Since I installed the update to the Enhancer package, I have completely lost Ringhio notifications. No programmes give a notification, and when I run Prefs and click Test, nothing happens.

Not a biggie, but I have just noticed the Sound Prefs isn't fully localised. On the Sound Settings tab, the field to select the type of sound (Beep or Sampled Sound) is labelled "Type de son".

Can I suggest that when the Enhancer installer installs the Kickstart module for SFS, it also updates the user's kicklayout to include it? It took me a while to realise why SFS still wasn't working, and I don't know how many users are familiar with changing the kicklayout file.

Can Multiviewer please support the PageUp/Down keys? Thanks.

Time Prefs from the Enchancer seems to be stuck on GMT.

My time sever is ntp1.vodafone.co.nz port 123.

Everytime I boot up, it's 12 hours behind. I have "update at boot time" checked, but I have to manually open Time Prefs and click "Get time now" to get onto NZST.

Also, when I tick "Automatically adjust clock for Daylight Saving Time", it seems to be defaulting to some other country's settings (UK?), even though Locale.prefs knows my country's DST dates.

@apsturk

"The presence of the Xena chip and Xorro expansion slot on the AmigaONE X5000 opens the door to many possible commercial and user-created expansion options. The Xena may simply be used as a co-processor to the main CPU, or via the Xorro slot as a high performance controller of external hardware. The possibilities are limited only by the imagination of the user."

A few things spring to mind (I have no idea if these are feasible):

Emulation of Classic hardware (e.g., Alice)
Provide Altivec to otherwise Altivec-less P5020
A USB 3 controller

@outrun1978

My thinking (hope) is that Amigakit are flat-out doing QA, building systems, and supplying all the other suppliers before they start to sell it.

However, I'm getting a little concerned that the X5000 may sell-out before it even goes on sale...

Likewise, I'm hoping to take advantage of the weak pound, but the NZD is tanking at the mo.

My A1XE G4:

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SORTBENCH 1.1 (Gunnar von Boehn)
Its a CPU benchmark that stresses CPU, DCache and branch prediction.
CPU: Motorola MPC 7445/7455 Apollo @ 800MHz; L1:32768 L2:262144 L3:0
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1K Element : 1208 MB/sec
2K Element : 1207 MB/sec
4K Element : 1208 MB/sec
8K Element : 1207 MB/sec
16K Element : 1195 MB/sec
32K Element : 1185 MB/sec

I killed all background processes and ran a 800x600x8 WB.

Will also try the SAM460 today as well.

Using a Radeon 9250 256 MB on my A1-XE (so, AGP). It's a wee beastie with a few quirks, as I've noted on the Hyperion log.

Just wondering, Hans, would this poll be more useful if it distinguished between Radeon AGP and Radeon PCI in the category "Radeon 8xxx-9xxx" ?

@xenic

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One of the things that got my goat just before starting this thread was an inability to upload. I have been using FFMpeg to create clips and wanted to share one with a friend. The A1 simply refused to upload a 2MB file to RapidShare. In the end I gave up and my A1200 did it in about 15 - 20 minutes.

Well, I just tried it again, using the same modem I had used on the A1200. Same result - the dialer just decides to quit after a while.

Who the hell writes a TCP/IP stack that can't upload to the internet? My A1 just took a quantum leap towards being chucked into a dumpster. :(

@daveyw

Today I took the modem from my A1200 (a Dynalink 56K, which has always worked reliably), and connected it to the A1. I also used the same init string from Miami.

I connected to my ISP, fired up IBrowse and went to Yahoo. All seemed well. However, I tried to open my email on Yahoo and the connection was taking forever. Switched back to Workbench and to my surprise the AppIcon for my ISP had disappeared. RoadShow had simply quit.

My modem was still connected (a nice feature of the Dynalink, it can maintain a connection regardless of the computer's state), so I tried to go back online. Miami has no problems with this, but Roadshow was completely baffled and I had to switch the modem off to get back online.

I am back online now, and so far the connection is steady. I think it's a little slower than the US Robotics modem.

I am really confused with regards to the a1serial.device. Some people seem to be saying, use the older version. Others say use the new version. I am using 52.1, which is also confusing, as I was under the impression that I had OS 4.0 final? (Workbench is 52.1, Kickstart is 52.8).

BTW, wireless broadband is not available in my area either.

@daveyw

Thanks for the info. I am using on dial-up, using a US Robotics 3-Com modem on A1/OS 4.0.

Yes, I live in Auckland. I live 100 metre from the main road in Henderson (Lincoln Road) but, incredibly, broadband is not available where I live.

I don't want to get OT with my rant about what a Third World Country New Zealand is, but suffice to say as much as I would like broadband, I can't get it.

Hi,

From the moment I started using the A1, the biggest disappointment has been the TCP/IP stack. It's the worst I've ever used, worse even than Windows ME. Although I get faster download speeds than my A1200 or my WinME laptop, its other bugs more than compensate.

It drops the line. It pretends to go online but actually doesn't (a trick straight out of Windows). It can't manage an even number of connections (i.e., when it drops the line, if I reconnect it pretends to go on line but actually isn't and I have to disconnect and reconnect again).

Most annoyingly, I cannot upload files of more than 2MBs or so. I leave it uploading, only to come back and find that Roadshow has given up and dropped the connection.

