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00:01.48pawelDay changed to 03 Feb 2005
00:01.56pawelooops.
00:02.04pawelI'm running late.
00:03.39paweloh, yeah. I just recorded my first DVD through USB. :)
00:05.20Jang0i hope that was usb2... :/
00:05.26pawelno. :)
00:05.31pawelold USB 1.1. :)
00:05.37Jang0ouch
00:06.49pawelhaven't got USB 2 in my laptop, I'm considering a PCMCIA adaptor, but don't know how this could work with Linux.
00:06.57pawelhaven't tried it.
00:07.35pawelbut at this point I've got a very nice storage device. :)
00:08.15pawelI just fitted all my movies from the hard drive on a single disc. :)
00:08.54Jang0pcmcia should be fine with linux
00:09.15Jang0i use my wlan card through pcmcia
00:09.21Jang0(one of them)
00:10.08paweloh, I have been using a lot of pcmcia stuff under linux, wifi, modems, scsi etc, but never that latest USB2 adaptors.
00:10.54pawelI want to get serial ata on pcmcia now. :)
00:12.22Jang0heh
00:12.25Jang0good luck
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00:14.34pawelJang0: do you play openttd?
00:14.39Jang0ye
00:15.01Jang0you like it?
00:15.20rhowepawel: Heya - how're things?
00:15.31pawelJang0: haven't tried it. what requirements does it have?
00:15.36Jang0pretty low
00:15.51Jang0although i'm just about to try a mega map with 3k towns - that'll require more :)
00:16.49pawelrhowe: not bad. still haven't got a flat. got my business started, some progress with the lady. acually lots of things going on.
00:17.31pawelrhowe: bit busy, tired and headaches.
00:17.45pawelrhowe: yourself?
00:17.59pawelJang0: what do you mean by that?
00:18.03rhowepawel: not too bad - managed to get an all-expenses-paid trip to Singapore :)
00:18.13rhowepawel: bit busy, tired and headaches :)
00:18.24pawelJang0: I've got P3 500MHz with 192MB of RAM, how about that?
00:18.35Jang0that'll be fine for standard openttd
00:18.51Jang0but in the last few days new patches have been going into the latest svn source
00:19.10Jang0rather than map size being limited to 256x256, you can now have 4096x4096
00:19.14Jang0and they are HUGE
00:19.23pawelrhowe: cool. how about the flat? have you found some?
00:19.45rhowepawel: I'm now a lodger in SE London
00:19.52pawelJang0: I've been playing in that looong time ago.
00:20.04pawelrhowe: SE, it's far away.
00:20.11Jang0what, bigger maps?
00:20.23pawelJang0: no. :) TTD. :)
00:20.27Jang0ah, heh
00:20.29Jang0yea
00:20.31pawelJang0: on my old 486. :)
00:20.32Jang0ttd owns
00:20.34rhowepawel: Sure, but I've moved my stuff, and it's cheaper to live here and quicker to get to work
00:20.35Jang0yea, me too
00:20.39rhowepawel: Plus, there's more space
00:20.49pawelrhowe: how much do you pay?
00:21.05Jang0openttd > ttd (easily)
00:21.09rhowepawel: 400 a month, but I charge them 15 a month for
00:21.12rhowe'net access :)
00:21.37pawelrhowe: oh. so are you sharing then?
00:21.48rhowepawel: Living with a couple who own the place
00:21.53pawelrhowe: I'm considering a whole flat on my own.
00:21.56rhowepawel: No proper contract really
00:22.41pawelrhowe: I'll be looking for a person or a couple at the end of March. :)
00:23.30pawelbut North of London preferable.
00:23.38pawelMuswell Hill in particular. :)
00:23.47rhowepawel: heh, I'll probably just be settling in here by then, and I'm none-too-enamoured with the northern line any more :)
00:24.57pawelrhowe: I haven't seen much of South London, know East, West and North to be honest.
00:25.22rhowepawel: Me neither - I only live here :P
00:25.29rhoweOK, half 12. Definately bedtime
00:25.35pawelI was few times to visit DVLA and to pickup some stuff from eBay and that's it.
00:26.03rhowepawel: More than enough times :)
00:26.17rhoweSo, 'night :)
00:26.54pawel7:30 I'll be heading to work.
00:27.02pawelrhowe: cu later man.
00:27.20pawelI'm gonna do the same.
