January 06, 2013
RIP
My Kindle Fire is dead. It won't turn on. I think I may have broken the connector.
When I push the power button, it turns green for a moment, and the display backlight turns on, and then a couple of seconds later it turns back off again. Pushing and holding the power button has no useful effect.
I guess this is an excuse for me to buy a Fire HD, isn't it?
UPDATE: By the way, no suggestions or advice are needed.
UPDATE: Actually, this is how it acts when the battery is run down. I had it plugged in to recharge overnight but the light was still amber, not green, when I looked at it this morning. I was using a USB cable, and it doesn't seem to have worked.
I just plugged it into its power brick, and we'll see if that does any better.
UPDATE: And so I walked to Fred Meyers and bought an 8.9" HD. The display is gorgeous, and for my old eyes it's a lot easier to read the text, though I wish there were other sans choices besides Helvetica and Lucida.
It didn't come with a brick. The only charging cable is a USB connection.
They've made some changes to the UI; I had to hunt a bit to find functions I needed to use.
The photo viewing app is still disappointing. I copied a couple of pictures which were 4000*3000, and it won't let me zoom all the way in.
By the way, this is the longest walk yet. My legs were sore when I got back, but I made it!
UPDATE: I just did some searching, and apparently Adobe has abandoned Flash support for all mobile devices.
I still think it would have been nice for Amazon to give us the last version that did exist for Android.
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I think Techies have a built in advantage with their toys. "Oh, drat, it busted. Time for an upgrade!". I know I've done that myself a number of times. Haha
Posted by: sqa at January 06, 2013 09:49 AM (iCuS2)
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That is interesting. I can do coments with the Fire HD. But it doesn't do flash. I wonder if there's a plugin I can install?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 06, 2013 05:36 PM (+rSRq)
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Congratulations on your achievement. BTW, a thought crossed my mind yesterday that it might be useful to teach you to fly an airplane, because if forces various motoric functions. But then I relized that a phisioterapist can probably offer excercises that accomplish the same thing at a fraction of the cost.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at January 06, 2013 06:31 PM (RqRa5)
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Walking is good enough for me.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 06, 2013 06:37 PM (+rSRq)
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I just lost my old kindle-style kindle to a bad charge cable/charging receptacle. I hope you're using a new cable with the new unit.
Posted by: pgfraering at January 07, 2013 08:59 AM (BIJKO)
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Also, Pete, civil pilots must pass a medical exam, and the examining doctor might be twitchy about certifying someone that was recently hospitalized for a very serious illness.
I'm not surprised the new Kindle is charged with a micro-USB; the EU forced that as a standard on cell-phone makers, and a lot of other electronic devices followed suit. It's
wonderful, because it means that one power brick and one cable can charge any new device I own.
(Caveat- I don't think the EU forced that specific choice, so much as said "come up with a standard or we'll come up with one for you.")
Posted by: Boviate at January 07, 2013 10:39 AM (v5nUi)
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It actually has a micro-USB and a mini-USB. They included a micro-USB cable, but not the other one. I have no idea why they did that.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 07, 2013 10:47 AM (+rSRq)
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I think that other port is micro-HDMI, so that Fire HD can drive a TV. There is only one USB port with type B micro-USB receptacle. My own (small) HD is like that and the Amazon's website says so as well:
USB 2.0 (micro-B connector) port for connection to a PC or Macintosh
computer or to connect to the Kindle PowerFast charging accessory.
Micro-HDMI (micro-D connector) port for high definition video output to
televisions or A/V receivers
I made sure it's on the page for the big 8.9" unit.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at January 07, 2013 10:57 AM (RqRa5)
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December 10, 2012
Frustration
I can't get DHCP to work properly on my LAN. I've got a DHCP server package for my Windows Home Server, and my Netgear hub does DHCP. Using one, or the other (but never both) I have the same problem: IPs are getting assigned but the DNS server addresses aren't getting loaded. So the computer can communicate, but it can't look anything up.
The way I've been coping is to manually set the DNS's in my slate and my fire. But that won't work with my phone, so far as I can tell. It doesn't give me that level of control.
UPDATE: Fortunately, I did not do this to my LAN.
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December 09, 2012
uTorrent 3.2.3
I just tried installing the latest uTorrent, version 3.2.3. It didn't do any uploading; it couldn't establish any connections. So I had to retreat again to version 3.2.0.
They sure lard up the installer with cruft. No, I don't want your browser tool bar, nor do I want RealPlayer anywhere near my computer. I understand why they do this; it's a source of revenue, and since I'm using the free version, I can't really complain.
