Stuck at tc@box:$

[john11]

Hi. Thanks for the reply.

I found vlc2, 6.3 meg in size, it works now, but the playback is stuttering badly and i get a message " vlc does not recognise the audio or video format "

Sounds strange because it works fine in windows 7 on the same computer. The file i am trying to play has matroska (mkv) wrapper with dolby digital 5.1 audio, any reason why it is not recognising the a/v format?

Thank you. John.

[Juanito]

You can compile vlc to play, or not play, many formats - it just depends on how small or large you wish the resultant program and list of dependencies to be.

You could try mplayer or totem as alternatives - you would need to check which gstreamer dependencies need to be loaded for the latter to play matroska files.

[john11]

Hi. Thanks for the reply.

I don't mind how large vlc becomes just want it to play all the different file types. I have downloaded a few more of the vlc2 extensions but same message: does not recognise audio or video format.
What else should i be doing?

Thank you

[Juanito]

I'd guess (I might be wrong) that vlc/vlc2 would need to be compiled against libmatroska in order to play mkv files, but that is not the case.

[john11]

so what should i do

[Juanito]

In order to double-check whether the tinycore vlc extension supports matroska or not, does "vlc --help" mention a way of checking which formats it does support?

You could send a personal message to the extension maintainer (see the info file) requesting an update to support matroska, but in this case I believe the maintainer is no longer active on tinycorelinux.

Otherwise you can make an extension request in the appropriate part of the forum or attempt to recompile vlc yourself.

[coreplayer2]

I was curious since I have many videos in Matroska containers all of which which play well using vlc2

I can confirm VLC2 has no issues with mkv containers but may have difficulty with some required codecs
to find the codecs required vlc2 may help, try tools > media codecs.   otherwise try mplayer


mkvtoolnix.tcz  might of been able to help but it likely needs updating

[coreplayer2]

mediainfo works quite well  (but it's not in the repo yet..)

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$ mediainfo XXXX.mkv
General
Unique ID                                : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Complete name                            : XXXX.mkv
Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 1
File size                                : 15.9 GiB
Duration                                 : 2h 42mn
Overall bit rate                         : 14.0 Mbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2009-08-13 17:41:26
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v2.4.1 ('Use Me') built on Dec  5 2008 15:43:32
Writing library                          : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : VC-1
Format profile                           : Advanced@L3
Codec ID                                 : V_MS/VFW/FOURCC / WVC1
Codec ID/Hint                            : Microsoft
Bit rate                                 : 13.1 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Variable
Original frame rate                      : 23.976 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Scan order                               : 2:3 Pulldown
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : E-AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Codec ID                                 : A_EAC3
Duration                                 : 2h 42mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 640 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Frame rate                               : 187.500 fps (256 spf)
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 745 MiB (5%)
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No


I'll submit it asap

[john11]

Hi. Thanks for the reply.

 I have put a request up, all the videos that were stuttering use the H264 mpeg4 avc (part10) (avc1) codec,

it appears this has been removed from vlc as it works fine in windows 7

Also can you tell me how to disable the screensaver in tiny core, in vlc the screen blacks out every ten minutes, there is a disable screensaver in video vlc but it has no effect so there must be a screensaver in tiny core doing something.

Many thanks.

[nitram]

To change screen/power save try the xset command. Run  xset --help  for usage. Manually enter desired xset command into terminal to experiment, then if you want it to be permanent enter this xset command into a text file in /home/tc/.X.d. For me i created a file named startups, which includes everything i want to run on every boot:
conky &
dillo &
emelfm &
xset s 300 &

Edit: I actually want my screen to dim faster for powersave, you may need to include  -dpms  in your xset command.

[Misalf]

xset s off -dpms

[john11]

Hi. Thanks for the replies.

How do i make it permanent. I don't have the folder pathway you mentioned.

I have tce folder and boot folder, within tce folder is an onboot file, is this the one. What should i type into it.

Also does tiny core support gpt partitioning, my gpt hard drive shows up in disc mount, but stays red. Think it is my motherboard as it may not support gpt.

Many thanks.

[Juanito]

You do have the /home/tc/.X.d folder, it's just that the "." before X.d makes it hidden.

If you type "ls -a /home/tc/" you will see the folder.

Note that, by default, this folder will be included in your backup, so if you create a file containing "xset s off -dpms" as described above, it will be saved in your backup.

Tinycore supports gpt partitioning.

[Misalf]

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echo "xset s off -dpms" > ~/.X.d/display-blank-off


[Gerolf]

Hello, me too I'm stuck at "tc@box:~$", but the above didn't help me. When I said "startx", I was told: "-sh: startx: not found". When I said: "sudo fromISOfile /mnt/hda1", I learned: "Invalid device specified: hda1". Accordingly "sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt" failed: "No such device or address". The command "fdisk -l" just refused to give me any answer. I suppose experts will already recognize the error state I'm in, but I want to give a few more details.

I'm trying to revive a 20-year-old IBM Thinkpad 310E with 64 MB RAM which has no CD-ROM drive. It can only boot from floppy and hard disk (1.5 GB). FreeDos gives the following message on boot: "BAD controller at I-O address F000h, chip I.D. 10B95219h. EDD BIOS data ERROR, Disk 80h." However, I don't think that this causes too many problems, because I managed to install Windows 98 (I had to transfer the content of the CD via laplink cable), and also Basic Linux 3.5 runs fine, starting X with JWM desktop and giving me access to hda1. The machine has a PCMCIA slot with a USB card, but it cannot boot from a USB drive, because the BIOS doesn't know about it.

With the help of Windows 98 I could copy CorePlus-6.4.1.iso from USB memory stick to FAT16 partition hda1. I installed GRUB4DOS and edited menu.lst accordingly to boot from this ISO file. I also tried a frugal installation on the same partition and then on an EXT3 partition that I created using "Partition Magic", but results are the same: The Tiny Core Linux system only boots up to the command prompt, not to the desktop as promised, and then refuses to follow my commands. Surely I'm doing something very wrong?