Wade, the IPW2200 in my ACPI-crippled laptop is one of the few pieces of hardware in it that worked first time with Linux (Mandriva 2006.0, in this case, with the firmware RPM from PLF ’coz the Free version of the distro can’t ship it — one for Intel’s ToDo list, I guess), whereas XP on the same laptop drops persistent connections (typically ssh) about every 20-60 seconds at random, and also flubs about every 10th web-page (delays some, refuses to load others, yet a reload 10 seconds later is fast and perfect).
I have a LibreOffice Impress slideshow that I wish to turn into a narrated video. 1. export the slideshow as PNG images (if that is partially broken — as at now — at higher resolutions, Export Directly as PDF then use ‘pdftoppm’ (from the poppler-utils package) to do the same). 2. write a small C program (63 lines including comments) to display those images one at a time, writing a config file entry for Imagination (default transition: ‘cross fade’) based on when the image-viewer application (‘display,’ from the GraphicsMagick suite) is closed on each one; run that, read each image aloud, then close each image in turn. 3. run ‘Imagination’ over the config file to produce a silent MP4 video with the correct timings. 4. run ‘Audacity’ to record speech while using ‘SMPlayer’ to display the silent video, then export that recording as a WAV file. 4a. optionally, use ‘TiMIDIty’ to convert a non-copyright-encumbered MIDI tune to WAV, then import that and blend it with the speech (as a quiet b
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Running with the FC6 test kernel at the moment, and although it requires new hardware it is still rock solid (finally).
Now I just need to make get ACPI working reliably and coming out of suspend.
Wade
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Charles