Well, yeah I can. But I shouldn't. And at least I'll give them credit: when I say I don't want it, they don't install it. There was one package I got a while back where I told it "no" and it went ahead and installed things anyway. Took me a couple of hours to find and remove all the trash.
I've been noticing that nearly every day about my dinner time, BakaBT's performance goes to hell for a couple of hours. Most of my torrents announce "unable to access the tracker" and I can't load the BakaBT web page. I mailed one of the mods to ask if they were considering a server upgrade, and he told me that was when they did backups, most days. So I guess that makes sense, but usually backups don't bring a system to its knees that way.
UPDATE: 1915 PST and it's wedged.
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They're having serious issues with their tracker at the moment. It's actually been down most of the day so far. But, such is the wonders of your tracker going on the fritz. (Probably a hardware issue)
Posted by: sqa at December 10, 2012 01:54 AM (iCuS2)
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Unfortunately, 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 have included ads in the application.
Posted by: muon at December 11, 2012 03:54 AM (jFJid)
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I didn't notice that. I guess I didn't let it run long enough, or maybe my ad blocker stopped them.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 11, 2012 07:25 AM (+rSRq)
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When the installation of 3.2.3 is completed, the torrent window now has a preferred torrent at the top and an advertisement in the lower bottom left corner. If there are blank spaces there, it could be your adblocker.
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September 23, 2012
Kindle Fire -- nothing's perfect
The bookshelf metaphor for the GUI in the Kindle Fire is a clever one, and it has the great benefit of being easily accessible to new users.
But it has a drawback, too: it doesn't really scale well. I currently have 36 books in mine, and that's the point where it begins to get unwieldy. The books can be sorted by name, by author, or in order of how recently I've read them, but it's still a matter of scrolling up and down to find a particular one.
What I really want is the ability to make my own bookshelves, and give them names. I don't know how that would fit into the GUI, but it would allow me to organize my books myself, to make them easier to find.
It's still not outrageous with 36 books, but it seems like it would be a real issue if I had a hundred or more. Considering that I've bought more than 30 in the last six months, reaching a hundred is certainly not out of the realm of possibility.
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The standard Kindles let you organize books into collections, but none of the apps do. I'm surprised the Fire didn't get something better than the standard Android app.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at September 23, 2012 08:39 PM (2XtN5)
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For all I know, it does. I've never read the manual. Maybe I'll look around in it to see what I can find.
...or I could actually check the manual. (Naah; manuals are for wimps.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 23, 2012 09:28 PM (+rSRq)
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I just went through the manual (wimp!) and saw nothing in there about creating multiple bookshelves or any other way of subdividing the library.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 23, 2012 10:39 PM (+rSRq)
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I have 137 things (books and magazines) in the Kindle app on my Nexus 7. The interface just plain sucks at that point.
(I snarfed down most of the Baen Free Library, which accounts for at least half of that number. The rest came mostly from Baen and Fictionwise, all DRM-free.)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 24, 2012 02:38 AM (PiXy!)
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There is at least one app in the Amazon marketplace that will add collections to the Kindle Fire. I can't imagine not having collections, I have around 250 books in the Kindle library on my Xoom, and even organized by author, series, etc. it's a pain to navigate. I'd kill to be able to tag books, and then organize by tags. "Science Fiction" "Fantasy" "Baen" "Lensman" etc
Posted by: David at September 24, 2012 09:18 AM (+yn5x)
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I wish I could have a "Lensmen" category. The Lensmen books aren't available for the Kindle, and I want to reread them.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 24, 2012 09:57 AM (+rSRq)
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Twice now I've found things which claimed to include "Masters of the Vortex", and bought them, only to discover that they only included the first chapter. (It was a published short story which he expanded to become a full book.)
Looks like this is stuff which just fell out of copyright.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 24, 2012 12:31 PM (+rSRq)
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Yep, out of copyright. And thus fair game for project Gutenberg. Mobi format files can be found
here.
Posted by: David at September 24, 2012 12:51 PM (+yn5x)
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I didn't know about that.
The "Calibre" program is needed, but that was easy to find and install. It barfed when it tried to convert "First Lensman", but I don't care. I don't want to reread it.
And their copy of "The Vortex Blaster" is that same damned short story, first chapter, as everyone else has. Bummer. But the rest of it looks good. After my Fire finishes recharging I'll kick into Galactic Patrol.
