Uncompressed: Episode 13
Uncompressed Episode 13 is here! In this episode, we answered an email about Linux and what distro we’d recommend in terms of driver support, and Tony answered Listener Thom(?)’s audio question about his Momitsu DVD player. With the official business out of the way, we moved onto various topics surrounding iPods, Firefox extensions, and other fun stuff that happened this week. Shakka/Sean also joined us to give us his opinion of Guitar Hero since it was Episode 10 of U* that made him run out and buy the thing in the first place. 
http://uncompressed.org/podcasts/uncompressed_ep13.mp3
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Links follow…
Linux Links
Super Awesome Audio Question — Momitsu DVD Player Links
iPod / Music Links
- Man sues Apple over potential hearing loss
- The iPod Ecosystem - … making add-ons for the iPod is a $1 billion business …
- A picture of Tony’s alarm clock (in black)
- Parappa Live
Firefox Links
- Firefox - Extend Firefox Contest Finalists - A great place to find out about some of the extensions that are out there
- Thom’s Greasemonkey Kill Targets script
coComment
- coComment - Keep track of the conversations you’ve left scattered all over the ‘net
- Greasemonkey Script to automatically add coComment’s javascript to any page
Weird and Wacky Links
… and what episode of uncompressed would be complete without at least mentioning…
\m/. Guitar Hero .\m/
Music Credits
- The opening theme: “reason of the stone age (remix)” by gerador zero and modified by Tony for the show
- The closing music was “sad sequence part 1-2″ by fumitaka anzai
February 9th, 2006 at 9:46 am
N00b Confession to follow. Last night you guys mentioned how using the middle click button opens a new tab in Firefox. I was going to mentiont hat it did not work for me, then Thom mentioned how bad he felt for those of us out there that were “Microsoft mouse driver” victims -so I opted not to mention my embarrassing problem until now from the comfort of my office.
The fact is I had to turn off my middle button on my microsoft laser mouse 6000 becasue it kept crashing games as the default setting minimized the open window - I confirmed my mouse settings in game but to my dismay I actually had to turn it off in the control panel settings for it to take effect - I dont have this issue with my wireless Logitech mouse I use at work, go figure.
In any case feel feel to ridicule me and Tony, I am getting a quiet keyboard!
February 9th, 2006 at 10:53 am
Gonger is going to love Shakka’s super noisy typing this show. lol
Sean - do you use one of these? http://home.att.net/~terminals/images/42H1292-tc1-m.jpg
February 9th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
No, I don’t have one of those keyboards - Actually I think it was my Abacus it needs some WD40. While I was on the show I was computing ROI for a CPA campaign and nothing does math better than an Abacus! w00t!
The Keyboard that you were listening too (sorry) was this one: http://pics.computerbase.de/news/11500/1_m.jpg
February 9th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Good show, guys! Now if only one of you can convince my wife that I should get Guitar Hero or whatever it’s called. Sounds like lots of fun.
February 9th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
awesome show guys, love the all the old stuff you keep bringing up
Tony, when you’re done reading Tom’s idiots guide to firefox toss it my way, I’ve been ctrl+Lclicking for those damn tabs , also we deffinitly have to meet up sometime to throw back a few leinees, I keep hearing you mention my sister’s name in your shows (Anastasia) ;cP
and I’d have to agree Mandriva(Mandrake) is probably one of the easiest and most driver friendly distros there is, even the nvidia drivers arnt much of a hassle anymore.
KEEP THE SHOWS COMIN’
February 9th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
Tyler, you should have some email waiting from me.
Andy, the article can be found on our main page http://www.uncompressed.org under the “articles” section with the myriad of links on the right half of the page. Thoms article is more of an overview, but it hits all the main points — some of which I obviously missed.
Thanks for listening to the show dude! You, me, and your sis will have to go out for drinks one of these days. 
February 10th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
We were talking about Ubuntu this week, and found this guide for new Ubuntu users that might come in handy covering:
1) Installing the lastest ATI Video Card Drivers
Sharing Files Using Samba (Linux - Windows)
2) Installing the latest Nvidia Video Card Drivers
3) How to Mount Windows Partitions (NTFS/FAT32)
4) Installing New Version of Firefox (1.5 not 1.5.1)
5) Installing Azureus BitTorrent client
6) Reducing boot time in Breezy using InitNG
7) Setuping up a Wireless Connection (Desktop/Laptop)
9) Setup Desktop/Eyecandy. Tips’n'Tricks
10) Installing Automatix
http://flackos.blogspot.com/2006/02/10-guides-for-new-ubuntu-user.html
February 11th, 2006 at 1:55 am
I didnt hear any clicking on the show … might be just things Thom does that irretates me. Although, Tony is climbing higher on lurq98……. sorry … had to switch hands (cramp) higher on my list.
