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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: bograt on February 21, 2005, 03:07:03 PM

Title: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 21, 2005, 03:07:03 PM
Hi!

I have a number of video files downloading and after previously downloading a file telling me it was one thing I got another which was porn, luckily my two young girls did not open the file.

Anyway I went to preferences - directories and Video player which was empty, so I did a brows hidden folders and found Kaffeine which is the video player I use. I open the file but the only files in that folder are

Bookmarks.xml
Bookmarks.xml.tbcache
config
mozila-stamp

How can I select a video player with the link to the exe to so I can select to preview?

I hope this makes sence?
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 21, 2005, 05:41:49 PM
Does anyone know how I can sort this. :D
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 22, 2005, 04:53:42 PM
Hello ;( i've still not sorted the prevew problem out, can anyone help me :O :O  ?( :baby:
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: phoenix on February 22, 2005, 05:15:23 PM
bograt,

Sorry, I did not understand what you want. Do you want to configure the previewer application?

If kaffeine is in the path, just type "kaffeine" on the Preferences->Directories->Video Player.

If kaffeine is not on the path, you must find where it is, it is usually in /usr/bin/kaffeine, so if you installed correctly it should be in the path.

With the right button, you can click on a file name in the Transfers tab and if the first chunk of the file has already been downloaded, you will be able to preview it. Otherwise, the preview will be disabled.

If that does not answer your question, forgive me and please rephrase it, english is not my native language. :(

Cheers!
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 22, 2005, 05:58:11 PM
Hi phoenix

Yes thats what I wanted.

I have done a search and have found this
opt/kde3/bin/
opt/kde3/share/apps/
opt/kde3/share/doc/htm.l

Is it the first one (bin) i must enter???? :)
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: phoenix on February 22, 2005, 06:20:07 PM
bograt,

Well, maybe /opt/kde3/bin/kaffeine

Don't forget the first "/"

Cheers!
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 22, 2005, 10:02:12 PM
Thanks mate I will try that.

 :) :) :)
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 23, 2005, 11:56:18 AM
I am still unable to preview films downloading, does anyone have any ideas how I can sort this?
What other video players I can download which I can use to preview downloading video files????? ;)
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: phoenix on February 23, 2005, 01:23:32 PM
bograt,

You can try mplayer or xine. But kaffeine does work. Did you understand that you can only preview the file if the first chunk has been downloaded?

You can test what you will enter at the command line. Run:

$ /opt/kde3/bin/kaffeine &

If this does not load kaffeine, then spare yourself the time to try it in aMule. First make it work with a command line, then paste that command line in aMule preferences.

Cheers!
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 23, 2005, 02:09:54 PM
Ok buddy :)

I tried the comand line but it didnt load it

Tried downloading Mplayer and Xine but having to iron out some small glitches.

Yes I understood what you said about previewing.

Thanks for sticking with me on this I will keep you up to date on how I get on.

I am very new to Linux and still have little knowledge of comand lines etc so any help you can give is greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much. :baby: :baby: :baby:
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 23, 2005, 03:27:11 PM
Still no luck :(

I Can't find an Mplayer RPM (still trying to learn how to compile from source and also still no good with installing tar & Gzips)

I have noticed that the files I was entering are read only and not exe files how do I find the exe path?

I don't know if that makes sence if not I will try to explain better.
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: phoenix on February 23, 2005, 06:16:33 PM
Do you use Fedora Core 3?

You should install apt and synaptic. They are package managers that work like a front end to rpm, but makes finding rpms much easier. Get them here:
http://freshrpms.net/apt/

Read the instructions, and try it. Btw, you can get a mplayer rpm there too.

Cheers!
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 23, 2005, 07:51:13 PM
No mate i'm using Suse 9.1

I tried installing Mplayer and I needed the dependancies but when I restarted the system I got an error message and cant load the OS system

If you are a member of linuxquestions.org the error message is posted in the software help section.

So i'm now tryng to get my system running again  :( :( :( :( :(

If you can help then that would be nice.

If not i'll be in touch when I get my system running again.

Thanks
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 24, 2005, 04:50:06 PM
I got my system running again. but now i,m having problems downloading the amule RPM ?(

Just keep getting this error

An error occurred while loading http://www.amule.org/files/download.php?file=46:


Timeout on server
Connection was to download.berlios.de at port 80

Is there a problem with the server???????????
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: phoenix on February 24, 2005, 07:35:22 PM
bograt,

Maybe something temporary, it is working here. Try it later.

