Monday, October 31, 2005

Creating an Ebuild

I was trying to make an ebuild for the electric sheep hacked version of xscreensaver so I can vote on sheep. There is currently no ebuild for this version, so I downloaded the source and from this site:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild

I am going to try to make an ebuild.

Thursday, October 27, 2005

I had a problem with mplayer today where it would not play any video, but I could hear the audio from the wmv files for my mgq302 class lectures.

After reading a little bit I found that I needed to enable a particular codec at compile time, specifically the ones for the type of video. I found this site that does a great job of explaining all of this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Emerge_MPlayer