Although I have a feeling that what they're offering is what was originally published in the magazine, and it may not be quite the same as the version I remember.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 24, 2012 02:10 PM (+rSRq)
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I got another Kindle - scrounged the old one from wife. It's the launch hardware, so the UI is drastically different. So... My Fire is called "Basroil" and I spent a minute or two trying to remember name of Marika's ship, to keep with a theme. Gave up and called it "Akagi", since that one had an anime appearance. Helloooo, Alzimer.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at September 25, 2012 03:47 PM (RqRa5)
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It's "Bentenmaru". And Chiaki's father's ship is "Barbaroosa".
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 25, 2012 03:59 PM (+rSRq)
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When I retuned from Ireland, I left my Fire ("Basroil") at an airplane. Wife bought me a new one (a HD). "Bentenmaru" it is, then. Unfortunately, Akagi's battery is dying and given that it's more than 3 years old, we might retire it.
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September 16, 2012
Offline backups
I took a look, and it's been ten months since I last did an offline backup -- by which I mean, a backup to storage that I don't routinely leave connected to my computer.
I've got two 3TB USB drives which I alternate for this. The last time I did a backup was last November. The previous time was the June before that. So that's the drive I'm doing now.
These drives are huge but they aren't record breakers for speed. I started copying my anime collection yesterday afternoon and it should be finished about midnight. Then I've got few hundred gigabytes of other stuff, which should take through tomorrow night, and then I'll feel a lot more secure.
I'm getting transfer rates of about 21 megabytes per second, which is fast enough for something like this that I don't do all that often. But no matter how fast the drive, it's gonna take a hell of a long time to copy and store 2 TB of fansubs. Ye Gods.
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I recently did some HDD swapping (old for new) and, even with internal speeds, Terabytes just take time. Though I still remember doing tape back ups of our HDD. That was one of those "okay, does anyone need the computer for the next day? Speak up now." situations.
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September 10, 2012
uTorrent 3.2
Occasionally uTorrent 3.1.3 seems to lose its way. Lots of torrents active, but it can't seem to fully utilize my uplink. Had that going on this morning, with it kind of fluctuating around 100Kbytes/s, even though my limit is 200.
So I decided to upgrade to the latest version, to see if they might have found and fixed a problem.
The upgrade is fast and easy. You download the installer and run it. It tries to get you to accept a bunch of crapware, but you can say "no".
For everything, that is, except the uTorrent bar in IE and Firefox. Oh, it asks you, and you can say "no", but it installs it anyway.
So I got into IE and disabled it, and then went to the control panel and outright uninstalled the damned thing. Then I checked Firefox. It was still there, and still enabled. I figured out how to turn it off -- or at least, how to get it off my screen. But I can't figure out how to uninstall it outright. Grumble.
As to the scheduling thing? Well, at least for the first few minutes it looks like it's better. It isn't absolutely saturating but it's running about 185. I won't really know for sure for a few days, though in a couple of hours I'll have a pretty good idea. I'll let you know.
UPDATE: Four hours now, and it's been nicely pegged at 200K for most of that. I think there was a bug that's been fixed.
UPDATE: Late in the evening: maybe not. It's back to bouncing up and down again, albeit it's running at a higher average level while doing so.
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I don't know if it's specifically the case with this version of uTorrent, as I just let itself upgrade a prior installation, but I've discovered with several applications that have a toolbar embedded, that the checkbox to not install the toolbar doesn't work, as you found. However, an almost every case, if you pick the "custom" or "advanced" installation option when that is offered, then the option not to install the toolbar will work. Given that it's been the case with more than one product, I wonder if it's a bug in the installer, or in the toolbar installation package, rather than in the actual product installer.
Posted by: David at September 10, 2012 10:54 AM (+yn5x)
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As they say, when all the errors favor the house, you have to wonder if they're really errors.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 10, 2012 11:20 AM (+rSRq)
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Can you tell us how you turned it off in Firefox?
Posted by: muon at September 10, 2012 04:19 PM (JXm2R)
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Right click on an empty place on the Firefox header, and you get a menu which includes some things you can turn on and off. The uTorrent toolbar is one of them.
And I just figured out how to uninstall it outright. Left-click the upper left corner (orange button) and select "Add ons".
Click the "Extensions" button, and there it is.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 10, 2012 06:33 PM (+rSRq)
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July 24, 2012
Kindle Fire -- bookmarks
Last night I discovered a new feature. If you're on a page in a book, you can click the upper right corner of the page and a little blue ribbon shows up. Clicking it makes it go away again. If it's there, then if you click the "book" icon at the bottom of the screen, one of the things that show up is a list of all your bookmarks.
Wish I'd known that a long time ago -- but to find it out I'd have had to read the documentation. And manuals are for wimps.