00:27.24pawelnight guys.
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01:19.12LeedsJAV: in case you're awake, hauppauge nova-t - the new model with connexant chips on it
01:20.36JAVI'm awake
01:20.36JAV:D
01:21.07JAVnova... that's without hardware mpeg
01:21.15Leedsright
01:21.29JAVwhat about cpu usage?
01:22.31Leedspulling a ts from it straight to disk is essentially free
01:23.33JAV:?
01:23.35Leedsor I can use mencoder to do divx/mp3 from it directly at about 50% cpu
01:24.23JAV<Leeds> pulling a ts from it straight to disk is essentially free  ---> need explanation :D
01:24.48Leedsah... ts being a transport stream - effectively taking the mpeg stream directly from the air
01:25.08LeedsI have it on a largely headless box - it's for recording, not viewing live
01:25.22Leedsso I'm not interested in direct playback, I'm interesting in streaming to disk
01:27.20JAVso if you use it live there's low cpu usage?
01:27.34Leedswhat do you mean by use it live?
01:29.21JAVif you just watch a channel...
01:29.34JAVcpu?
01:29.55LeedsI don't know, becuase I don't have the card in the machine I indend to watch TV on
01:30.15Leedsbut the answer is "however much it takes to watch a medium quality MPEG2 stream"
01:31.34JAVI was looking at DVB cards to use it in a server, in order to listen to a radio channel full time
01:32.12Leedsthat would be very cheap...
01:32.25Leedsoh, and the card was only ?50 (on a long-ish term sale price)
01:32.50JAVthat's why I'm concerned about cpu
01:33.56Leedsokay, hang on
01:33.56JAV100 euros for Nova VS 300 euros for Nexus (with hard-mpeg)
01:35.00JAVnexus has direct audio output afaik
01:36.54JAVwell, bedtime, good night all
01:36.59Leedshang on a bit
01:40.20JAVhang on --> 3: hold the phone line open   :) ok
01:40.51Leedstalk approx 2% of CPU time used (on an Athlon XP 2400+) to stream radio to disk
01:41.19Leedsit's essentially free :-)
01:41.29JAVyes, affordable
01:41.46JAVno problem with the server then
01:41.48Leedsof course, I mean free in machine resources, not money :-0
01:41.56JAVheh
01:42.20JAVit's better than nexus, at least
01:42.24Leedsit's not a trivial thing to do in terms of setting it up, and it involves drivers from CVS right now, which always makes me a bit unhappy...
01:43.26JAVit looks working with 2.6.10, isn't it?
01:43.36JAVand ...
01:43.49JAVdvbtune
01:43.54Leedsyes, but drivers from CVS still
01:44.03Leedsthe drivers in 2.6.10 aren't current
01:46.23JAVyou said bt878?
01:46.31Leedsnope
01:46.34Leedscx88
01:46.45JAVnever heard
01:47.11Leedsit's connexant, the drivers still come from bytesex.org... :-)
01:48.23JAVHauppauge WinTV :(
01:48.26JAVugly name
01:48.35Leedstrue
01:49.52JAVIt's cheaper than I expected, maybe I'll give it a try
01:51.25JAVIn an Athlon XP 2400+ with a underloaded mysql + postfix + iptables
01:51.33Leedsheh
01:51.38Leedshow much is it locally?
01:53.09JAVhttp://www.hauppauge.fr/spain/sp_novsp.htm
01:53.21JAV111,90 euros, vat inc
01:53.31JAVofficial price
01:53.50JAVi'll find it cheaper for sure
01:54.06JAVhttp://www.hauppauge.fr/spain/tarjetas/nova2.jpg
01:55.30Leedsah, that's a nova-s - very different
01:56.05JAVdvb-s, yes
01:56.14LeedsI'm talking about dvb-t
01:56.38JAVnot too much different i hope
01:56.39Leedsno dish needed :-0
01:57.33JAVhttp://www.verrire.com/img/antena.jpg
01:58.09JAVI bought two dvb-t ready antennas recently
02:00.10JAV"ready" as in improved gain in dvb-t freq
02:01.01LeedsI'm just using the thing on the roof...
02:01.07JAVheh
02:01.12JAVright
02:02.00Leedswell, I'm in a block of flats, so putting up my own thing would be hard
02:04.25JAVif it works now, perfect
02:04.47Leedsit seems happy
02:07.46JAVjue feb  3 03:07:19 CET 2005  ----> bedtime
02:08.04JAVgood night!
