Are there ANY video converters that work in Kubuntu 9.10?
I've searched this forum for a problem like mine and haven't found it, so I apologize if this is a repeat.
Some background on me: I'm an audio engineer, musician, and a closet computer geek on the side. Most of my experience has been with, *cringes* Windows. I've just recently made the switch with the new 9.10 release. And BTW, I can handle the code, I'm just learning the commands and syntax. As I've said for the past week..."Windows has spoiled me."
Anyway, on to my question. I recently got a Philips GoGear Vibe 4 gig mp3 player that plays video as well. I know it's a tiny screen, but I was hoping to at least get to test out some of my videos, just to see what it was like.
I have to add at this point in my journey, I've already faced and fixed most of what I'm seeing as the usual problems with Kubuntu and audo/video. Already had issues with Alsa/Pulse...already had the issue with losing the panel at the bottom of the screen somehow? I can't remember how it happened but it somehow got deleted. I've already learned that you have to mount your cdrom drive for it to read. I've even had to clean install after trying to get my sound to work. I got it back working again, but it's really low on the speakers, fine through headphones. I can deal with that.
But this has been the ongoing issue with something I'm not understanding, and I'm hoping somebody could point me in the right direction.
My Philips GoGear Vibe came with media conversion software, that I was under the impression would work with WINE. Intalled ok. The device manager installed ok. Then I plug in the GoGear player. It's not detecting that it's plugged in, but I can transfer music files onto it just fine with Dolphin. When I try and start up the media converter, it crashes every time, subsequently causing Dolphin to crash, and then, you know, a reboot's required to get anything working right again.
I mean, I could just use my wife's XP machine to handle the conversions, but I'd like to get this figured out for use on my laptop. Any help for a noob would be appreciated. Thanks!
I've searched this forum for a problem like mine and haven't found it, so I apologize if this is a repeat.
Some background on me: I'm an audio engineer, musician, and a closet computer geek on the side. Most of my experience has been with, *cringes* Windows. I've just recently made the switch with the new 9.10 release. And BTW, I can handle the code, I'm just learning the commands and syntax. As I've said for the past week..."Windows has spoiled me."
Anyway, on to my question. I recently got a Philips GoGear Vibe 4 gig mp3 player that plays video as well. I know it's a tiny screen, but I was hoping to at least get to test out some of my videos, just to see what it was like.
I have to add at this point in my journey, I've already faced and fixed most of what I'm seeing as the usual problems with Kubuntu and audo/video. Already had issues with Alsa/Pulse...already had the issue with losing the panel at the bottom of the screen somehow? I can't remember how it happened but it somehow got deleted. I've already learned that you have to mount your cdrom drive for it to read. I've even had to clean install after trying to get my sound to work. I got it back working again, but it's really low on the speakers, fine through headphones. I can deal with that.
But this has been the ongoing issue with something I'm not understanding, and I'm hoping somebody could point me in the right direction.
My Philips GoGear Vibe came with media conversion software, that I was under the impression would work with WINE. Intalled ok. The device manager installed ok. Then I plug in the GoGear player. It's not detecting that it's plugged in, but I can transfer music files onto it just fine with Dolphin. When I try and start up the media converter, it crashes every time, subsequently causing Dolphin to crash, and then, you know, a reboot's required to get anything working right again.
I mean, I could just use my wife's XP machine to handle the conversions, but I'd like to get this figured out for use on my laptop. Any help for a noob would be appreciated. Thanks!
Oh, and the fact that the commands make sense. Like make directory? It's mkdir...makes sense to me. All in all, I like a good challenge, and I was going to see if I could get this to work on my laptop. I really like the fact that after so many years using Windows, learning Windows, fixing computers with Windows, and networking in Windows, I'm learning something new. It's bringing back the closet computer geek in me again. I haven't really done a whole lot of "coding" in the past few years since Windows is so friggin' user friendly. So this transition is bringing back the feeling I used to get when I used to write programs for my programming class in college, and see them actually work better than any of the other students' in the class. Anyway, I digress. I love this distro, I'm really liking Linux, and I'm not regretting the switch.
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