Michael J. Hammel

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Video

After experimenting a bit I found that AcidRIP wrapped around mplayer’s mencoder produced much smaller AVI files for my archives. In general, I was able to use the following process top rip DVDs: Put the DVD in the drive and click on “Load DVD”. Choose the first title (listed by […]

AcidRIP – smaller and faster is better

Thu October 06, 2005 in General / Linux / Video tagged MythTV / Video (updated 7118 days ago)

I’ve got a MythTV server at home that I’ve slowly been filling with movies. I’ve been buying the movies then ripping them to disk with DVD::RIP. The main use for this is in my office where I watch (actually just listen) to a movie on one workspace while I work […]

A video library: ripping with mencoder, acidrip, transcode and DVD::RIP

Mon September 19, 2005 in Linux / Video tagged Fedora / MythTV / Video / yum (updated 7118 days ago)

My CDRW/DVD RW won’t play DVDs. It handles CDs fine, but DVD playing doesn’t work. Checking the logs I found the message: Jun 11 22:58:23 kepler kernel: ATAPI device hdb: Jun 11 22:58:23 kepler kernel: Error: Illegal request — (Sense key=0x05) Jun 11 22:58:23 kepler kernel: Media region code is […]

Acer Aspire 1690 – changing region code for DVD-RW

Sun June 12, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / General / Linux / Video tagged acer / aspire / yum (updated 7118 days ago)

The i915 driver snapshot from freedesktop.org fixed my problems with the video on my Acer Aspire 1690. It even allows the graphical boot (aka rhgb) to function again. But I still can’t use the DVD player. I still get lots of errors related to accessing hdb in /var/log/messages. I’ll have […]

Laptop Update: video fixed

Tue June 07, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / Hardware / Video tagged acer / aspire / Video (updated 7118 days ago)

More info on support for using the Acer Aspire w/Intel i915GM video: Here is an updated 915resolution, based on the 855resolution tool. Here are snapshots of the dri driver for the i915 from X.org. Note that you need to have X11R6.8.2 to work with this driver (and even then it […]