Cheers!
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 24, 2005, 11:31:04 PM
Hi phoenix

I have downloaded and installed the ocr8 rpm but when I ran the command amule to run the program  the program would not run? I have downloaded the tar file and extracted it to a file on my desktop but I have problems installing tar files.

I know I have to do it in root but I have problems with inputting the commands and getting tar to run can you help guid me through the install?????

Thanks buddy
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: phoenix on February 25, 2005, 03:37:18 AM
I can help you for sure. Please read this link first:
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Compilation_Installation

Get aMule tarball, e.g.:
$ wget http://www.hirnriss.net/files/cvs/aMule-cvs-20050224.tar.bz2

Open aMule tarball in a directory, configure and make.
Then, and only then, as root do make install:
$ tar zxvf aMule-cvs-20050219.tar.bz2
$ cd amule-cvs
$ ./configure --enable-debug --disable-optimize --enable-cas (and any other options you might want)
$ make
$ su
$ make install

That should be enough.
And never run aMule as a root user, always as a normal user.
Tell me what happened.

In case of trouble, read this to learn how to post usefull backtraces:
http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Backtraces

Cheers!
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 25, 2005, 11:40:14 AM
Hi phoenix

I'm going to show how thick / new I am now.:D

I have downloaded amule and placed in a file on Desktop

I extracted to a file I created on my Desktop called am.

and did the configure command in terminal and got this

dad@linux:~/Desktop/am> cd aMule-2.0.0rc8
dad@linux:~/Desktop/am/aMule-2.0.0rc8> ./configure
checking build system type... i686-suse-linux
checking host system type... i686-suse-linux
checking target system type... i686-suse-linux
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
dad@linux:~/Desktop/am/aMule-2.0.0rc8> make
bash: make: command not found
dad@linux:~/Desktop/am/aMule-2.0.0rc8>

Help my version of suse 9.1 is i386
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: phoenix on February 25, 2005, 01:52:09 PM
Man, I can't beleive, you don't have the compiler installed! I did not know that a linux distro would come with it uninstalled...

I can't help you a lot with suse, but I use FC3, which is rpm based too. You have to install g++, binutils, and probably some libraries. Try to look at your distro docs to see which packages you have to install to be able to compile stuff.

Cheers!
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 25, 2005, 06:43:26 PM
Hi buddy

Hope your OK?

I don't have any documents for my distro as I was passed the CD by a friend

I am running Suse 9.1 with kernel i386 I can update the kernel but when I do there appears to be a bug in it which makes the cd's open continually and I don't have the expertise to pull the OS apart to find which program is sending the eject command.

What I will do is look for g++, binutils for Suse 9.1 i386 RPM and try that. I will get back to you when i've sorted something.
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 25, 2005, 07:02:11 PM
I have installed glibc & glibc-devil will these work?

Noooooooooooo ;(

I will try another compiler.
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 25, 2005, 10:59:41 PM
Got amule running but it isn't searching for downloads one server said low id this might be behind firewall or router I have both.......

I read the help in wiki about the firewall but when I get navigate  to /sysconfig but don't know how to access SuSEfirewall2 file in order to make changes how do I open SuSEfirewall2??????
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 25, 2005, 11:21:51 PM
Got it sorted Thanks
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: phoenix on February 26, 2005, 02:42:53 AM
Hey, good news! Congratulations!
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 27, 2005, 07:35:29 PM
No!!!!

Thank you buddy it was all down to your help that I got it sorted. Thanks

I wanted to Know when I right click on a video download and the drop down menu opens  the preview link is grayed out. I's this normal untill I have enough of the file to preview or do I need to configure something??????

I have also installed Mplayer and entered /usr/bin/mplayer in the video player linker is that the right command???

Thanks for your help I will copy all the information I have recieved because I baught a SATA HD today 200GB which I will be putting Suse & XP on.
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: thedude0001 on February 27, 2005, 07:43:12 PM
Quote
Originally posted by bograt
I wanted to Know when I right click on a video download and the drop down menu opens  the preview link is grayed out. I's this normal untill I have enough of the file to preview or do I need to configure something??????

To be able to preview a video file you have to already have downloaded the first chunk of it because there are important header information at the beginning of the file on which codecs to use to show it etc...

For that reason the 'preview' item is grayed out if the first chunk of the file has not been downloaded yet.
Title: Re: previewing
Post by: bograt on February 27, 2005, 08:09:28 PM
Ok thats all I needed to know at least I know there isn't a problem..