Subject:
Re: Putting Together Information For a HOWTO
From:
Charles Curley ####@####.####
Date:
7 Jan 2004 20:43:18 -0000
Message-Id: <20040107204137.GC12452@charlescurley.com>
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:50:01PM -0500, Devin Watson wrote:
> > Resynching? Or is that my antiquity/film prejudice showing? I suspect
> > that it's so much easier with digital data that it's a non-issue.
>
> Most of the non-linear editors out there (like Cinelerra) keep an index
> file of changes, and the changes are not made until you actually commit to
> them either during save or a re-render cycle.
Good, that's much better, and one less thing to write. :-)
>
> As for backing up, I'll take a look at what's out there now. Ftape
> obviously if they've got a tape drive, and there's a couple other packages.
> This might fall under a new section called "Maintenance".
Let me clarify: I was thinking that you should mention the need for
backups and refer the reader to suitable material. See the resource
section in
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/index.html
for some items. Also, there may be some useful discussion in The Linux
System Administrator's Guide, at
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/backups.html. For serious reading,
W. Curtis Preston's excellent Unix Backup & Recovery.
>
> I think I have links to where every package was downloaded from in the
> Links section. I'll just move that stuff around to the various packages.
Good idea. Do a numbered list of steps for each item on the complete
installation process, from download to final user configuration.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Curley ####@####.####
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 1:02 PM
> To: Devin Watson
> Cc: ####@####.####
> Subject: Re: Putting Together Information For a HOWTO
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:55:02PM -0500, Devin Watson wrote:
> > Charles -
> >
> > Here is my outline for the project. If you have any inputs you would like
> > to contribute, please let me know. I can also send you what I have written
> > already. The '*' in the outline denotes areas I've already written to, and
> > '**' are ones I have written to but need to complete.
>
> Sorry to take so long to respond. Sigh.
>
> >
> > -Devin Watson
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Curley ####@####.####
> > Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 7:34 PM
> > To: Devin Watson
> > Cc: ####@####.####
> > Subject: Re: Putting Together Information For a HOWTO
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 05:51:39PM -0500, Devin Watson wrote:
>
>
> > Linux Post-Production HOWTO Outline
> >
> > 1 - Introduction
> >
> > 2 - Getting Started
> >
> > 3 - All About DVDs
> > 3.1 - Physical Structure of a DVD*
> > 3.2 - Logical Structure of a DVD
> > 3.3 - The DVD-Video Standard
> > 3.4 - Hybrid DVD-ROMs
>
> I suspect most of your readers will not be interested in the technical
> stuff on DVD. I'd make sec. 3 an appendix. Readers may need to know
> why DVD is different from film (or am I showing my antiquity?) or
> video tape, but that should be a brief introductory item.
>
> >
> > 4 - The Post-Production Process
> > 4.1 - Traditional Post-Production*
> > 4.2 - Digital Post-Production*
> >
> > 5 - Hardware
> > 5.1 - Minimum Requirements*
> > 5.2 - Processor*
> > 5.3 - RAM*
> > 5.4 - Hard Drive(s)*
> > 5.5 - Video Capture Devices*
> > 5.6 - DVD Burner*
> > 5.7 - Sound Card*
>
> I would put in minima and recommended, in a table. e.g:
>
> Item Minimum Recommended
> Processor: 500MHZ 1000MHz
>
> Obviously the fastest is preferable, but lots of folks (schools, e.g.)
> are on budgets. Let 'em recycle when they can.
>
> Backup facilities? At the rates professional editors charge, the
> ability to restore quickly after a crash is a consideration. But then
> backup is a hobby horse of mine.
>
> >
> > 6 - Software Installation
> > 6.1 - Linux Distributions*
> > 6.2 - Xine*
> > 6.3 - Mjpegtools*
> > 6.4 - CinePaint (formerly Film Gimp)*
> > 6.5 - Audacity*
> > 6.6 - Cinelerra*
> > 6.7 - dvdauthor*
> > 6.8 - dvdrtools*
> > 6.9 - mplayer**
> > 6.10 - Master Dependency Tree**
>
> Looks good. Where to get, how to install. If you are going to
> concentrate on RH 9/Fedora, say where to get RPMs. For other folks,
> indicate where to get tarballs, and if you know, deb packages.
>
> >
> > 7 - System Tuning
> > 7.1 - Compiling an Optimized Kernel**
> > 7.2 - Hard Drive Optimization**
>
> Looks good. You may also want to look at smartd to improve hard drive
> reliability. It is on Fedora; I don't know if it is on RH 9.