02:08.34Leedsg'night :-)
04:07.42rdancerwhy doesn't this tc(8) script limit the bandwidth?: http://rafb.net/paste/results/z4ipWd50.html
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14:27.59Leedsibot: welcome back
14:28.01ibotHowdy back | It is good to see you back | back, Sup yo?
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15:02.07Copeto which I replied: umm - you subscribed to the list - feel free to unsubscribe... penis.
15:04.48rhowe-UXARGH http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=238444
15:04.53rhowe-UXNo f'in wonder it's not working
15:05.50CopeI can see the problem....
15:09.35rhowe-UXThe main problem is that 1) Torsten isn't updating the package for some reason (time constraints, probably) and 2) OpenLDAP is waaay out of date in Debian
15:27.28Copeare you using 'stable' ?
15:42.18rhowe-UXtesting
15:42.28rhowe-UXwhich has the same packages as unstable where OpenLDAP is concerned
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15:56.12Copeso why so out of date?
15:56.16Copehello harkness
15:56.36harknessHello Cope.
15:58.53Leedsoops
15:59.29rhowe-UXCope: Lack of decent maintainership (but still more maintainership than I'm prepared to do)
15:59.37Copethese over-paid consultants.....
15:59.49CopeI see.
16:00.45rhowe-UXOK, rebuilding slapd with ldap and meta backends builtin
16:01.05harknessCope: was that in reference to me? ;-)  Because I am going to expense it. (not sure which is worse - being an overpaid consultant or just expensing it)
16:04.45Leedsjust expensing it
16:10.15rhowe-UXLeeds: I noticed something at the back of my Javaserver Faces book btw
16:10.28rhowe-UX"informIT Online Books, powered by Safari"
16:10.45rhowe-UXwww.informit.com - it's like Safari, but covering multiple publishers, apparently
16:11.45Leedsrhowe-UX: um, no... it *is* safari...
16:11.54Leedssafari is sold by various people under varios names
16:12.21rhowe-UXAh, OK
16:12.29rhowe-UXI guess that's PH PTR's name for it then
16:12.46Leedsit's possible they aggregate other content with it, but I don't think so
16:15.52rhowe-UXgrr, OpenLDAP is a beast to compile.. takes about as long as the kernel
16:36.00Leedsand... in my third line of typing to a new channel (#dvb) I get bit by the xchat nick completion
16:44.37morsingCope: Dorey has admitted he worked for Digex. He must have been a very young lad back then.
16:52.54wethrinayrr
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17:05.52pdrblum
17:06.18Leedsjudy?
17:06.29wethrinpdr!
17:09.11pdrdan!
17:09.17wethrinhow goes?
17:09.25pdrall good mate, and you?
17:09.30wethrinNot bad
17:09.34pdrLeeds: ?
17:09.36wethrinSpent the afternoon in the wrong cleanroom
17:09.40pdryay
17:09.52Leedspdr: judy blum
17:10.02Leedspdr: FOSDEM?
17:10.05pdrLeeds: ah, i meant it as a reference to blum blum shub
17:10.12pdrLeeds: probably not at this stage
17:10.13Leedsto what?
17:10.23pdrit's an algorithm
17:10.28Leedsokay...
17:10.37pdr:-)
17:13.16pdrwethrin: i've enabled call screening on my phone because of alison
17:13.25wethrineep
17:13.33pdrindeed
17:13.47pdrwell she kept calling at, like, 2am
17:13.55wethrinHorrible time
17:13.57pdrbelinda was getting a bit peeved about it
17:14.13wethrinwho?
17:14.19pdrbtw, how was gllug on saturday?
17:14.28pdrwethrin: the new g/f
17:14.29wethrinI wasn't there
17:14.31wethrinAhhh
17:14.38wethrinDoes she have a sister? :)
17:14.42pdryep
17:14.50wethrinwho is single?
17:14.56pdryep, but her sister lives in australia
17:15.05wethrindamn
17:15.20pdrwethrin: ring alison and ask her for julienne's number :-)
17:15.22Leedsmy sister is in .au now...
17:15.29pdrLeeds: cool, where abouts?
