually play several videos at the same
time-- including audio, -- i did this a few days ago just to see it
happen, mind blowing. Try doing that in Windows (you can't).



> OK Next it's installing some decent CD/DVD burning software.

k3b

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:35:56 -0800, ChrisC wrote:

> I finally installed all the codecs for Ubuntu Linux. Now everything
> plays on anything. ... [cut out lots]... I'm slowly but surely becoming
> a full time Linux user. Wohay so long and thanks for all the fish Mr
> Gates. :-)

If you are liking linux / Ubuntu thus far, check out this HOW-TO I
recently wrote for my linux user group; of course it assumes you are using
Gnome and not KDE, you might give Gnome a try if you are not currently
using it. Anyhow, here is how to customize/create a custom login screen,
and splash screen, transparent terminal to show your wallpaper, etc:

Gnome Customization
===================
I thought I would start a file here for some things I have been learning
about regarding the customization of Gnome, one of the popular window
managers (GUI) available for use in linux. I used to use KDE, but I am
liking Gnome, at least for now. I like the customizations and look of it,
and as with all things linux is it nice to be able to make your system
look how you want it to look.


WALLPAPER
Sort of a no-brainer, just right click on desktop of course and choose to
change the background. Use any jpeg or png image.


SPLASH SCREEN
I did not like the Ubuntu orange-brown rectangular splash screen that
comes up after logging in--the screen that shows the services, printer,
network being brought up. To change it to be any image you want to use do
this as user (not root, not sudo):

$ gconf-editor

The Gnome Configuration editor GUI will appear. Similar a bit to the
Registry editor of MS-Windows. Click the >apps item at the top to expand
it, then scroll down and click the >gnome-session to expand it, then
>options to see the options in the window pane on the right. You will see
on the pane on the right the "key" called splash_image at the bottom of
the list and to the right of that the key value which is the full path to
the image to be used for the Gnome splash image for the user invoking the
gconf-editor; just type in the full path to an image (any jpeg or png
image). Close the gconf-editor application. Next time you login you should
see your custom image. If you do not have an image, google for 'gnome
splash image art' and you will find lots, but any jpeg or png image can be
used. Here are some splash screens for gnome at the gnome art website:
http://art.gnome.org/themes/splash_screens/


LOGIN IMAGE/THEME
There are lots of funky login managers you can use besides the default. Go
to http://art.gnome.org and fine the GDM Greeters (login managers for
Gnome), such as at http://art.gnome.org/themes/gdm_greeter/ Find
whatever you like, download to a folder on your computer (do not unzip,
they are generally in the form of somefile.tar.gz and are meant to be kept
that way). I like keeping mine in a directory I create called
~/gnome/login-managers/ Then from the Gnome menubar choose
System>Administration>LoginWindow. The GUI will appear for managing login
greeter themes, and you can click Add to add a new one that you have
downloaded. Now click on whatever login greeter theme you like and be sure
to click the radio button to the left of its thumbnail image. Click the
close button. That's all.


TRANSPARENT TERMINAL (show wallpaper), NO MENU, NO SCROLLBAR: I like
having a terminal console that is transparent and without menus, less
clutter, allows the background wallpaper to show through (as much or as
little as you want). Just open a gnome terminal from the Applications
menu. Now, from the gnome terminal File menu choose New Profile, give it a
name. Edit it, and you will see several tabs available such as Effects. In
the effects tab, you can choose transparency and use the slider to control
lots of transparency (slider all the way to the left) or none (all the way
to the right). The Scolling tab lets you choose to turn off the vertical
scroll bar if you wish. The General tab lets you uncheck the showing of
the menu bar. Anytime you want any of that stuff back, you can redit the
console by right clicking inside a console terminal and choosing to edit
its profile, or turn on the menu. Nice.


GNOME MENU BAR
A quick customization you can do is to right click on the Gnome menu bar--
that wide bar across the top or bottom of the screen, then choose
Properties. A configuration GUI appears, and you can click the tab on it
that says Background; then choose solid color-- I choose white, then slide
the transparency slider to make it almost transparent to let the wallpaper
bleed through, the menubar looking almost like a transparent veil-like
film (almost making autohide unnecessary). Also if you like now is the
time to make it autohide, change its size, etc. Want a really small
footprint Desktop with minimal clutter? Make your menubars autohide, the
rename your desktop icons that are there so that for example Home becomes
~, MyComputer becomes ^, you get the idea. More wallpaper to see, less
clutter with menubars and big names of icons. You can also of course add
applets or shortcuts (drag and drop off other Gnome menus, or type in
commands). If you uncheck the Expand checkbox, the menubar becomes much
shorter in length.

Nice to hear that. I've done that a long time ago. ;)
ChrisC wrote:
> I finally installed all the codecs for Ubuntu Linux. Now everything
> plays on anything. It was easy enough, just a matter of getting the
> information. First I had to edit the sources.list file under sudo. Then
> remove the quotes in the file to allow ubuntu update to browse all
> available applications, software and drivers. Then I had to type:
>
> "sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gl
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
> libxine-extracodecs w32codecs"
>
> This then proceeded to download and install the codecs I needed.
>
> OK Next it's installing some decent CD/DVD burning software.
>
> I'm slowly but surely becoming a full time Linux user. Wohay so long
> and thanks for all the fish Mr Gates. :-)

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:35:56 -0800, ChrisC wrote:
> "sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gl
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
> libxine-extracodecs w32codecs"


So, can you now play FLI, MOV, ASF, and WMV files with no problem? These
give my setup the fits, but before I go and install a bunch of stuff (I
usually find that installing one thing wants to remove a dozen other more
important things) I'd like to know if it worked for you.