>
> >
> > 8 - Editing and (Re)Mastering
> > 8.1 - Intermediate File Formats
> > 8.2 - Stripping Audio from Video
> > 8.3 - Cleaning Video
> > 8.4 - Cleaning Audio
> > 8.5 - Multiplexing and Subtitles
>
> Resynching? Or is that my antiquity/film prejudice showing? I suspect
> that it's so much easier with digital data that it's a non-issue.
>
> >
> > 9 - Putting Together the Finished Product
> > 9.1 - Creating menus with dvdauthor
> > 9.2 - Creating the DVD ISO with dvdrtools
> > 9.3 - Burning to DVD
> > 9.4 - Other Possible Output Formats
> >
> > 10 - Links
>
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<type 'exceptions.IOError'> | Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python
Sat Jul 6 04:55:51 2024 |
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of
function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main() |
424
|
425 if path is not None:
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426 main_path(path)
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427 else:
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428 main_form()
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| global main_form = <function main_form at 0x8b6cc6c> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main_form() |
378 except ImportError:
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379 die(ctxt, "Invalid command")
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380 module.do(ctxt)
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381
|
382 def main():
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| module = <module 'commands.showmsg' from '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.pyc'>, module.do = <function do at 0x8b75a04>, global ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 18, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'} |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.py in do(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 18, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}) |
18 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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19 write('<hr>')
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20 sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM])
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21 write('<hr>')
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22 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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| global sub_showmsg = <function sub_showmsg at 0x8b6c1ec>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 18, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, global MSGNUM = 'msgnum' |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showmsg(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 18, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msgnum=6384) |
229 format_timestamp(ctxt, ctxt)
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230 write(html('msg-header') % ctxt)
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231 rec_showpart(ctxt, msg, 0)
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232 write(html('msg-footer') % ctxt)
|
233 ctxt.pop()
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| global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x8b6c1b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 18, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msg = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8bcbdac> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 18, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8bcbdac>, partnum=1) |
205 else:
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206 for p in part.get_payload():
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207 partnum = rec_showpart(ctxt, p, partnum+1)
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208 else:
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209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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| partnum = 1, global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x8b6c1b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 18, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, p = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8bd34cc> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 18, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8bd34cc>, partnum=2) |
208 else:
|
209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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210 sub_showpart(ctxt, part)
|
211 return partnum
|
212
|
| global sub_showpart = <function sub_showpart at 0x8b6c144>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 18, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8bd34cc> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 18, 'HTTP_X_FORW...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8bd34cc>) |
164 type = ctxt[TYPE] = part.get_content_type()
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165 ctxt[FILENAME] = part.get_filename()
|
166 template = html('msg-' + type.replace('/', '-'))
|
167 if not template:
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168 template = html('msg-' + type[:type.find('/')])
|
| global template = <function template at 0x8b64e9c>, global html = <function html at 0x8b64ed4>, type = 'application/pgp-signature', type.replace = <built-in method replace of str object at 0x8bd4100> |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in html(name='msg-application-pgp-signature') |
40
|
41 def html(name):
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42 return template(name + '.html')
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43
|
44 def xml(name):
|
| global template = <function template at 0x8b64e9c>, name = 'msg-application-pgp-signature' |
| /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in template(filename='msg-application-pgp-signature.html') |
31 except IOError:
|
32 if not _template_zipfile:
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33 _template_zipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[0])
|
34 try:
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35 f = _template_zipfile.open(n).read()
|
| global _template_zipfile = None, global zipfile = <module 'zipfile' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.pyc'>, zipfile.ZipFile = <class zipfile.ZipFile at 0x8afda7c>, global sys = <module 'sys' (built-in)>, sys.argv = ['-c', '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20'] |
| /usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py in __init__(self=<zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x8b792cc>, file='-c', mode='r', compression=0, allowZip64=False) |
337 self.filename = file
|
338 modeDict = {'r' : 'rb', 'w': 'wb', 'a' : 'r+b'}
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339 self.fp = open(file, modeDict[mode])
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340 else:
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341 self._filePassed = 1
|
| self = <zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x8b792cc>, self.fp = None, builtin open = <built-in function open>, file = '-c', modeDict = {'a': 'r+b', 'r': 'rb', 'w': 'wb'}, mode = 'r' |
<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-c'
args =
(2, 'No such file or directory')
errno =
2
filename =
'-c'
message =
''
strerror =
'No such file or directory'