I had a keyboard like the one Thom showed … threw it out. Damn keys stuck all the time.
Thom… I used the popup ext you listed (in ep9 i think) but got more popups than without it. Gonna try the coComment one next.
G
February 11th, 2006 at 8:56 am
You didn’t hear clicking? Wow.
Shakka was typing and it was LOUD to me. I thought you’d go crazy. While we were doing the show I IM’d him to tell him to knock off the typing. lol
February 11th, 2006 at 11:05 am
Gman, I tease you because I know we have similar taste when it comes to “artwork”
I used to have an old IBM keyboard — loved it. Loud as heck but that thing handled more abuse and soda spillage than it rightly should have. My curent keyboard (Logitech 3100 — part of a bundle came with an MX1000) was quiet as a mouse when I got it, but now it has the same ol’ clickty clack — I think it just has to do with the amount I use my computer. But yeah, I was IMing everyone as we were recording “whoever is typing STOP! too loud!” lol
February 11th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
That’s funny, I didnt hear anything
February 11th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
Good show. I definitely heard the clicking. Sounds like my own keyboard, which is very close to what Thom posted.
http://focus.com.tw/images/jpg%20files/2001.jpg
I have only owned 2 keyboards since 1990, and they were both Focus “clicky” keyboards. The things are indestructable. The only reason I replaced the first one I bought was because it was getting a little grungy. It still worked fine.
Tony, I wanted to make a comment about something you said regarding streaming vob files over the network to your Momitsu DVD player. You suggested that with an uncompressed .vob file, you can’t expect excellent quality, though maybe you were talking about over a wireless connection. I wanted to tell you that we use products that opperate over standard 100BaseT networks that can stream uncompressed video from one server to multiple clients simultaneously without any issues. The client boxes are based on the Pinnacle ShowCenter 200, and support wireless, but we only use them in hardwired applications.
If you ever want to have a discussion on the show about A/V integration and high-end Hometheaters, let me know. There are a ton of cool products we can talk about, like Crestron, Escient, Imerge, ReQuest, Sonos, MediaMax, and the granddaddy of them all, Kaleidescape. I think it would be fun.
February 11th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Floyd - you must have missed my email a couple weeks or a month ago. I emailed you to see if you’d be interested in doing a show with us and talking about it — I’d love to hear more about the stuff you do.
The thing with running uncompressed video is that perhaps the Momitsu doesn’t have the horsepower to process that much data. I mean it’s kind of silly considering it’s got enough juice to decompress and display MP4, but maybe it has something screwy between the network interface and memory that runs less than optimally.
February 11th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
Floyd, thats a good point, I should have clarified that its not the ethernet that is the bottleneck, its the DVD player. With a .vob it is just too much data coming over the network for the poor little DVD player to handle. Ive streamed .vob to pc’s before without much of an issue but the V880n chokes on them. The look/sound fine, just get a bit chunky in the playback. I think its because the unit just doesnt have enough processing power to handle the overhead for that kind of data streaming AND render the video/audio. Its been a while since I checked for new firmware, so it might have since been fixed, but so far mp3, mpeg, mp4, divx, etc just fine over the ethernet but just not vob. I imagine there would be a similar problem with a USB hard drive attached because USB has a lot of processing overhead as well — but I havent tried it.
But again, thank you for bringing up that point. I dont want our listeners to be misled — 100BaseT can definately handle the transfer, and im sure there are products on the market that can handle that. Unfortunately the v880n (at least with my firmware revision) cannot.
February 28th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Hi Guys, I hope all is well! I just wanted to post a little bit more about Guitar Hero. I recently broke a guitar taking the game out to a friends house and my wife ordered the replacement before I could even find out if it was under warranty!
It looks like I have created a monster! My wife has taken Guitar Hero and made it her life after work. I am so proud! Peep this image of my wife knocking down a 100% score!!
http://ddhd.com/gheroine.jpg
Guitar Hero is touching the lives of my friends and the game is fun everytime you play it. I have a sweeet projector unit and I am scheduled to bring it by a friends house to play on a huge wall!! If I can hook this thing up to a credit card merchant account, I could charge peeps for a certain amount of songs and insurance for the Guitar if they break it
If that was possible I would to bring it to local bars and Karaoke night will have some competition, Why? Well not everyone can sing, but everyone can play AIR GUITAR!!!
Please come out with a second disc redoctane! Please!!!
Holla!