17:15.43wethrinheh
17:16.18Leedsshe was in syndey, but she was moving on this week to Byron Bay
17:17.20pdri met a guy from there the other day actually
17:17.41pdrbelinda's flatmate was too shy to approach this guy so i went and told him to go talk to her
17:17.42LeedsI don't even know if it's north or south...
17:17.51pdrabout in the middle
17:18.07pdrhippies like the place coz it's the first place that the sun hits on mainland australia
17:18.43pdrand english tourists like the place coz drugs are cheap and kinda ignored by the law, as is lewd behaviour
17:18.59morsingibot shires
17:19.09morsing~seen shires
17:19.11iboti haven't seen 'shires', morsing
17:19.21morsing~seen Shires
17:19.22ibotmorsing: i haven't seen 'shires'
17:19.30Leedsmorsing: he(?) left 15 minutes ago
17:19.39morsingWho was he?
17:19.40Leedsbut he(?) didn't say anything, so ibot didn't notice, I guess
17:20.44pdr--- [Shires] (~ad@ns0.hairylemon.org) : Andrew Doran
17:26.12pdrLeeds: btw, i'm not suggesting that your sister is into that kind of thing :-)
17:26.25LeedsI don't think she is... could be
17:27.02Leedsother sister is...
17:27.47pdrhehe
17:27.54pdranyway, gotta go
17:27.56pdrlaterz
17:27.59wethrinc'ya
17:28.02wethrinIn fact, I'm going too
17:28.03wethrinBye!
17:28.06pdrbye
17:28.10Leedsseeya
17:29.16rhoweheh, how appropriate
17:29.20rhowe# numResponses: 666
17:29.26rhoweBurn in hell, LDAP
17:29.35wethrinHeh
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17:35.06rhoweslapd lesson of the day - don't use tabs to indent slapd.conf. It doesn't like it.
17:36.01wethrinEww
17:36.09wethrinWhitespace is good!
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17:40.35enfcplhello !
17:40.36rhoweAnyway, I now have an OpenLDAP server which will fall back to active directory if you're querying for stuff that's only in AD
17:40.41rhoweNow, to see if I can get it to learn that user@ad-domain.org usernames need to be searched for under dc=ad-domain,dc=org
17:40.45rhoweThat's something for tomorrow though
17:41.21rhoweI could've saved 2 days of work if OpenLDAP had an XML config. file
17:41.56Leedsevening enfcpl!
17:42.10Marios_Hi Leeds
18:02.59Marios_very quiet again
18:07.11Leedsyes
18:07.14Leeds*too* quiet
18:09.05Marios_how is going Leeds?
18:09.20CopeHi Marios_
18:09.39Marios_Hello Cope
18:09.43Marios_long time to see you
18:10.58Leedsgoing okay... things are strange at work
18:11.00Marios_I missed the last meeting...I had to go Cyprus for 5 days
18:11.12Marios_why Leeds?
18:16.00Leedslong story...
18:16.53Leedsbut I've got lots of work and non-work travel coming, and that makes me happy :-)  Are you coming to FOSDEM?
18:19.02LeedsCope: why are you lamenting?
18:20.24LeedsCope: you're not wimping out on us again, are you?
18:22.54Leeds:-(
18:23.34Copeor if someone wants to give him some extra work to the value of 200 quid
18:25.30Leedsdepending on how badly you wanted to go, you could do it for less...  travel by bus, stay in hostel... probably a base cost of 60-70
18:25.55Leeds36 quid for a bus ticket
18:28.30LeedsMarios_: are you coming?
18:32.10Marios_FOSDEM?
18:33.01Marios_sorry I was on the phone
18:33.13Leedsyes, FOSDEM!
18:33.22Marios_I should go yes
18:33.41Marios_it is weekend so I won't have problem with work
18:34.23Leedswell, people tend to go on the Friday during the day, but yes, the main event is over the weekend
18:34.35Leedsif you aren't there on Friday evening, you miss the Friday evening booze-up :-)
18:34.40Marios_lol
18:34.49Marios_well I might leave late on Friday after work
18:35.11Marios_and it is only 2.5 by EUrostar
18:35.15Marios_hours
18:35.35Marios_and they are one hour behind...
18:36.00Leedsno, an hour ahear
18:36.04Leedsahead, surely?
