10 Sep 2000 crudman   » (Journeyer)

Crudifornication

Thanks to a rather, well, stupid use of an extended IDE cable a while back (moral of the story, don't use extended IDE cabling), my local collection of MP3 files is now slightly corrupted. Thought this would now be a good time to start using the Ogg Vorbis audio codec. It's just crunchier.

Incredibily easy to setup, used the apt-get feature of Debian to retrieve the "vorbis-tools", "ogg123" and "xmms-vorbis" packages. Encoders and decoders all neatly installed. Found quite the useful page for configuring oggenc to work with Grip also. Need to slightly adjust it though.

The video card can indeed be overclocked, but the utility used to reprogram a BIOS file (BIOSMOD) requires a script file specific to the card's chipset (eg. TNT2, GF1/GF2). No script for GF2-MX at this stage, damn.

claudio: With regards to black pixels appearing when building mpeg movies, is this while using the new 0.9-5 drivers? I also had a severe black pixel problem with xmame.xgl, the new ones indicate that "color palette problems" are now fixed (from changelog).

Time to finish the emulation article. Right after sleep.

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