<followup set>

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:22:51 -0500, CJ Chitwood {Circuit Breaker} wrote:
> So, can you now play FLI, MOV, ASF, and WMV files with no problem? These
> give my setup the fits, but before I go and install a bunch of stuff (I
> usually find that installing one thing wants to remove a dozen other more
> important things) I'd like to know if it worked for you.

I have been able to play most video formats, if I use mplayer and the
mplayer codecs at
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
Where you install them often depends on one's distro.

--

CJ Chitwood {Circuit Breaker} wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:35:56 -0800, ChrisC wrote:
> > "sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gl
> > gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
> > gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
> > gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
> > libxine-extracodecs w32codecs"
>
>
> So, can you now play FLI, MOV, ASF, and WMV files with no problem? These
> give my setup the fits, but before I go and install a bunch of stuff (I
> usually find that installing one thing wants to remove a dozen other more
> important things) I'd like to know if it worked for you.
>
> <followup set>

Havn't tried yet. But I can play DivX and Mp3's which is what I wanted.

One of the things that irriates me about Ubuntu is that it does not properly
detect my ATI Raedon 9800 Pro card.
For being such a popular card, you'd think they'd do better.
On the Dapper Drake Live-CD it would only display 640x480. I had to
manually fiddle with the xorg.conf file and restart X to get it to display
properly.
I just tried the new 6.10 (Edgy Eft) and the max it will go on the Live-CD
is 800x600. Better, but no cigar.

Mike

"ChrisC" <chrispche@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:1167309356.006681.204510@s34g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
>I finally installed all the codecs for Ubuntu Linux. Now everything
> plays on anything. It was easy enough, just a matter of getting the
> information. First I had to edit the sources.list file under sudo. Then
> remove the quotes in the file to allow ubuntu update to browse all
> available applications, software and drivers. Then I had to type:
>
> "sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gl
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
> libxine-extracodecs w32codecs"
>
> This then proceeded to download and install the codecs I needed.
>
> OK Next it's installing some decent CD/DVD burning software.
>
> I'm slowly but surely becoming a full time Linux user. Wohay so long
> and thanks for all the fish Mr Gates. :-)
>

Mike Flanders wrote:

> One of the things that irriates me about Ubuntu is that it does not
> properly detect my ATI Raedon 9800 Pro card.
> For being such a popular card, you'd think they'd do better.
> On the Dapper Drake Live-CD it would only display 640x480. I had to
> manually fiddle with the xorg.conf file and restart X to get it to display
> properly.
> I just tried the new 6.10 (Edgy Eft) and the max it will go on the Live-CD
> is 800x600. Better, but no cigar.
>

All distros have been having some problems with ATI drivers. ATI have
released updated drivers on their site, most drivers for fairly recent
cards are there, with a controller in the download.

I loaded for mine without a hitch, but others have said otherwise. When I
questioned them I get a strong feeling that they didn't follow the install
instructions properly from start to finish. So do it carefully.

http://ati.de/support/driver.html

Your card is there.

By the way, their control panel is open source (the drivers can't be because
of other agreements they are bound to).

ChrisC wrote:
> I finally installed all the codecs for Ubuntu Linux. Now everything
> plays on anything. It was easy enough, just a matter of getting the
> information. First I had to edit the sources.list file under sudo. Then
> remove the quotes in the file to allow ubuntu update to browse all
> available applications, software and drivers. Then I had to type:
>
> "sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gl
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
> libxine-extracodecs w32codecs"
>
> This then proceeded to download and install the codecs I needed.
>
> OK Next it's installing some decent CD/DVD burning software.
>
> I'm slowly but surely becoming a full time Linux user. Wohay so long
> and thanks for all the fish Mr Gates. :-)
>
Congratulations, but don't you mean phish?

On Jan 8, 7:55 am, Julian Treadwell <julian.treadw...@jcu.edu.au>
wrote:

> > I'm slowly but surely becoming a full time Linux user. Wohay so long
> > and thanks for all the fish Mr Gates. :-)
>
> Congratulations, but don't you mean phish?

It's from Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and the
books in the series. It what the dolphins said when the vogons blew up
earth and they went elsewhere. They said "So long and thanks for all
the fish" to the humans who went up with the earth.

ChrisC wrote:
> On Jan 8, 7:55 am, Julian Treadwell <julian.treadw...@jcu.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>>> I'm slowly but surely becoming a full time Linux user. Wohay so long
>>> and thanks for all the fish Mr Gates. :-)
>> Congratulations, but don't you mean phish?
>
> It's from Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and the
> books in the series. It what the dolphins said when the vogons blew up
> earth and they went elsewhere. They said "So long and thanks for all
> the fish" to the humans who went up with the earth.
>

and the dolphins were only the flunkies of the mice, anyway

Daniel

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