18:36.08Marios_ohh yeah
18:36.15Marios_hmm
18:36.31Marios_probably I should go Saturday morning and leave Sunday evening
18:36.31Leedsso if you leave, say, at 1800, you won't be there until 2130
18:36.39Marios_hmmm
18:36.49Leedsif you can, I'd take Friday afternoon off
18:37.33Marios_I can't take take the afternoon off.. I haven't started in my new job yet...it is not nice to ask for the day off
18:37.42Leedssure it is
18:37.45Marios_lol
18:37.51Leedsis your new job technical?
18:37.56Leedsis it a computer job?
18:37.59Marios_I told you right...
18:38.17Leedsanswer the question...
18:38.25LeedsI'm being rhetorical :-)
18:38.28Marios_C++.NET in Windows ..... please don't kick me out of the channel
18:38.41Marios_I repeat no kick
18:39.16Leedsso... you want to take the weekend to go to a conference, to network, to promote the company, to learn new skills, but they won't let you take a measly afternoon off to get there?
18:39.44Marios_man..I don't know the people there...I have no idea how they think
18:39.54Leedswhen do you start?
18:40.02Marios_this coming Wednesday
18:40.31Leedsto be honest, I'd e-mail them now, say you were planning to go but forgot to mention it or something, and ask what they think
18:40.34Marios_as I told you is a big Bank...they are not impressed by things like Linux
18:41.01Leedsare you doing a support-type thing?  front-line?  dealing directly with customers?
18:41.16Marios_50% support 50% development
18:41.29Leedsare you critical enough that you can't take time off?
18:42.01Marios_as I told you....I have no idea what it will be like
18:42.03Marios_:)
18:42.05Leedsanyway, you know what I'm saying :-)
18:42.24LeedsI'd ask - and make it clear that you don't know if they'll say yes, and it's okay if they don't, but you do want to go
18:42.25Marios_ok I will do my best
18:42.47Marios_cool
18:42.48Leedsas long as you're tactful in your asking, it shouldn't hurt
18:42.50Leeds:-)
18:42.53Marios_hehehehe
18:43.22Marios_never been to FOSDEM so I think it will good experience
18:43.30Marios_who else is going?
18:43.32Cope36 by coach!?
18:43.33Leedswhat I mean is - if you demand it, and they're not happy, it would be a bad thing, but if you ask respectfully...
18:43.36LeedsCope: right
18:43.46CopeHow much do you reckopn it would cost to drive?
18:43.50Copeincluding ferry?
18:43.51LeedsI'm going... wethrin is going... morsing, I think...
18:43.56Marios_coach?
18:43.58Leedsquite a lot more than that
18:44.00Marios_lets take Eurostar
18:44.07CopeI can't afford it
18:44.09LeedsMarios_: it's not cheap...
18:44.17Copecoach I could just about afford
18:44.21Marios_I 've been there before with Eurostar
18:44.26Cope150 quid
18:44.30Marios_no way
18:44.33Copeyep
18:44.36Marios_are you sure?
18:44.38Copeno
18:44.40LeedsCope: my ticket is 120, I think
18:44.53Marios_God...last year was $95 roundtrip
18:45.01LeedsMarios_: they only have a limited number of cheap seats - as it gets closer the time, and more full, it costs more
18:45.16Leedsif you'd have booked it in December, it would have been 60
18:45.28Marios_ohhh god
18:45.37Marios_guys I am going to Tesco for a minute
18:45.39Marios_I will be back
18:45.48Leedsokay... about time for me to go home anyway...
18:46.11LeedsCope: driving will be a little cheaper if you have a full car - but more expensive otherwise, I think
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19:17.44pawelhi guys.
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19:35.35Georgeblah
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19:53.52GeorgeI wonder if I have a spare 10baseT network card at home.
19:53.53Georgehrmm.
19:59.45Copedoes anyone have an 8+ port hub they want to get rid of
20:00.14Georgenope
20:09.33pawel~
20:09.37paweloops. :)
22:01.20pawelcool.
22:01.34Leedswhat is?
22:01.53pawelexternal usb rewriters rox!
22:02.12Leedsah!
22:02.20pawelyeah!
22:02.25pawelit's really cool.
22:02.35Marios_DVD writer?
22:02.49Leedsdvb rocks too :-)
22:02.51pawelthanks for those dvds. was very useful.
22:02.56pawelthat's right.
22:03.02pawelit's DVD rewriter.
22:03.04rhoweCope: You can get a 24 port 10/100 rackmount switch for around 30 quid from Aria IIRC
22:03.26Marios_pawel: DVD rewriter for USB ? how much ?