Does anyone know of any fixes available?

Hi,
I recently acquired a 2nd-hand parallel Zip 100, and thought it might be useful for using with my A1 (I have a scsi internal Zip in my A1200T, and Zip disk might be easier to transfer files than CD).

However, I can't seem to get the A1 to recognise the drive. I tried the ZIP dos driver that comes with OS 4.0, changed the device to a1parallel.device and the unit to 0, but I can't mount the device. In U-Boots prefs, the Parallel Port is set to EPP and address 0x378.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.

@Astral

Thanks! Just tried the first method specified (PeeVOBill -> mkisofs -> AmiDVD) and it worked just fine. Mkisofs threw up some errors (complained that the specified directory couldn't be found), but created the image anyway. It was called CDROM by default, but I see on the man page that there's an option -V to specify a volume name. Still played in my DVD player and DVDPlayer worked as well.

I don't think the direct copy method would work with CSS encrypted DVDs. I think you'd need PeeVOBill to copy them to your HD first.

@daveyw

Thanks everybody, I seem to have made a major breakthrough!

I've discovered that it was DVD+Rs that were giving me the problem. I can rip OK from DVD-Rs. I can also rip from DVD+RWs, but it's problematic: if I record more than one programme on a disc, FFMpeg can only "see" part of each one. Again, the disc plays fine, it's FFMpeg that has the difficulty.

I wonder if my Asus DVD drive is not 100% compatible with the +R format? Or maybe it's FFMpeg that's incompatible? Can someone have a go and let me know the results?

Thanks.

@Slayer

Quote:

The file format. I have tried copying the .VOB files across with PeeVOBill, and while DVPlayer can play them FFMpeg cannot read the video stream.

@ktadd

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Thanks, and thanks for the new version of FFMpegGui! I'm having a little success now!

However, it seems that if I set the start off-set to anything other than 10, nothing gets encoded.

Still, my main goal is to encode my own DVDs. If I've created a DVD by just pressing record, it seems these DVDs can't be read by FFMpeg/Mencoder. However, if I've made a DVD by the recorder's direct dubbing feature (copying VHS->DVD), then it works (this is the actually a disc I've just tested now with FFMpeg and Mencoder).

BTW, your documentation refers to a couple of Quick Set-ups that don't seem to be included, such as Video Frames -> Jpegs.

@Varthall

Quote:

Thanks, setting the stack worked! The line
mencoder Misc:Raw/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB -o misc:raw/Disc.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy
now works!

I think there could be a lip-sync problem, though. I'll investigate.

Unfortunately, Mencoder can't seem to handle DVD that were created by my Panasonic DVD recorder.

Hi,

I've been playing around with DVDs on my A1. There doesn't seem to be much talk about what I was trying to do, so I thought I might say a few words about my progress and perhaps anyone else can comment.

What I'm idealling trying to do it convert DVDs to AVIs, or "rip". However, my interest is backing up my own DVDs rather than copying commercial titles.

That being said, the only success I've had so far has been with a VOB from a commercial disc!

I started out with FFMpeg and FFMpeg GUI. I don't seem to be able to extract audio from VOBs; only by disabling audio can I extract a video stream.

I have been unable to extract video streams from DVDs recorded with my Panasonic DMR-ES35V recorder. Although DVPlayer can play them fine, FFMpeg reports them as being only a fraction of their true size (176x144 intead of 720x576) and cannot extract a video stream, it reports "no key frame" and "illegal MBA").

Using PeVOBill I was able to copy a VOB from a commercial disc to my HD, and then, with FFMpeg I was able to extract 19 minutes with no audio.

I then started playing around with mencoder. I now had the reverse problem, with Mencoder I can only extract audio. Any attempt to extract video results in a crash. I also cannot seem to extract audio as MP3 either, only AC3.

Anyway, I went back to the VOB ex-PeVOBill and was able to extract the AC3 audio, and then finally mux it together with the video extracted by FFMpeg. Finally, some success, I was able to copy 19 minutes of video and audio (albeit not exactly the material I wanted in the first place!). However, the resulting file is 660 MB, compared to the 1GB of the original VOB. After doing some reading on the handy links specified in the FFMpeg guide, I learned that I could crop the video to remove the overscan and reduce the filesize. This worked, but not by much- I now have a 550MB file. I could maybe also scale it, but so far I haven't tried that.

MP3 audio would also reduce filesize, but I can't seem to extract MP3 audio. Am I missing a library? I have the OS4 version of mpega.library in libs. Or are the versions of FFMpeg/Mencoder not compiled to use MP3?

I tried to replicate this on another disc, this time one of my own that FFMpeg is able to correctly identify the size of. However, when I try to extract a video stream, FFMpeg crashes.

That's where I'm up to so far. I guess I don't know too much about what I'm doing. There are some pages on the Net that are informative, but they're written for Linux users. For example,

mencoder dvd://2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vpass=1 -oac copy -o /dev/null
mencoder dvd://2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:vpass=2 \
-oac copy -o output.avi

dvd://2 seems to be the Linux DVD device. I substituted the path to the VOB and used NIL: for /dev/null, but the result was a crash.

It would be nice to hear from anyone else who has tried doing this sort of thing.