Re: ? Request for knoppix 7.5.0
I've been using mpv as my primary media player since at least the 7.2
Adriane CD with my only complaints being how SBL sometimes insists on
reading MPV's terminal output over the audio file and the fact that
I've been unable to find an audio-only player with the same simplicity
of use(most terminal mediaplayers fancier than mpg123 or ogg123 tend
to include media library management, which I neither need or want) and
wide format support(doesn't seem like there exists a player that
supports playing audio from multi-media containers without including
support for decoding the video, and all of those video codecs waste a
lot of space). Then again, I'm functionally blind and have no need for
anything beyond playing audio files and the audio streams from video
files(okay, text-to-speech support for subtitle tracks would be nice,
but that seems as much of a pipedream as a mediaplayer designed for
playing video files audio-only).
Nice to hear that there are plans to bring back the Adriane CD
edition(the bloat removal step of getting a new release just the way I
want it is time consuming enough from a CD, but seems to take forever
starting from the DVD).
On 7/22/15, Klaus Knopper <debian-knoppix@knopper.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> No, it's not out yet. ;-)
>
> Rather than providing an unrealistic release date, I'm publishing my
> current Knoppix TODO list here:
>
> KERNEL & BOOTING:
> - Kernel 4.1 (or 4.2, if that's released before I'm done with Knoppix
> updates)
> - Possibly use a signed boot loader (the Linux Foundation one?) for enabling
> UEFI secure boot
>
> NEW, NEEDS WORK & TESTING:
> - adding more compression algorithms to cloop (current versions support only
> ZIB): lzo, lz4, lzma, xz, raw
> each compressed block can be compressed differently, or stored in "raw"
> headerless format so save a few
> more bytes
> - Version 4 format of cloop supports streaming images (header becomes
> footer, so the
> the compressor can directly write the final read-only image) additional to
> header-first format
>
> URGENT:
> - Need to find a good replacement for mplayer for playing videos on the
> framebuffer console in ADRIANE.
> Debian removed mplayer from the repositories, but its successors mplayer2
> and mpv which support directfb,
> fail to detect the console resolution in my tests, or simply crash when
> attempting to play a video
> on the console, all with correct flags of course. vlc works fine with the
> standard framebuffer plugin,
> but lacks a controlling interface (no skip/rewind/pause/quit) in console
> mode, which is unacceptable
> (or it's just me failing to find the flag that enables reading keyboard
> hotkeys from /dev/tty*).
> - Also update CD+ADRIANE version of Knoppix (which may become a lot easier
> if there is additional space
> available due to the new cloop decompression schemes).
>
> OTHERS:
> - New wine version from upstream
> - Maintain systemd workaround for script-based booting
> - Resolving dependencies for recent Debian updates
> - Script for time/clock adjustment (i.e. a GUI for data/hwclock/adjtime)
>
> Because of the changes in the cloop decompressor, which is a main
> feature, the new version will probably rather be 7.6 than 7.5.1.
> I'm not sure yet if the new compression support is really useful in live
> mode,
> it'll need a few benchmarks. xz compresses about 10% better than zlib+7zip,
> which means
> 400MB more space (!) on the DVD version, but needs a lot more CPU time for
> decompression.
> I need to find out if the saved physical reading time is balanced by CPU
> usage on
> slow computers to avoid a huge performance loss.
>
> If someone on the list has a hint about playing videos on the
> framebuffer with mpv, mplayer2 or vlc as mplayer used to do, please let
> me know.
>
> Regards
> -Klaus
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:08:16AM -0600, jd1008 wrote:
>> Just in time for [1]CeBIT 2015 (16.-20.3.2015 in Hannover/Germany),
>> KNOPPIX version 7.5.0 has been released exclusively in the next
>> [2]Linux
>> Magazine.
>>
>> So, you have to pay either for the issue or the magazine in which it
>> was
>> included, or
>> subscribe to the magazine's paid subscription.
>>
>> On 07/22/2015 11:06 AM, jd1008 wrote:
>>
>> Is it even out yet????
>>
>> On 07/22/2015 10:43 AM, Kai Busch wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> please can you tell me a link to download the complete dvd of
>> knoppix
>> 7.5.0 64bit?
>>
>> Regards
>> Kai Busch
>>
>> References
>>
>> Visible links
>> 1. http://www.cebit.de/
>> 2. http://www.linux-magazine.com/
>
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Sincerely,
Jeffery Wright
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.
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