22:03.35pawellots of storage. :)
22:03.39Marios_hehhehee
22:04.22rhoweCope: Sorry, 16 port - http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=8002
22:04.30pawelMarios_: it is a regular internal NEC DVD rewriter and it works with IDE to USB adaptor under linux 2.6.10.
22:04.43Marios_ohhhh got it
22:04.46Marios_cool
22:04.47pawelconnected to my laptop. :)
22:04.51rhoweCope: They also have a 9 quid + VAT 8 port one
22:07.25pawelok. cu later guys.
22:07.33paweldinner time.
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22:37.02JAVhi
22:43.15Marios_hello Jav
22:57.45LeedsJAV: I'm watching streaming TV over nfs with about 2% cpu on the server :-)
23:02.59JAV98% perfect!
23:03.01JAV:D
23:04.33Leedsbut I'm using something like 100% of cpu on my laptop to watch it...
23:04.35JAVIt's not the same chip than dvb-s, but I hope it to be similar %cpu
23:04.45JAVaaah
23:05.06JAVmpeg decoding on laptop, isn't it?
23:06.52Leedsyup
23:07.52Leedsthat's not re-encoding the video/audio at all - just saving the raw(ish) stream to disk
23:08.24JAVMb/s?
23:08.51Leedsabout 2GB/hour
23:08.55rhowegrr, gotta get up early to go to the Royal Mail delivery office
23:09.15rhowewifi kit which they insist on a signature for
23:09.55Leedsmplayer calls it 15000kbps mpeg2 video and 192kbps mp2 audio
23:10.41Leedsbut that doesn't sound entirely right to me :-)
23:11.18rhowe2Mbyte/s?
23:11.47Leedssomething like that
23:11.58JAV2?
23:12.01rhowemplayer looks about right then
23:12.10rhowe(since it's displaying Kbit/s)
23:12.32rhoweOr don't the file sizes correlate?
23:12.48JAV568Kb/s
23:13.06JAVat 2Gb/h
23:13.11rhowe15000/8 is going to be about 2000, isn't it?
23:13.31Leedsthe bitrates differ between channels, and in theory at least can differ on one channel
23:13.45rhoweVBR DVB?
23:13.58Leedsnope
23:14.06Leedsjust not permanently fixed
23:14.34Leedsthat is, I thought they could switch to different fixed rates - although maybe I'm thinking of DAB...
23:14.37rhoweAh OK, so it could vary between programmes
23:15.31JAVLeeds: how do you send the stream to the laptop?
23:15.41rhoweYou've been framed could be run at 30kbit/s video, for example :)
23:15.53LeedsJAV: streaming to disk, disk is mounted over nfs over wifi - very low-tech :-)
23:16.31LeedsI would like to try to get videolan streaming or some such working
23:16.34rhowenetcat!
23:16.51Leedsrhowe: that's a very good point :-)
23:16.56JAVheh
23:17.02Leedsseriously
23:17.17rhoweLeeds: Shame there isn't a v4l equivalent of NBD :)
23:17.32JAVminimal overhead
23:17.39Leedsyeah
23:18.02Leedsanyway, as I've said, the plan isn't to do live streaming - just recording and playback
23:18.32rhoweThough since most cards use direct IO over the PCI bus, it wouldn't really be practical
23:18.32rhoweheh the messages from the Flash version of ICQ are funny
23:18.40rhowe"Hmmm, let's find ourselves a server..."
23:18.56rhowe"OK we're online. Now what?" (when the logon process was being slow)
23:19.11rhowe"We're nearly there"
23:21.48Leedsmplayer is filling its cache from nc :-)
23:22.37Leedswow, well that was stupidly easy - good call rhowe!
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23:24.56JAVso... cat /dev/something > nc
23:25.03Leedsnow, the ideal, which I think is possible in theory, but trying something like it is what hung up the drivers earlier, would be to have the kernel send the stream straight to the network rather than having it pass through userspace
23:25.12Leedscat /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 | nc
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23:46.28mikejwevening all
23:46.43Leedshi
23:47.36mikejwLeeds: how's tricks?
23:49.05Leedsnot too bad, considering... you?
23:49.25mikejwyeah not bad either thanks
23:49.39mikejwI have a new domain -> mikejw.co.uk
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