Back in the day, when I was at Tektronix and was doing user interface design, one of our basic principles was this: when our product gets delivered to a customer, the unit gets unpacked and put on a desk, and the manual gets unpacked and locked in a file cabinet. So our user interface had to be immediately accessible to any user without assuming he'd seen the manual.
I blew that once (7D02) and aced it once (1240) when I was in the Logic Analyzers group.
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July 10, 2012
Microsoft Expression Web
Anyone have any opinions about Microsoft Expression Web?
I do a lot of my composition using Frontpage 2002, but it has some problems. The biggest problem is that when I have two pages open, and want to put a link to one of them into the other one, it crashes instantly.
And there are things about it that are pretty clumsy. Microsoft stopped supporting it a long time ago, and I'm thinking maybe it's time for me to buy something more modern. If I stay with Microsoft, that would apparently be Expression Web. (Though it appears it can't be purchased singly, so it would be Expression Studio.)
The things I'm reading about it say that it requires Silverlight and NET Framework 4. Does that mean I can only create things to run on servers which have those things? (which would be bad) or only that I have to have them on my computer in order to run the program? (which would be OK)
Frankly, for what I want to do (compose basic HTML with no frills) it seems like overkill. So is there an alternative? Anything under about $200 would be fine; quality is more important than cheapness.
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Expression Web is probably overkill for your needs, but I bet all the modern commercial tools are equally so. It should be capable of producing sites that don't use silverlight code, and if it doesn't, there wouldn't be a requirement that the server have silverlight on it, there is no server runtime, you'd just have to have the embedded link to the client runtime so any visitors could get it if they didn't have it. But that seems unlikely to be necessary, since you're not likely to be putting silverlight controls in your pages.
Pixy is about to release a massive upgrade to the Minx editors, btw.
Posted by: David at July 10, 2012 01:44 PM (vyRm+)
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My friends-and-family price for Expression Studio Web Professional is way, way below retail, if you want to give it a shot. The Silverlight requirement is definitely for the application itself, not the generated pages; it can generate perfectly normal HTML/CSS-based pages.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at July 10, 2012 02:09 PM (fpXGN)
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Based on what you said above, the Express version of Visual Studio (web developer) will probably work for you.
Posted by: RickC at July 10, 2012 05:05 PM (WQ6Vb)
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Well, the price is certainly right. I'm installing it now, and we'll see. (But it sure wants to install a lot of other crud. What in hell is it doing with SQL?)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 10, 2012 07:40 PM (+rSRq)
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I think it's going to take all night to load. Almost two hours now, and it's working on #4 out of 18 packages to install.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 10, 2012 08:26 PM (+rSRq)
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Or until I notice that it's got a restart popup...
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 10, 2012 08:40 PM (+rSRq)
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Have you ever tried Dreamweaver? Any opinion on it?
Posted by: Jaked at July 10, 2012 08:47 PM (4758l)
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For plain Generic HTML, I use the free NVu.
Posted by: Mauser at July 10, 2012 11:32 PM (cZPoz)
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It installs sql, I believe, because it uses a database to store, among other things, autocomplete information. It's kind of overkill if all you want to do is edit a web page, but it's a really nice editor.
Posted by: RickC at July 11, 2012 05:05 AM (A9FNw)
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Oh, one thing--you will find that VS likes to work in the context of projects, given it's origins. You don't have to make one, though--you can just open a plain old html file.
Posted by: RickC at July 11, 2012 05:09 AM (A9FNw)
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I noticed that. There didn't seem to be any obvious way to directly compose a normal HTML file, but I didn't really look at it all that long.
I'm thinking I should probably stick with Frontpage. I know its crochets now, and when I stay away from a few flaws, it works adequately.
I did updates today, and with VS installed it took almost an hour for all the patches to update. This machine got 21 patches. The other machine, without VS installed, only got 7.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at July 11, 2012 05:21 PM (+rSRq)
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That's the project-orientation coming through. I normally just use File|Open and right-click and create a new file in the dialog, or create a new file in Explorer or something first.
You got a ton of patches because even though it's been out for like 3 years, they don't ship the latest version: you have to download the original version, then apply a service pack, as well as various updates.
If it's not to your taste, that's fine. I have to write HTML sometimes for my day job, and it's my preferred tool.
Posted by: RickC at July 11, 2012 06:58 PM (WQ6Vb)
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June 28, 2012
What kind of video files can the Kindle Fire play?
I tried copying ep 25 of Mouretsu Pirates onto my Kindle Fire, just to see what would happen. I renamed the file to get rid of a lot of cruft and to shorten it, and put it in the "Video" directory on the Kindle.
