Sunday, December 31, 2017

Wordpress on OpenSuSE 42.3

First install the lamp pattern.


sudo zypper in -t pattern lamp_server

According to the Wordpress documentation you do not need additional php packages. However, after problems with the dashboard (internal server errorr 500) I followed the advice in this post and installed...


sudo zypper in php5-zlib php5-xmlrpc php5-gd php5-ftp php5-curl

Now you can follow the Wordpress installation documentation.

Friday, May 5, 2017

dvdauthor does not accept hauppauge streams

Hauppauge streams can be used directly when you want to convert to other formats.
However, if you want to create a dvd with dvdauthor you might get the following errors:


DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.7.2.
Build options: gnugetopt graphicsmagick iconv freetype fribidi
Send bug reports to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: default video format is PAL
INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
STAT: Picking VTS 01

STAT: Processing 2017-04-02_10:43:05.mpg...
WARN: Skipping sector at inoffset 0, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector at inoffset 0, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector at inoffset 0, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector at inoffset 0, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector at inoffset 0, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector at inoffset 0, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector at inoffset 0, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector at inoffset 0, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector at inoffset 0, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector at inoffset 0, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector at inoffset 0, waiting for first VOBU...
WARN: Skipping sector at inoffset 0, waiting for first VOBU...

To fix this you need to demux and mux (remultiplex) the file. This will add the needed NAV packets in the file


sudo zypper in mjpegtools ProjectX

projectx.sh -demux original.mpg -name fixed
mplex -f 8 -o fixed.mpg fixed.m2v fixed.mp2

This will create a fixed.mpg file that you now can use with all tools