When I tried the "Video" tab, it didn't show up there. Just for the hell of it, I tried the "Gallery" app, and it did show up there. But when I tried to view it, it told me it didn't understand it.
The file is MKV. MediaInfo says the video is AVC (High10) and the audio is AAC. High10 may be a bit esoteric; I should try something older, I think.
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My Fire plays .mp4 videos off the Web, as tested with my ancient iPod encodes and things that I purchased from BOST and Crunchy. However, I was not successful trying to upload movies. MP3s work, but not movies.
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MP4 is a container, of course. I tried an MP4 file, and it got about 2 seconds in before giving up with an error. But that MP4 file contained modern audio and video codecs, and that's probably why.
I imagine it probably works fine with MPEG2 and MP3 audio, but who wants to use that?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 28, 2012 07:10 PM (+rSRq)
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I don't have a "Gallery" tab. Just Newsstand, Books, Music, Video, Docs, Apps, Web.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 28, 2012 07:41 PM (5OBKC)
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It's one of the applications under the "Apps" tab.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 28, 2012 07:44 PM (+rSRq)
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Thanks, that works. Watching my raws of Mouretsu Pirates now. They make Kindle run quite how, I should say. Also, I see no way to make screencaps... Well, unless I install a screencap app.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 28, 2012 08:51 PM (5OBKC)
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Can a video player like VLC be put on the Kindle?
Posted by: muon at June 29, 2012 08:06 PM (hQjNF)
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Hard to say. It is running a variant form of Android, and the dual-processor is a Texas Instruments OMAP.
There is a mechanism for downloading and installing applications. But the app would have to be rewritten for that execution environment, and I am sure that VLC has not been. I would be very surprised if it ever happens.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at June 29, 2012 08:43 PM (+rSRq)
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There is a version of VLC for Android in beta, but I don't know how useful it will be even when finished (as decoding any high quality video in software is probably not going to work out great on a mobile device; and if it uses the processor's hardware acceleration, then I think the performance will be identical to the built-in player). And obviously it's not on Amazon's app store yet.
I tried to find a list of codecs that the OMAP4430 accelerates and found this buried in a PDF (the Technical Reference Manual for the OMAP4430), but I don't know what most of it means:
The IVA-HD supports resolutions up to 1080 p/i with full performance of 30 fps (or 60 fields). The IVA-HD
subsystem supports the following codec standards natively; that is, all functions of standards are
accelerated (without any intervention of the digital signal processor [DSP]):
• H.264: BP/MP/HP Encode and Decode
• H.264: Fast Profile/RCDO Encode and Decode
• MPEG-4: SP/ASP Encode/Decode (No support for GMC)
• DivX 5.x and higher Encode/Decode (No lower version; for example, 3.11 and 4.x)
• H.263: Profile 0 and 3 for Decode, Profile 0 for Encode
• Sorenson Spark: V0 and V1 Decode (No encode support)
• MPEG-2 SP/MP Encode/Decode
• MPEG-1 Encode/Decode
• VC-1/WMV9/RTV : SP/MP/AP Encode and Decode
• On2®VP6/VP7 Decode
• RealVideo®8/9/10 Decode
• AVS 1.0 Encode and Decode
• JPEG (also MJPEG) Baseline Encode/Decode
• H.264 Annex G (SVC) Scalable Baseline Profile to 480p – 720p30
• H.264 Annex H (MVC) up to 720p30
Posted by: John at June 29, 2012 09:28 PM (V1HzC)
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I have a Motorala Xoom, recently upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Android. It won't play most fansubs out of the box. I installed a few video players from the market, and got the ability to play a few more video types, but it still wouldn't play any of my fansubs. A few groups are putting out specific tablet/phone/mobile subs, and those will play. Otherwise, you have to either transcode them to something that will play, or use a transcoding streamer. I found that most transcoding solutions made the subtitles pretty hard to read.
Posted by: David at June 30, 2012 09:23 AM (vyRm+)
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May 22, 2012
Merope -- low power
There's an applet running in Merope's tray which can report in real time just how much power it's using when you mouse-over. And what it usually says is "11.3 watts".
Which is really tiny, if you think about it. I'd already noticed that before I noticed the applet. Merope has been running continuously since it was delivered, and there aren't any hotspots. Not even any warm ones.
Admittedly, uTorrent isn't very CPU-intensive, but that's still quite impressive. Arcturus used to get quite warm to the touch. And after a couple of hours of use, I can tell easily where Alcyone's graphics chip is located.
This will make Merope a good roommate when weather gets hot. 11 watts is about the heat load of a couple of flashlights.
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